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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter%20Intention%20Collection%20System | Voter Intention Collection System also known by its acronym VICS is a bespoke canvassing software system with a voter database originally created for the Vote Leave campaign for the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. Vote leave director Dominic Cummings have claimed it was crucial to the success of that campaign while others have claimed other systems were also crucial. An open-source version is available.
Etymology
The acronym VICS as well as standing for Voter Intention Collection System was also the nickname of Victoria Woodcock, operations director of Vote Leave who project managed the creation of the system.
History
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg has commented an insider in the Vote Leave Campaign had told her they were looking at ways to "find a way of mashing the mountain of data that we generate in daily life online with more normal ways of measuring political support". Tom Waterhouse, deputy head of the ground campaign for vote leave, said Stein Fletcher built the VICS system.
The location of a GitHub open source repository under an MIT license that could build the VICS system was made known by Cummings in a blog post in October 2016.
Technical
Operation
Waterhouse described the way VICS worked for the ground campaign can be summarised as follows: VICS would be loaded with a "model", a predictive algorithm used to predict the percentage of Eurosceptic voters at the level of individual streets when combined with statistics from the 2014 general and European elections. With minimal cross checking the prediction from doorstep canvassing activists were able to target specific addresses where there was likely to be a leave voter on polling day.
Components
The user interface for the client was developed as a Single-page application using AngularJS. The application tier was developed with Java using a Spring framework To achieve the installation from the source on a server several components must be pre-installed including PostgreSQL, redis and Apache Maven. Data is transferred between the user interface and application tier using REST over the HTTP protocol serialized as JSON.
Significance debate
There are claims the intelligence VICS enabled the Vote Leave campaign to cost-effectively deliver over one billion targeted advertisements over social media with most via Facebook. Others claims VICS was not as capable or effective as it was claimed to be, with some of Cummings' claimed functionality already available on Facebook. Information technology from Aggregate IQ is also claimed to have provided important and controversial support to the Vote Leave Campaign.
References
Voter databases
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Canada | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada:
Data
Timeline of cases and deaths in Canada
Timeline of cases and deaths by province and territory
Overview of infection waves
Breakdown by year (2020-2023)
Note: This table is updated once a month (next update: October 29, 2023).
Note: This table is updated once a month (next update: October 29, 2023).
Deaths by year
Top 50 days with most deaths
Of the 50 days, 21 occurred in 2020, 13 in 2021, and 16 in 2022. The data is correct as of July 16, 2022. Since then, reliable daily statistics are no longer available, as by that date most Provinces and Territories had already switched from daily reports to weekly reports. This table does not reflect any potential changes stemming from the 2023 revision of past official reports (because the revision was limited to monthly reports and did not include updated daily statistics).
Top 30 weeks with most deaths
Of the 30 weeks, 14 occurred in 2020, 7 in 2021, and 9 in 2022. 7 instances were recorded in January, 6 in February, 5 in April and December, 4 in May, 2 in November, and 1 in June. This table does not reflect any potential changes stemming from the 2023 revision of past official reports (because the revision was limited to monthly reports and did not include updated weekly statistics).
Top 15 months with most deaths
Top 15 weeks with most new cases
Graphs
National
Milestones - Cases (as of September 22, 2023)
This graph shows dates when milestones (250,000 new cases) were reached. The last figure is the current total number of confirmed cases and is a placeholder until the next milestone is recorded (it is expected that 4,750,000 cases will be reached around October 18, 2023).
Milestones - Deaths (as of September 22, 2023)
This graph shows dates when milestones (2,500 new deaths) were reached. The last figure is the current total number of confirmed deaths and is a placeholder until the next milestone is recorded (it is expected that 55,000 deaths will be reached around November 20, 2023).
Waves (as of July 14, 2022)
This simplified graph shows the first five waves, noting number of active cases at the peak and at the end of each wave. There is no reliable tracking data on recoveries since March 1, 2022 and last somewhat reliable data for the sixth wave was recorded on July 14, 2022. The end of the sixth wave, as well as peaks and ends of all further waves could only be estimated based on the number of hospitalizations, however this data is not reliable enough to warrant any further updates. As a result, this graph has been discontinued.
Note: This graph will no longer be updated.
Cases (as of September 22, 2023)
This graph shows the number of new cases in Canada each month.
Note: This graph is updated once a month (next update: October 29, 2023).
Deaths (as of September 22, 2023)
This graph shows the number of deaths in Canada each month.
Note: This graph is updated once a month (next update: October 29, 202 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Strong%20and%20Free%20Network | The Canada Strong and Free Network (formerly the Manning Centre for Building Democracy (MCBD) or Manning Centre) based in Calgary, Alberta, is a not-for-profit political advocacy group that was established in 2005 by Preston Manning to promote conservative principles. It was known for the annual "high-profile" Manning Networking Conference (MNC). The Manning Centre operates the for-profit think tank the Manning Foundation, which undertakes some research and analysis, while the Manning Centre self-describes as a "do-tank", that focuses on advocacy, training and networking events for conservatives.
Administration
The Centre is managed by the board of directors with Troy Lanigan as president. Lanigan was formerly president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, an organization that advocates for lower taxes, less waste in public sector spending and more government accountability. Current members of the board of directors include Joe Oliver, who served as Finance Minister under then Prime Minister Stephen Harper and is now on the board of directors of High Arctic Energy Services. Cliff Fryers, Jocelyn Williams Bamford, Chuck Strahl, and Questerre Energy's CEO Michael Binnion, who also serves on the High Arctic Energy Services board, and Preston Manning.
Preston Manning , was the founding father of the Centre and served as its director until July 2016, when he resigned from his executive functions with the Manning Foundation and the Centre. He continued to support and pursue its objectives.
On January 16, 2020 Manning announced that he was retiring from the Centre, to spend more time with his family.
Members of the board of trustees have included former Premier of Ontario, Mike Harris and Gwyn Morgan , who has also served as a trustee of the Fraser Institute's, and on the board of directors of SNC-Lavalin and EnCana Corporation. In 2003, Morgan was "the most powerful man in Canada's oil patch", according to Maclean'''s magazine. Past directors include Kevin Lacey, the Atlantic representative of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Activities and mandate
The Manning Centre supports small government, free market, and individual liberties and promotes "Canada's conservative movement."
The motto is "Networking Canada's Conservative Movement".
The Manning Centre trains people to participate in federal, provincial and/or municipal partisan politics. The Manning Centre self-describes as a "do-tank" not a think tank as it "does not try to generate new ideas."
In his 2016 publication on the "global think tank phenomenon", Donald E. Abelson described the different functions of the Manning Foundation, the Manning Centre and the Manning Networking Conference. While Jan Gerson's September 20, 2014 National Post profile of five Canadian think tanks included the Manning Centre, Abelson said that MCBD does not "conduct research and analysis", which is the function of the for-profit institute, the Manning Foundation. The Foundation is the think tank and the MCBD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20J.%20Haas%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Peter J. Haas is an American computer scientist and operations researcher known for his work in information management and big data. He worked for 30 years at IBM Research before becoming a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Education and career
Haas graduated in 1978 from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a degree in engineering and applied sciences. He earned a master's degree in environmental engineering in 1979 from Stanford University, and a second master's degree in statistics in 1984 from Stanford. He completed his Ph.D. in operations research in 1986 at Stanford.
He was a scientist for Radian Corporation from 1979 to 1981, and an assistant professor of decision and information sciences at Santa Clara University from 1985 to 1987, before joining IBM Research in 1987. While at IBM, he also held adjunct and lecturer positions at Stanford.
He moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017, following his wife, Laura M. Haas, who moved to the same university to become dean of information and computer sciences.
Service
Haas was president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society for 2010–2012.
Books
Haas is the author or co-author of books including:
Stochastic Petri Nets: Modelling, Stability, Simulation (Springer, 2002)
Synopses for Massive Data: Samples, Histograms, Wavelets, Sketches (with G. Cormode, M. Garofalakis, and C. Jermaine, Foundations and Trends in Databases, NOW Publishers, 2011)
Recognition
Haas is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2013) and was named a fellow of INFORMS in 2016 "for sustained and fundamental contributions to discrete-event simulation and interactive sampling-based analytics for massive data sets as well as for significant service to the simulation community". He has won many other awards for his research publications.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Santa Clara University faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20D2%20%28Moscow%20Central%20Diameters%29 | D2 () or Kursko-Rizhsky Diameter () is the second of the Moscow Central Diameters, a suburban network in Moscow which uses the existing infrastructure of Moscow Railway and provides a regular connection between Moscow and surrounding cities. MCD-2 runs from Nakhabino via Krasnogorsk and Moscow to Podolsk.
The line was opened on 21 November 2019, at the same day as D1. It uses the tracks and the stations of the Rizhsky and the Kursky suburban railway line. The length of the line is , and the travel time between the termini is 116 minutes. These suburban railway lines have been connected earlier, and through suburban trains were running between them, therefore the initial investment to open the line was minimum.
Modified Ivolga trains have been serving the line since its opening.
Stations
The stations between Volokolamskaya and Ostafyevo are in Moscow, others are in Moscow Oblast.
Moskva Tovarnaya is set to close.
References
Moscow Railway
Railway lines in Russia
Railway lines opened in 2019
2019 establishments in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist%20Alliance%20Against%20Rape | The Feminist Alliance Against Rape (FAAR) was formed as a sub-group of the DC Rape Crisis Center in 1974 as a way to network among feminists in the anti-rape movement. FAAR published a monthly newsletter that invited others to join the discussion on violence against women and provided resources and practical information for grassroots organizers.
