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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.O.T.S. | T.O.T.S. (also known as Tiny Ones Transport Service) is an American computer-animated children's television series created by Travis Braun. The series debuted on Disney Junior on June 14, 2019. It focuses on Pip and his friend Freddy who tend baby animals during their lives at a transporting service nursery.
Premise
Pip and Freddy are two delivery birds in-training at T.O.T.S. (the Tiny Ones Transport Service). T.O.T.S. is a place where baby animals are nursed before being delivered to their families.
When a baby is ready for delivery, they are placed in a crate having colored edges indicating the gender of the baby: blue (male) or pink (female). When the baby reaches their family, Pip and Freddy, as with all delivery birds, would photograph the family with their computer tablet, called a FlyPad, for confirmation.
Besides delivering babies, Pip and Freddy also learn to solve problems under the guidance of K.C and Captain Candace Beakman, along with the other delivery storks.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Pip (voiced by Jet Jurgensmeyer in Seasons 1-2) (voiced by Tucker Chandler in Season 3) is a young Adélie penguin who serves as Freddy's navigator and is the main protagonist of the series, along with Freddy. First mentioned in episode "Back to Cool," his birthplace is Iceberg Alley, home of Penn and his parents, and other penguins. His catchphrase is "This penguin's got a plan!." Jet Jurgensmeyer stopped voicing Pip after Season 2 due to arriving at late teens, so Tucker Chandler took his place for Season 3.
Freddy (voiced by Christian J. Simon) an ordinary flamingo who is Pip's partner, and the one who does the flying. Freddy's also the main protagonist, along with Pip. Freddy has long wings that help him fly. His catchphrase is "Flamin-go!."
Captain Candace Beakman (voiced by Vanessa Williams) is a pelican who is the leader of T.O.T.S. She is also the mother of Mia the Kitten. Captain Beakman has a brother in law named Sam & a younger sister named Cora.
K.C. (voiced by Megan Hilty) is a teenage koala who works at T.O.T.S. who tends to the babies in the nursery before they get delivered. K.C. is also a guitarist. K.C has a brother, two sisters, a grandmother, and a surrogate uncle who is a cow. K.C. affectionately refers to the babies at T.O.T.S. as "Lil' Nuggets."
Recurring
Bodhi (voiced by Parvesh Cheena) is an insecure stork deliverer with the biggest wings at T.O.T.S. Bodhi tends to get spooked by mostly ordinary things, but is willing to help when assistance is needed.
Ava (voiced by Melanie Minichino) is a street-talking female stork deliverer at T.O.T.S.
J.P. (voiced by Henri Lubatti) is a prideful stork deliverer at T.O.T.S. who speaks with a French accent. J.P is one of the finest deliverers at T.O.T.S. J.P. won "Delivery Bird of the Month" ten consecutive times, thus Pip and Freddy see him as a role model. J.P. was also the company's fastest deliverer until J.P. was succeeded by Ava who in turn was succeeded by Bodhi. In th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20discrete%20choice | Dynamic discrete choice (DDC) models, also known as discrete choice models of dynamic programming, model an agent's choices over discrete options that have future implications. Rather than assuming observed choices are the result of static utility maximization, observed choices in DDC models are assumed to result from an agent's maximization of the present value of utility, generalizing the utility theory upon which discrete choice models are based.
The goal of DDC methods is to estimate the structural parameters of the agent's decision process. Once these parameters are known, the researcher can then use the estimates to simulate how the agent would behave in a counterfactual state of the world. (For example, how a prospective college student's enrollment decision would change in response to a tuition increase.)
Mathematical representation
Agent 's maximization problem can be written mathematically as follows:
where
are state variables, with the agent's initial condition
represents 's decision from among discrete alternatives
is the discount factor
is the flow utility receives from choosing alternative in period , and depends on both the state and unobserved factors
is the time horizon
The expectation is taken over both the 's and 's in . That is, the agent is uncertain about future transitions in the states, and is also uncertain about future realizations of unobserved factors.
Simplifying assumptions and notation
It is standard to impose the following simplifying assumptions and notation of the dynamic decision problem:
1. Flow utility is additively separable and linear in parameters
The flow utility can be written as an additive sum, consisting of deterministic and stochastic elements. The deterministic component can be written as a linear function of the structural parameters.
2. The optimization problem can be written as a Bellman equation
Define by the ex ante value function for individual in period just before is revealed:
where the expectation operator is over the 's, and where represents the probability distribution over conditional on . The expectation over state transitions is accomplished by taking the integral over this probability distribution.
It is possible to decompose into deterministic and stochastic components:
where is the value to choosing alternative at time and is written as
where now the expectation is taken over the .
3. The optimization problem follows a Markov decision process
The states follow a Markov chain. That is, attainment of state depends only on the state and not or any prior state.
Conditional value functions and choice probabilities
The value function in the previous section is called the conditional value function, because it is the value function conditional on choosing alternative in period . Writing the conditional value function in this way is useful in constructing formulas for the choice probabilities.
To write down the choice prob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeachPie | PeachPie is an open-source PHP language compiler and runtime for the .NET Framework and .NET. It is built on top of the Microsoft Roslyn compiler platform and is based on the first-generation Phalanger project. PeachPie compiles source code written in PHP to CIL byte-code. PeachPie takes advantage of the JIT compiler component of the .NET Framework in order to handle the beginning of the compilation process. Its purpose is not to generate or optimize native code, but rather to compile PHP scripts into .NET assemblies containing CIL code and meta-data. In July 2017, the project became a member of the .NET Foundation.
Origins
PeachPie's architecture is similar to the Phalanger project, which had originally started as coursework at the Charles University in Prague, Czechia. It was implemented on Microsoft's .NET compiler platform called Roslyn, utilizing the Roslyn API. Since 2016, the Czech company iolevel has been leading the development of PeachPie.
PeachPie has several advantages over Phalanger, both as a result of the Roslyn API and the reworked architecture of the compiler. While Phalanger was only able to target the full .NET Framework, which only ran on Windows, and cross-platform capabilities were achieved by targeting Mono, PeachPie also allows for a compilation to .NET, thus being cross-platform by default. The benchmarks published to date point to performance improvements of PeachPie compared to its predecessor. The project contains an advanced semantic analysis, which allows the compiler to generate C#-like symbols for enhanced interoperability features. There are similarities between PeachPie and Facebook's HHVM compiler, which executes PHP on a specially designed virtual machine. However, as Facebook announced in late 2017, version 3.24 of HHVM would be the last release compatible with PHP, as the project would focus exclusively on supporting Facebook's proprietary extension of PHP called Hack. This leaves PeachPie as the only project of this kind with the aspiration to be compatible with past and future versions of PHP.
The project receives considerable support from Microsoft, having been invited to present at the virtual conference .NET Conf and featured on Microsoft's "On .NET", as well as the .NET Rocks podcast. Since July 2017, PeachPie has been a member of the .NET Foundation. In December 2018, iolevel received the European Innovation Council's Horizon2020 grant to pursue their work on PeachPie compiler.
Objectives
The project lists several main goals:
Performance: since the PHP code is compiled to CIL and subsequently executed, rather than interpreted, theoretically this should lead to performance improvements. The micro-benchmarks performed by the authors suggest an increased performance over standard PHP in isolated cases and tests have shown that the project is able to run PHP code about twice as fast on Azure. Using the TechEmpower plaintext benchmark, it was measured that WordPress running on PeachPie was able t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20Antibiotic%20Resistance%20Database | The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD) is a biological database that collects and organizes reference information on antimicrobial resistance genes, proteins and phenotypes. The database covers all types of drug classes and resistance mechanisms and structures its data based on an ontology. The CARD database was one of the first resources that covered antimicrobial resistance genes. The resource is updated monthly and provides tools to allow users to find potential antibiotic resistance genes in newly-sequenced genomes.
Ontology
Each resistance determinant described by the CARD Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) must include a connection to each of three branches: Determinant of Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Molecule and Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance. CARD has recently also launched draft ontologies for both virulence and mobile genetic elements, which are in active development.
Curation
CARD curation occurs continuously, with monthly updates released by a team of biocurators. The curation process primarily involves regular review of the available scientific literature. Enforced curation guidelines provide the necessary context to ensure proper hierarchical classification, defined semantic relationships and data standardization. The biocuration team additionally annotates each ARO term with supplemental information from external references, including relevant publications, chemical structures or protein structure via the Protein Data Bank. ARO terms for AMR determinants are paired with an AMR detection model, which includes the nucleotide and peptide sequence retrieved from NCBI GenBank and any additional parameters needed for prediction of the determinant from raw DNA sequence. Curation is sometimes supplemented with de novo analyses, often to resolve problematic nomenclature.
Overall, CARD’s primary curation paradigm is as follows: to be included in CARD an AMR determinant must be described in a peer-reviewed scientific publication, with its DNA sequence available in GenBank, including clear experimental evidence of elevated minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) over controls. AMR genes predicted by in silico methods, but not experimentally characterized, are not included in CARD’s primary curation. Yet, data harmonization efforts in 2019 that involved a comparison of ResFinder, ARG-ANNOT and NCBI’s catalog of β-lactamase alleles, revealed a large number of historical β-lactamases without associated peer-reviewed publication. As β-lactamases comprise nearly a third of ARO terms in CARD, that convention leads to each β-lactamase sequence variant being given a new name in the literature and missing β-lactamase reference sequences in CARD, leading to annotation imprecision by RGI and notable content differences between CARD and other databases. CARD now includes β-lactamase reference sequences and names even if they lack published experimental evidence of elevated MIC. This back-curation of older β-lactamase se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Games%20Pro%20Boarder | ESPN X-Games Pro Boarder, also known as X Games Pro Boarder, is a video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation and Windows in 1998.
Reception
The game received average reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. GameSpot gave the PlayStation version a favorable review, over a month before its U.S. release date. However, Next Generation said of the same console version, "In the end, its style-over-substance, mediocre gameplay is what you'll remember the most." In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published by ESPN Digital Games, also under the name , on March 11, 1999, Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40. GamePro said that the PlayStation version "enters the PlayStation snowboarding foray to carve a piece out of Cool Boarders mountain. But X Games Pro Boarder doesn't have the kick to knock CB off the slopes."
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Electronic Arts games
ESPN video games
PlayStation (console) games
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Snowboarding video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guryegu%20station | Guryegu station is a KTX station in the city of Suncheon, South Jeolla Province, on the southern coast of South Korea. It is on the Jeolla Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in South Jeolla Province
Yeosu
Railway stations opened in 1930
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumeration%20algorithm | In computer science, an enumeration algorithm is an algorithm that enumerates the answers to a computational problem. Formally, such an algorithm applies to problems that take an input and produce a list of solutions, similarly to function problems. For each input, the enumeration algorithm must produce the list of all solutions, without duplicates, and then halt. The performance of an enumeration algorithm is measured in terms of the time required to produce the solutions, either in terms of the total time required to produce all solutions, or in terms of the maximal delay between two consecutive solutions and in terms of a preprocessing time, counted as the time before outputting the first solution. This complexity can be expressed in terms of the size of the input, the size of each individual output, or the total size of the set of all outputs, similarly to what is done with output-sensitive algorithms.
Formal definitions
An enumeration problem is defined as a relation over strings of an arbitrary alphabet :
An algorithm solves if for every input the algorithm produces the (possibly infinite) sequence such that has no duplicate and if and only if . The algorithm should halt if the sequence is finite.
Common complexity classes
Enumeration problems have been studied in the context of computational complexity theory, and several complexity classes have been introduced for such problems.
A very general such class is EnumP, the class of problems for which the correctness of a possible output can be checked in polynomial time in the input and output. Formally, for such a problem, there must exist an algorithm A which takes as input the problem input x, the candidate output y, and solves the decision problem of whether y is a correct output for the input x, in polynomial time in x and y. For instance, this class contains all problems that amount to enumerating the witnesses of a problem in the class NP.
Other classes that have been defined include the following. In the case of problems that are also in EnumP, these problems are ordered from least to most specific:
Output polynomial, the class of problems whose complete output can be computed in polynomial time.
Incremental polynomial time, the class of problems where, for all i, the i-th output can be produced in polynomial time in the input size and in the number i.
Polynomial delay, the class of problems where the delay between two consecutive outputs is polynomial in the input (and independent from the output).
Strongly polynomial delay, the class of problems where the delay before each output is polynomial in the size of this specific output (and independent from the input or from the other outputs). The preprocessing is generally assumed to be polynomial.
Constant delay, the class of problems where the delay before each output is constant, i.e., independent from the input and output. The preprocessing phase is generally assumed to be polynomial in the input.
Common techni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUMED | PLUMED is an open-source library implementing enhanced-sampling algorithms, various free-energy methods, and analysis tools for molecular dynamics simulations. It is designed to be used together with ACEMD, AMBER, DL_POLY, GROMACS, LAMMPS, NAMD, OpenMM, ABIN, CP2K, i-PI, PINY-MD, and Quantum ESPRESSO, but it can also be used to together with analysis and visualization tools VMD, HTMD, and OpenPathSampling.
In addition, PLUMED can be used as a standalone tool for analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories. A graphical user interface named METAGUI is available.
Collective variables
PLUMED offers a large collection of collective variables that serve as descriptions of complex processes that occur during molecular dynamics simulations, for example angles, positions, distances, interaction energies, and total energy.
References
External links
METAGUI
Molecular dynamics software
Computational biology
Free software programmed in C++
Free and open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Argentina%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202019 | The Billboard Argentina Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the Argentina. Its data, published by Billboard Argentina magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BMAT/Vericast, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on Argentine radio stations and TV and streaming on online digital music outlets.
Chart history
See also
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2019
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 number-one singles of 2018
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 number-one singles of 2020
References
2019
Argentina Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Argentina%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%202018 | The Billboard Argentina Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the Argentina. Its data, published by Billboard Argentina magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and BMAT/Vericast, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on Argentine radio stations and TV and streaming on online digital music outlets.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one hits of 2018 (Argentina)
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2018
List of Billboard Argentina Hot 100 number-one singles of 2019
References
2018
Argentina Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Morosi | Jon Paul Morosi (born May 17, 1982) is an American sportswriter and reporter. Since 2016 he is an on-air personality with MLB Network, including the flagship studio show MLB Tonight. Morosi is also a columnist for MLB.com, as well as an on-air reporter for both FOX Sports and FS1. In addition, he regularly appears on MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM and FOX Sports Radio.
In addition to his Major League Baseball duties, Morosi is a reporter for NHL Network.
Early life
Jon Paul Morosi was born in Marquette, Michigan, and attended Garber High School in Essexville, Michigan, where he was a three-sport athlete and co-editor of the student newspaper. After high school he attended Harvard University, earning a degree in environmental science and public policy. While at Harvard he played four years of junior varsity baseball and covered men's hockey for The Harvard Crimson.
Journalism career
Prior to joining MLB Network, Morosi was a columnist and national baseball writer for FOXSports.com, beginning in 2009. He was hired in part due to incumbent FOX Sports baseball writer Ken Rosenthal's recommendation, whom he met four years earlier at the 2005 MLB general managers' meeting.
Previously, Morosi was a beat writer for the Detroit Free Press, covering the Tigers from 2006 to 2009. Morosi came to the Free Press after serving as a backup beat writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer during the Seattle Mariners' 2005 season. He also spent time at the Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle, among others.
Morosi has a passion for international baseball and the World Baseball Classic in particular. MLB Network, the exclusive rights-holder to the WBC, devoted segments in 2017 to what it termed "J.P. Morosi's International Pastime."
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1982 births
Living people
American sportswriters
American reporters and correspondents
Major League Baseball broadcasters
MLB Network personalities
Harvard University alumni
People from Marquette, Michigan
Journalists from Ann Arbor, Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADARA%20Networks | Adara Networks (stylized as "ADARA Networks") is an American software company.
History
The company creates software-defined networking (SDN) infrastructure orchestration software and provides cloud computing. It has several dozen partners in its channel program. Adara's cloud software includes an SDI Visualizer for topological rendering, an SLA Manager for determining cost efficiency, and use Sirius Routers. Afterwards the company developed its Horizon SDA Platform, which has an Ecliptic SDN controller, Axis vSwitch, SoftSwitch, and cloud computing engine.
In 2008 Adara developed a networking electronic medical records project for the US Congress. Adara has served on Industry Advisory Panels for the Congress as well.
The company has held contracts with the Department of Defense, and spent its first ten years or so working in the public sphere before opening up to private companies, including SMEs, in 2011.
In 2012 Adara created a full stack network for its cloud, and in 2013 its controller became open source. Then in 2016, Adara partnered with Calient Technologies to develop an integrated SD-WAN. The company's CEO is Eric Johnson.
iN 2020 ADARA Networks were acknowledged as an Industry Leader in SDN.
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External links
Official page
Twitter
1998 establishments in California
American companies established in 1998
Companies based in San Jose, California
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies established in 1998
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano%20%28cryptocurrency%29 | Nano (Abbreviation: XNO; sign: Ӿ) is a cryptocurrency characterized by a directed acyclic graph data structure and distributed ledger, making it possible for Nano to work without intermediaries. To agree on what transactions to commit (i.e. achieving consensus), it uses a voting system with weight based on the amount of currency an account holds.
Nano was launched in October 2015 by Colin LeMahieu to address the Bitcoin scalability problem and was created with the intention to reduce confirmation times and fees. The currency implements no-fee transactions and achieves confirmation in under one second.
History
Colin LeMahieu started the development of Nano in 2014 under the name "RaiBlocks". A year later, RaiBlocks was distributed for free through a captcha-secured faucet. In 2017, after 126,248,289 RaiBlocks were distributed, the faucet shut down. This fixed the total supply to 133,248,297 RaiBlocks, after an addition of a 7,000,000 RaiBlocks developer fund. RaiBlocks was later rebranded to Nano.
BitGrail hack
On February 9, 2018, an Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced its hack and eventual shutdown. Users were prevented from accessing assets stored on the platform, which was collectively worth 17 million Nano. The victims then launched a class-action lawsuit against BitGrail owner Francesco Firano for recoupment, inside the Florence Courthouse. The exchange was ruled to be found guilty in January 2019, as it was found to fail at implementing safeguards and reporting losses. The Italian police branch Network Operations Command (Italy) alleged the Bitgrail founder had conducted fraud. Nano prices had been around $10 prior to the hack and after the hack fell to $0.10.
Design
Nano uses a block-lattice data structure, where every account has its own blockchain for storing transactions. It is the first cryptocurrency to use a directed acyclic graph data structure, by having a "block" consisting of only one transaction and the account's current balance.
Consensus is reached through an algorithm similar to proof of stake. In this system, the voting weight is distributed to accounts based on the amount of Nano they hold; accounts then freely delegate this weight to a peer (node) of their choice.