From the introductory article of the newsletter:
Writers for the FAAR newsletter included Larry Cannon and William Fuller, who wrote about prison rape, Deb Friedman, Freada Klein, Linda Kupis, Mary Ann Largen, Sue Lenaerts, and Jackie MacMillan.
FAAR functionally disbanded in 1978 and later became the D.C. Area Feminist Alliance.
References
External links
Deb Friedman collection of feminist anti-violence records at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Feminism in Washington, D.C.
Feminist organizations in the United States
Rape in the United States
Violence against women in the United States
Women in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Wnet | Radio Wnet – Polish radio station and online social networking site, founded in 2009 by Krzysztof Skowroński, Grzegorz Wasowski, Katarzyna Adamiak-Sroczyńska, Monika Makowska-Wasowska, Wojciech Cejrowski and Jerzy Jachowicz.
Authors and collaborators
The author of the name "Radio Wnet" is Grzegorz Wasowski. All the jingles were prepared by Monika and Grzegorz Wasowski. Also collaborated with Radio Wnet, including Marek Jurek, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Marek Kamiński, Ludwik Dorn and Ewa Cybulska. From May to September 2011, on Saturdays and Sundays, Jerzy Kordowicz conducted his broadcasts under the name Synthesizer Carriers.
History
The first broadcast of Radio Wnet was broadcast on May 25, 2009 from Hotel Europejski in Warsaw, where the studio was located until February 15, 2013. The next studio addresses are ul. Koszykowa 8, where Radio Wnet broadcast until September 29, 2014, and then the PAST building at ul. Zielna 39.
In November 2012, Radio Wnet released the album of rapper Tadek, Inconvenient Truth (Niewygodna prawda)
In June 2013, Gazeta Wyborcza wrote that the station received PLN 140,000 from Law and Justice. Referring to this situation, Krzysztof Skowroński issued a statement on the website of the Association of Polish Journalists, of which he is the president. He stated that the values of the radio are: "freedom, openness and solidarity", and that the radio can work with those who share these values.
On September 26, 2018, the Polish Broadcasting Council granted Radio Wnet frequencies to broadcast in Warsaw (87.8 MHz) and Krakow (95.2 MHz). The broadcast began in mid-October.
On September 13, 2019, the radio was granted a frequency for broadcasting in Wroclaw (96.8 MHz), on October 11, 2019, was granted a frequency of 103.9 MHz for broadcasting in Bialystok, on September 24, 2019 the frequency for broadcasting in Szczecin (98.9 MHz) and on February 4, 2020 the frequency for broadcast in Bydgoszcz (104.4 MHz), Lublin (101.1 MHz) and Lodz (106.1 MHz)
In connection with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland, Radio Wnet on May 3, 2020 inaugurated a special action "Solidarity Radio Action" ("Solidarna Akcja Radiowa) consisting in supporting Polish companies and its entrepreneurs through a social campaign and advertising. The promotional campaign includes broadcasting of advertising spots on FM waves in Warsaw and Krakow and on www.wnet.fm. As part of this special charity action, every entrepreneur can receive a weekly campaign worth PLN 3,000. Currently, Radio WNET accepts applications for advertising campaigns that will be broadcast on June in the air. Two weeks after the start of Solidarity Radio Action received support from LOTOS Group. As part of the Radio Wnet campaign, it provides advertising time to Polish entrepreneurs worth over PLN 250,000. The action is extremely popular, already in the first days more than fifty entities came to it, filling up the May advertising blocks. This fact confirms that the action met with great intere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | XOS is an Android-based operating system developed by Hong Kong mobile phone manufacturer Infinix Mobile, a subsidiary of Transsion Holdings, exclusively for their smartphones.
XOS allows for a wide range of user customization without requiring rooting the mobile device. It was first introduced as XUI in 2015 and later as XOS in 2016. The operating system comes with utility applications that allow users to protect their privacy, improve speed, enhance experience among others. XOS comes with features like; XTheme, Scan to Recharge, Split Screen and XManager.
History
In 2015, Infinix Mobile released XUI 1.0, based on Android 5.0 "Lollipop", featuring XContacts, XTheme, XCloud and XShare. In July 2016, XOS 2.0 Chameleon was released based on Android 6.0 "Marshmallow", launching on HOT S and featuring XLauncher and fingerprint manager. An upgraded version XOS 2.2 Chameleon based on Android 7.0 "Nougat" was later launched in 2017 on Note 3 and Smart X5010. It features Scrollshot, Split Screen and Magazine Lockscreen.
In August 2017, XOS 3.0 Hummingbird was released based on Android 7.0 as also seen in XOS 2.2, launching on Zero 5, it later launched in 2018 on Hot S3 based on Android 8.0 "Oreo". An upgraded version XOS 3.2 Hummingbird based on Android 8.1 was later launched on Hot 6. It features Eye Care, Multi-Accounts and Device Tracking.
In May 2018, XOS 4.0 Honeybee was released based on Android 8.0, launching on Hot 7 and Zero 6, featuring Smart Screen Split, Notch Hiding, Scan To Recharge, Fingerprint Call Recording and Smart Text Classifier. An upgraded version XOS 4.1 Honeybee based on Android 8.1 was later launched on Hot 7 Pro.
In 2019, XOS 5.0 Cheetah was released based on Android 9.0 "Pie", launching on Hot S4 and Hot 8, featuring Privacy Protection, AI Intelligence, Smart Panel, Data Switcher and Fingerprint Reset Password. In December 2019, an upgraded version XOS 5.5 Cheetah based on Android 9.0 was released to Hot 8, featuring Game Assistant, Social Turbo, Smart Screen Lifting and Game Anti-Interference.
In February 2020, XOS 6.0 Dolphin was released based on Android 10, launching on S5 Pro, Note 7. It features Dark Mode, Digital Wellbeing, Wi-Fi Share and Smart Gesture.
See also
HiOS
References
Mobile operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20PCV%20series | Sony Vaio PCV Series is the first line of products of desktop computers introduced by Sony under their VAIO brand in 1996. The series would be introduced to the Japanese market the following year, with the introduction of the mini-tower computer, PCV-T700MR on July 15, 1997.
History
After a long hiatus from building consumer PCs, Sony announced the re-entering into computer manufacturing market with the introduction the VAIO brand in 1996 while in Japan the following year. Sony's first lineup of VAIO desktop computers, the PCV-70 and PCV-90 would be introduced at the 1996 PC Expo Trade Show in New York. While in Japan, Sony introduced PCV-T700MR mini-tower computer, and two notebook computers for the Japanese market.
PCV Lineup
The PCV series are broken into various sub-series variants, each focusing on specific consumers that fits their needs. Despite the variants introduced, the PCV series introduced 10 numbered models before adding a suffix to differentiate its future lineup. The letter(s)/suffix that starts before or after the model number indicates which sub-series it belongs to. The list below describes each suffix.
Sub-series Lineup
The sub-series consists of 18 variants:
DS series (Digital Studio Series)
E series (MicroTower series)
HS series
HX series
J series
JX series
L series
LX series
M series
MX series
P series
R series
RX series
RZ series
S series
T series
V series
W series
References
PCV
Consumer electronics brands
Computer-related introductions in 1996
Japanese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengqi%20You | Fengqi You () is a professor and holds the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Chair at Cornell University in the United States. His research focuses on systems engineering and data science. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 80.
Career
Fengqi You completed his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University, and received his Ph.D. in 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University. After working at Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, he moved to Cornell University, where he holds positions in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Applied Information Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. He is Cornell Energy Institute's associate director, co-director of Cornell Institute of Digital Agriculture, and Chair of Ph.D. Studies in Cornell Systems Engineering. He co-directs Cornell University AI for Science Institute (CUAISci) and co-leads the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Cornell with Carla Gomes.
You is an associate editor of Science Advances, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and editor of Computers & Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the editorial boards of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, AIChE Journal, and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Teaching and research
Fengqi You teaches courses on computational optimization, machine learning, deep learning, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and process design. He developed a graduate certificate program on Computational and Data Science. There are news media reports about his research on quantum artificial intelligence, renewable energy transition, smart energy systems, solar energy materials, electric vehicle batteries, water management, climate impacts of hybrid events and metaverse,, carbon neutrality, microplastics, plastics and medical waste recycling, carbon footprint accounting, crypto, and AI in Science.
Awards
2010 — Carnegie Mellon University Ken Meyer Award
2013 — Northwestern-Argonne Early Career Investigator Award
2016 — NSF Career Award
2017 — American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environmental Division Award
2017 — Sustainable Engineering Research Award
2018 — Cornell Research Excellence Award
2018 — ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
2019 — Excellence in Process Development Research Award by AIChE
2020 — Program Committee's Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering
2020 — Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from American Society for Engineering Education
2020 — American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Award
2021 — Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
2022 — Stratis V. Sotirchos Lectureship Award, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas
2022 — Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE Fellow)
2023 — Fellow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CashTree | CashTree is an interbank network in India founded by five public sector banks, Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, Indian Bank, United Bank of India and Union Bank of India, for sharing their automated teller machine (ATM) networks.
The network was founded in 2003, with Dena Bank later joining the network.
Members
Bank of India
Dena Bank
Indian Bank
Syndicate Bank
United Bank of India
Union Bank of India
Competitors
Cashnet
MITR
BANCS
References
Interbank networks in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainSite | PlainSite is a US based website dedicated to legal data transparency advocacy developed in conjunction by Think Computer Corporation and the charitable organization Think Computer Foundation. PlainSite provides both free and paid access to legal documents and information about the US legal system on a variety of subjects and caselaw. The website previously collected legal documents via the Free Law Project's RECAP archive until the archive adopted a fee-based approach.
PlainSite on occasion publishes a report called Reality Check in which each edition focuses on a particular company and details allegations and controversies surrounding it. In the report on Credit Acceptance, the authors "questioned the health of the company and the quality of the loans backing their securities." In another edition concerning Facebook, the authors allege Facebook not only has approximately one billion fake accounts but that the company itself facilitates fake account creation in order to boost user metrics.
Controversies
While PlainSite archives extensive legal documentation and analysis concerning companies, it also has had its own controversial involvements in litigious matters concerning Facebook, Tesla, and Elon Musk specifically.
In 2012, PlainSite published a list of 2,000 suspected patent trolls assembled from records available via the United States Patent and Trademark Office's patents database. Later, a man convicted in 2013 of conspiring to commit mortgage fraud unsuccessfully attempted to delist PlainSite along with other legal and government-controlled websites from Google's index for hosting legal documents pertaining to him.
Tesla
PlainSite's republishing of unsealed documents regarding Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity was noted by multiple publications, as well as a published email exchange between Elon Musk and Greenspan regarding Randeep Hothi. In March 2021, PlainSite uncovered DMV records showing that Tesla considers its Full Self-Driving technology to currently be non-autonomous. In May 2021, PlainSite released a memo in which Tesla's director of Autopilot software told the California DMV that Musk has been overstating Autopilot's capabilities, saying "Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality". Greenspan has disclosed his ownership of put options against Tesla's stock.
In March 2021, PlainSite published FOIA documents indicating conglomerate Softbank was under "active investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission."
References
External links
Video of Aaron Greenspan presenting PlainSite to the Bay Area Legal Tech Meetup
Legal websites
Internet properties established in 2011
Online legal services
Case law databases
Online law databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoVariome | KoVariome is the variome of Korean ethnic groups. It was initiated in 2010 when the Genome Research Foundation in Korea was established. KoVariome has produced around 100 Korean genome diversity data on 4 April 2018 in Scientific Reports and 1,094 Korean genome variation information on 27 May 2020.
References
Ethnic groups in Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathrin%20Klamroth | Kathrin Klamroth (born 1968) is a German mathematician and computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization and facility location. She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wuppertal.
Education and career
Klamroth earned her doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1994. Her dissertation, Ramsey-Zahlen für Mengen von Graphen (Ramsey numbers for sets of graphs) was supervised by Ingrid Mengersen. She completed her habilitation in 2002 at the University of Kaiserslautern, and took a faculty position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2008, she moved to her present position at the University of Wuppertal.
Books
Klamroth is a coauthor of a bilingual textbook, Lineare und Netzwerk-Optimierung/Linear and network optimization (with Horst Hamacher, Vieweg, 2000) and the author of the monograph Single-facility location problems with barriers (Springer, 2002).
Recognition
In 2019, the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making gave Klamroth their Georg Cantor Award, in recognition of her contributions to the theory and methodology of multiple criteria decision making.
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
German women computer scientists
German women mathematicians
Technical University of Braunschweig alumni
Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal
21st-century German mathematicians
20th-century German women
21st-century German women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20Union%20of%20Journalists | Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a network of media professionals established to advance the safety and welfare of Nigerian journalists. It is an independent trade organization with no political leaning or ideological disposition. NUJ is founded in the underlying belief that speaking with one voice as a professional body it can push for the interest of its members particularly in the areas of working conditions and rights: freedom of expression, safety, job security and fair remuneration, gender equality, freedom of association, copyright protection and fight against all forms of discrimination and suppression. NUJ organizes and supports campaigns aimed at protecting journalists’ rights and strengthening collective agreements.
NUJ was founded on 15 March 1955 in Lagos during Nigeria's struggle for independence from British rule. It is affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress. Its membership grew from 3,950 in 1988 to 35,000 in 2005.
References
Trade unions established in 1955
Freedom of expression organizations
Journalists' trade unions
1955 establishments in Nigeria
Trade unions in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20hospital%20campuses | This is a list of large hospitals ranked by bed capacity and staffing within a single campus.
Hospital networks that consist of several campuses are not considered as a whole, and statistics from satellite campuses are not included. Campuses that do not have reliable sources may not be included; it is not necessarily a complete list.
Ranked by capacity
This is a list of hospital campuses with a capacity of more than 1,500 beds.
Ranked by staff
This is a list of hospital campuses with more than 10,000 staff.
See also
Lists of hospitals
List of largest hospital networks
List of tallest hospitals
List of the oldest hospitals in the United States
Notes
References
Capacity
Hospitals by capacity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Jinner | Sarah Jinner (fl. 1658 – 1664) was an English compiler of almanacs and a medical practitioner. She is considered one of the first women to be a professional writer in what is now the United Kingdom.
Life
The details of Jinner's life are largely unknown. She is thought to have been a supporter of the Royalists and she must have received some education. We know of her existence because annual almanacs that she wrote are extant. They were aimed at educated people and the medical subjects are biased towards women. The almanacs were published between 1658 and 1664.
Almanacs were one of the sources of medical advice and it was unusual to have a woman as the named author. Jinner's portrait is included as a woodcut and the books reveal her Royalist sympathies. The books are frank about women's medical issues and Jinner's confidence in women to cope with medical treatment. She is the first woman known to have written almanacs and she and Hannah Woolley are considered the first women professional writers. Their writings show the freedoms that were available during the Commonwealth and the Restoration of the monarchy. Within the almanac she replies to a letter and the accusation of Aristotle that women are just imperfect men. She notes that leading women like Elizabeth I show no sign of being imperfect men.
Her almanacs provide an insight into female sexuality and related public discussion. Jinner's book provides astrological advice about when, and when women should not, satisfy their desires. Her books describe physical symptoms and offered herbal remedies for treating gynaecological ailments. Her advice is drawn from two other publications available from the same publisher. Jinner advises wives on recipes that can be used as aphrodisiacs to encourage "fruitfulness" in men or women for the "comfort of man and women" and she hints at recipes to discreetly combat impotence.
References
17th-century English writers
17th-century English women writers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-lagged%20panel%20model | The cross-lagged panel model is a type of discrete time structural equation model used to analyze panel data in which two or more variables are repeatedly measured at two or more different time points. This model aims to estimate the directional effects that one variable has on another at different points in time. This model was first introduced in 1963 by Donald T. Campbell and refined during the 1970s by David A. Kenny. Kenny has described it as follows: "Two variables, X and Y, are measured at two times, 1 and 2, resulting in four measures, X1, Y1, X2, and Y2. With these four measures, there are six possible relations among them – two synchronous or cross‐sectional relations (see cross‐sectional design) (between X1 and Y1 and between X2 and Y2), two stability relations (between X1 and X2 and between Y1 and Y2), and two cross‐lagged relations (between X1 and Y2 and between Y1 and X2)." Though this approach is commonly believed to be a valid technique to identify causal relationships from panel data, its use for this purpose has been criticized, as it depends on certain assumptions, such as synchronicity and stationarity, that may not be valid.
References
Panel data
Structural equation models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cyber%20warfare%20forces | Many countries around the world maintain military units that are specifically trained to operate in a cyberwarfare environment. In several cases these units act also as the national computer emergency response team for civilian cybersecurity threats.
Albania
Military Cyber Security Unit (Një e Sigurisë Kibernetike)
Argentina
Joint Cyber Defense Command of the Armed Forces Joint Staff (Comando Conjunto de Ciberdefensa del Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas)
Cyberdefense Operations Center (Centro de Operaciones de Ciberdefensa)
Cyberdefense Engineering Center (Centro de Ingenieria de Ciberdefensa)
Security Operations Intelligent Center (Centro Inteligente de Operaciones de Seguridad)
National Cyberdefense Center (Centro Nacional de Ciberdefensa)
Informatic Energencies Response Center of the Defense Ministry (Centro de Respuesta ante Emergencias Informáticas del Minisetrio de Defensa)
Cybernetic Analysis Laboratory (Laboratorio de Análisis Cibernéticos)
Armenia
Subdivision 1991 (1991 Ստորաբաժանում - 1991 Storabazhanum)
Australia
Information Warfare Division
Defence Signals Intelligence and Cyber Command
Joint Cyber Unit
Army
138th Signal Squadron
Navy
Fleet Cyber Unit
Air Force
No. 462 Information Warfare Squadron
Austria
Information Communications Technologies and Cybersecurity Center (Informations-Kommunikations-Technologie und Cybersicherheitszentrum)
Azerbaijan
Special Communication and Information Security State Service (Xüsusi Rabitə və İnformasiya Təhlükəsizliyi Dövlət Xidməti)
Belarus
Information Technology Specialized Company (Специализированную роту по информационной безопасности - Spetsializirovannuyu Rotu po Informatsionnoy Bezopasnosti)
Belgium
Defense Cyber Directorate
Cyber Command
Bolivia
Cybersecurity and Cyberdefense Center (Centro de Ciberseguridad y Ciberdefensa)
Brazil
Cybernetic Defense Command (Comando de Defesa Cibernética)
National Cybernetic Defense School (Escola Nacional de Defesa Cibernética)
Cybernetic Defense Center (Centro de Defesa Cibernética)
Brunei
Air Force
Cyber Defence Unit
Bulgaria
Stationary Communication Information System (Стационарна Комуникационна Информационна Система - Statsionarna Komunikatsionna Informatsionna Sistema)
Canada
Canadian Forces Network Operation Centre
Army Reserve
Cyber Group, 32 Signal Regiment
Cyber Group, 34 Signal Regiment
Chile
Cyberdefense Incidents Response Center (Centro de Respuesta a Incidencias de Ciberdefensa)
China (People’s Republic of China)
Ministry of State Security
Jiangsu State Security Department
People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (人民解放军战略支援部队 - Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Zhànlüè Zhīyuán Bùduì)
People's Liberation Army Network System Department (人民解放军网络系统部 - Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Wǎngluò Xìtǒng Bù)
Unit 61489 (61489部队 - 61489 Bùduì)
Unit 61786 (61786部队 - 61786 Bùduì)
56th Jiangan Computing Technologies Research Institute (第56江南计算技术研究所 - Dì 56 Jiāngnán Jìsuàn Jìshù Yánjiū Suǒ)
57th Research Institute (第57研究所 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa%20von%20B%C3%BClow | Marisa von Bülow is a Brazilian political scientist and sociologist. She is a professor in the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasilia. She studies networks in international trade, the theory of social movements, and the collective action problems that confront international organizations.