If two contradictory transactions are broadcast to the network, indicating a double-spend attempt, nodes will then vote for either the transactions. Afterwards, they broadcast their vote to the other nodes for strictly informational purposes. The first to reach 67% of the total voting weight is confirmed, while the other transaction is discarded.
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2015 software
Application layer protocols
Cryptocurrency projects
Currencies introduced in 2015
Private currencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namwon%20station | Namwon station is a KTX station in the city of Namwon, North Jeolla Province, on the southern coast of South Korea. It is on the Jeolla Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in North Jeolla Province
Namwon
Railway stations opened in 1933
Korea Train Express stations
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20software | In computing, lightweight software also called lightweight program and lightweight application, is a computer program that is designed to have a small memory footprint (RAM usage) and low CPU usage, overall a low usage of system resources . To achieve this, the software should avoid software bloat and code bloat and try to find the best algorithm efficiency.
See also
Software optimization
Application footprint
Light-weight process
Lightweight protocol
Lightweight Procedure Call
Lightweight programming language
Lightweight markup language
Load (computing)
References
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20algorithms%20for%20minimum%20spanning%20trees | In graph theory a minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph with and is a tree subgraph of that contains all of its vertices and is of minimum weight.
MSTs are useful and versatile tools utilised in a wide variety of practical and theoretical fields. For example, a company looking to supply multiple stores with a certain product from a single warehouse might use an MST originating at the warehouse to calculate the shortest paths to each company store. In this case the stores and the warehouse are represented as vertices and the road connections between them - as edges. Each edge is labelled with the length of the corresponding road connection.
If is edge-unweighted every spanning tree possesses the same number of edges and thus the same weight. In the edge-weighted case, the spanning tree, the sum of the weights of the edges of which is lowest among all spanning trees of , is called a minimum spanning tree (MST). It is not necessarily unique. More generally, graphs that are not necessarily connected have minimum spanning forests, which consist of a union of MSTs for each connected component.
As finding MSTs is a widespread problem in graph theory, there exist many sequential algorithms for solving it. Among them are Prim's, Kruskal's and Borůvka's algorithms, each utilising different properties of MSTs. They all operate in a similar fashion - a subset of is iteratively grown until a valid MST has been discovered. However, as practical problems are often quite large (road networks sometimes have billions of edges), performance is a key factor. One option of improving it is by parallelising known MST algorithms.
Prim's algorithm
This algorithm utilises the cut-property of MSTs. A simple high-level pseudocode implementation is provided below:
where is a random vertex in
repeat times
find lightest edge s.t. but
return T
Each edge is observed exactly twice - namely when examining each of its endpoints. Each vertex is examined exactly once for a total of operations aside from the selection of the lightest edge at each loop iteration. This selection is often performed using a priority queue (PQ). For each edge at most one decreaseKey operation (amortised in ) is performed and each loop iteration performs one deleteMin operation (). Thus using Fibonacci heaps the total runtime of Prim's algorithm is asymptotically in .
It is important to note that the loop is inherently sequential and can not be properly parallelised. This is the case, since the lightest edge with one endpoint in and on in might change with the addition of edges to . Thus no two selections of a lightest edge can be performed at the same time. However, there do exist some attempts at parallelisation.
One possible idea is to use processors to support PQ access in on an EREW-PRAM machine, thus lowering the total runtime to .
Kruskal's algorithm
Kruskal's MST algorithm utilises the cycle property of MSTs. A high-level pseudocode represent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20trams%20in%20Adelaide | This article – one of several about Adelaide’s tramways – covers the three decades before the 1910s when horses provided the motive power for all trams over a network. Links to an overview and other articles are in the following panel.
Introduction
Many private companies operated horse trams in Adelaide from 1878 until 1907 on routes that eventually ran for more than 100 kilometres within a 16 km (10 mi) radius of the Adelaide General Post Office. The trams were extremely popular, since they were more comfortable than the horse-drawn jaunting cars, carriages and omnibuses that operated on the poorly formed roads of the time. The majority of people in the Adelaide suburban area, as it was then, were within walking distance of a horse tram route.
The companies laid tracks and ran trams wherever demand was apparent, and most remained in business for up to three decades. However, Adelaide was eventually the last capital city in Australia to be without faster, higher-capacity, cleaner electric or cable trams; the public eventually saw quaint vehicles as a blot on their city's image and clamoured for electric trams. However, in the early years of the 20th century, following a sustained large-scale drought and with increasing popularity of the "safety bicycle", few of the companies were making a profit and none could afford the capital cost involved.
In 1907 the South Australian Government bought the companies' assets and formed the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) to establish electric tram services, which were opened from 1909. Electrification generally proceeded rapidly. However, for the next eight years horse trams provided interim services, under MTT ownership, while electric transmission infrastructure and new tracks were progressively completed. Horse trams ceased running on Adelaide-centric routes in 1914 and on the isolated Port Adelaide lines in 1917, after 39 years of operation.
Investigations
Public transport was beyond the financial reach of many people in Adelaide's early days following European settlement in 1836. However, the 1870s brought good harvests and prosperity to South Australia, and one of the consequences was a vast improvement in Adelaide transport services through the widespread introduction of horse buses, which charged fares about one-fifth those of coaches. But despite some good services, many of the operators had little regard for their customers' interests: complaints were made that the conveyances were filthy, with faded and ragged seat cushions and compartments rarely swept out.
During the early 1870s Sir Edwin Smith and Mr W. C. Buik, both prominent in Kensington and Norwood Corporation then Adelaide City Council (and both later mayors of Adelaide), spent some time inspecting European tramways. They were impressed with horse trams, since one horse hauling a tram could move three to ten times as many people compared with a horse bus and the ride was far superior. On returning to Adelaide they promoted the concept. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abominable | Abominable may refer to:
Abominable (2006 film), an American monster film by Ryan Schifrin
Abominable (2019 film), a computer-animated adventure film
See also
Abomination (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui%20Zhang%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Hui Zhang () is a Chinese-American computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and an entrepreneur who co-founded Conviva.
Education
Zhang received a B.S. in computer science from Peking University in 1988, an M.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 under Domenico Ferrari with a thesis titled Service Disciplines for Integrated Services Packet-Switching Networks.
Career
Zhang, together with Ion Stoica, Aditya Ganjam, and Jibin Zhan, co-founded Conviva, where he is chief scientist and chairman of the board.
Zhang's research focus is in Internet QoE, video streaming, network architecture, and real-time big data analytics. Zhang's End System Multicast (ESM) project pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world's first peer-to-peer live streaming system. The ESM paper published in year 2000 won the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award in year 2011. His 4D research project advocated the network control architecture that separates control logic from data devices, and was the precursor to the Software Defined Networks (SDN) initiative. The 4D paper published in year 2005 won the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in year 2015.
As a professor, Zhang has mentored many students. He supervised Ion Stoica's Ph.D. dissertation, which won ACM Dissertation Award in 2001. He co-advised, with Vyas Sekar (a former student of his), Junchen Jiang's PhD thesis, which won the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Zhang was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2005 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Peking University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Chinese computer scientists
American computer scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Chinese computer businesspeople
American computer businesspeople
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Sloan Research Fellows
American company founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDR10%2B | HDR10+ is a high dynamic range (HDR) video technology that adds dynamic metadata to HDR10 source files. The dynamic metadata are used to adjust and optimize each frame of the HDR video to the consumer display's capabilities in a way based on the content creator's intentions.
HDR10+ is an alternative to Dolby Vision, which also uses dynamic metadata. HDR10+ is the default variant of dynamic metadata as part of the HDMI 2.1 standard.
HDR10+ Adaptive is an update designed to optimize HDR10+ content according to the ambient light.
Description
HDR10+, also known as HDR10 Plus, was announced on 20 April 2017, by Samsung and Amazon Video. HDR10+ updates HDR10 by adding dynamic metadata that can be used to more accurately adjust brightness levels up to the full range of PQ code values (10,000 nits maximum brightness) on a scene-by-scene or frame-by-frame basis. The technology is standardized and defined in SMPTE ST 2094-40. HDR10+ is an open standard and is royalty-free; it is supported by a growing list of post-production software and tools. A certification and logo program for HDR10+ device manufacturers is available with an annual administration fee for certain adopter categories and no per-unit royalty. Authorized test centers conduct certification testing for HDR10+ devices.
On 28 August 2017, Samsung, Panasonic, and 20th Century Fox created the HDR10+ Technologies LLC to promote the HDR10+ standard. HDR10+ video started being offered by Amazon Video on 13 December 2017. On 5 January 2018, Warner Bros. announced their support for the HDR10+ standard. On 6 January 2018, Panasonic announced Ultra HD Blu-ray players with support for HDR10+. On 4 April 2019, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced a technology collaboration with Samsung Electronics to release new titles mastered with HDR10+. It is considered to have most of the advantages of Dolby Vision over HDR10, as well as being royalty free.
HDR10+ signals the dynamic range and scene characteristics on a scene-by-scene or even frame-by-frame basis. The display device then uses the dynamic metadata to apply an appropriate tone map through the process of dynamic tone mapping. Dynamic tone mapping differs from static tone mapping by applying a different tone curve from scene-to-scene rather than use a single tone curve for an entire video.
HDR10+ and Dolby Vision do not use the same dynamic metadata.
Technical details
HDR10+ content profile
EOTF: SMPTE ST 2084 (PQ)
Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0 (for compressed video sources)
Resolution: Agnostic (2K/4K/8K, etc.)
Bit depth: 10-bit or more (up to 16-bit) per color channel
Color primaries: ITU-R BT.2020
Maximum linearized pixel value: 10,000 cd/m2 for each color R/G/B (content)
Metadata (required): Mastering Display Color Volume Metadata
Metadata (optional): MaxCLL, MaxFALL
HDR10+ technology can support the full range of HDR standards to 10,000 cd/m2, 8K and BT.2020 color gamut. Being resolution agnostic, metadata needs to be create |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Corps%20Cyber%20Auxiliary | The Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary (also called the Cyber Aux) is a volunteer organization designed to attract cybersecurity experts in aiding United States Marine Corps cyberspace readiness.
History
The Cyber Auxiliary was announced in April 2019. Some details regarding the organization have yet to be announced as of December 2019.
Leadership
The Cyber Auxiliary is managed by LtGen Matthew G. Glavy, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Information.
Role
The role of the Cyber Auxiliary is to "assist in simulated environments" with Marines; members are not authorized to carry out "hands-on cyber activities" (e.g. cyberwarfare or cybersecurity operations). Members of the Cyber Auxiliary will only be civilians or veterans, not members of the Marine Corps. However, they will serve to strengthen the Marine Corps' posture in the era of information warfare.
This effort should not be confuses with the new paid employee program "Cyber Force".
Requirements
The requirements for the Cyber Auxiliary do not include military grooming, uniform, or physical fitness standards. However, Cyber Auxiliary applications must:
be a U.S. citizen
have 3 years of work or academic experience in the cyber industry
an industry leader or highly regarded in their field
enthusiastic in volunteering for the Cyber Auxiliary
not a current U.S. Government employee
have an honorable discharge, if prior service
See also
Auxiliaries
Civil Air Patrol
Military Auxiliary Radio System
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
United States Merchant Marine
References
United States Marine Corps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Fetter | Ellen Cole Fetter Gille is an American computer scientist. She worked with Edward Norton Lorenz on chaos theory.
Early life and education
Fetter was born to Frank Whitson Fetter and Elizabeth Garrett Pollard. Her mother created an endowment for chamber music at Swarthmore College, which has been supported by successive generations of her family. Fetter attended the Ecole Préalpina in Chexbres, Switzerland and New Trier High School, from which she graduated in 1957. She studied mathematics at Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1961.
Career
In 1961, Fetter interviewed with a member of the team who used a LGP-30 in MIT's Department of Nuclear Engineering, who recommended her to Margaret Hamilton. Hamilton soon moved on to another project, and Fetter took over the computational work for Edward Lorenz's research, plotting the motion of a particle experiencing fast convection in an idealised beaker. The work was the foundation of chaos theory. Fetter's contribution was acknowledged by Lorenz ‘Special thanks are due to Miss Ellen Fetter for handling the many numerical computations’ in his frequently referenced paper.
In 1963, Fetter married John Gille, who was studying geophysics at MIT. They moved to Florida State University, where she worked on programming for several years. In the 1970s, she and her husband moved to Colorado, where Gille is now a senior scientist emeritus at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Fetter took computer science classes at the University of Colorado Boulder, but soon left to work in tax preparation.
Fetter's daughter, Sarah Gille, studied physics at Yale University. She now works in physical oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
References
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Mount Holyoke College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Trier High School alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelifera | Chelifera is a genus of flies in the family Empididae.
Species
C. accomodata Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. alpina Vaillant, 1981
C. angusta Collin, 1927
C. aperticauda Collin, 1927
C. apicata Collin, 1928
C. astigma Collin, 1927
C. bakra (Smith, 1965)
C. banski Melander, 1947
C. barbarica Vaillant, 1981
C. berdeni Vaillant, 1978
C. bidenta MacDonald, 1994
C. brevidigitata Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. caliga Lavallee, 1975
C. chvalai Wagner, 1984
C. circinata MacDonald, 1994
C. cirrata Melander, 1947
C. concinnicauda Collin, 1927
C. corsicana Vaillant, 1981
C. curvata Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. defecta (Loew, 1862)
C. detestata (Meunier, 1908)
C. digitata Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. diversicauda Collin, 1927
C. emeishanica Horvat, 2002
C. ensifera Melander, 1947
C. erecta Collin, 1927
C. fascipennis (Meijere, 1913)
C. flavella (Zetterstedt, 1838)
C. fontinalis (Miller, 1923)
C. freemanni Vaillant, 1978
C. frigelii (Zetterstedt, 1838)
C. giraudae Vaillant, 1981
C. haeselbarthae Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. incisa Saigusa & Yang, 2003
C. insueta Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. khemisiana Vaillant & Gagneur, 1998
C. knutsoni Lavallee, 1975
C. kozaneki Wagner, 2003
C. lapponica Frey, 1950
C. lateralis Yang & Yang, 1995
C. lovetti Melander, 1947
C. macedonica Wagner & Niesiolowski, 1987
C. malickyi Horvat, 2002
C. mana Lavallee, 1975
C. mantiformis (Cuvier, 1795)
C. monostigma (Meigen, 1822)
C. multidenta MacDonald, 1994
C. multiseta Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. multisetoides Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. nanlingensis Yang, Grootaert & Horvat, 2005
C. neangusta MacDonald, 1994
C. notata (Loew, 1862)
C. nubecula (Becker, 1908)
C. obscura Vaillant, 1968
C. obsoleta (Loew, 1862)
C. ornamenta Horvat, 2002
C. pallida Vaillant, 1981
C. palloris (Coquillett, 1895)
C. pectinicauda Collin, 1927
C. perlucida Niesiolowski, 1986
C. polonica Wagner & Niesiolowski, 1987
C. precabunda Collin, 1961
C. precatoria (Fallén, 1815)
C. prectoria (Fallén, 1816)
C. pyrenaica Vaillant, 1981
C. rastrifera Melander, 1947
C. recurvata (Melander, 1947)
C. rhombicercus Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. scrotifera Melander, 1947
C. serraticauda Engel, 1939
C. sheni Saigusa & Yang, 2003
C. sinensis Yang & Yang, 1995
C. siveci Wagner, 1984
C. spectra Vaillant, 1981
C. stauderae Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004
C. stigmatica (Schiner, 1860)
C. stuprator (Melander, 1947)
C. subangusta Collin, 1961
C. subensifera MacDonald, 1994
C. subnotata MacDonald, 1994
C. tacita Collin, 1928
C. tantula Collin, 1928
C. thaica Horvat, 2002
C. trapezina (Zetterstedt, 1838)
C. valida (Loew, 1862)
C. varix Melander, 1947
C. vicina (Wagner, 2003)
C. vockerothi Vaillant & Chvála, 1973
C. wagneri Horvat, 1990
References
Empidoidea genera
Empididae
Taxa named by Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety%20Level%204%20Zoonotic%20Laboratory%20Network | The Biosafety Level 4 Zoonotic Laboratory Network is an international consortium of Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories. Its members are
National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (Canada)
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (United States)
Pirbright Institute (United Kingdom)
Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Germany)
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (Australia)
References
Biosafety level 4 laboratories
Veterinary research institutes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Slater | Jane Slater (born November 7, 1980) is an American journalist, who works as a reporter for the NFL Network. Slater is based in Dallas, Texas, and mainly reports on the Dallas Cowboys but has also covered the New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans. She has made other appearances on NFL Network including as fill-in host for Good Morning Football.
Early life and education
Slater is from Rowlett, Texas. Her grandfather, Ray Shockley, was the president of Wolf Brand Chili and later made it the official bowl of Texas. She graduated from Rowlett High School in 1999 and the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 double majoring in journalism and government.
Career
Prior to joining NFL Network in 2016, Slater worked for ESPN as an anchor and sideline reporter for the Longhorn Network. She also worked on the College World Series and college football bowl games for ESPN and the SEC Network. She nearly left the covering sports/news after being let go by ESPN. She spent eight years covering news before turning her attention to covering sports which included co-hosting a radio talk show Elf and Slater for a year on KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. Also, she covered Dallas area sports teams for WFAA and KTVT. She was offered a role on The Golf Channel but rejected the offer for the role for the NFL Network.
Personal life
In 2019 when commenting on the Peloton advertisement controversy on Twitter, Slater said that she got a Fitbit for Christmas from an ex-boyfriend. She said she liked it until he was unaccounted for at 4 AM and because their devices were synced, she saw his activity levels were spiking. In 2021, Slater got backlash for posting an unpaid sports media opportunity on Twitter. She later posted she had three unpaid internships and had a job while at school. She is a golf aficionado.
References
External links
Jane Slater bio at NFL.com
Living people
University of Texas alumni
American television sports announcers
National Football League announcers
1980 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity%20information%20technology%20list | This is a list of cybersecurity information technology. Cybersecurity is security as it is applied to information technology. This includes all technology that stores, manipulates, or moves data, such as computers, data networks, and all devices connected to or included in networks, such as routers and switches. All information technology devices and facilities need to be secured against intrusion, unauthorized use, and vandalism. Additionally, the users of information technology should be protected from theft of assets, extortion, identity theft, loss of privacy and confidentiality of personal information, malicious mischief, damage to equipment, business process compromise, and the general activity of cybercriminals. The public should be protected against acts of cyberterrorism, such as the compromise or loss of the electric power grid.
Cybersecurity is a major endeavor in the IT industry. There are a number of professional certifications given for cybersecurity training and expertise. Although billions of dollars are spent annually on cybersecurity, no computer or network is immune from attacks or can be considered completely secure. The single most expensive loss due to a cybersecurity exploit was the ILOVEYOU or Love Bug email worm of 2000, which cost an estimated 10 billion dollars.