Career
In 2006, von Bülow published the book Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas. In Building Transnational Networks, von Bülow studies the growing prominence of civil society organizations and nongovernmental organizations in trade policy debates in the Americas, particularly in challenging free trade agreements. She uses these debates to conduct a network analysis on civil society organizations in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the United States, to understand how these organizations decide to build both domestic and international ties. Von Bülow is concerned not just with the relationship between organizations, but with the relationship between those organizations and their environments. She also studies the implications of these relationships for the networks of trade between countries, and shows how international ties between civil society organizations often arise from the domestic politics of their country. For Building Transnational Networks, von Bülow won the 2012 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, which is presented each year by the Latin American Studies Association to "the author(s) of an outstanding book on Latin American foreign policies and international relations".
Together with Federico M. Rossi, von Bülow edited the 2017 book Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America. The book studies the applicability of traditional social movement theory, which was typically elaborated in the context of 1980s American sociology, to the rapidly changing social movements of contemporary South America. In 2017 she also edited the volume Social Movements in Chile: Organization, Trajectories, and Political Consequences, together with Sofia Donoso. In addition to publishing books and academic journal articles, Von Bülow has coauthored policy reports, and was a coauthor of the 2001 World Bank report Civil society participation in the pilot program to conserve the Brazilian rain forest.
During the 2019–2020 academic year, von Bülow held a visiting position at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies.
Von Bülow has published articles in popular media outlets including El País and HuffPost, and her work has been cited or she has been interviewed in outlets including Universo Online, DW News, GP1, TVI 24, Observador, and the senate news agency Agência Senado (Pt).
Selected works
Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas (2006)
Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America', editor, with Federico M. Rossi (2017)Social Movements in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%2098 | NBA ShootOut 98, known in Europe as Total NBA 98, is a video game developed by Sony Interactive Studios America and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1998. It is the third installment of the NBA ShootOut series. The cover features Hakeem Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets.
Gameplay
ShootOut 98 features rosters from the 1997–98 NBA season. For the first time in the series, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley were both added to the game, although Michael Jordan did not appear in the game, and was still represented by a custom player named "Roster Guard" on the Chicago Bulls.
The game introduces a system called "icon cutting", which allows players to control cutters, screens, and double teams.
Reception
NBA ShootOut 98 met with divisive reviews; while IGN and GamePro hailed it as the best basketball game on the market, Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), GameSpot, and Game Revolution all regarded it as a disappointing entry with gameplay so unbalanced that it fails to surpass its own predecessor, NBA ShootOut '97. The game held a 70% on the review aggregation website GameRankings based on five reviews.
Critics - even the game's detractors - almost uniformly praised NBA ShootOut 98s fluid and realistic graphics, "icon cutting" mechanic, and ability to select which dunk to perform in mid-air. Game Revolution, which otherwise panned the game, remarked that "The players look like the actual players, even more so than in Live ’98. The courts are beautiful, with killer reflections and glare effects. Even close-ups of the action look great. In short, this is the prettiest sports title ever made for the PSX."
However, reviews widely agreed that the game made it too easy for both human players and computer-controlled players to steal and block the ball. Kraig Kujawa of EGM said he saw more blown easy shots and blocked dunks and lay-ups than he had in any other video game, with his co-reviewer Sushi-X agreeing that it was "comical" how prevalent they are, and IGN said it creates an unbalanced game where whoever gets the most steals and fastbreaks wins. GamePro instead praised this aspect for "finally giving the defense a chance to stop their opponents from scoring on almost every play." They gave NBA ShootOut '98 a 4.0 out of 5 in sound and a perfect 5.0 in every other category (graphics, control, and fun factor). Both EGM and GameSpot said the gameplay balance was further compromised by the fact that players can make it past any defense just by repeatedly pressing the spin button.
Critics also widely decried the announcer as annoying. Game Revolution elaborated, "The only time he pipes up is to announce fouls or baskets. With brilliant quips such as, 'Number 8, KOOOOBBEEEEEEE BRAHIIIIIIIIAAAANNNNTTT!!! With the East Bay jam-a-lam.' Will someone please shoot this guy and find someone who actually calls the game? Or at least just shoot this guy?" Despite the general esteem for the graphics, some critics noted bouts of slowdown, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles%20Goddard%20%28video%20game%20programmer%29 | Giles Goddard (born 30 March 1971) is an English video game programmer. He was one of the first Western employees at Nintendo, programming the Mario face in Super Mario 64, and working on titles such as Star Fox, 1080° Snowboarding, and Steel Diver. In 2002, he founded Vitei, a video game developer based in Kyoto, Japan, for which he serves as CEO.
Career
Argonaut Games
Giles Goddard's interest in computers began when he was a teenager, when he used his ZX Spectrum, and later Amiga, to create demoscene works in his spare time. In his Amiga demos, he experimented with 3D wireframe graphics with filled polygons. During this time, Argonaut Software released Starglider 2, one of the first computer games to use filled polygons. Goddard soon left school before finishing his A-levels and joined Argonaut Games, where his first task was porting Starglider 2 to the Macintosh SE. Argonaut would develop a reputation for creating cutting-edge, 3D games. They produced a 3D graphics demo for the Nintendo Entertainment System and collaborated with Nintendo to produce the Game Boy title X, one of the few Game Boy games with 3D graphics.
Nintendo
When Goddard was 18 or 19, he moved to Kyoto to work for Nintendo, where he, alongside fellow Argonaut employee Dylan Cuthbert, helped develop Star Fox and Stunt Race FX. Goddard remained with Nintendo during the Nintendo 64 era. He assisted with the demo of Link fighting an enemy, which would be shown at the Shoshinkai 1995 trade show. To show off skinning, he programmed the interactive Mario face in Super Mario 64 by attaching painted ping-pong balls to his face and using an Indy camera to track movement. His next project, 1080° Snowboarding, saw him as one of the two lead programmers, alongside fellow Argonaut colleague Collin Reed. This game used frame interpolation and inverse kinematics to make character movement feel more realistic.
VITEI BACKROOM, Inc / Chuhai Labs
Afterwards, Goddard left Nintendo and became a freelancer, porting Doshin the Giant from the Nintendo 64DD to the GameCube. In 2002, Goddard founded the Japanese video game developer Vitei, Inc. as a Nintendo second party studio. Vitei produced its first game, the Japan-exclusive Nintendo DS title Theta, in 2007, and the WiiWare title Rock N' Roll Climber in 2009. He served as the head programmer for Steel Diver, and Vitei would also develop its sequel, Steel Diver: Sub Wars, as well as Tank Troopers. In 2020, Vitei Backroom was rebranded as Chuhai Labs to expand into micro-publishing and to position the company to be more forward facing. Chuhai Labs developed Carve Snowboarding, which launched on 27 May 2021. Carve Snowboarding is a virtual reality-focused spiritual successor to 1080° Snowboarding for Oculus Quest.
References
External links
Twitter profile
Vitei official website
Chuhai Labs official website
Reddit AMA
Entry at MobyGames
N-Sider profile
1971 births
Living people
British video game programmers
Amiga people
Nintendo people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Cucchiara | Rita Cucchiara (born 1965) is an Italian electrical and computer engineer, and professor in Computer engineering and Science in the Enzo Ferrari Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) in Italy. She helds the courses of “Computer Architecture” and “Computer Vision and Cognitive Systems”. Cucchiara's research work focuses on artificial intelligence, specifically deep network technologies and computer vision for human behavior understanding (HBU) and visual, language and multimodal generative AI. She is the scientific coordinator of the AImage Lab at UNIMORE and is director of the Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation Center (AIRI) as well as the ELLIS (European Labs of Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit at Modena. She was founder and director from 2018 to 2021 of the Italian National Lab of Artificial Intelligence and intelligent systems AIIS of CINI. Cucchiara was also president of the CVPL (Italian Association of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition) from 2016 to 2018. Rita Cucchiara is IAPR Fellow since 2006 and ELLIS Fellow since 2020.
Academic biography
Cucchiara received her diploma in classical studies at Liceo Classico "San Carlo" in Modena, Italy in 1983 and then pursued her academic education at the University of Bologna where graduated magna cum laude in 1989 in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Cucchiara completed her PhD in 1992 working on parallel architectures for Image Processing and Robot Vision, neural networks and genetic algorithms for clustering. During the PhD, under the grant of “Progetto finalizzato Robotica” from CNR, she designed a SIMD parallel Computer “GIOTTO” for image processing. Cucchiara became a research assistant at the University of Ferrara from 1993 until 1998, and associate professor in the Enzo Ferrari Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) in Italy in 1998. In 2005, she was promoted to Full Professor. At UNIMORE, she has been deputy dean of the Engineering Faculty in Modena from 2008 to 2012 and Director of the Inter-departmental center of Research “Softech-ICT” from 2011 to 2018. Since 2021 she is Director of the Center of Artificial Intelligence and innovation AIRI of UNIMORE. She has been Director of the “ICT Platform”, the ICT Council of the high Technology Network of Emilia from 2014 to 2018 ad Delegate of UNIMORE.