This article attempts to list all the important Wikipedia articles about cybersecurity. There are a number of minor articles that can be reached by means of links in the listed articles.
General
Introductory articles about cybersecurity subjects:
Security
Computer security
Internet security
Network security
Information security, Data security
List of computer security certifications
Cryptography
The art of secret writing or code. A "plaintext" message is converted by the sender to "ciphertext" by means of a mathematical algorithm that uses a secret key. The receiver of the message then reverses the process and converts the ciphertext back to the original plaintext.
History of cryptography
Enigma machine
Alan Turing
Cipher
Substitution cipher
One-time pad
Beale ciphers
The Codebreakers
Cryptanalysis
Cryptographic primitive
Cryptographic Service Provider
Data Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard
International Data Encryption Algorithm
HMAC
HMAC-based One-time Password algorithm
Cryptographic hash function
Hash collision
List of hash functions
Comparison of cryptographic hash functions
Hash-based cryptography
SHA-1
SHA-2
SHA-3
SHA-3 competition
Cryptographic nonce
Salt (cryptography)
Cryptographic strength
Block cipher
Block cipher mode of operation
Stream cipher
Key (cryptography)
Key size
Cryptographic key types
Symmetric-key algorithm
Public-key cryptography
Public-Key Cryptography (conference)
Digital signature
Non-repudiation
Public key certificate
Certificate authority
X.509
Public key fingerprint
RSA (cryptosystem)
Secret sharing
Internet key exchange
Pretty Good Privacy
Strong crypto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorvault | Sensorvault is an internal Google database that contains records of users' historical geo-location data.
It has been used by law enforcement to execute a geo-fence warrant and to search for all devices within the vicinity of a crime, (within a geo-fenced area) and after looking at those devices' movements and narrowing those devices down to potential suspects or witnesses, then asking Google for the information about the owners of those devices.
References
Internet privacy
Google
Geographical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beautiful%20Justice%20episodes | Beautiful Justice is a 2019 Philippine television drama series action broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 9, 2019 to January 24, 2020, replacing Sahaya.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Cloud | IBM Cloud (formerly known as Bluemix) is a set of cloud computing services for business offered by the information technology company IBM.
Services
As of 2021, IBM Cloud contains more than 170 services including compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, machine learning, and developer tools.
History
SoftLayer
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. (now IBM Cloud) was a dedicated server, managed hosting, and cloud computing provider, founded in 2005 and acquired by IBM in 2013. SoftLayer initially specialized in hosting workloads for gaming companies and startups, but shifted focus to enterprise workloads after its acquisition.
SoftLayer had bare-metal compute offerings before other large cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services.
SoftLayer has hosted workloads for companies such as The Hartford, WhatsApp, Whirlpool, Daimler, and Macy's.
Timeline
Year 2005: SoftLayer was established in 2005 by Lance Crosby and several of his ex-coworkers.
Year 2010 - August: GI Partners acquired a majority equity stake in SoftLayer in August 2010.
Year 2010 - November: In November of that year it merged the company with The Planet Internet Services, SoftLayer's biggest competitor, and consolidated the customer base under the SoftLayer brand.
Year 2011 - Q1: In Q1 2011, the company reported hosting more than 81,000 servers for more than 26,000 customers in locations throughout the United States.
Year 2011 - July: In July 2011, the company announced plans for international expansion to Amsterdam and Singapore to add to the existing network of North American-based data centers in Dallas (Texas), San Jose (California), Seattle (Washington), Santiago de Querétaro (Mexico), Houston (Texas) and Washington, D.C. Most of these data centers were leased via Digital Realty.
Year 2013 June 4: On June 4, 2013, IBM announced its acquisition of SoftLayer under undisclosed financial terms, in a deal that according to Reuters could have fetched more than $2 billion, to form an IBM Cloud Services Division. At the time of acquisition, SoftLayer was described as the biggest privately held cloud infrastructure provider (IaaS) in the world.
Year 2015 - May: As of May 2015, the company has 23 data centers in 11 different countries.
Year 2018: By 2018, SoftLayer was renamed to IBM Cloud.
Initial launch of Bluemix (2013-2016)
In June 2013, IBM acquired SoftLayer, a public cloud platform, to serve as the foundation for its IaaS offering. Bluemix was announced for public beta in February 2014 after having been developed since early 2013. Bluemix was based on the open source Cloud Foundry project and ran on SoftLayer infrastructure. IBM announced the general availability of the Bluemix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering in July 2014.
By April 2015, Bluemix included a suite of over 100 cloud-based development tools "including social, mobile, security, analytics, database, and IoT (internet of things). Bluemix had grown to 83,000 users in India with growth of approximat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Paul%20Eve | Martin Paul Eve (born 1986) is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, Principal R&D Developer at Crossref, and was Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University until 2022. He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, and open-access policy. Together with Dr Caroline Edwards, he is co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).
Eve was the recipient of a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize, the 2018 KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences, a joint recipient of the Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles 2018 Prize for his chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, and in 2017 was a shortlisted finalist for the Guardian's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education award. In 2021 Eve was listed by the Shaw Trust as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the United Kingdom.
Eve suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis and end-stage renal failure due to BK virus nephropathy.
Academic work
Eve's academic work focuses on contemporary American and British fiction, textual scholarship, and digital approaches to the study of literature. Eve's earliest academic work focused on the novels of Thomas Pynchon, on whose writing his Ph.D. and first book focused. Eve is, though, especially well known for his work on David Mitchell and for uncovering and documenting the multiple textual editions of Cloud Atlas. Eve has also worked extensively on the American author Jennifer Egan, again uncovering substantial differences between the published version of her texts.
Following the work of Mark McGurl, part of Eve's ongoing project has been to chart the interactions between the academy and recent strains of fiction. With reference to the novels of Sarah Waters and China Miéville, for instance, Eve has termed this phenomenon "taxonomographic metafiction", which denotes "fiction about fiction that deals with the study/construction of genre/taxonomy". Eve's more recent literary studies work has turned to quantitative, computational, and digital-material approaches to the study of contemporary fiction, using approaches that have been praised for their rigour but simultaneously criticized for the amount of work that such methods require. Some of Eve's most recent work, published in Book History journal has explored the PDF format, demonstrating that Adobe's board of directors attempted to cancel its development, misunderstanding its conceptual importance.
Eve's work also covers the aesthetics and infrastructures of illicit underground digital cultures. His 2021 book, Warez, examines the pirate artefacts of the warez scene, arguing for the importance of understanding this culture's artforms. He has further written about the pirate e-book archive, Library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20One%20of%20the%20Baes%20episodes | One of the Baes is a 2019 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from September 30, 2019, to January 31, 2020, replacing The Better Woman.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Tillyer | Edgar Derry Tillyer (December 7, 1881 – December 25, 1970) was an astronomer, computer and lens designer who was the director of research at the American Optical Company. The Optical Society established an award for distinction in the field of vision which is named in his honor, as he was the first award winner in 1954.
Born in Dover, New Jersey, Tillyer attended Dover High School, earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and a Master's from George Washington University.
See also
Anna Estelle Glancy
References
1881 births
1970 deaths
American astronomers
George Washington University alumni
Optical engineers
People from Dover, New Jersey
Rutgers University alumni
Scientists from New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz%20Wheeler | Elizabeth Theresa Wheeler (born July 12, 1989) is an American conservative political commentator, author, and podcast host. From 2015 to 2020, Wheeler hosted One America News Network (OANN)'s Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler, where she was known for her finale segment, "Final Point." In 2019, Wheeler published her first book, Tipping Points: How to Topple the Left's House of Cards. In September 2020, Wheeler left OANN and currently hosts a podcast, The Liz Wheeler Show.
Career
In 2013, Wheeler at age 24 partnered with 13 other young conservatives to co-author and publish Young, Conservative, & Why It's Smart to Be Like Us. The book went to No. 2 on Amazon's Civics Books List.
On October 26, 2015, Wheeler was introduced as the host of the primetime talk show Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler, which aired weeknights at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT on One America News Network (OANN).
Wheeler spoke at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2016. She speaks at Young America's Foundation events. In 2018, Wheeler was profiled by Politico magazine as a "titan" of conservative media alongside Ben Shapiro, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Dana Loesch, and others. In the Politico profile, Wheeler said she chose a career in political media because: "We're at a point that we're replacing God with government. So, instead of debating theology, instead of debating family, we're looking at government and looking to politics for the answers—and that's why everyone is so obsessed with it."
In a 2018 segment on OANN, Wheeler falsely claimed that a proposed California bill would ban the sale of Bibles. Snopes determined that the claim was a misrepresentation; the bill actually targeted gay conversion therapy.
In 2019, Regnery Publishing published Wheeler's first book, Tipping Points: How to Topple the Left's House of Cards. In 2020, President Donald Trump issued a tweet encouraging his followers to "buy the book" and "give Liz great reviews."
In a May 2020 segment on OANN, Wheeler claimed without evidence that "mainstream media pretended there was a deadly surge in COVID cases" after the 2020 Wisconsin Spring election. PolitiFact rated the claim "Pants on Fire", having found that there were no references to a "surge" in their review of state and national articles about the election, and that reports had accurately listed the number of COVID-19 cases potentially related to the election. At OANN, Wheeler denounced Black Lives Matter protesters as "trained Marxists".
In September 2020, Wheeler announced her departure from OANN.
In a January 2021 video titled "Fauci lied to you AGAIN", Wheeler made false claims about Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, and the effectiveness of face masks. FactCheck.org determined that Wheeler had falsely claimed that Fauci "lied" to the American public about the pandemic, and that she misled about COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and distorted the findings of a scientific paper to claim that face masks do not need to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Heid | Alexander Heid is an American computer security consultant, white hat hacker, and business executive.
Heid is a co-founder of the South Florida hacker conference and hacker group known as HackMiami, and currently serves as the chief research officer of the New York City information security firm SecurityScorecard.
Early life and education
Alexander Heid grew up in Miami, Florida and attended Barbara Goleman Senior High School.
Career
Alexander Heid currently serves as chief research officer of the New York City information security firm SecurityScorecard. Heid joined the company in 2014, working directly with Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh to develop the signal collection methodologies that powers the cyber threat intelligence and third party management aspects of the platform.
Heid is documented as being one of the first researchers to attribute the Equifax data breach to a vulnerability in Apache Struts 2 within the first hours of the breach announcement.
Prior to SecurityScorecard, Heid was the head of threat intelligence at Prolexic. Heid developed counterattack and neutralization methodologies against DDoS campaigns by discovering vulnerabilities in the attacker's botnet command and control servers.
During the time at Prolexic, Heid was involved in the defense and mitigation of the Operation Ababil campaigns that were targeting the financial sector.
Additionally, Heid has held senior security roles within the banking industry, specializing in web application vulnerability analysis and botnet cyber threat intelligence. Heid has given multiple presentations at hacker conferences demonstrating exploitable vulnerabilities within crimeware applications that can be leveraged by white hat researchers for the purposes of attribution and threat neutralization.
Heid is also the author of the 2013 cryptocurrency threat intelligence report, "Analysis of the Cryptocurrency Marketplace," which was the first forensic report about malware threats relating to blockchain technologies. The report is ranked as one of the Top 1000 'Most Cited Blockchain Publications' by BlockchainLibrary.
References
Living people
Hackers
American technology executives
People in information technology
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Yau | Stephen Yau may refer to:
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (born 1952), American mathematician
Stephen Sik-Sang Yau, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddes%20Broadcast%20Group | Iddes Broadcast Group, Inc. is a Philippine radio network. Its corporate office is located at 3/F, Kingsheen Bldg., Don Mariano Marcos Ave., Roxas, Isabela. IBG operates a number of stations across regional places in the Philippines.
IBGI Stations
Defunct Stations
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20My%20Device | Find My Device (also known as Find Device) is an asset tracking service provided by Google to remotely trace, locate and wipe devices that are compatible with the Find My Device network.
Features
Find My Device locates and traces missing Android-powered smartphones, tablets, headphones/earphones, and Wear OS-powered smartwatches. Users have options to play a sound a maximum volume for 5 minutes, secure the device & force it to sign out of its associated Google Account, or erase the device entirely, including sensitive cards such as keys and IDs in Wallet.
Google has announced expanded features for the service that are expected to launch in summer 2023. An expanded Find My Device network is expected to crowdsource data from Android phones & tablets to assist in finding other devices on the network via Bluetooth. This will also enable offline finding, as well as support for more items being supported on the service, such as tracker tags from Tile, Chipolo, and Pebblebee. These trackers are marked as supporting Google's Find My Device network via a badge on their product marketing.
Also announced was support for unknown tracker alerts on Android-powered phones and tablets. In case an unknown tracker is determined to be following a person, they will receive a notification and be able to play a sound on the detected device to help locate it.
See also
Find My
References
Android (operating system)
Google
2013 software
mobile software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brambul | Brambul is an SMB protocol computer worm that decrypts and automatically moves from one computer to its second computer.
It is responsible for the dropping of the Joanap botnet.
History
Brambul was first discovered in 2009 and has not had a disclosure prior to its notoriety. It was observed by cybersecurity firms and was not extensive subject.
Sony hack (Late 2014)
Brambul was among the malware to be identified during the Sony Pictures hack.
Investigation (Early 2019)
Brambul as well as Joanap botnet have both been shut down via a court order.
Cycle
The computer worm has the ability to automatically scan IP addresses and decrypt passwords including, but not limited to the following.
System drive share
Brambul will share information of the system to the cyberattacker. Information shared includes the IP address, hostname and the username and password.
References
External links
HIDDEN COBRA – Joanap Backdoor Trojan and Brambul Server Message Block Worm | CISA
Computer worms
2014 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl%20data | Vinyl data is the use of vinyl discs to store sequenced/encoded data rather than for simple analog recordings. This alternate use of the storage medium enabled the code of full motion videos (FMVs) and even simple video games to be stored in an analog format along with the soundtrack and sound effects. These vinyl data discs took two forms: the FMV-only Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), and the program sheet. Uncommon even in the early 1980s when the practice was at its height, program sheet game data required that users record from the disc (typically a flexi disc like the Interface Age "Floppy ROM") onto an audio cassette tape which could then be used via the cassette port with microcomputers such as the BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, VIC-20, Dragon 32/64, ZX81, or ZX Spectrum. The use of CEDs to store video game FMV data was even less common, and required the game console (typically an arcade machine) to select a section of the grooved track to read with its stylus at just the right time for the video to be displayed. The numerous limitations of these techniques (background noise, scratches, and other audio-fidelity problems) contributed to their failure to receive widespread acceptance and video game data stored in this manner remains some of the most difficult to archive and preserve.
List of vinyl-data releases
References
Video game soundtracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Rubin | Carol Rubin (March 23, 1945 – November 3, 2001) was an American film producer and production supervisor, who worked for the ABC television network and was involved in the production of several The Walt Disney Company made-for-television miniseries and films.
Biography
Carol Rubin was born on March 23, 1945. She was the daughter of Samuel Rubin and had one brother, Ted. Rubin was vice-president of development for production companies such as Edgar Scherick Production and Intermedia Entertainment. She subsequently spent the following eleven years as executive producer of miniseries and director of dramatic development for the ABC television network. Rubin supervised the development and production of the television films Roots: The Next Generations, Masada, Friendly Fire, and East of Eden. She also served an associated producer on primetime soap opera Dynasty in the early 1980s.
In 1984, Rubin joined the staff of the Disney Channel. She was an executive director of original films, and was credited as having undertaken a major role in the development and production of the network's created-for-television franchise. Rubin supervised the miniseries and films Great Expectations (1989), Danny, the Champion of the World (1989), Heidi (1993), The Old Curiosity Shop (1995), Brink! (1998), and Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999). On November 3, 2001, she died suddenly while sleeping at her home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. The 2002 DCOM, Cadet Kelly was dedicated to her memory. Rubin was given a burial service at the Old North Church in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the afternoon on November 9.
Filmography
Great Expectations (1989)
Danny, the Champion of the World (1989)
Heidi (1993)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)
Brink! (1998)
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
References
External links
1945 births
2001 deaths
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
American women film producers
Disney executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Machine%20Communication%20Facility | The IBM Virtual Machine Communication Facility (VMCF) is a feature of the VM/370 operating system introduced in Release 3 in 1976. It "provides a method of communication and data transfer between virtual machines operating under the same VM/370 system."
VMCF uses paravirtualization through the diagnose instruction VMCF SEND function to send data, in blocks of up to 2048 bytes, from one virtual machine to another. The receiving virtual machine accesses the data thru the diagnose RECEIVE function. It provides a simpler interface and greater performance than the prior use of virtual channel-to-channel adapters for the same purpose.
VMCF was superseded by the Inter User Communication Vehicle (IUCV), introduced in 1980 with VM/SP.
References
IBM mainframe operating systems
VM (operating system)
Virtualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Research%20Center%20of%20Islamic%20Sciences | The Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS, also known as Noor and Noorsoft, مرکز تحقیقات کامپیوتری علوم اسلامی) was established in 1989 with the aim of digitizing Islamic science resources at the suggestion of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences operates in Qom and has branches in Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad for training and distribution. It has four departments, Department of Commerce and Cultural Services, Research Department, Technical Department, Production Deputy, Tehran Deputy, Administrative and Financial Deputy, as well as the Office of International Communications and Project Management Bureau.
The CRCIS has been established to facilitate access to Islamic science and religious culture resources and texts by means of information and communication technology, and to expand and expand it in the domains of theology and domestic and international cultural communities. Therefore, it offers, among others the Noormags website. It also created an online Quran with 30 translations and around 1000 exegesis, called Jami al-tafsir.
References
Software companies of Iran
Shia Islamic websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prema%20Murthy | Prema Murthy (born 1969 in Seattle, WA) is an American, multi-disciplinary artist based in New York. Employing aesthetics, gesture, geometry and algorithmic processes, Murthy's work explores the boundaries between embodiment and abstraction, while engaging in issues of culture and politics. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Reina Sofia Museum, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, and the India Habitat Center-New Delhi.
Education
Murthy received a BA in Art History and Women's Studies from the University of Texas, Austin and MFA from Goldsmiths College, London.
Career
Murthy's early digital art works from the 1990s - such as Bindigirl and Mythic Hybrid - are considered pioneering examples of internet art from a feminist perspective. These works explored the intersections of gender, race, and technology, while also utilizing the then-emerging tools of streaming media as a platform for performance art. These works contributed to the cyberfeminist art movement, while also drawing inspiration from postcolonial studies and feminist science fiction. In 2015 Murthy's work Bindigirl was included in the group retrospective "Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s".