Research
Cucchiara's research focuses in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, mainly on computational aspects of deep learning applied to visual, language and multimodal data. Rita Cucchiara pioneered studies in Video Surveillance, and human behavior understanding, since 2003 with the project SakBot (Statistical and knowledge-based object tracking) for detecting moving Object, Ghosts and shadows. She contributed in the collection of several datasets for human understanding, surveillance, and automotive applications, such as the pioneeri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten | A (German for "slip box", plural ) or card file consists of small items of information stored on paper slips or cards that may be linked to each other through subject headings or other metadata such as numbers and tags. It has often been used as a system of note-taking and personal knowledge management for research, study, and writing.
In the 1980s, the card file began to be used as metaphor in the interface of some hypertextual personal knowledge base software applications such as NoteCards. In the 1990s, such software inspired the invention of wikis.
Use in personal knowledge management
As used in research, study, and writing, a card file consists of many individual notes with ideas and other short pieces of information that are taken down as they occur or are acquired. The notes may be numbered hierarchically so that new notes may be inserted at the appropriate place, and contain metadata to allow the note-taker to associate notes with each other. For example, notes may contain subject headings or tags that describe key aspects of the note, and they may reference other notes. The numbering, metadata, format and structure of the notes is subject to variation depending on the specific method employed.
The system not only allows a researcher to store and retrieve information related to their research, but has also long been used to enhance creativity.
History
The paper slip or card has long been used by individual researchers and by organizations to manage information, including the specialized form of the card catalog.
Coming from a commonplace book tradition, Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) invented his own method of organization in which the individual notes could be rearranged at any time. In retrospect, his recommendation of gluing slips onto bound sheets was an innovation in moving from commonplace books to index cards as a form factor for scholarly information management.
The first early modern card cabinet was designed by 17th-century English inventor Thomas Harrison ( 1640s). Harrison's manuscript on the "ark of studies" (Arca studiorum) describes a small cabinet that allows users to excerpt books and file their notes in a specific order by attaching pieces of paper to metal hooks labeled by subject headings. Harrison's system was edited and improved by Vincent Placcius in his well-known handbook on excerpting methods (De arte excerpendi, 1689). The German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was known to have relied on Harrison's invention in at least one of his research projects.
In 1767, Carl Linnaeus used "little paper slips of a standard size" to record information for his research. Over 1,000 of Linnaeus's precursors to the modern index card containing information collected from books and other publications and measuring five by three inches are housed at the Linnean Society of London.
Later in his own commonplace, under the heading "My way of collecting materials for future writings" (translated), Johann Jacob Mos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolitz | Jolitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Evan Jolitz (born 1951), American football linebacker
Lynne Jolitz (born 1961), American computer scientist and start-up founder
William Jolitz (born 1957), American software programmer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian%20Guild%20of%20Editors | Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) is a network of more experienced journalists who have attained the position of editors. It is an independent non-profit and non-partisan organisation established to develop human capacity, economic empowerment, protection and welfare of its members. The NGE in collaboration with other journalistic bodies across the world, work to preserve the traditions and standard of journalism practice and strict adherence to the Code of Ethics of the profession in Nigeria. NGE advocates for Press Freedom and advancement of democratic practice by engaging with stakeholders saddled with public policy and the welfare of journalists. To help Nigerian media practitioners to uphold the tenet and ethics of journalism, NGE develop, publish and distributes brief editing guide to journalists and organises career linkage programs with local and foreign partners to build professional capacity of its members.
Brief history
The NGE was founded on May 20, 1961, at the old National Press Club located then at Abibu Oki in Lagos state by Alhaji Lateef Jakande (1929-2021) of the Nigerian Tribune was its first founding president and the likes of Babatunde Jose (1925-2008) of the Daily Times as the vice president, Abiodun Aloba (1921-2001) of the Morning Post as the secretary, and Nelson Ottah of the Drum as the assistant secretary. The Guild was established to advance the interests of the profession, deepen editors’ relationships with their various publics ranging from the media itself, to governments, professional and trade associations and other groups that make up civil society.
It was initially named the Guild of Newspaper Editors of Nigeria, designed to serve as an exclusive club of professional news managers where editors as the ultimate gatekeepers on media content could come together seasonally to interrogate issues of professional media practice unfettered by labour matters.
The Guild was also created to provide a rallying forum for the editorial leaders in the Nigerian journalism profession in order have a professional path for the industry's growth. At the time of its inception, Nigeria had just emerged from the cauldron of colonialism and the country needed the support of leaders in the various professions to grow. The NGE was however affected by the coup of 1966. The 1966 crisis degenerated into a civil war that lasted for 30 months with the principle of fair journalism trampled upon by the imperatives of war propaganda. In 1977, the Olusegun Obasanjo's Military Government imposed on the country a Press Council Decree which the media, led by the NGE, rejected. In 1982, the Guild had its conference in Minna, Niger State. In 1982, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, the NPN Minister of Transport tried to take control of the Guild by sponsoring the campaign of Alhaji Ibrahim, the Director General of the NTA who became a registered member of the Guild at that conference, but was resisted by members of the NGE.
The NGE was non-operational for 10 year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Savory | Heather Jane Savory (born 1963) is a British former chair of the Chair of the Open Data User Group. She has been the deputy national statistician and Director General for Data Capability at the Office for National Statistics and worked on Big Data for the United Nations.
Life
Savory was born in March 1963. As she grew up she played with Meccano and she decided as a teenager to drop humanities so she could concentrate on maths, physics, chemistry and languages. Everyone else who was studying both maths and physics at her school was a boy. Her qualifications gained her a place at Loughborough University of Technology where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
After Loughborough she joined the General Electric Company where she began work designing semi conductors. She was at 3D Labs when they designed their first graphics chip. She remembers the joy as the chip they had designed was manufactured and was then soldered to a printed circuit board. It worked and in 1996 3D labs was floated on NASDAQ and it was bought out by Intel in 2012.
She later took an MBA at the London Business School in 2004.
In 2012 she was appointed to be Chair of the Open Data User Group by Francis Maude. The group's role was to advise the UK government on what data should be released.
In 2016 Savory began work the United Nations representing the UK Office for National Statistics. She was co-chair and led a team looking at the opportunities created by the exploitation of Big Data to improve the UN's delivery of the 2030 sustainable development goals.
In 2020 she left the position of Deputy National Statistician at the British Office for National Statistics to serve with the United Nations Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics – GWG. This role enables the UN to encourage the exchange of data and methods across the globe.
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British electrical engineers
British statisticians
British women scientists
Alumni of Loughborough University
1963 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtuaVerse | VirtuaVerse is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Theta Division Games and published by Blood Music for Windows and Mac. The game is set in the future and features science fiction and cyberpunk elements. It was released on May 12, 2020 on the online platforms Steam and GOG. On October 18, 2021 it was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Setting
VirtuaVerse is set at an indeterminate point in the future in a cyberpunk dystopia. Advanced technologies, such as cybernetic enhancements, hovercars, and sex robots are commonplace; however, society has also become hyper-commercialized, and consumer demand for these resource-intensive technological innovations has brought planet Earth to the brink of ecological collapse. Among hackers and those operating outside the law, older "retro" technologies like telephone modems and magnetic hard drives are prized because while the abandoned infrastructure to support this obsolete tech still exists, they are effectively "off the grid" and cannot be easily tracked, making them ideal tools for smuggling and piracy.
The dominant form of entertainment is "augmented virtual reality" (AVR), a hybrid of augmented reality and virtual reality that allows users to perceive holographic projections that are used for a variety of purposes, including omnipresent advertisements and graffiti. A recent advancement in AVR is "permanent reality," a brain implant that allows people to interact with a worldwide, persistent AVR environment – the titular "VirtuaVerse" – that is administered by Xenon, an artificial intelligence housed aboard the International Space Station. While permanent reality is marketed as a way to "optimize the user experience," the game's protagonist, Nathan, a computer engineer and enthusiast for retro hardware, considers it to be a form of surveillance and an invasion of privacy, eschewing the implant in favor of an old-fashioned, over-the-ear AVR headset.
Gameplay
The player takes control of Nathan and has to collect items, talk to NPCs, and solve puzzles in order to advance in the story. Later in the game, the player can toggle Nathan's AVR headset, which allows them to see the augmented virtual reality, revealing different hotspots in the game's world. The AVR headset is needed to solve certain kinds of puzzles.
Plot
Nathan wakes up one day to find that his girlfriend, Jay, has gone missing. He traces her to a nightclub and discovers that she has been carrying out missions for "the Blade," a secretive hacker group. A floppy disk that Jay received from a contact at the nightclub contains a message from the Technomancers, an artificial intelligence collective. The message warns that the VirtuaVerse is nothing more than a distraction and will eventually rob people of the ability to perceive reality outside of AVR, threatening the survival of humanity. The Technomancers offer their assistance to prevent this from happening, but registration for the BBS they use to communicate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%202001 | NBA ShootOut 2001 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation in 2000, and for PlayStation 2 in 2001.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
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Basketball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
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Video games set in 2001
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Australian%20season%2012%29 | Big Brother Australia 12, also known as Big Brother 2020, was the twelfth season of the Australian reality television series Big Brother. It began airing on 8 June 2020 on the Seven Network. It was the first season of the show to air on the Seven Network after it bought the rights to the series in 2019, following a six-year absence. The show was originally screened on Network Ten, then the Nine Network. Sonia Kruger returned as the host of the show.