In the 1990s Murthy also co-founded Fakeshop, an art collective that used early video conferencing technologies, interactive video and music software, and digital animation to create large scale performative installations. Fakeshop presented its work at venues such as Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH, and was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, the first major American museum to include Internet art as a special category in its exhibition.
Murthy's recent work includes the use of 3D modeling tools to create large scale drawings, digital prints, and installation. These works make reference to the art of Futurism, Minimalism, and the Baroque. Her 2008 solo exhibit "Fuzzy Logic" at MoMA PS1 included a number of abstract, wireframe drawings as well as a room-sized installation of black yarn produced with the aid of 3D software. In 2010 Murthy used these techniques for her animated short "Monster," produced in collaboration with singer/songwriter Miho Hatori.
She has taught Digital Art at City College (CUNY) and Sarah Lawrence College, NY.
See also
Cyberfeminism
Feminist art
Internet art
New media art
Performance art
References
External links
Prema Murthy site
Fuzzy Logic exhibit, MoMA PS1
Artists from Brooklyn
American people of Filipino descent
American people of Indian descent
Internet art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20artificial%20neural%20networks |
Linear neural network
The simplest kind of feedforward neural network is a linear network, which consists of a single layer of output nodes; the inputs are fed directly to the outputs via a series of weights. The sum of the products of the weights and the inputs is calculated in each node. The mean squared errors between these calculated outputs and a given target values are minimized by creating an adjustment to the weights. This technique has been known for over two centuries as the method of least squares or linear regression. It was used as a means of finding a good rough linear fit to a set of points by Legendre (1805) and Gauss (1795) for the prediction of planetary movement.
Recurrent network architectures
Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising created and analyzed the Ising model (1925) which is essentially a non-learning artificial recurrent neural network (RNN) consisting of neuron-like threshold elements. In 1972, Shun'ichi Amari made this architecture adaptive. His learning RNN was popularised by John Hopfield in 1982.
Perceptrons and other early neural networks
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts (1943) also considered a non-learning computational model for neural networks. This model paved the way for research to split into two approaches. One approach focused on biological processes while the other focused on the application of neural networks to artificial intelligence. This work led to work on nerve networks and their link to finite automata.
In the early 1940s, D. O. Hebb created a learning hypothesis based on the mechanism of neural plasticity that became known as Hebbian learning. Hebbian learning is unsupervised learning. This evolved into models for long-term potentiation. Researchers started applying these ideas to computational models in 1948 with Turing's B-type machines. Farley and Clark (1954) first used computational machines, then called "calculators", to simulate a Hebbian network. Other neural network computational machines were created by Rochester, Holland, Habit and Duda (1956).
Rosenblatt (1958) created the perceptron, an algorithm for pattern recognition. With mathematical notation, Rosenblatt described circuitry not in the basic perceptron, such as the exclusive-or circuit that could not be processed by neural networks at the time. In 1959, a biological model proposed by Nobel laureates Hubel and Wiesel was based on their discovery of two types of cells in the primary visual cortex: simple cells and complex cells.
Some say that research stagnated following Minsky and Papert (1969), who discovered that basic perceptrons were incapable of processing the exclusive-or circuit and that computers lacked sufficient power to process useful neural networks. However, by the time this book came out, methods for training multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) by deep learning were already known.
First deep learning
The first deep learning MLP was published by Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko and Valentin Lapa in 1965, as the Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Triple%20J | The following list of programs have been broadcast by Triple J.
Music
Speciality music shows
Triple J programming schedule has included shows featuring many specialty genres including: featuring new music - the show started in 1997 and changes its name to match the current year; The Racket features heavy metal - formerly Full Metal Racket and 3 Hours of Power; Hip Hop Show; Home & Hosed Triple J's Australian music show; Mix Up featuring DJ mixes; Radio Funktrust playing groove and funk - formerly The Groove Train; Roots N All with roots and blues; short.fast.loud featuring punk rock, hardcore punk, metalcore, and post-hardcore; The Club with dance; and The Sound Lab featuring experimental, IDM, post-rock, minimal techno, dubstep, ambient, and glitch.
J-Files
The weekly J-Files show has had two incarnations over the years. From 1996 to 2003, it was a three-hour late weeknight show hosted by Richard Kingsmill. Each show was topical; it might feature an artist, a particular year in the past, or songs with a certain theme. Examples of themed shows include: #9 songs (which was the theme of 9 September 1999's show), cats & dogs, New Zealand bands, and banned songs.
From 2003 the J-Files was a one-hour Saturday afternoon show, hosted by various Triple J presenters, specifically focused on one particular artist. The final J-File was aired in November 2007. On Thursday 21 August 2014 the J Files made its debut on digital station Double J.
In 2018, Gemma Pike was announced as the second ever permanent host of The J Files.
Live at the Wireless
Live at the Wireless is a long-standing tradition of Triple J. It is a weekly broadcast of live music, of a number of forms - open air festivals, smaller concerts, or acoustic performances in the studio. Occasionally, Triple J will host a live performance in a secret location, and give away tickets to a limited number of listeners, to allow them to be a part of the special event.
Home & Hosed
Up until 2002, the Australian Music Show was Triple J's all-Australian music segment, broadcast as a three-hour late weeknight show (22:00 to 01:00) and hosted by Richard Kingsmill. Starting in 2003, the format changed to a two-hour show every weeknight (21:00 to 23:00, shortening Super Request and the late night speciality shows by an hour each) and Robbie Buck became the presenter. It proved to be one of Triple J's most popular changes, as the audience (and the station itself) has traditionally been very supportive of local talent and unsigned bands. The show has now been reduced to one hour, is only on Monday to Thursdays, and is hosted by Declan Byrne; who replaced Dom Allesio for 2018.
House Party
On 2 February 2008, Triple J commenced broadcasting a house-party style programme mixed and presented by Nina Las Vegas. In July 2011, while Nina Las Vegas was on vacation, Ballarat mashup duo Yacht Club DJs hosted House Party for the entire month. The show was then hosted by Kristy Lee Peters. It is currently hoste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Cosman | Pamela Cosman is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She has conducted a pioneering research on the quality of compressed images for application in medical diagnostic imaging. At UCSD, Cosman currently researches ways to improve wireless video transmission.
Early life and education
Pamela C. Cosman obtained her B.Sc. with Honors in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1987, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993 with doctoral advisor Dr. Bob Gray.
Career and research
Following an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford and at the University of Minnesota (1993–1995), she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Currently, Dr. Cosman is a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her lab conducts research on video compression in an effort to minimize losses during wireless transmissions.
Cosman simultaneously conducts sociology research on interruptions and introductions during job talks to explore the bias that exists in the hiring process for computer science and engineering faculty. Cosman is also the Faculty Equity Advisor at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering where she conducts unconscious bias training for the faculty search committees. The effects of Cosman's course were evident in the nearly 20% increase in female faculty hired between 2013 and 2018. Cosman's efforts were recognized when she won a state grant for enhancing diversity in her department in 2016 as well as the Diversity Award at the ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo in 2019. Cosman is also the author of a children's novel called The Secret Code Menace, which uses a narrative about two siblings to keep readers aged 9–12 engaged as it introduces concepts in coding theory like error correction code.
Awards and recognition
Inaugural holder of the Dr. John and Felia Proakis Chancellor Faculty Fellowship
2018 National Diversity Awards from ECEDHA (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association)
2017 Athena Pinnacle Award - Outstanding Educator
2016 UC San Diego Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Award
2008 Fellow of the IEEE
1997-1998 Powell Faculty Fellowship
Selected publications
Publications include:
Song Q, Cosman PC. Luminance Enhancement and Detail Preservation of Images and Videos Adapted to Ambient Illumination. IEEE Trans Image Process. 2018 Oct; 27(10):4901-4915. .
Peng YT, Cao K, Cosman PC. Generalization of the Dark Channel Prior for Single Image Restoration. IEEE Trans Image Process. 2018 Jun; 27(6):2856-2868. .
Peng YT, Cosman PC. Underwater Image Restoration Based on Image Blurriness and Light Absorption. IEEE Trans Image Process. 2017 Apr; 26(4):1579-1594. .
S. Guo, E. Ho, Y. Zhang, Q. Chen, V. Meng, J. Cao, S. Wu, L. Chukoskie and P.C. Cosman, "Using Face and Object Detection to Quantify Looks During Social Interactio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20of%20artificial%20neural%20networks | An artificial neural network (ANN) combines biological principles with advanced statistics to solve problems in domains such as pattern recognition and game-play. ANNs adopt the basic model of neuron analogues connected to each other in a variety of ways.
Structure
Neuron
A neuron with label receiving an input from predecessor neurons consists of the following components:
an activation , the neuron's state, depending on a discrete time parameter,
an optional threshold , which stays fixed unless changed by learning,
an activation function that computes the new activation at a given time from , and the net input giving rise to the relation
and an output function computing the output from the activation
Often the output function is simply the identity function.
An input neuron has no predecessor but serves as input interface for the whole network. Similarly an output neuron has no successor and thus serves as output interface of the whole network.
Propagation function
The propagation function computes the input to the neuron from the outputs and typically has the form
Bias
A bias term can be added, changing the form to the following:
where is a bias.
Neural networks as functions
Neural network models can be viewed as defining a function that takes an input (observation) and produces an output (decision) or a distribution over or both and . Sometimes models are intimately associated with a particular learning rule. A common use of the phrase "ANN model" is really the definition of a class of such functions (where members of the class are obtained by varying parameters, connection weights, or specifics of the architecture such as the number of neurons, number of layers or their connectivity).
Mathematically, a neuron's network function is defined as a composition of other functions , that can further be decomposed into other functions. This can be conveniently represented as a network structure, with arrows depicting the dependencies between functions. A widely used type of composition is the nonlinear weighted sum, where , where (commonly referred to as the activation function) is some predefined function, such as the hyperbolic tangent, sigmoid function, softmax function, or rectifier function. The important characteristic of the activation function is that it provides a smooth transition as input values change, i.e. a small change in input produces a small change in output. The following refers to a collection of functions as a vector .
This figure depicts such a decomposition of , with dependencies between variables indicated by arrows. These can be interpreted in two ways.
The first view is the functional view: the input is transformed into a 3-dimensional vector , which is then transformed into a 2-dimensional vector , which is finally transformed into . This view is most commonly encountered in the context of optimization.
The second view is the probabilistic view: the random variable depends upo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBTC | WBTC may refer to:-
WBTC (AM), a radio station in Uhrichsville, Ohio, United States
WBTC, "wrapped" Bitcoin in the Ethereum blockchain
West Bengal Transport Corporation, a state government corporation
West Bengal Trinamool Congress, a region level political party in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemannia%20bicuspidata | Wiedemannia bicuspidata is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.
References
Wiedemannia
Insects described in 1918
Diptera of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le%20Sebag | Martine-Michèle Sebag is a French computer scientist, primarily focused on machine learning. She has over 6,000 citations.
Biography
Sebag studied mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and later worked in the computer science industry, starting at Thomson Corporation, where she was introduced to artificial intelligence. She then moved into the research field, at the Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides at Ecole Polytechnique.
She was awarded a PhD from the University of Paris-Sud, Paris Dauphine University and Ecole Polytechnique. Sebag started work at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a research fellow in 1991.
Sebag is deputy director of the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique at the CNRS; Head of group A-O at the latter; co-head of Projet TAO at INRIA Saclay; and principal scientist at the CNRS.
She was named chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2019.
Selected research
Gelly, Sylvain, et al. "The grand challenge of computer Go: Monte Carlo tree search and extensions." Communications of the ACM 55.3 (2012): 106–113.
Bordes, Antoine, Léon Bottou, and Patrick Gallinari. "SGD-QN: Careful quasi-Newton stochastic gradient descent." Journal of Machine Learning Research 10.Jul (2009): 1737–1754.
Termier, Alexandre, M-C. Rousset, and Michèle Sebag. "Treefinder: a first step towards xml data mining." 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2002. Proceedings.. IEEE, 2002.
Sebag, Michèle, and Antoine Ducoulombier. "Extending population-based incremental learning to continuous search spaces." International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998.
Further reading
José L. Balcázar; Francesco Bonchi; Aristides Gionis; 2010. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20–24, 2010. Proceedings. Springer. .
References
External links
article by Sebag in Le Monde
Living people
French women computer scientists
Écoles Normales Supérieures
University of Paris alumni
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Year of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWOM-FM | DWOM (105.5 FM) is a radio station in the Philippines owned and operated by Kaissar Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Sitio Bonbon, Brgy. Salong, Calapan.
History
Established on August 14, 1969, on 1107 kHz under the call letters DZOM, it was the pioneer station in the province. At that time, it was owned by Oriental Mindoro Management Resources Corporation, and was located at the 3rd Floor, Cacha Bldg., Del Pilar St., Brgy. Nacoco. On March 6, 1998, the station was acquired by Kaissar Broadcasting Network, and migrated to FM on 105.5 MHz, under the call letters DWOM. At that time, it relocated to its present home in Sitio Bonbon, Brgy. Salong.
References
External links
DWOM FB Page
Radio stations established in 1969
Radio stations in Mindoro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey%20Orielle%20Lake | Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with frontline, grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women's leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean energy future. Osprey was the visionary behind the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit, which brought together 100 global women leaders to draft and implement a 'Women's Climate Action Agenda’. She also is honored to serve on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and has been a core organizer of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. Her writing about climate justice, women in leadership and other topics have been featured in The Guardian, Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy and Ecowatch and other publications. She is the author of the book Uprisings for the Earth:Reconnecting Culture with Nature, which won the 2011 Nautilus Book Award.
References
American activists
American women artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie%20%26%20Tommy | Carrie & Tommy is an Australian radio station drive show on the Hit Network. The show is hosted by Carrie Bickmore, Tommy Little and anchor Jesse Watkins.
History
In January 2017, Southern Cross Austereo announced that Carrie Bickmore and Tommy Little would host drive across the Hit Network with the show leading into Hamish & Andy.
Carrie Bickmore had previously been a breakfast news presenter on Hughesy & Kate on Nova 100 and Tommy Little was host of Meshel & Tommy with Meshel Laurie on Nova 100.
In October 2017, Southern Cross Austereo announced the Hit Network's 2018 line up with Carrie & Tommy extending an extra 30 minutes running from 3pm until 4:30pm. Hamish & Andy ended their drive show in December 2017 and were replaced by Hughesy & Kate.
In December 2019, Southern Cross Austereo announced that the show will extend from 3pm until 5pm. Anchor Chris 'Buzz' Bezzina departed the show at the end of 2019 after relocating to Brisbane. He was replaced by Jesse Watkins.
In November 2020, Southern Cross Austereo confirmed that Carrie and Tommy would return in 2021 to host the Hit Network's national drive show from 3pm to 6pm. Hughesy and Ed previously filled the drive show, in 2021 moving to host the 2Day FM breakfast show The Morning Crew.
In November 2022, it was announced that Carrie and Tommy will continue on the Hit Network for the next four years.
In December 2022, Annabelle McNamara was announced as the next executive producer of the show, replacing Sonder Novak-Booth. Sonder previously taking the newly created role of Network Content Director of National Shows.
Team Members
Current team members
References
External links
Carrie & Tommy
Australian music radio programs
2010s Australian radio programs
2020s Australian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Wootton%20%28animator%29 | James "Wootie" Wootton is a Canadian animator and character designer. His career began with the Cartoon Network animated television series Ed, Edd n Eddy, created by Danny Antonucci, which premiered on the network on January 4, 1999. Wootton served as a title sequence animator and a storyboard artist during the series' run, which garnered him an Annie Award nomination for the third season episode "Wish You Were Ed" on November 10, 2001. Wootton would later work on George of the Jungle, Kid vs. Kat, Roy, Martha Speaks, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Packages from Planet X, All Hail King Julien, and Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny.
Filmography
Accolades
References
External links
Living people
Canadian television directors
Canadian animators
Canadian storyboard artists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont%20Transit%20Corridor | The Vermont Transit Corridor is a proposed bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network in Los Angeles, California with plans to convert it to a heavy rail subway line in the future. It is planned to operate on a north-to-south route on Vermont Avenue between the B Line's Vermont/Sunset station and the C Line's Vermont/Athens station on the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The project feasibility study was released in February 2019 with a proposed completion date of 2028 for BRT and after 2067 for rail. It is part of Metro's Twenty-eight by '28 initiative and is partially funded by Measure M. The route will have signal priority at traffic lights and will have a dedicated right of way. Metro reports the initial cost is $425 million.
History
Until 1963, Vermont Avenue was served by several Los Angeles Railway Yellow Car streetcar lines: the F, K, R, S, U, and V. After streetcars ceased running under the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, tracks were torn up, and buses replaced service.
Vermont is the second busiest bus corridor in ridership, with 45,000 boarding per work day. Metro estimates this BRT will have 75,000-weekday boardings once completed. For that reason, light rail and subway options are also being developed. Metro is looking for ways to accelerate the option. Rail-based options are not scheduled to receive Measure R funds until after 2067.
Initial Alternative Analysis
Two alternative analyses were developed.
Bus rapid transit
Metro currently plans to construct bus rapid transit with various stations along its route. Each will be spaced about apart. Metro will study three options for BRT:
"side running"
"side-center running"
A technical study will also look at an entirely "center-running" option.
These feasibility options were sent to formal environmental review status. Metro plans to commence the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) with the choices by 2019. Metro's planned budget for BRT is $425 million.
Rail
For rail, concepts have been published in the feasibility study. Measure M funds for rail are expected to become available after 2067.
The following concepts were published:
A light rail concept would cost $2.7 to 3.2 billion. Underground sections are required between Wilshire Boulevard and Slauson Avenue.
A heavy rail concept would cost $3.7 to 4.4 billion with five new underground stations. A new junction and platform under Wilshire/Vermont station would make the line a continuation of the B Line. This would feature a one-seat underground ride from North Hollywood to South Los Angeles.
Route
The corridor includes Vermont Avenue between Hollywood Boulevard and 120th Street. Destinations along the route include Exposition Park and its museums Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center. Also, local sports stadiums, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and BMO Stadium. USC is along the route. It would also connect with E Line at Expo/Vermont station.
The f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moja%20Love | Moja Love is a South African digital satellite television general entertainment channel produced by Nsizwa Ginger Media Network for DStv. It is a female-skewed channel geared towards content that showcases various forms of love.
History
The launch of this channel comes just after Siyaya TV, a 100% black-owned company, received a pay-TV licence from the broadcasting regulator ICASA but failed to start its own pay-TV service, thus, they instead focused on creating channels for DStv. Initially, Siyaya TV previously secured exclusive broadcasting rights to the Premier Soccer League, which were later resold to the SABC.