This season revolved around 20 strangers living in a house together with no communication with the outside world as they competed for $250,000. They were constantly filmed during their time in the house and were not permitted to communicate with those filming them. Unlike earlier seasons, the format of the series was revised to emphasise competition and gameplay, with housemates now competing in challenges for power and safety before voting each other out of the house. When only three housemates were left, the Australian public decided which finalist would win the grand prize. This season was also the first to be completely pre-recorded before airing, except for a live finale.
The series was filmed in late February and March 2020 and aired during June and July 2020 on the Seven Network, culminating in a live finale on 22 July 2020, where Australia voted for model and tradie Chad Hurst to win the series, over Sophie Budack and Daniel Gorringe. Hurst won a cash prize of $234,656. Additionally, Kieran Davidson was bribed out of the game with a cash bribe of $15,344 during the White Room twist, taking that amount from the intended $250,000 grand prize.
Production
On 23 October 2019, Seven Network confirmed it will be reviving the series in 2020. Rumours indicate the series will be closer in format to the American & Canadian versions - particularly given the upfronts trailer featured footage from Big Brother US 17, Big Brother Canada 2 and Big Brother Canada 3 as well as the emphasis on the phrase "Control, Evict, Win" in the promo.
The reboot has been compared to Survivor - in which the politicking and strategising regarding the nomination and eviction processes are not only allowed (being disallowed in earlier iterations) but central to the format. Seven's Director of Programming Angus Ross confirmed there would be no regular live shows on 26 October. It was announced on 5 February 2020 that Sonia Kruger will return to host Big Brother.
The House
The Ten and Nine iterations of the series used a compound located at the Dreamworld theme park, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, as the Big Brother House. It has since been abandoned and vandalised. In June 2019, the house was set ablaze and burnt down entirely. The entire compound was demolished by Dreamworld in August 2019.
As the original house had burned down, the Seven Network iteration of the series is set to use a location for a new Big Brother House. Pictures of the new house were leaked on 12 February 2020, showing the house is located in a refur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20A.%20Clark | Gregory A. Clark is a professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Utah; he is also the Director for the Center for Neural Interfaces at the University of Utah. Dr. Clark’s current research is in neuroprostheses, bioengineering, sensory information processing, and electrophysiological and computational analyses of neuronal plasticity in simple systems.
Education
Dr. Clark studied Psychology at Brown University; after receiving his B.A., Dr.Clark completed his Ph.D. with the Department of Psychobiology at the University of California, Irvine.
Career and research
In 1981 Dr. Clark lectured for the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Upon leaving Stanford, Dr. Clark went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. While there, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior between 1982 and 1984, continued on as a research associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Molecular Neurobiology between 1984 and 1988, and became an instructor of clinical neurobiology for the Department of Psychiatry and Center for Neurobiology and Behavior from 1986 to 1988.
Following his time at Columbia, Dr. Clark became an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University from 1988 to 1996.
After his time at Princeton, he became an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah in 1996, gaining tenure in 2001. In 2009 he became an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah. In 2015, he became the director of the Center for Neural Interfaces.
Dr. Clark has made contributions to a variety of research areas, including neuroprostheses, bioengineering, sensory information processing, and electrophysiological and computational analyses of neuronal plasticity in simple systems (Aplysia and Hermissenda). Specifically, these contributions have included improvements to intrafascicular functional electrical stimulation allowing for coordinated and fatigue resistant motor unit activation and improvements in the use of peripherally implanted microelectrodes for restoration of motor control and sensory feedback in neuroprosthetics.
Many of Dr. Clark’s publications have examined the foreign body response to the Utah Slant Electrode Array. By performing immunohistochemistry on arrays that were implanted in a cat sciatic nerve over a period that ran between 2 and 26 weeks, he found that persistent inflammation was present at all sites and each time period after implantation of the Utah Slant Electrode Array. Additionally, Dr. Clark studied a non-invasive method for selection of electrodes and stimulus parameters for functional electrical stimulation applications with intrafascicular arrays. This included the implantation of Utah Slant Electrode Arrays and utilized endpoint forces to determine individual electrode effects and electro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh%20Hassan%20Bin%20Osman%20Magdoomy | Sheikh Hassan Bin Osman Magdoomy (1785-1866) (Tamil: செய்கு ஹஸன் இப்னு உஸ்மான் அல்-மக்தூமி) is the first Moorish Saint of Sri Lanka, about whom chronological data are available. Hassan was one of the eminent walis in the country and was known as Alim Sahib Appa among his mureeds (disciples) in Sri Lanka.
Early life
Hassan born in Sholai, Thalapitiya, Galle in the year of 1785 AD (Hijri 1200), the son of Usman Makdoomy Ibn Fareed of Aluthgama and Fathima Siddeeka, the only daughter of Katheeb Sheikh Mohamed, Galle. Hassan is a direct descendant of Abu Bakr. Hassan's mother died nine days after his birth and he was cared for by his aunt following his mother's death.
Education
Hassan had his early education in Quran reading and the fundamentals of religion in a Madrasa. He went Kayalpattinam, India for further education, where he studied under Shaykuna Lebbai Alim (d.1240 AD/1824AD). He studied Tafsir, Hadees, Fiqh and other fundamentals of religion under Shaykuna Lebbai Alim (also called Shaykuna Pulavar).
Later life
Hassan returned to Sri Lanka after finishing his higher education. He was appointed as first Katheeb at the Galle Fort Mosque. He lived 42 years in Galle. He spent his later life in Hambantota, Trincomalee, Kandy, Ganetanne, Maggona and finally Aluthgama. Hassan received the Kalifath of Seyed Sheik Ibmi Mohammadul Jiffry (Jiffry Thangal) from Seyed Ahmed Ibn Abdullah Bafaki Rahimahullah. Hassan had only one son who died at a young age. Hassan loved his two nephews with whom he spent a major part of his life. They are Mohammed Lebbe and Sheik Abdul Cader, better known as Kaliyar Fakeen Lebbe and Sheik Hasan had bestowed his full power pertaining to Khilafath on him. He attended sainthood at a very young age. He was a great scholar in Theology having studied extensively at the Al Azhar University in Cairo.
Death
Hassan died on 22 May 1866 (7 Muharrum 1283 AH) at age 80 and was buried in Darga Town, Aluthgama.
Masheik Feast
Hassan initiated 'Masheik Feast' (Masheik Kanduri) in 1862. Kanduri (Feast) actually means public religious recitations on Muhammad and the Sufi Saints including the offering of food. The Masheik Feast held in every year. After Hassan's death, the Masheik Feast has been held at the Shrine of Sheikh Hassan. The 150th Annual Masheik Feast was held on 26 September 2012.
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1785 births
1866 deaths
Sri Lankan Muslims
19th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Sri Lankan Sufis
Scholars of Sufism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands%20of%20Problems%20for%20Theorem%20Provers | TPTP (Thousands of Problems for Theorem Provers) is a freely available collection of problems for automated theorem proving. It is used to evaluate the efficacy of automated reasoning algorithms. Problems are expressed in a simple text-based format for first order logic or higher-order logic. TPTP is used as the source of some problems in CASC.
References
External links
Web site.
Automated theorem proving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%202002 | NBA ShootOut 2002 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation in 2001. A PlayStation 2 version was in development, but it was ultimately cancelled.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
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External links
2001 video games
Basketball video games
Cancelled PlayStation 2 games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2002
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonajharia%20Minz | Sonajharia Minz is an academician, trained in Mathematics and Computer Science, and engages with adivasi issues. She is the second tribeswoman hailing from Chotanagpur and appointed as a Vice-Chancellor in Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka.
Early life
Minz hails from Oraon tribe, and from Gumla district in Jharkhand. She is the oldest of the four daughters of Nirmal Minz, a social ideologue and activist. She completed her schooling in Ranchi and graduated from Women's Christian College, Chennai. She passed M.Sc in Mathematics from Madras Christian College, Chennai.
Academic career
She completed her M.Phil, Ph.D in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Minz worked as the assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Madurai Kamaraj University in 1991, as well as Barkatullah University of Bhopal since 1990. She published several research papers in national and international journals.
In 1992, Minz joined in the post of assistant professor of Computer Science in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Later, she was also appointed in the post of Associate Professor in 1997 and was promoted to be professor since 2005 at the School of Computer & Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She worked for the rights of underprivileged and group of Dalit students. She also became the President of JNU’s Teacher Association (JNUTA).
On 27 May 2020, the Governor of Jharkhand, Draupadi Murmu appointed her as the Vice-Chancellor to the Sido Kanhu Murmu University in Dumka.
After successful completion of her term as Vice Chancellor, Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka, Jharkhand, Sonajharia Minz has returned to her parent institution, School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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Living people
Adivasi activists
Indian women activists
21st-century Indian educators
21st-century Indian women educators
Adivasi women
People from Adi Community
People from Gumla district
Indian women scholars
Indian women academics
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Boixo | Sergio Boixo has degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, mathematics, and master and PhD in physics, and is best known for his work on quantum computing. He is currently working as Chief Scientist Quantum Computer Theory for Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a team he joined in 2013, shortly after its foundation.