It was announced on 8 June 2021 that it will roll out a new sister channel called Moja 9.9 from 16 June 2021 for DStv Access Subscribers, adding a new youth talk show, Start Somewhere
Programming
Channel head Jacqui Setai explains that Moja Love "explores love from the unique perspective of the modern South African woman using honest, reflective, hopeful and humorous storytelling"
The channel is dedicated to celebrating different dimensions of love, and is filled with new-to-air exclusive locally produced content primarily targeted at women
Show Me Love – Talk show hosted by Kgomotso"KG" Moeketsi, Unathi Nkayi, Abigail Visagie, Nontobeko Sibisi and Ntsiki Mazwai, tackling pressing issues that affect women every day.
Hope – A telenovela starring Nimrod Nkosi and Charmaine Mtinta.
Highly Inappropriate – Variety show hosted by Phat Joe
Beat – A beauty-techniques show, hosted by Muzi Zuma.
Sofa Silahlane – Hosted by Investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika.
Uyajola 9/9 – Show that exposes infidelity, much like the American reality show Cheaters. Hosted by Jub-Jub
Umoya – Reality show starring Thembi Nyathi, a medium who uses her gift to bring closure to the living and the dead.
Zodwa Uncensored – Reality show which features internet sensation Zodwa Wabantu
No Excuses, Pay Papgeld – A show where unsupporting parents are confronted to pay child support.
Rea Tsotella - A confrontational show where the aggrieved party wishes to have an issue between them and the other party or parties resolved. Hosted by Moshe Ndiki and Bishop I. Makamu
Kukithi La - A show where families that are conflicting over immovable property due to the deceased owner not having had a will. Hosted by Penny Lebeyane.
S’khipha amaFiles - Reality show where communities or groups of interested people expose companies or people who abuse them or their rights.
After Tears - A show that explores the culture of the ‘after tears’ concept, where the family and friends celebrate the life of their deceased love one immediately after the funeral.
Traditional Wedding - Reality wedding show hosted by Kamohelo Bombe which showcases traditional weddings of the different cultures in South Africa as well as the process of preparation for the wedding.
Vat n Sit - Reality show that is set against the backdrop of unmarried couples living together being not allowed in fami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAG | DYAG (1125 AM) Hapi Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Cadiz Radio and TV Network. Its studio and transmitter are located along Santan St., Brgy. Poblacion 2, Sagay, Negros Occidental.
References
Radio stations established in 1995
Radio stations in Negros Occidental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%20on%20Parade%21 | is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's Data Carddass line of machines, which launched on October 5, 2019. It is the sequel to the Aikatsu Friends! and crossover to the Aikatsu!, Aikatsu Stars! series of arcade games. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions.
An anime television adaptation by BN Pictures premiered from October 5, 2019 to March 28, 2020. A web season of the anime titled Aikatsu on Parade! Dream Story was announced to start airing from March 28, 2020 to July 11, 2020 after the television series ended, along with an addition to the Data Carddass game.
A new Aikatsu! hybrid Drama/Anime series titled Aikatsu Planet! was also announced and was originally set to premiere in October 2020, but it has been delayed to January 2021.
Plot
Raki Kiseki is a second-year middle school student who transfers to Star Harmony Academy to become an idol. However, when she uses an Aikatsu Pass she received from her elder sister Saya, an Aikatsu engineer, something mysterious happens. Many doors appeared before her, and when she opens them, she meets Aikatsu idols she never knew before, such as Ichigo Hoshimiya, Akari Ōzora and Yume Nijino. Raki vows to design her own premium rare dress and perform in it on stage.
Media
Anime
An anime television series produced by BN Pictures aired on TV Tokyo from October 5, 2019, replacing the Japanese dub of PAW Patrol in its timeslot. A manga adaptation has been serialized in Pucchigumi since their November 2019 issue.
Episodes
Dream Story
References
2019 anime television series debuts
2019 video games
Aikatsu!
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Bandai Namco games
Bandai Namco Pictures
Japan-exclusive video games
Japanese idols in anime and manga
TV Tokyo original programming
Video games developed in Japan
Crossover animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareChat | ShareChat is an Indian social networking service platform, owned by Bangalore-based Mohalla Tech. It was founded by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan, and incorporated on 8 January 2015. ShareChat app has over 350 million monthly active users across 15 Indian languages. The current valuation of the company is $5 billion.
Foundation and history
ShareChat's holding company, Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, was incorporated in January 2015 by graduate from Indian Institutes of Technology Kanpur: Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan. The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and as of 2020, employed over 2500 people.
Initially, ShareChat primarily worked as a content sharing platform, without any scope of users generating their own content. In April 2016, however, ShareChat enabled user-generated content creation on its platform, allowing its users to share their own posters and creative content. At around the same time, it also introduced open tagging for users, which would allow anyone to create their own hashtags depending on the content.
In January 2023, Farid Ahsan and Bhanu Pratap Singh stepped down from their respective roles as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. As of 2022, Manohar Singh Charan (CFO) and Amit Zunjarwad (CPO) led the management along with Ankush Sachdeva (CEO).
Acquisitions
In March 2019, Mohalla Tech acquired Transversal Tech-owned short video sharing platform, Clip. In February 2020, it acquired Bengaluru-based online fashion marketplace Elanic. In March 2020, it acquired a meme discovery and sharing platform, Memer. In August 2020, it acquired a hyperlocal information platform, Circle Internet. Sharechat parent company also bought MX TakaTak from Times Internet Group for $700 million in one of the biggest acquisitions of 2022.
Funding
In September 2020, ShareChat raised $40 million from investors Pawan Munjal of Hero MotoCorp, Ajay Shridhar Shriram of DCM Shriram, Twitter, SAIF Partners, Lightspeed Ventures, and India Quotient. By April 2021, ShareChat had raised $500 million from investors and was valued at over $2 billion. In May 2022, ShareChat raised $300 million from Google, Times Group and Temasek Holdings at a valuation of $5 billion.
Initiatives against misinformation
On 17 April 2019, ShareChat took down around half a million pieces of content and removed 54,000 accounts for spreading fake news, hate speech and spam, and for conducting coordinated misinformation campaigns.
Issues
ShareChat accused Bytedance of copying its design: Helo, another social media platform formerly owned by TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, is one of ShareChat's competitors. In 2018, ShareChat accused Bytedance of copying its design and UI pixel to pixel in 2018. Following Delhi High Court's direction, Bytedance changed its design for Helo.
Layoffs and rehiring: In May 2020, ShareChat laid off 101 employees. They have since rehired over 50% of the laid-off workforce aft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron%20%28cryptocurrency%29 | TRON is a decentralized, blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles as its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX). It was established in March 2014 by Justin Sun and since 2017 has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore, established in the same year. It is open-source software.
It was originally an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, which switched its protocol to its own blockchain in 2018. TRC20 has a fee of 5 trones per 1 USDT coin for the transfer. On some cryptocurrency wallets, users can't withdraw their USDT funds until they have enough money for the network fee.
History
TRON was founded by Justin Sun in 2017. The TRON Foundation was established in July 2017 in Singapore. The TRON Foundation raised $70 million in 2017 through an initial coin offering shortly before China outlawed the digital tokens. The testnet, Blockchain Explorer, and Web Wallet were all launched by March 2018. TRON Mainnet launched shortly afterward in May 2018, marking the Odyssey 2.0 release as a technical milestone for TRON.
In June 2018, TRON switched its protocol from an ERC-20 token on top of Ethereum to an independent peer-to-peer network. On 25 July 2018, the TRON Foundation announced it had finished the acquisition of BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing service. Upon this acquisition, in August 2018, BitTorrent Founder Bram Cohen also disclosed that he was leaving the company to found a separate cryptocurrency, Chia.
By January 2019, TRON had a total market cap of about 1.6 USDT Despite this market performance, some authors viewed TRON as a typical case of the complex and disordered nature of cryptocurrencies. In February 2019, after being acquired by TRON Foundation, BitTorrent started its own token sale based on the TRON network.
In late 2021, Justin Sun resigned as CEO of the TRON Foundation, which was subsequently reorganized as a DAO.
In March 2023, Sun and Tron were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for selling unregistered securities related to the sale and promotion of Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BBT) tokens, alleging that Sun and Tron had engaged in wash trading in the secondary market for TRX in order to buoy its price. Eight celebrities, including Akon, Ne-Yo, Austin Mahone, Soulja Boy, Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and Lil Yachty, were charged with promoting these cryptocurrencies without disclosing that they were sponsored, with all those other than Soulja Boy, and Mahone settling with the FTC for more than $400,000, without admitting or denying the charges.
Architecture
TRON adopts a 3-layer architecture divided into storage layer, core layer, and application layer. The TRON protocol adheres to Google protocol buffers, which intrinsically supports multi-language extension.
The TRON protocol, maintained primarily by the TRON Foundation, distributes computing resources equally |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Proposal%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Proposal is a reality dating series based on the American series of the same name that premiered on Seven Network on 27 August 2019. The show is hosted by Luke Jacobz. The series will feature same-sex participants.
A bachelor or bachelorette is hidden from view, and 10 contestants must introduce themselves and answer questions posed by the bachelor or bachelorette. Contestants are eliminated until the end of the hour, when the bachelor or bachelorette can choose to propose to one of the final two candidates.
Due to dismal ratings, the program was bumped to 9.30pm from Episode 4. The program was axed in January 2020.
Ratings
References
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2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between%20Two%20Worlds%20%28TV%20series%29 | Between Two Worlds is an Australian television drama series which premiered on the Seven Network on 26 July 2020.
Plot
The series revolves around two families. The Walford family is headed by wealthy tycoon Phillip Walford, his wife Cate and privileged son Bart. Their world is penthouses, luxury cars and designer offices. The Grey family consists of single mother Sophia, footballer son Danny, and daughter Bella. Their world is suburbia, work and sport. The two worlds become linked by an unexpected incident.
Cast
Philip Quast as Phillip Walford
Hermione Norris as Cate Walford
Sara Wiseman as Sophia Grey
Aaron Jeffery as David Starke
Alex Cubis as Danny Grey
Megan Hajjar as Bella Grey
Tom Dalzell as Bart Walford
Melanie Jarnson as Georgia Konig
Marny Kennedy as Martina Budd
Gabriella Hirschson as Carrie Starke
Andrew McFarlane as Gareth Konig
Dominic Alburn as Mikael Stein
Production
The series began filming in Sydney in April 2019. The series was created by Bevan Lee.
Release
The series premiered on the Seven Network at 8:30 p.m. on 26 July 2020.
Reception
Poor ratings after the second episode led Seven to reschedule the show to a late night timeslot. Despite the series ending on a cliffhanger, Seven axed the show after one season.
Episodes
References
External links
2020 Australian television series debuts
2020 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television series about families
Television shows set in New South Wales
Television series by Seven Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Madrasta%20episodes | Madrasta (International title: A Place in Your Heart / ) is a 2019 Philippine drama television series broadcast by GMA Network. The series aired on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from October 7, 2019 to February 21, 2020, replacing Dahil sa Pag-ibig.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines while Kantar Media Philippines provide Nationwide ratings (Urban + Rural).
The series ended, but it's the 20th-week run, and with 100 episodes. It was replaced by Bilangin Ang Bituin Sa Langit.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks%20Dragons%3A%20Rescue%20Riders | DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders is an American computer-animated television series in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise produced by DreamWorks Animation Television for Netflix. The show premiered on September 27, 2019, and its second season was released on February 7, 2020. Three specials were released in March, July and November 2020.
In November 2021, the series moved to Peacock for four more seasons. The sixth and final season was released on September 29, 2022.
Premise
The series follows Dak and Leyla, human twins raised by dragons who have developed, as a result, a unique ability to directly communicate with them, helping and rescuing dragons and the people of the town of Huttsgalor.
Cast
Main human cast
Nicolas Cantu as Dak
Brennley Brown as Leyla
Carlos Alazraqui as Duggard
Moira Quirk as Hannahr
Dragons
Zach Callison as Winger, a male Swiftwing dragon
Skai Jackson as Summer, a female Fastfin dragon
Noah Bentley as Burple, a male Rockspitter dragon
Marsai Martin as Aggro, a female FireFury dragon
Andre Robinson as Cutter, a male Relentless Razorwing dragon
Recurring cast
John C. McGinley as Grumblegard, a male grumpy Foreverhorn dragon
Secunda Wood as Mama Ironclaw, a female Silver-tailed Ironclaw dragon
Grey Griffin as Marena, Mrs. Borgomon, and Gemma, a female Golden Dragon
Sam Lavagnino as Finngard Braun Borgomon
Roshon Fegan as Elbone
Donald Faison as Albone
Patton Oswalt as Oscar, a male Flyhopper dragon
Brian Posehn as Gludge, a male Sea Gronckle dragon
Ashley Bornancin as Laburn, a female Fire Fury
Brett Pels as Cindarnanopusflickerstaff, also called Cinda, a female Fire Fury
Cassidy Naber as Zeppla, a female Puffertail dragon
Brad Grusnick as Gill, a male Divewing dragon
Sumalee Montano as Fathom, a female Divewing
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Melodia, a female Songwing dragon
Brett Pels as Cantata, a female Songwing
Roger Craig Smith as Chillbert, a male Chillblaster dragon, and Raf, a male Ramblefang dragon
Susanne Blakeslee as Chief Ingrid
Carlos Alazraqui as Svengard
Tara Strong as Sparkle, a female Relentless Rainbow Horn
Charlie Saxton as Whiffy, a male Stinkwing
Claire Corlett as Blazo, a female Zoomerang
Zach Callison as Dart, a male Zoomerang
Nicolas Cantu as Streak, a male Zoomerang
Max Mittelman as Bubbly, a Bubblegil dragon
Griffin Burns as Bobbly, a Bubblegil dragon
Patrick Warburton as Talon, a Chaperange dragon
Nathan Arenas as Splish, a Shocktail dragon
Danny Pudi as Numo a Memorazo Dragon
Antagonists
Brad Grusnick as Magnus Finke
Jacob Hopkins as Axel Finke, Magnus's nephew
Carlos Alazraqui as Lurke/Phantom Fang (a male Slinkwing dragon) and Waldondo del Mundo
Tara Strong as Vizza, a female Slinkwing
Jeff Bennett as Snoop, a male Slinkwing, and Erik the Wretched
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Svetlana the Sly
Maurice LaMarche as Arno the "Carnival of Dragons" Ringmaster
Sam Riegel as Gorsh a Copycat Dragon
Series overview
Netflix episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare%20Krsna%20TV | Hare Krsna Content Broadcast Pvt. Ltd (HKCBPL), is an international media network and TV channel. The media network broadcasts non-denominational, cultural programmes offered by ISKCON and other Spiritual Organizations.
History
The channel was launched on Janmashtami 2016, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of ISKCON for celebrating the various cultural elements of planet earth.
‘Hare Krsna’ TV is free to air, non commercial linear satellite television channel which broadcasts content about International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Television and OTT Platforms. The channel is owned by Hare Krsna Content Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. The channel is licensed by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.
Programming
Hare Krsna TV Free to Air Channel features content from across 600 ISKCON centers globally and displays events, music, kirtans, yatras, lectures, bhajans, talks, documentaries, food shows, entertaining stories, children's shows, lifestyle content, Geeta discourses, Vedic analysis, and so forth.
Notable hosts and speakers
Srila Prabhupada
Jayapataka Swami
Radhanath Swami
Sivarama Swami
Indradyumna Swami
Bhakti Charu Swami
Kadamba Kanana Swami
Gaur Gopal Prabhu
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Tata Play (formerly Tata Sky) # 1089
Dish TV # 1061
GTPL # 571
Siti
Hathway # 834
Den # 885
NXT DIGITAL # 978 (InCable # 864)
References
External links
Television stations in Mumbai
2016 establishments in Maharashtra
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Hindu television
International Society for Krishna Consciousness media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutGuess | OutGuess is a steganographic software for hiding data in the most redundant content data bits of existing (media) files. It has handlers for image files in the common Netpbm and JPEG formats, so it can, for example, specifically alter the frequency coefficients of JPEG files. It is written in C and published as Free Software under the terms of the old BSD license. It has been tested on a variety of Unix-like operating systems and is included in the standard software repositories of the popular Linux distributions Debian and Arch Linux (via user repository) and their derivatives.
Method of operation
An algorithm estimates the capacity for hidden data without the distortions of the decoy data becoming apparent. OutGuess determines bits in the decoy data that it considers most expendable and then distributes secret bits based on a shared secret in a pseudorandom pattern across these redundant bits, flipping some of them according to the secret data.
For JPEG images, OutGuess recompresses the image to a user-selected quality level and then embeds secret bits into the least significant bits (LSB) of the quantized coefficients while skipping zeros and ones. Subsequently, corrections are made to the coefficients to make the global histogram of discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients match that of the decoy image, counteracting detection by the chi-square attack that is based on the analysis of first-order statistics. This technique is criticized because it actually facilitates detection by further disturbing other statistics.
Also, data embedded in JPEG frequency coefficients has poor robustness and does not withstand JPEG reencoding.
History
OutGuess was originally developed in Germany in 1999 by Niels Provos.
In 1999, Andreas Westfeld published the statistical chi-square attack, which can detect common methods for steganographically hiding messages in LSBs of quantized JPEG coefficients.
In response, Provos implemented a method that exactly preserves the DCT histogram on which this attack is based. He released it in February 2001 in OutGuess version 0.2, which is not backward compatible to older versions. It was broken by an attack published in 2002 that uses statistics based on discontinuities across the JPEG block boundaries (blockiness) of the decoded image and can estimate the lengths of messages embedded by OutGuess.
It gained popularity after being used in the first puzzle published by Cicada 3301 in 2012.
OutGuess was abandoned and the official website was shut down in September 2015.
A fork called OutGuess Rebirth (OGR) was released in 2013 by Laurent Perch, with some bug fixes and a graphical user interface for Windows. After its last version 1.3 from September 28, 2015, it was also abandoned and in 2018 its website went offline.
In November 2018, Debian developer Joao Eriberto Mota Filho imported the source code into a new repository on GitHub to continue development, and since then released some new minor versions that include bug fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuto | Shuto or variants may refer to:
A knifehand strike, known in Japanese as shutō-uchi
Shutō (seafood), Japanese tuna liver seafood pickle
Shuto Expressway (首都高速道路, Shuto Kōsoku-dōro) network of toll expressways
Šuto Orizari Municipality (Macedonian: Шуто Оризари) municipality
Shuuto, long "shootball" pitch in Japanese baseball
People with the name
, Japanese footballer
Shuto Ando (1994) Japanese basketball player
Shuto Inaba (1990) Japanese footballer
Shuto Kawai (1993) Japanese footballer
Shuto Kono (1993) Japanese footballer
Shuto Machino (1999) Japanese footballer
, Japanese professional baseball player
Shuto Yamamoto (1985) Japanese footballer
, Japanese professional baseball player
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SummerSlam%20Spectacular | SummerSlam Spectacular is a professional wrestling television program that was produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Three separate specials aired on the USA Network, one week prior to that years respective SummerSlam.
During this period of time, the WWF regularly ran specials to promote their pay-per-view events. Similar to this series, March to WrestleMania ran the week prior to that years WrestleMania and Survivor Series Showdown before Survivor Series.
SummerSlam Spectacular (1991)
SummerSlam Spectacular (1991) aired on the USA Network on August 18, 1991 (taped July 29, 1991) from the Centrum in Worcester in Worcester, Massachusetts.
SummerSlam Spectacular (1992)
SummerSlam Spectacular (1992) aired on the USA Network on August 23, 1992 (taped August 11, 1992) from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Although Bret Hart was the WWF Intercontinental Champion, his match against Skinner was a non-title match.
SummerSlam Spectacular (1993)
SummerSlam Spectacular (1993) aired on the USA Network on August 22, 1993 (taped August 16, 1993) from the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. In August 2019 the event was added to the WWE Network as part of the Hidden Gem section.
Although Yokozuna was the WWF World Heavyweight Champion, his match against Jim Duggan was a non-title match.
In the main event, tag team steel cage match for the WWF World Tag Team Championship, both members of the team needed to escape the cage in order to win. If one member of the team escaped the cage, he could re-enter.
References
SummerSlam
1991 in professional wrestling
1992 in professional wrestling
1993 in professional wrestling
USA Network original programming
Television series by WWE
1991 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly%20Yadid-Pecht | Orly Yadid-Pecht is a Professor of Electrical and Software Engineering and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Strategic Chair of Integrated Intelligent Sensors at the University of Calgary. She develops CMOS based imaging devices for biomedical sensing. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, SPIE and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She is an ASTech Award Winner for Technology. Yadid-Pecht holds several patents for new technologies, including sensors, health monitoring devices and drug delivery systems.
Early life and education
Yadid-Pecht grew up in Israel. She studied electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She earned her Master's degree and doctorate in 1995, before moving to the United States to join the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Here she worked on advanced wide intarascene image sensors for dynamic range CMOS active pixel sensors. These circuits could generate an intensity reading and simultaneously identify the location of the brightest pixel in a particular photodetector array. These sensors were created for star tracking, or monitoring laser beams in communication systems. The sensors integrate winner-take-all protocols, which would allow for the selection of the brightest pixel in each row. This would be compared with the previous stored intensity readings of other row's brightest pixels, and their data stored if they were the new brightest pixel.
Career and research
Yadid-Pecht joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a member of the Department of Electro-Optical Engineering. She founded the Ben-Gurion Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Center, where she specialised in CMOS image sensors. Researchers at the VLSI work on sensor design, reconfigurable processor architectures and high speed data channels. In 2009 Yadid-Pecht moved to Canada, where she was appointed the iCORE Professor of Integrated Sensors at the University of Calgary. She founded the I2Sense Laboratory, where she continued her research in advanced sensors. Her work involves sensors that are smart; including silicon photonics and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMs).
She is developing a compact-imaging sensor for lab-on-a-chip technology. Yadid-Pecht uses the sensors to image neurons and other biological tissues. She has developed wide dynamic range sensors that can capture information in real-time in environments with extreme variations of light intensity. The wide dynamic range sensors can be used in biology, nutrition and security systems. She worked with the Hotchkiss Brain Institute to monitor neurons that were being treated with various Alzheimer's disease treatments.
In 2015, Yadid-Pecht joined the advisory board of M Pharmaceutical, a Canadian biomedical innovation company. She is a trained coach, and supports students who are bringing their projects to commercialisation. She is the co-founder of Luxmux, a photonics company, and Eat Little, a nutriti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20politics | Computational politics is the intersection between computer science and political science. The area involves the usage of computational methods, such as analysis tools and prediction methods, to present the solutions to political sciences questions. Researchers in this area use large sets of data to study user behavior. Common examples of such works are building a classifier to predict users' political bias in social media or finding political bias in the news. This discipline is closely related with digital sociology. However, the main focus of computational politics is on political related problems and analysis.
Computational politics is often used in political campaigns to target individuals for advertising purposes.
Methods and applications
While there is no clearly defined data source for research done in computational politics, the most common sources are social networking websites and political debate transcripts. Various methods are used to computationally model the behavior of agents. Social network analysis is often used to model and analyze data from social networking sites, with nodes on a graph representing individual users and edges representing varying forms of interaction between users. Natural language processing methods are used for text-based data, such as text from social media posts and political debate transcripts. For example, sentiment analysis, where algorithms are used to classify a piece of text as positive, negative, or neutral in sentiment, can be used to predict social media users' opinions on political parties or candidates. Various other machine learning algorithms are used to predict political bias in news sources, political affiliation of users of social networks, and whether political news articles are fake news or not. Computational models are often used to examine cognitive behavior associated with political contexts, including the connection between the brain and polarization or ideological thinking.
Usage in political campaigns
The discipline of computational politics has emerged with growing use of social media and recent breakthroughs in computational methods. Social media has provided scientific researchers and campaign strategists with an unprecedented scale of latent, user-generated data, and there have been recent developments in computer science to store and manage large collections of data. Computational politics represents a large shift in political science research, as lots of information can be efficiently collected on individuals rather than aggregates. This information can be used to effectively target likely voters. One of the first political campaigns to use computational politics was Barack Obama's 2012 campaign. An example of a data source used in the campaign was user data from a Facebook App created for it. The campaign developed a "likelihood of turnout" index to focus turning out voters who were already likely to prefer Obama. Since then, there has been a growing number of political |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Kass | Robert E. Kass is the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, the Machine Learning Department, and the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Early life and education
Born in Boston, Massachusetts (1952), Kass earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Antioch College, and a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 1980, where his advisor was Stephen Stigler. Kass is the son of the late Harvard medical researcher Edward H. Kass and stepson of the late Amalie M. Kass. His sister is the bioethicist, Nancy Kass.
Research and publications
Kass's early research was on differential geometry in statistics, which formed the basis for his book Geometrical Foundations of Asymptotic Inference (with Paul Vos), and on Bayesian methods. Since 2000 his research has focused on statistical methods in neuroscience.
Kass's best-known work includes a comprehensive re-evaluation of Bayesian hypothesis testing and model selection,
and the selection of prior distributions,
the relationship of Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods, Bayesian asymptotics,
the application of point process statistical models to neural spiking data,
the challenges of multiple spike train analysis,
the state-space approach to brain-computer interface, and the brain's apparent ability to solve the credit assignment problem during brain-controlled robotic movement. Kass's book Analysis of Neural Data (with Emery Brown and Uri Eden) was published in 2014.
Kass has also written on statistics education and the use of statistics, including the articles, "What is Statistics?", "Statistical Inference: The Big Picture," and "Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice".
Professional and administrative activities
Kass has served Chair of the Section for Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association, Chair of the Statistics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, founding Editor-in-Chief of Bayesian Analysis (journal), and Executive Editor (editor-in-chief) of the international review journal Statistical Science. At Carnegie Mellon University he was Department Head of Statistics from 1995 to 2004 and Interim Co-director of the joint CMU-University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition 2015–2018.
Honors
Kass is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. For his work on statistical modeling of neural synchrony, in 2013 he received the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association, and in 2017 he received the R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship, now known as the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
References
Living |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor%20Series%20Showdown | Survivor Series Showdown is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Five separate specials aired on the USA Network, one week prior to that year's respective Survivor Series.
During this period of time, the WWF regularly ran specials to promote their pay-per-view events. Similar to this series, March to WrestleMania ran the week prior to that year's WrestleMania and SummerSlam Spectacular prior to SummerSlam.
Event history
1989
The 1989 edition of Survivor Series Showdown aired on the USA Network on November 12, 1989 (taped November 1, 1989) from the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kansas. This episode aired as a special edition of WWF Prime Time Wrestling.
In the opening match Tito Santana defeated Big Boss Man after Dusty Rhodes got Boss Man's night stick and attacked him with it.
The next match saw Mr. Perfect pin Bushwacker Butch with the "Perfect Plex". Following the match, The Bushwhackers hitting a "Battering Ram" and double clothesline on Perfect and The Genius, clearing them from the ring.
The third match saw Randy Savage defeating Hercules, after hitting him with Sensational Sheri's purse.
In the next match, The Ultimate Warrior was the WWF Intercontinental Champion at the time of the event, his match against Tully Blanchard was a non-title match. The match saw the Warrior win via Disqualification after Arn Anderson interfered. Following the match, a brawl broke out between Warrior, Jim Neidhart, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty against Blanchard, Anderson, Haku, and André the Giant. The match would ultimate be Blanchard's last in the WWF.
The final match saw Ted DiBiase pin Smash, following interference by Zeus. Following the match, DiBiase put Smash in the "Million Dollar Dream" which was broken up by Ax.
1990
The 1990 edition of Survivor Series Showdown aired on the USA Network on November 18, 1990 (taped October 29, 1990) from the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The opening match saw Sgt. Slaughter pin Tito Santana after Gen. Adnan took Santana's feet out from under him while attempted a suplex.
The next match was Marty Jannetty vs Rick Martel. Janetty attempted a slingshot into the ring, however he hit his head which opened up an opportunity for Martel to get the pin.
The third match saw Earthquake defeat Big Boss Man via countout. Bobby Heenan, who was an announcer during the event, left his position in order to hit Boss Man with a cheap shot behind the referees back. This caused Boss Man to chase Heenan backstage and ultimately be counted out.
Next Bret Hart defeated The Honky Tonk Man, after Honky collided with Jimmy Hart on the apron, allowing Bret to take advance and record a pinfall victory.
The final match, for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, saw the champion The Texas Tornado, retain his championship via disqualification against Smash, when Mr. Perfect, Ax, and Crush interfered. Following the match, they continued atta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniverseMachine | The UniverseMachine (also known as the Universe Machine) is a project carrying out astrophysical supercomputer simulations of various models of possible universes, created by astronomer Peter Behroozi and his research team at the Steward Observatory and the University of Arizona. Numerous universes with different physical characteristics may be simulated in order to develop insights into the possible beginning and evolution of our universe. A major objective is to better understand the role of dark matter in the development of the universe. According to Behroozi, "On the computer, we can create many different universes and compare them to the actual one, and that lets us infer which rules lead to the one we see."
Besides lead investigator Behroozi, research team members include astronomer Charlie Conroy of Harvard University, physicist Andrew Hearin of the Argonne National Laboratory and physicist Risa Wechsler of Stanford University. Support funding for the project is provided by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics.
Description
Besides using computers and related resources at the NASA Ames Research Center and the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum in Garching, Germany, the research team used the High-Performance Computing cluster at the University of Arizona. Two-thousand processors simultaneously processed the data over three weeks. In this way, the research team generated over 8 million universes, and at least galaxies. The UniverseMachine program continuously produced millions of simulated universes, each containing 12 million galaxies, and each permitted to develop from 400 million years after the Big Bang to the present day.
According to team member Wechsler, "The really cool thing about this study is that we can use all the data we have about galaxy evolution — the numbers of galaxies, how many stars they have and how they form those stars — and put that together into a comprehensive picture of the last 13 billion years of the universe." Wechsler further commented, "For me, the most exciting thing is that we now have a model where we can start to ask all of these questions in a framework that works […] We have a model that is inexpensive enough computationally, that we can essentially calculate an entire universe in about a second. Then we can afford to do that millions of times and explore all of the parameter space."
Results
One of the results of the study suggests that denser dark matter in the early universe does not seem to negatively impact star formation rates, as thought initially. According to the studies, galaxies of a given size were more likely to form stars for much longer, and at a high rate. The researchers expect to extend the project's objectives to include how often stars expire in supernovae, how dark matter may affect the shape of galaxies and eventually, by gaining better general cosmological insights, how life originated.
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References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Martin%20%28entrepreneur%29 | Greg Martin (born in September 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is a cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of cyber-security company Anomali and is the co-founder and CEO of cyber security company JASK. Martin is credited with inventing the first Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), and is the creator of the popular open source Honeypot project “Modern Honey Network”.
Early life and education
Martin grew up in working-class Waxahachie, Texas.
Martin, a self proclaimed autodidact, taught himself taught himself to write code on his family's first personal computer, an IBM 8086 clone. He was a teenage computer hacker, pulling pranks like creating a program to flood the local Domino's Pizza with bogus calls and infiltrating his high school's servers, programming the computers to shut off simultaneously.
Career
At age 16, while still in high school, Martin ran the local dial-up Internet service provider. After graduating high school, he moved to Dallas, Texas, to work as a network engineer.
In his mid-twenties, he taught a computer security course for NASA. During this time he also acted as a cyber-security advisor for the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), helping the organizations track and shut down criminal networks.
In 2009, Martin became a cyber-security consultant for leading SIEM company ArcSight (which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard).
In 2012, he left HP (Arcsight) and founded cloud security company ThreatStream Inc. (now known as Anomali), in Redwood City, California.
In 2015, Martin launched cloud security and artificial intelligence company JASK in San Francisco. He currently serves as CEO.
Boards and honors
Martin serves as an independent board director of SOC Prime Inc, Advisory Board of Anomali, Inc. and Acalvio Technologies.
Patents
Martin was awarded two United States patents in computer and network security:
United States Patent 10867034 "Method for detecting a cyber attack"
United States Patent 10855715 "Method for predicting security risks of assets on a computer network"
Commentary and contributions
Martin serves as a cybersecurity industry resource, and is often quoted in industry news stories on a variety of topics, from high-profile data breaches to government cybersecurity.
References
Computer security specialists
People from Dallas
Living people
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902%E2%80%931919%20Pacific%20typhoon%20seasons | The following is a list of Pacific typhoon seasons from 1902 to 1919. Data from these years was extremely unreliable, so there were many more typhoons that did not hit land and were not detected by ships.
Pacific typhoon seasons
1900, 1901, 1902–1919, 1920–1937, 1938
1902
In 1902, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1300 people were killed by a typhoon in Japan on September.
1903
In 1903, there were 31 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean that were detected by ships or ground stations nearby.
1904
In 1904, there were 31 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
From September 7–12, a typhoon left at least 4,000 fatalities in Vietnam.
1905
In 1905, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
On April 20, a typhoon struck the Marshall Islands, killing 26 people. On June 30, another typhoon moved through the Marshall Islands, killing 230 people.
From September 21–29, a typhoon moved across the Philippines, killing more than 240 people.
1906
In 1906, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
In September 1906, a typhoon struck China near Hong Kong, killing around 15,000 people, and causing US$20 million in damage.
1907
In 1907, there were 32 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
From March 26–27, a typhoon moved through the Caroline Islands, killing 473 people in the archipelago.
1908
In 1908, there were 31 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
A typhoon struck near Hong Kong, killing 428 people.
1909
In 1909, there were 35 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
There is a typhoon with the winds of . The typhoon impacted Philippines and caused an instrument to be destroyed.
1910
In 1910, there were 38 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1911
In 1911, there were 30 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
A storm was first observed south of Guam on August 21 and moved on a westward trajectory. On August 26, the track shifted more to the west-northwest, bringing it over the Batanes islands offshore northern Luzon. That night, the storm approached southwest coast of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) with great intensity, possibly moving over the island. Kaohsiung reported a minimum pressure of 937 mbar (27.63 inHg), the lowest-ever recorded pressure on the island as of 1955, as well as maximum sustained winds of 177 km/h (110 mph) before the anemometer broke. Peak winds there were estimated around , based on the severity of the airborne debris. Elsewhere on the island, the highest recorded wind speed was . Across Taiwan, the typhoon destroyed over 30,000 houses, injured 378, and killed 305 people. The storm made landfall in eastern China on August 27 and continued northward for three more days.
1912
In 1912, there were 27 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
In August, a typhoon struck near Wenzhou, China, killing 50,000 people.
In September, a typhoon killed 1,000 people and left US$2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20a%20Steel%20Sky | Beyond a Steel Sky is a 2020 cyberpunk science fiction adventure game, written by Charles Cecil, and developed by Revolution Software. Set ten years after the events of the 1994 video game Beneath a Steel Sky, players assume the role of Robert Foster as he finds himself returning to Union City on the hunt for a kidnapped child, only to learn that the city's new utopia state is not what it appears to be. The game's design utilized the Unreal Engine 4, focusing on cel-shaded 3D graphics, including comic book-styled text boxes.
The game was released on 26 June 2020 on the Apple Arcade subscription service for iOS and tvOS, and on July 16 on Steam for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on November 30, 2021 and published by Microids. Following its release, it received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Beyond a Steel Sky takes place within a far-future Earth, in which mega-cities, such as Union City, exist within a world that has been ravaged by nuclear war and disasters. While those who reside in such cities are subject to their laws and views on society by major corporations, those who reside outside them in the vast wastes (referred to as The Gap) live within tribal communities that survive on trading, hunting and other skills, with such people referred to by city dwellers as Gaplanders. The game's story is set ten years after the events of Beneath a Steel Sky, and focuses on the life of Robert Foster - a Gaplander who formerly resided in Union City as a child, until certain events led to him being exiled unwillingly and raised by a local tribe that found him. The plot, written by Charles Cecil, focuses on the concept of how an AI would interpret a prime directive to make people happy.
Reception
Dark Station praised the game: "Beyond a Steel Sky is in many ways respectful of genre traditions but with modern wisdom and presentation. The game can be enjoyed without prior knowledge of Beneath a Steel Sky but obviously, it has a lot of gentle nods to its predecessor." GameWatcher wrote that the game "has big shoes to fill [and] not only fills that shoe, but it knocks the definition of a modern adventure game out of the park. It does everything Telltale games do right, and corrects everything they do wrong."
GameGrin described it as "a fantastic adventure with some at-times brain bending puzzles that stays remarkably true to the original game. Some minor technical issues mar the experience slightly but it’s a great return for Foster and Joey." PC Invasion wrote that "Beyond a Steel Sky has some technical issues but its excellent writing and interesting storytelling make it well worth experiencing." Godisageek similarly wrote that "the humour and mystery are enough to carry Beyond A Steel Sky through, and if you did play the original and you do remember it, there’s just enough nostalgia here to make it worth a return to Union City. If you didn’t, well, it’s still a likeab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%E2%80%931937%20Pacific%20typhoon%20seasons | The following is a list of Pacific typhoon seasons from 1920 to 1937. Data from these years was extremely unreliable, so there were many more typhoons that did not hit land and were not detected by ships. The average from these times was 23 tropical storms, which now would be considered a well-below-average season.