Education years
Boixo began his university education with a computer engineering degree at the newly instituted Faculty of Computer Science (Complutense University of Madrid) from 1993 to 1996. He got the best qualifications in that first promotion, being awarded with the Chip de Oro prize for his academic achievements. In the meantime, he also took degrees both in philosophy (2002) and mathematics (2003) at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
After a traineeship at the European Central Bank as a C++ developer (Frankfurt, 1999), he continued his professional career as a computer engineer in the German banking sector, system architect for Semanticedge, and software consultant and analyst for several international companies.
He then focused on his academic career, with a specialisation in physics. In 2004 he was awarded with a LaCaixa fellowship to specialise in the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2008 he was also awarded a scholarship by the Mutua Madrileña Foundation. He completed a master's degree in physics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2008 and published some of his first research focusing on quantum annealing. He received his PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico in 2008, under the supervision of Carlton M. Caves for his thesis on nonlinear quantum metrology. Part of the theory developed on this thesis was later implemented in an optical experiment.
Research in Quantum Computing
His postdoctoral research began at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with John Preskill, who had coined the term "quantum advantage (supremacy)" which Boixo's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab would later demonstrate. There he specialised in quantum information and quantum computing, topics in which he continued his postdoctoral research at Harvard. In 2011, he moved to the University of Southern California, where he focused his research on quantum computing and began working on the first-ever commercial quantum processor for the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a joint initiative of NASA, Universities Space Research Association, and Google.
He joined Google's quantum computing team in 2013. This team has focused on topics such as quantum simulation, quantum neural networks and quantum metrology. In 2019 they published the landmark paper demonstrating they had achieved quantum advantage (supremacy), completing with a quantum computer in just three minutes a task that would take 10000 years to be done by the world's most powerful classical supercomputer. Boixo played the leading role on the development of the theory backing that experimen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20%26%20Chemical%20Engineering | Computers & Chemical Engineering is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of process systems engineering. The journal accepts general papers on process systems engineering, as well as emerging new areas and topics for new developments in the application of computing and systems technology to chemical engineering problems. The journal was founded in 1977 and is published 12 times a year. The journal's current Editor-in-Chief is Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, and editors are J. H. Lee, A.B. Póvoa, and Fengqi You. Computers & Chemical Engineering offers authors two choices to publish their research: Gold Open Access and Subscription. Its impact factor is 4.000 in 2019.
References
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1977
Chemical engineering journals
Computer science journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Andridge | Rebecca Roberts Andridge is an American statistician. Her statistical research concerns the imputation of missing data and the statistics of group-randomized trials; she has also performed highly-cited applied statistical work on omega-3 nutritional supplements and on the health benefits of using yoga to lower stress. Andridge is an associate professor of biostatistics at the Ohio State University.
Education and career
Andridge majored in economics at Stanford University, graduating in 1999. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 2005 and completing her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 2009. Her dissertation, Statistical Methods for Missing Data in Complex Sample Surveys, was supervised by Roderick J. A. Little.
In 2009, after completing her Ph.D., she joined the Ohio State University College of Public Health as an assistant professor of biostatistics. She was tenured as an associate professor in 2016. At Ohio State, she also holds affiliations with the Institute for Population Research, Food Innovation Center, and Decision Sciences Collaborative.
Recognition
Andridge was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Ohio State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%202003 | NBA ShootOut 2003 is a video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in 2002.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
2002 video games
Basketball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2003
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tilted%20Screen | The Tilted Screen is a 1966 British television play in the Armchair Theatre anthology series produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network written by Noel Robinson) and directed by Bill Bain, both Australian as were the actors. The plot concerns an Australian man who marries a Japanese woman.
Cast
Fredric Abbott as Morrie
Yoko Tani as Michiko
Brian Anderson as Billo
Georgie Sterling
Reg Lye
Terence Donovan
References
External links
The Tilted Screen
1966 television plays
Armchair Theatre
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Metro%20Metropolis%20Stock | The Sydney Metro Metropolis Stock is a class of electric multiple units that operate on the Sydney Metro network. Built by Alstom as part of their Metropolis family, the trains are the first fully automated passenger rolling stock in Australia as well as the first single-deck sets to operate in Sydney since their withdrawal from the suburban rail network in the 1990s. A total of 176 carriages, making up 22 6-car sets, entered service in 2019 with the opening of the Metro North West Line. 23 more sets are gradually being rolled out for the City & Southwest extension, to commence service in 2024, expanding the Metropolis fleet to 45 sets.
History
Prior to the introduction of services, a full-scale model of the new train was built for public display, including at the annual Sydney Royal Easter Show. It consisted of the front carriage, and was approximately 75% of the length of the final design, having two doors instead of three.
The sets were manufactured at Alstom's rolling stock facility in India, with the first train arriving on 26 September 2017.
In February 2018, dynamic testing on the first of the trainsets began. Testing was done on brakes, passenger information displays, lighting and door operation.
In November 2019, MTS was awarded a 10-year contract to operate the rolling stock on the metro network. To commemorate the new contract, 23 additional Metropolis sets were ordered, bringing the total fleet to 45 sets (with extensions to 8 cars likely to happen if sufficient demand warrants it) by the time the City & Southwest extension is scheduled to open in 2024.
The rolling stock officially entered service on 26 May 2019 on the Metro North West Line.
Design
Each single-deck train features two dedicated areas for prams, luggage and bicycles. There are three doorways per side per carriage and no internal gangway doors between the carriages. In a 6-car configuration the trains have a seating capacity of 378 people, with a total capacity of 1,100. The trains utilise Alstom's trademark Urbalis 400 Grade-of-Automation signalling system that ensures trains are capable of driving and operating automatically at all times without onboard staff, including door closing, obstacle detection and dealing with emergency situations.
The trains feature longitudinal 'bench-style' seating per carriage (similar to most metro rapid-transit/subway trains), with distinctly coloured seats for priority and disabled passengers. Seats in wheelchair spaces can fold up in order to fit prams and wheelchairs. A doorway-status light is installed above each doorway, which illuminates white when the doors are fully closed, green when the doors are fully open, and flashes in red when the doors are opening or closing.
Features of the Metropolis sets include CCTV cameras, internal passenger information display (PID) screens and digital voice announcements. The PID screens display the name of the next station, along with icons for available transport mode interchanges. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20learning%20processor | A deep learning processor (DLP), or a deep learning accelerator, is an electronic circuit designed for deep learning algorithms, usually with separate data memory and dedicated instruction set architecture. Deep learning processors range from mobile devices, such as neural processing units (NPUs) in Apple iPhones or Huawei cellphones, and personal computers such as Apple silicon Macs, to cloud computing servers such as tensor processing units (TPU) in the Google Cloud Platform.
The goal of DLPs is to provide higher efficiency and performance for deep learning algorithms than general central processing unit (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) would. Most DLPs employ a large number of computing components to leverage high data-level parallelism, a relatively larger on-chip buffer/memory to leverage the data reuse patterns, and limited data-width operators for error-resilience of deep learning. Deep learning processors differ from AI accelerators in that they are specialized for running learning algorithms, while AI accelerators are typically more specialized for inference. However, the two terms (DLP vs AI accelerator) are not used rigorously and there is often overlap between the two.
History
The use of CPUs/GPUs
At the beginning, general CPUs were adopted to perform deep learning algorithms. Later, GPUs are introduced to the domain of deep
learning. For example, in 2012, Alex Krizhevsky adopted two GPUs to train a deep learning network, i.e., AlexNet, which won the champion of the ISLVRC-2012 competition. As the interests in deep learning algorithms and DLPs keep increasing, GPU manufacturers start to add deep learning related features in both hardware (e.g., INT8 operators) and software (e.g., cuDNN Library). For example, Nvidia even released the Turing Tensor Core—a DLP—to accelerate deep learning processing.
The first DLP
To provide higher efficiency in performance and energy, domain-specific
design starts to draw a great attention. In 2014, Chen et al. proposed the first DLP in the world, DianNao (Chinese for "electric brain"), to accelerate deep neural networks especially. DianNao provides the 452 Gop/s peak performance (of key operations in deep neural networks) only in a small footprint of 3.02 mm2 and 485 mW. Later, the successors (DaDianNao, ShiDianNao, PuDianNao) are proposed by the same group, forming the DianNao Family
The blooming DLPs
Inspired from the pioneer work of DianNao Family, many DLPs are proposed in both academia and industry with design optimized to leverage the features of deep neural networks for high efficiency. Only at ISCA 2016, three sessions, 15% (!) of the accepted papers, are all architecture designs about deep learning. Such efforts include Eyeriss (MIT), EIE (Stanford), Minerva (Harvard), Stripes (University of Toronto) in academia, and TPU (Google), MLU (Cambricon) in industry. We listed several representative works in Table 1.
DLP architecture
With the rapid evolution of deep learning alg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bangkok | The Bangkok tram system (รถรางกรุงเทพ) was a transport system in Bangkok, Thailand. Its first-generation tram network first operated as a horse tram system, and was eventually converted to electric trams in the late nineteenth century.
History
The first tram line in Bangkok was built on Charoen Krung Road (New Road as it was then known), Thailand's first road to be built by Western techniques. John Lofton, a British naval officer working with the Royal Thai Navy along with a Danish colleague, saw a profitable tram service on the line, considering travel times were significant in getting from one end of the road to another. They surveyed the area for three days before requesting to operate a tram service under a government concession. They received a fifty-year allowance to operate trams on seven routes in 1887 and thus opened the first horse-driven tram line, the Bang Kho Laem Line on Charoen Krung Road on 22 September 1888. It did not gain popularity due to high fares and high sympathy for the horses used. Four horses were used to haul one carriage on the line. Due to significant losses, Lofton sold the business to the Bangkok Tramways Co.Ltd. in 1889. Bangkok Tramways continued to operate at significant losses.