Pacific typhoon seasons
1901, 1902–1919, 1920–1937, 1938, 1939
1920
In 1920, there were 20 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1921
In 1921, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1922
In 1922, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
On July 27, a typhoon struck southwestern China near Shantou, killing an estimated 100,000 people.
1923
In 1923, there were 26 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
On August 12, a typhoon struck China, killing 100 people around Hong Kong.
In September, a typhoon struck the Japanese island of Honshu, killing 3,000 people and leaving US$10 million in damage.
1924
In 1924, there were 25 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1925
In 1925, there were 22 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1926
In 1926, there were 19 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1927
1928
In 1928, there were 22 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1929
In 1929, there were 22 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1930
In 1930, there were 25 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1931
1932
In 1932, there were 27 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
In late April, a typhoon moved across the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines, killing 147 people.
1933
In 1933, there were 29 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
1934
In 1934, there were 29 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
In July, a typhoon killed four people when it struck Luzon in the Philippines. Another typhoon in November struck Samar, killing 85 people.
In September, a typhoon struck Muroto, killing 3,066 people and leaving US$300 million in damage.
In October, another typhoon impacted Philippines. It killed five people and caused property damages in Manila.
1935
In 1935, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
A typhoon which made landfall in Japan in late September was reported as causing several hundred casualties and destroying around 75,000 houses. The Japanese fleet was caught at sea in what became known as the "Fourth Fleet Incident", with several ships heavily damaged and over fifty deaths.
1936
In 1936, there were 24 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean.
On August 28, a typhoon struck South Korea, killing 1,104 people.
In October, a typhoon struck Luzon, killing 517 people.
1937
In 1937, there were 22 tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean. This was a very deadly season.
On September 2, a powerful typhoon struck Hong Kong, killing about 11,000 people.
In November, a typhoon struck Luzon, killing 38 people. In the same |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%20Baseball%3A%20Family%20Stadium | Pro Baseball: Family Stadium, released as in Japan and R.B.I. Baseball in North America, is a 1986 baseball video game originally developed and published by Namco for the Family Computer (Famicom). In North America, it was published by Tengen for arcade and Nintendo Entertainment System platforms as R.B.I. Baseball. It is the first game in the Family Stadium and R.B.I. Baseball franchises. The game was a critical and commercial success in Japan and North America.
Development
Pro Baseball: Family Stadium was created by Namco programmer Yoshihiro Kishimoto, who had previously worked on games such as Baraduke (1985). The planner for Toy Pop, Takefumi Hyodoh, had transferred from a different section of the company — as his first time being a planner, Hyodoh was rather slow, which left Kishimoto with plenty of free time. For a short while he spent most of his time playing Nintendo's Baseball for the Famicom with some of his colleagues, where during play they would bring up how certain parts of the game could be fixed or improved, notably the lack of names or abilities for the in-game players. Kishimoto also expressed disappointment towards the game's lack of playable defense. Once development of Toy Pop was completed, Kishimoto decided to try making a baseball game of his own.
The project was made for the Family Computer due to the system's massive success in Japan and for Namco's console and arcade operations being part of the same division, allowing Kishimoto to easily begin development of the game in his section of the company. After asking his supervisor about what work he was assigned to next, he was instead told he could make whatever type of game he wanted, due to a lack of work needed by him for the time being. Family Stadium was Kishomoto's first experience with developing a game for the Famicom and with assembly code. It was also Namco's first baseball video game, as prior to the game's release they had released several baseball-themed mechanical arcade games, such as Pitch In (1979) and Batting Chance (1981).
Release
Pro Baseball: Family Stadium was released in Japan on December 10, 1986. Atari Games released the game for arcades in North America in September 1987, renamed Vs. Atari R.B.I. Baseball for the Nintendo Vs. System arcade unit. This version was later released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Tengen as simply R.B.I. Baseball, being one of the company's only three officially licensed games released for the console.
Atari programmer Peter Lipson adapted Family Stadium into the American localized version R.B.I. Baseball for the NES, which was published by Atari Games subsidiary Tengen.
R.B.I Baseball became the first console game of its kind to be licensed by the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and used actual MLB player names, unlike other baseball video games of the late 1980s. As it was not licensed by Major League Baseball (MLB) itself, it did not use team nicknames or logos. Instead, the game con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20width | Bus width may refer to:
, the width of the road vehicle
Bus width, in computer architecture, the amount of data that can be accessed or transmitted at a time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Rudin | Cynthia Diane Rudin (born 1976) is an American computer scientist and statistician specializing in machine learning and known for her work in interpretable machine learning. She is the director of the Interpretable Machine Learning Lab at Duke University, where she is a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, statistical science, and biostatistics and bioinformatics. In 2022, she won the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for her work on the importance of transparency for AI systems in high-risk domains.
Education and career
Rudin graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a double major in mathematical physics and music theory in 1999. She completed her Ph.D. in applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University in 2004. Her dissertation – entitled Boosting, Margins, and Dynamics – was supervised by Ingrid Daubechies and Robert Schapire.
Following positions as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University and an associate research scientist at Columbia University, she took a faculty position at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2009, and then moved to Duke University in 2016.
She has served as chair of the Data Mining Section of INFORMS and of the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association. She served on the ISAT faculty advisory board for DARPA, was a councilor for AAAI, and a member of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group (BJA CJTFG). She currently serves on the executive committee member for ACM SIGKDD, and is a member of both the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) and the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is an associate editor for Management Science, the Harvard Data Science Review and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Additional awards and honours
In 2019, Rudin was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for her contributions to interpretable machine learning algorithms, prediction in large scale medical databases, and theoretical properties of ranking algorithms". She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2022.
She received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.
She received the 2013 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award for her work on electrical grid reliability, the 2016 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award for work on interpretable machine learning models for assessing cognitive decline, and the 2019 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award for work on interpretable machine learning models for seizure prediction in critically ill patients, leading to the 2HELPS2B score used in intensive care units.
Ru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Gachet | Alain Claude Christian Gachet is a French physicist specialized in geology, born in the French colony of Madagascar in 1951. He is the inventor of an algorithm used in a process known as WATEX that can detect the presence of deep groundwater . He is a natural resources entrepreneur and CEO of RTI Exploration.
Biography
Early years and education
The son of a forestry ranger, Alain Gachet grew up in an isolated region of northern Madagascar. His father was responsible for recording the inventory of Madagascar's botanical species diversity, the discoveries of which he shared with his son after his explorations of the island. His father was also active in the protection of the environment of the Madagascar mangroves. Alain Gachet has said that his childhood experiences in Madagascar instilled in him a love and respect for nature.
When he reached the age of 14, seven years after the independence of Madagascar, he moved to the capital Tananarive, where his father was transferred. After a discovery and reading of the Bible, he developed a passion for biblical history and its related archeology which led him to seek, in 1966, a summer residency in Israel, at the kibbutz of Evron, in Galilee. During his stay, he had the opportunity to do an internship in geology and hydrogeology with experts from the University of Tel Aviv, in the Sinai desert.
In 1969, his family settled in mainland France. After French post-secondary Preparatory Classes, he was accepted into the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Nancy from which he graduated in 1975.
Career as Petroleum Engineer at Elf Aquitaine
Alain Gachet began a career in 1978 with Elf Aquitaine and was assigned to the research and development program in the department responsible for the processing and interpretation of seismic data. He then participated in the oil exploration of the North Sea. He made his mark by inventing a method to identify new gas fields. For this, he earned the Elf Innovation Award.
From there he was sent to Gabon, next to the Middle East and then to Kazakhstan, Russia, before leaving for Congo Brazzaville. In 1996, in a "disagreement on the policy of the company" at the time of the Congo-Brazzaville Civil War, he decided to resign in order to create his own exploration company. Because of a non-competition clause, he was restricted from working in the oil industry during four years following his resignation.
Career as an inventor
Entrepreneur in the field of exploration.
Alain Gachet subsequently received specialized training in radar exploration and acquisition techniques in the United States. In 1999, he founded a mining exploration company, Radar Technologies International Exploration, aka RTI Exploration, which, at that time, focused on exploration and discovery of gold and ore deposits.
He then embarked on gold exploration in the rainforest of the Republic of Congo, then in Mali. He prospected for gold-bearing zones by panning the river bottoms for months with the Cen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirhininae | Dirhininae is a subfamily of chalcidid wasps in the family Chalcididae. There are four genera.
References
External links
Dirhininae in the Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Chalcidoidea
Apocrita subfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Business%20Explorer | SAP Business Explorer is a tool of the software company SAP SE to create planning applications, and for planning and data entry in BW Integrated Planning.
Architecture
The architecture of SAP Business Explorer can be separated into 3 areas:
Ad-hoc Query and Analyse
This mainly consists Web Analyzer.
Reporting and Analyse Design
Main components are Web Application Designer and Report Designer.
Microsoft Excel Integration
This consists Analyser (Add-in).
See also
SAP NetWeaver Application Server
References
External links
Official Documentation
SAP SE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern%20Media | Northwestern Media is the Christian radio ministry of the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, an evangelical university in Roseville, Minnesota. Northwestern Media operates three radio networks serving listeners primarily in the Midwestern United States: the Life Network, a contemporary Christian music station; the Faith Network, with Christian talk and teaching programming; and Spirit FM, playing Christian adult contemporary music.
History
Northwestern Schools, as it was then known, entered the broadcasting business with the launch of KTIS-AM-FM in the Twin Cities on February 7, 1949. The construction of KTIS, costing $40,000, was entirely underwritten by the school's students. Its radio ministry soon expanded. On April 1, 1953, it bought KBOK in Waterloo, Iowa and changed its call letters to KNWS. Growth continued with the October 25, 1955, launch of Fargo's KFNW and its 1961 acquisition of KIHO in Sioux Falls, which became KNWC. Northwestern built FM stations in all three cities in 1965 (Fargo's KFNW-FM and Waterloo's KNWS-FM) and 1969 (KNWC-FM in Sioux Falls). Northwestern acquired WRVB-FM in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1973, changing it to WNWC; the college would buy an AM station there in 1997.
In 1983, KDNI in Duluth, Minnesota came to air; it was joined by KDNW, a second frequency, in 1992. Des Moines, Iowa, became part of Northwestern Media's footprint when radio stations KJJC and KLRX were bought out of receivership and became KNWI and KNWM in 2004. KJNW FM in Kansas City was acquired in 2013 from Calvary Bible College.
Station sales
In 2010, citing years of low listener support and the fact that it was subsidized by the rest of the network, Northwestern College closed WSMR in Sarasota, Florida, which it had built in 1996; the station was sold to the University of South Florida for $1.275 million and began broadcasting classical music.
Between 2007 and 2012, Northwestern owned a third station, KFNL in the Fargo, North Dakota, area. The station was sold to a commercial broadcaster, Mediactive, LLC, in 2012 and is now KBMW-FM.
Between April and August 2018, UNW briefly owned two secular stations, KDSN-AM-FM, in Denison, Iowa. UNW had acquired the stations in order to move KDSN-FM to another frequency and facilitate a signal upgrade for KNWI.
Expansions
Northwestern acquired KLBF near Bismarck, North Dakota, from the Educational Media Foundation in 2017; KLBF became a Faith station, making it the westernmost station in the Northwestern Media portfolio and one of its few markets without a Life station. EMF had previously donated WNWW, an AM radio station in Hartford, Connecticut, to the university in 2016.
In 2018, Northwestern Media entered Omaha with its acquisition of KGBI-FM from Salem Media Group for $3.15 million.
Northwestern Media made two major network acquisitions in 2019. The first came in July when the entire Refuge Radio network was donated to UNW. Refuge owned three full-power stations and 13 dependent translators in Min |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedemannia%20tricuspidata | Wiedemannia tricuspidata is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.
References
Empididae
Insects described in 1905
Taxa named by Mario Bezzi
Diptera of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Arasaka%20Brainworm | The Arasaka Brainworm is an adventure published by Atlas Games in 1991 for the dystopian science fiction role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.
Publication history
The Arasaka Brainworm was the first in a series of adventures that Atlas Games published under license for R. Talsorian Games's role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020. John Nephew, the founder of Atlas Games, later stated that these adventures had better sales than most d20 System books years later at the peak of d20 popularity.
Description
The characters are tasked with recovering something from a closely guarded biotech facility on a remote Pacific atoll. Although the characters have been provided with information such as maps of the facility and security patrol schedules, they discover that they have been misled, leading to unforeseen complications.
Reception
In Issue 60 of Challenge, Craig Sheeley found the adventure "well-organized and competently documented," but warned that "brains count for more than brawn," giving "the less combat-oriented character types a chance to shine." Sheeley criticized the interior art as "a bit ugly", and found some mistakes in the pre-generated characters' abilities. Nevertheless he concluded, "But on the whole, a good adventure."
In the September 1992 edition of Dragon, (Issue 185), Allen Varney found the adventure to be boringly predictable, saying "You've seen it all 50 times before. Sorry, was I yawning? I didn't mean to be rude."
References
Cyberpunk (role-playing game)
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1991
Science fiction role-playing game adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic%20Foundation%20of%20Cotabato%20and%20Asia | Polytechnic Foundation of Cotabato and Asia, Inc. is a Philippine radio network. Its main office is located at Datu Icdang St. cor. Quezon Blvd., Kidapawan. PCFAI operates a number of stations across places in the country under the Charm Radio brand.
PFCAI Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
References
Radio stations in the Philippines
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doman%3A%20Grzechy%20Ardana | Doman: Grzechy Ardana (English: Doman: Sins of Ardan) is a side-scrolling Hack and Slash Beat 'em up computer game released by the Polish developer World Software for the Amiga in 1995. Taking on a sword and sorcery theme akin to Conan The Barbarian, it is a spiritual successor to World Software's earlier game Franko: The Crazy Revenge and is based on the artist's Mariusz Pawluk's unpublished short story that is included alongside the game. It ended up being World Software's last release for the Amiga (the developer did later develop a more family-friendly Draggy & Croco, but the publisher they picked for this game forgot to put the game onto the selves despite being essentially complete).
Gameplay
Like World Software's previous game Franko, Doman is an arcade-style hack 'n' slash game. As either the titular barbarian warrior Doman, the Nordic Baurus, or both - as co-operative play is possible - the player(s) take on Ardan and his army through five stages. Starting out with a sword, the player would occasionally encounter a non-player character that would grant either a bit of healing or a different weapon (due to a technical limitation the player character would revert to the sword when traversing through the river). Once during the course of the campaign the player also has to do a waggling mini-game to wake the player character up to fend off the assassin intent on killing him in his sleep.
Doman utilizes the control scheme involving directions and a single fire button common with the Amiga games. The player can do a jump slash that can evade some attacks but does little damage, a slash that can be set up into a throw, an overhead slash that does moderate amount of damage and a special heavy attack that is dependent on the weapon used. The player can also stab downed enemies.
Development
Compared to the less serious Franko, Doman was meant to be a more serious game and the only intentionally comedic aspects they've included in the game consist of Franko making a cameo appearance in cut-scenes, as well as the presence of the Kalashnikov weapon as one of the cheat codes.
The code for Doman took several months to write, and it was completely rewritten from scratch rather than based on Franko, part of the artist's philosophy to never re-use much of the code for future projects. They've initially split the character sprites into lower and upper bodies to allow them to carry different weapons independently to save disk space, but the screen synchronization issues caused by this approach made them to have just full sprites for characters using different weapons, which led to the swamp stages having the player revert to the default sword weapon. The corpses also fade away unlike Franko having corpses stay (done by "painting" the corpses onto the background in memory) as the developers preferred to have a more convincing effect if they could.
By accessing the Retroattack! Website, by Polish company Mirage Interactive, players could legally downlo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Sports%20Bowling | HBO Sports Bowling is the branding used for Professional Bowlers Association broadcasts on the HBO premium cable and satellite television network. Bowling was one of HBO's earliest programs, back when it debuted in the early 1970s. HBO's first bowling telecast was the Winston-Salem Open on June 10, 1973. About 21 PBA TV finals
aired on HBO from June 1973 through July 1975.
Dick Stockton, Marty Glickman, and Spencer Ross served as the play-by-play announcers and Skee Foremsky acted as the color commentator for the bowling telecasts.
See also
List of programs broadcast by HBO
References
External links
HBO sports programming - Sports Video Group
Bowling television series
HBO Sports
HBO original programming
1973 American television series debuts
1976 American television series endings
HBO Shows (series) WITHOUT Episode info, list, or Article |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA%20on%20ESPN | PBA on ESPN is the branding used for Professional Bowlers Association broadcasts on the ESPN cable television network. ESPN's relationship with bowling began in 1985, when the network aired the 12 Summer Tour events. By 2001, ESPN provided exclusive coverage of 20 regular-season events and four to six summer telecasts, all on Sundays or Tuesdays.
History
After the PBA's sale and move of broadcasts to ESPN, most tournaments used a "bracketed" format. Each bowler bowled nine qualifying games, with the top 64 by pinfall competing in best 4-of-7 head-to-head matches. The four remaining bowlers from match play competed in two semi-final matches (#4 seed vs. #1 seed, and #3 seed vs. #2 seed), with the semi-final winners facing each other in a final match. A few tournaments still used the stepladder format for the finals.
World Series of Bowling
In a cost-cutting effort, the PBA split the 2009–10 season into two segments. The first, the 2009 World Series of Bowling, consisted of seven PBA Tour events – including the PBA World Championship, a major tournament – held in August and September 2009 in Allen Park, Michigan. All of the events ran in a split format: the early rounds of each tournament were held on consecutive days in August and September, and the final rounds were held on Labor Day weekend (September 5–7). These were aired on seven Sundays, October 25 through December 6, 2009.
The second half of the season, running January–April 2010, consisted of 11 traditional touring weekly tournaments, including the remaining three majors. Each event ended with the live ESPN television finals on Sundays. The second half also included three special (non-title) televised events: the Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational, the PBA Experience Showdown, and the PBA Women's Series Showdown.
The PBA announced in May, 2010 that it would again cover all of the Fall tournaments for the upcoming season at the World Series of Bowling. The second annual event was held October 24 through November 6, 2010 at South Point Hotel, Casino and Bowling Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It consisted of five title events, qualifying for the PBA World Championship, and one non-title, made-for-TV event. Based on input from players, as well as corporate partner and ESPN television needs, there were some revisions to the series:
All events were "open," meaning any PBA member could enter the entire World Series of Bowling via $750 entry fee. There were no Tour Qualifying Rounds or "World Series Trials."
Over the first five days (starting October 25) all players bowled 12 games on each of the PBA's five "animal" oil patterns (Cheetah, Chameleon, Viper, Scorpion and Shark). The Top 16 qualifiers on each pattern advanced to a 9-game match play the following week. Top 5 qualifiers after the match play rounds in each event advanced to the televised stepladder finals, contested on November 5–6 and taped by ESPN for broadcasts on five consecutive Sundays, starting November 28.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Dignum | Maria Virgínia Ferreira de Almeida Júdice Gamito Dignum (born 2 May 1964, in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Professor of Computer Science at Umeå University, and an Associated Professor at Delft University of Technology. She leads the Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence research group. Her research and writing considers responsible AI and the development evaluation of human-agent team work, thereby aligning with Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence themes.
Education and early career
After graduating from university of Lisbon in 1987, Dignum moved to Amsterdam where she completed a MSc in Computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in 1989. She then worked in consultancy and system development. In 2003 Dignum returned to academic computer science and she earned her doctorate in computer science at Utrecht University in 2004. She was appointed as an associate professor at Delft University of Technology. She was made a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Veni laureate in 2006 for her work in agent-based organisational frameworks.
Research
She was made an associate professor at Delft University of Technology in 2009. In 2011 she was appointed Vice President of the Benelux Vereniging voor Kunstmatige Intelligentie (BNVKI), the Benelux Association for AI, a position she held until 2017.
In 2018 Dignum joined Umeå University as a Professor of AI and Society. Her research is supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program. She is interested in the ethical and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence, and ways to make AI both optimised and transparent for the people who are impacted by it. She is a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association. She hopes that AI will not be seen as only a computer science discipline, but one which interacts with all academic areas.
Policy work
She was appointed to the European Commission High Level Expert Group in Artificial Intelligence, in which she capacity she helps create guidelines and policy on the European Union AI strategy. The recommendations from the group are included in the European Commission's five-year plan, and will be part of the Multiannual Financial Framework up until 2027. In 2018 the group delivered the Ethical Guidelines of Artificial Intelligence as well as a series of recommendations to guide trustworthy AI. She serves on the board of AllAI, a collective of researchers bringing stakeholders together to monitor the usage of AI. In 2019 she was elected to the World Economic Forum Global AI Council. Dignum provides expert commentary on AI at conferences and public events.
Selected publications
Her publications include;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp%20Redwood%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Camp Redwood" is the first episode and season premiere of the ninth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 18, 2019, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
In 1970, three camp counselors are about to have a threesome in a cabin but one of the female counselors hears jingling. A mysterious figure enters, and the trio are stabbed to death. As the scene opens more widely, it reveals the sleeping campers have also been killed.
In 1984, Xavier Plympton leads an aerobics class for Montana Duke, Ray Powell, Chet Clancy, and Brooke Thompson. Xavier describes the terror that the Night Stalker is wrecking on Los Angeles and says he is escaping to the re-opening Camp Redwood to avoid the murders. The others are convinced to join him as counselors at the camp. Brooke declines at first, but relents after she is assaulted in her home by a man claiming to be the Night Stalker. The next morning, the group goes on a road trip to Camp Redwood. At a rest stop, the gas station attendant warns the group that they are going to die, after discovering they are headed to the camp. The group's vehicle hits a man lying in the road. The group agrees to take him with them to get him medical attention.
The camp's owner, Margaret Booth, instructs them to take the injured man to the infirmary, where the camp's nurse, Rita, tends to him. Margaret takes the counselors on a tour and explains the rules. They encounter Chef Bertie, an original camp counselor who volunteered to re-open the camp with Margaret. That night, the counselors gather around a fire, and Rita tells them of the incident that closed the camp 14 years before. The accused killer was Benjamin Richter, aka Mr. Jingles, a Vietnam veteran who was discharged dishonorably. Rita claims there were 10 victims, but Margaret approaches and corrects her that there were only nine; she was the sole survivor. She was the star witness at Jingles' trial, and he was sent to a mental institution. Brooke finds the amnesiac man awake and guides him back to bed. He is confused about the camp reopening, and warns her that something bad is going to happen. Trevor Kirchner, the activities director, arrives in their cabin. Later, he and Montana begin a sexual encounter in the lake but are interrupted when Montana sees approaching car headlights at the edge of the lake.
At a facility for the criminally insane, Dr. Hopple is informed that Richter has escaped. Three hours earlier, Richter, in his cell, lured in an orderly, whom he strangled to death. Hopple finds a newspaper clipping in the cell announcing the reopening of the camp. The gas station attendant, Roy, is repairing a car from underneath, and Richter crushes him by lowering the jacks. Richter takes his truck and drives to the camp. In the infirmary, Brooke finds the amnesiac man impaled on a hook and is pursued by Richter. She reaches the others, but t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie%20Sports%20Radio | Macquarie Sports Radio was a short-lived Australian commercial radio network broadcasting to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. Owned and operated by Macquarie Media, the network launched on 4 April 2018, replacing Talking Lifestyle. Following the acquisition of Macquarie Media by Nine Entertainment Co., programs outside of live sports commentary were suspended in October 2019, and on 1 February 2020 the network ultimately ceased broadcasting.
History
On 2 March 2018, Radioinfo reported that Talking Lifestyle would cease broadcasting on 30 March, and be replaced by a sports radio format. Macquarie Sports Radio launched on 4 April 2018, with live coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Reflecting the geographical difference in the popularity of Australian sporting codes, the network broadcast two separate breakfast programs—hosted by John Stanley and Beau Ryan in Sydney and Brisbane, and Tony Leonard, Tony Shaw and Jimmy Bartel in Melbourne and Perth. Other presenters at launch included David Morrow, Tiffany Cherry, Mieke Buchan, Shane McInnes, Sam Stove, David Schwarz and Mark Allen.
The network retained Macquarie Radio's test cricket, Big Bash League and One Day International rights. Coverage of the Australian Football League (AFL) was broadcast into the northern markets—all games featuring Sydney Swans and Greater Western Sydney Giants were broadcast in Sydney, and all games featuring Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns were broadcast in Brisbane. In Melbourne, the network broadcast National Rugby League (NRL) matches featuring the Melbourne Storm.
The network's initial ratings performance was poor. In Sydney, the final GfK ratings survey for Talking Lifestyle recorded the breakfast show as reaching 4.4% of all listeners. By the second survey of Macquarie Sports Radio, this figure had fallen to 0.7%. In July, Beau Ryan had departed the Sydney and Brisbane breakfast show, replaced by Mark Riddell.
In January 2019, significant programming changes were announced. The two breakfast shows would be merged into one, presented by Riddell and Mark Levy. On weekends, additional AFL and NRL coverage would be added, sourced from sister stations 3AW, 6PR and 2GB. In August, Macquarie Sports Radio was named the exclusive Australian radio broadcast partner of the English Premier League, syndicating live commentary from Talksport.
Closure
Despite the changes, the network continued to rate poorly. On 29 October, Macquarie Media announced that its sports talk shows would cease production from 1 November 2019. However, the station remained on the air and continued to broadcast live cricket and the Premier League, and on 4 November Macquarie Media announced it would reinstate Schwarz and Allen's drive program.
Following Nine Entertainment Co.'s acquisition of Macquarie Media, in January 2020 it was confirmed the network would cease broadcasting, with each station to revert to its pre–2016 branding. On 2 February 2020, the stations were re-launched as 2U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Dollimore | Jean Dollimore is an English computer scientist that worked at Queen Mary University of London, notable for being co-author (together with George Coulouris, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair) of one of the standard distributed computer systems textbooks, Distributed Systems (). This textbook alone has been cited over 4,700 times.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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British women computer scientists
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20on%20Prime%20Network | Bowling on Prime Network is the de facto name for ten-pin bowling events broadcast on the now defunct Prime Network. In particular, Prime Network televised tournaments from the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour (now the Professional Women's Bowling Association) in 1993. The official name of the telecasts was The Bud Light LPBT Spring Tour. Leandra Riley (play-by-play) and Leila Wagner (analysis) provided the commentary.
Later history
On July 3, 1996, News Corporation and Liberty Media announced that the Prime Sports networks would be relaunched as part of the new Fox Sports Net group, with the eight Prime Sports owned-and-operated networks adopting brands that combined the "Fox Sports" name with the state or region served by the respective network. the Prime Sports-branded affiliates were officially relaunched as Fox Sports Net on November 1, 1996.
Bowling events continued to air on what would become Fox Sports Net. Michelle Feldman of the Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) became the first female to score a 300 on American national television, when she accomplished the feat in a July 10, 1997 broadcast. Fred Borden and Jan Schmidt provided the commentary.
Fox Sports Net would broadcast bowling tournaments up until around 2000. Ron Thulin (play-by-play) and Randy Pedersen (analysis) were the commentators by this point.
See also
Professional Women's Bowling Association#In the media before 2015
PBA on Fox
PBA Tour#PBA Tour in the media
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1993 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroPCS%20Friday%20Night%20Knockout | Friday Night Knockout (visually known as MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout for sponsorship reasons) is the branding used for professional boxing telecasts broadcast on the cable network TruTV. This weekly broadcast was co-produced by HBO and Turner Sports.
Coverage overview
What separated TruTV's broadcasts from the time buy deals done by Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions on other networks is that advertising on TruTV was 100% sold by Turner Sports. In other words, Turner controlled all the advertising, including TV commercial time, digital inventory and sponsorships.
MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout debuted on May 1, 2015 (from The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas) and featured at least eight bouts from the Top Rank promotion. They would serve as lead-ins for fights airing on HBO the next day.
The final card aired on December 11, 2015 with Nonito Donaire vs. Cesar Juarez and Félix Verdejo taking on Josenilson Dos Santos from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Technology
TruTV's live boxing telecasts featured the first-ever domestic use of “Spidercam” technology, which operates on a four-point system of cables from designated points beyond the corners of the boxing ring. It also has the ability to operate on a four-point system of cables from designated points beyond the corners of the boxing ring.
Commentators
Kevin Kugler and Bruce Beck provided play-by-play with analysts Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and Timothy Bradley and reporter Crystina Poncher.
References
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TruTV to broadcast boxing series
truTv To Step Into Boxing Ring
Top Rank launching new boxing series on truTV
METROPCS FRIDAY NIGHT KNOCKOUT ON TRUTV CONTINUES FRIDAY, JUNE 26 AT 10 P.M. ET
TOP RANK TO LAUNCH FRIDAY NIGHT BOXING SERIES ON TRUTV BEGINNING MAY 1
“MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout” to Make Its Fall Debut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday%20Night%20Lights%20Out | Friday Night Lights Out is the branding formally used for broadcasts of combat sports on the American cable network Spike (now Paramount Network).
The branding was first announced in January 2015 when, following a similar deal made by NBC, Spike announced they would air monthly fight cards by the Haymon Boxing-created "Premier Boxing Champions".
The branding would eventually be phased out after Spike's deals with PBC and Glory ended, leaving only the network's mixed martial arts coverage.
Coverage overview
The branding came about from a rotation of live combat sporting events on Spike that were commonly aired on Friday nights, which included mixed martial arts cards from the Viacom-owned Bellator MMA promotion, and kickboxing events by Glory. On those weeks in which there weren't any live fights, Spike intended on broadcasting “shoulder programming” designed to introduce viewers to fighters’ backstories and build momentum for grudge matches. In 2015, Spike and Premiere Boxing Champions signed a two-year agreement, with negotiations for a third year in 2017 that never made it into the final paperwork. The branding debuted on March 13, 2015 with Spike's first PBC fight card.
Spike's final PBC card aired on January 13, 2017. David Schwarz, Senior Vice President of Communications at Spike TV, said that one of the reasons for Spike deciding to discontinue its commitment to PBC was “a general dissatisfaction with the quality of cards being provided by PBC founder Al Haymon.”
Commentators
Antonio Tarver, who served as a member of Spike's broadcast team, explained that "I remember back in the day when fighters started their careers on NBC. Network TV. That's how legendary stars were made. I think NBC and Spike are going to do the same for today's fighters."
Joining Tarver on commentary was co-analyst Jimmy Smith, Dana Jacobson as host, Thomas Hearns as the pre-fight analyst, and Scott Hanson as play-by-play announcer.
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Boxing television series
2015 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieci | Sieci (English lit.: the Network), also stylised as W Sieci, wSieci, or Tygodnik Sieci; is a right-wing weekly magazine published in Poland.
Founding and editorial policy
Sieci (as well as the similar competing Do Rzeczy) was founded following a conflict within Uważam Rze which led to the termination of many journalists. The first issue of Sieci was published on 26 November 2012.
Siecis editorial policy is inline with the Law and Justice (PiS) party, and has been opposed to the competing Civic Platform party since its founding. The editorial line follows identity journalism which aims not to inform, but to integrate and mobilise supporters of a particular political option. The magazine regularly features interviews with people connected to the PiS platform and presents social issues in a dichotomous manner that is divided between PiS supporters and detractors. The magazine places an emphasis on politics, presenting political affairs in a monochromatic fashion referring frequently to economic freedom and "Catholic values".
Controversies
In 2013, the magazine feature a front page with Tomasz Lis is an SS uniform with the tag line "almost like Goebbels".
The magazine was ordered by the court to publish a correction and public apology to Ewa Kopacz for falsely claiming that she pays for a personal stylist using public funds.
In 2016, the magazine ran a cover with a white women assaulted by dark males under the title "The Islamic Rape of Europe" which evoked outrage,The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland: Between Nationalism, Fear and Emphathy, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter by Krzysztof Jaskulowski, 2019, pages 31-53 and has been compared to WWII propaganda with the same imagery.The so-called 'Islamic rape of Europe' is part of a long and racist history, Washington Post, 16 February 2016
In July 2017, it was uncovered that the Ministry of Culture paid the magazine zl 145,500 in 2016 and 2017 for a series of interviews with the director of the World War II museum in Gdańsk, prompting allegation of corruption and cronyism.
In 2017, the editor-in-chief Karnowski accused the courts of enacting revenge on the magazine due its critical stance on the separation of powers and the Polish judiciary, calling them a "caste of judges", with the ruling forcing the magazine to change its name from wSieci''' as infringing on Rzeczpospolita's column trademark.
In July 2019 the city of Gdańsk issued defamation court proceedings against the magazine for numerous highly provocative and slanderous claims of Germanophilia, treason and Polonophobia including: "the leaders of Gdańsk do not cherish Polishness", "they want to join Germany", "they are actively engaging in war against Poland", they are cultivating a politicised history which rejects the heroism and pride of the Polish soldier and they are consciously referring to the traditions of the Free City of Danzig" , "the city restored the sign "Postamt" on the council postal office", "they have led th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA%20Quantum%20Network | The DARPA Quantum Network (2002–2007) was the world's first quantum key distribution (QKD) network, operating 10 optical nodes across Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It became fully operational on October 23, 2003 in BBN's laboratories, and in June 2004 was fielded through dark fiber under the streets of Cambridge and Boston, where it ran continuously for over 3 years. The project also created and fielded the world's first superconducting nanowire single-photon detector. It was sponsored by DARPA as part of the QuIST program, and built and operated by BBN Technologies in close collaboration with colleagues at Harvard University and the Boston University Photonics Center.
The DARPA Quantum Network was fully compatible with standard Internet technology, and could provide QKD-derived key material to create Virtual Private Networks, to support IPsec or other authentication, or for any other purpose. All control mechanisms and protocols were implemented in the Unix kernel and field-programmable gate arrays. QKD-derived key material was routinely used for video-conferencing or other applications.
The DARPA Quantum Network was built in stages. In the project's first year (year 1), BBN designed and built a full QKD system (Alice and Bob), with an attenuated laser source (~ 0.1 mean photon number) running through telecom fiber, phase-modulated via an actively stabilized Mach-Zender interferometer. BBN also implemented a full suite of industrial-strength QKD protocols based on BB84. In year 2, BBN created two 'Mark 2' versions of this system (4 nodes) with commercial-quality InGaAs detectors created by IBM Research. These 4 nodes ran continuously in BBN's laboratory from October 2003, then two were deployed at Harvard and Boston University in June 2004, when the network began running continuously across the metro Boston area, 24x7. In year 3, the network expanded to 8 nodes with the addition of an entanglement-based system (derived from work at Boston University) designed for telecom fibers, and a high-speed atmospheric (freespace) link designed and built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In year 4, BBN added a second freespace link to the overall network, using nodes created by Qinetiq, and investigated improved QKD protocols and detectors. Finally, in year 5, BBN added the world's first superconducting nanowire single-photon detector to the operational network. It was created by a collaboration between researchers at BBN, the University of Rochester, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology; that first 100 Mhz system ran 20x faster than any existing single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths. In that final year, BBN also collaborated with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to implement, and experiment with, a proof-of-concept version of the world's first quantum eavesdropper (Eve).
When fully built, the network's 10 nodes were as follows. All ran BBN's quantum key distribution and quantu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer%20%28machine%20learning%20model%29 | A transformer is a deep learning architecture, initially proposed in 2017, that relies on the parallel multi-head attention mechanism. It is notable for requiring less training time than previous recurrent neural architectures, such as long short-term memory (LSTM), and its later variation has been prevalently adopted for training large language models on large (language) datasets, such as the Wikipedia corpus and Common Crawl, by virtue of the parallelized processing of input sequence.
Input text is split into n-grams encoded as tokens and each token is converted into a vector via looking up from a word embedding table. At each layer, each token is then contextualized within the scope of the context window with other (unmasked) tokens via a parallel multi-head attention mechanism allowing the signal for key tokens to be amplified and less important tokens to be diminished. Though the transformer paper was published in 2017, the softmax-based attention mechanism was proposed in 2014 for machine translation, and the Fast Weight Controller, similar to a transformer, was proposed in 1992.
This architecture is now used not only in natural language processing and computer vision, but also in audio and multi-modal processing. It has also led to the development of pre-trained systems, such as generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) and BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers).
Timeline
In 1990, Elman network, using a recurrent neural network, encoded each word in a training set as a vector, called a word embedding, and the whole vocabulary as a vector database, allowing it to perform such tasks as sequence-prediction that are beyond the power of a simple multilayer perceptron. A shortcoming of the static embeddings was that they didn't differentiate between multiple meanings of same-spelt words.
In 1992, the Fast Weight Controller was published by Jürgen Schmidhuber It learns to answer queries by programming the attention weights of another neural network through outer products of key vectors and value vectors called FROM and TO. The Fast Weight Controller was later shown to be closely related to the Linear Transformer. The terminology "learning internal spotlights of attention" was introduced in 1993. An advantage of the fast linear transformers is that their computational complexity grows linearly with sequence length, while modern transformers scale quadratically.
In 1993, the IBM alignment models were used for statistical machine translation.
In 1997, a precursor of large language model, using recurrent neural networks, such as long short-term memory, was proposed.
In 2001, one-billion-word large text corpus, scraped from the Internet, referred to as "very very large" at the time, was used for word disambiguation.
In 2012, AlexNet demonstrated the effectiveness of large neural networks for image recognition, encouraging large artificial neural networks approach instead of older, statistical approaches.
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