On 23 May 1892, a Danish company took over and electrified the line., with electricity provided by the Electricity Co. Ltd. Eventually, the company was merged into the Siam Electricity Company and thus it became the operator of the line. In 1901, a new tram line - the Samsen Line opened, taking trams to the north of Bangkok. In 1905, a competing company was given rights to operate trams in Bangkok, namely the Thai Tram Co. Ltd. (Rot Rang Thai Co. Ltd.). Thai Tram opened a line, the Dusit Line; a circular loop line surrounding Rattanakosin Island. It was opened on 1 October 1905 in the presence of King Chulalongkorn. Thai Tram's cars were painted red, while Electricity's cars were painted yellow, and thus locally the lines in which they operated were called by their colours, respective to their owners. In 1908, the operations of both companies were merged into the Siam Electricity Co. Ltd. and all trams painted into the same mix of yellow and red. In the 1920s, more lines gradually came into operation around Bangkok. In 1927, operations were transferred again to the Thai Electricity Corporation.
On January 1 1950, the concession on tram operation ceased and operations were transferred to the government. In 1968, tram services were suspended following discussion that it took up road space, coupled with the significant increase in road traffic, as well as cheaper bus operation on the same line. Tram fares ranged from 10 to 50 satang (100 satang = 1 baht), depending on class.
Lines
There were 11 tram lines operating on the Bangkok tramway network and are as follows:
Bang Kho Laem Line (สายบางคอแหลม) - 9.2 km, City Pillar - Thanon Tok (1888-1968)
Ran from Bangkok City Pillar Shrine, on Kanlayana Maitri Road, turned at Fueang Nakhon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel%20LesPierre | Mikkel LesPierre (born March 5, 1985) is an American professional boxer who challenged for the WBO light welterweight title in 2019. Alongside boxing he works full-time as a data specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Early life
LesPierre was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States at the age of six. He was raised in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
As a youngster, LesPierre was fond of basketball, but he was unable to fulfill his potential and never got an opportunity to play in high school. He used to spend his time on the streets and picked up bad habits that led to poor academic performance and irregular attendance.
He was introduced to boxing by his friend’s father, but LesPierre did not take it seriously. He then entered college, and finally, at the age of 19, he took up boxing. He dropped out of college and directed his efforts to develop boxing skills.
Personal life
As of June 20, 2018, LesPierre is residing in New York City. He has been working as a full-time data specialist in the ENT department at Mt. Sinai Hospital for more than ten years. He completes his eight-hour shift and then heads to the Gleason’s Gym. He assisted doctors and nurses at Mt. Sinai Hospital in during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020. He helped in setting up equipment, preparing ICUs, and provided medical supplies.
Amateur career
As an amateur boxer, he was trained by Mike Smith. LesPierre appeared in 49 fights as an amateur, with 36 wins and 13 losses. He won open class titles in the Metros and Empire State Games as an amateur fighter. In 2010, he was a quarterfinalist at Police Athletic League National. He was able to make it to the finals of the New York Golden Gloves in 2011. He also participated in the 2012 Olympic Trials.
Professional career
After five years, in 2012, he turned pro and entered the club show mix at the age of 27. His debut match was against Miguel Antonio Rodriquez that took place on June 8, 2012. He won his debut fight through TKO. His second fight as a pro was against Cornelius Whitlock, which resulted in a tie.
The light welterweight contender's career includes a series of boxing exhibitions in which he uses his mechanical southpaw style to win matches. Due to his fighting technique of smooth counter-punching, he came to be known as Mikkel "Slikk Mikk" LesPierre.
On February 7, 2018, he fought in a match against Noel Murphy in New York City. He won the 10-round boxing match, and it gave his career a boost. On June 21, 2018, he defeated Gustavo David Vittori in the seventh round in Queens.
In 2019, he stood at the 14th rank of WBO fighters.
On March 9, 2019, LesPierre was defeated by WBO light welterweight titleholder, Maurice Hooker, in Verona, New York. He fought against Roody Pierre Paul on December 5 and won by unanimous decision.
As of 2018, LesPierre is training at Gleason's Gym under Don Saxby and managed by Josie Taveras. On December 20, 2018, he signed with Lou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgisphere | Surgisphere is an American healthcare analytics company established in 2008 by Sapan Desai. Originally a textbook marketing company, it came under scrutiny in May 2020 after it provided large datasets of COVID-19 patients that were subsequently found to be unreliable. The questionable data were used in studies published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine in May 2020, suggesting that COVID-19 patients on hydroxychloroquine had a "significantly higher risk of death". In light of these studies, the World Health Organization decided to temporarily halt global trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. After the studies were retracted, the WHO trials were resumed and then discontinued shortly after.
History
Surgisphere was established in 2008 by Sapan Desai, then a medical resident, to market medical textbooks to medical students. Fake five-star reviews on Amazon from accounts impersonating actual physicians were found. Desai became a vascular surgeon and worked at Northwest Community Hospital.
Surgisphere had three subsidiaries: Surgical Outcomes Collaborative, Vascular Outcomes and Quartz Clinical. From 2010 to 2013 it published an online medical journal, the Journal of Surgical Radiology. It ceased publication despite having claimed to accrue 50,000 subscribers because Desai "ran out of time".
In June 2020 Desai's spokesperson said Surgisphere had 11 employees and had been compiling a global hospital records database since 2008. In its promotional material and press releases, Surgisphere claimed to have a cloud-based healthcare data analytics platform and to be "leveraging... its global research network and advanced machine learning" using decision tree analysis.
After the retractions of two studies in June 2020, company social media accounts were deleted, and on 15 June 2020, the company website was taken offline.
COVID-19 misconduct
Diagnostic tool
Starting in March 2020, Surgisphere promoted a "rapid diagnostic tool" for COVID-19, which it said was in use by over 1000 hospitals. The African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) had promoted the COVID-19 Severity Scoring Tool for use in 26 countries and some institutions had started validation studies. On 5 June 2020, following the scandal about the Lancet and NEJM articles, AFEM recommended that the tool no longer be used.
Ivermectin preprint
In April 2020, Desai et al. published a paper based on purported Surgisphere data which suggested ivermectin reduced COVID-19 mortality. It was described as a "retrospective matched-control study of coronavirus patients using a real-time hospitalization database". It was published as a preprint but was retracted at the end of May. Several Latin American government health organizations recommended ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment based, in part, on this preprint; these recommendations were later denounced by the Pan American Health Organization.
Lancet and NEJM articles
Surgisphere provided dubious data used for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Marayum | Project Marayum is a language organization by the team of computer scientists and linguists from the University of the Philippines. The term Marayum means wise words in Asi, the language of an ethnolinguistic community in Romblon. The project manages national and cultural linguistic apprehension in the Philippines in order to maintain preservation and to prevent extinction. The current head is maintained by Mario Carreon, professor at the UP Computer Science Department, and Mantha Sadural, a graduated linguistic student.
References
University of the Philippines
Filipino language
Language regulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20Club | Hack Club is a global nonprofit network of high school computer hackers, makers and coders founded in 2014 by Zach Latta. It now includes more than 400 high school clubs and 28,000 students. It has been featured on the TODAY Show, and profiled in the Wall Street Journal and many other publications.
Programs
Hack Club's primary focus is its clubs program, in which it supports high school coding clubs through learning resources and mentorship. It also runs a series of other programs and events, both former and current.
A few notable programs and events are:
HCB - a fiscal sponsorship program originally targeted at high school hacker events
AMAs - video calls with industry experts such as Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin
Summer of Making - a collaboration with GitHub, Adafruit & Arduino to create an online summer program for teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic that included $50k in hardware donations to teen hackers around the world
The Hacker Zephyr - a cross-country hackathon on a train across America.
Assemble - the first high school hackathon in San Francisco since the pandemic, with the stated goal of "kick[ing] off a hackathon renaissance"
Epoch - A global high schooler-led hackathon in Delhi NCR organised in public to inspire the community of student hackers and bring hundreds of teenagers together
Winter Hardware Wonderland - An online winter program where teenagers submit ideas for hardware projects and, if accepted, get grants of up to $250
Outernet - An in-person hackathon took place in the Northeast Kingdom for 4 day straight
Haunted House - An hackathon celebrate in Halloween 2023, with many satellite events all over the world
Funding
Hack Club is funded by grants from philanthropic organizations and donations from individual supporters. In 2019, GitHub Education provided cash grants of up to $500 to every Hack Club "hackathon" event. In May 2020, GitHub committed to a $50K hardware fund, globally alongside Arduino and Adafruit, to deliver hardware tools directly to students’ homes with a program named Hack Club Summer of Making. In 2020, Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation donated $500,000 to help expand Hack Club, and donated another $1,000,000 in 2021. In 2022, Tom and Theresa Preston-Werner donated $500,000 to Hack Club.
See also
Ethical hacking
References
Hacker_culture
Clubs and societies
Computer programming
2014 establishments in Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Horowitz | Shmuel Horowitz may refer to:
Shmelke of Nikolsburg (1726–1778), also known as Shmuel Shmelke Halevi Horowitz, early Hasidic Rebbes
Shmuel Horowitz (publisher) (1903–1973), compiler and publisher of Chayey Moharan, a biography of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
See also
Shmuel Hurwitz (1901-1999), Israeli agronomist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel%20%28programming%20language%29 | The Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language (Chisel)
is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) used to describe digital electronics and circuits at the register-transfer level. Chisel is based on Scala as an embedded domain-specific language (DSL). Chisel inherits the object-oriented and functional programming aspects of Scala for describing digital hardware. Using Scala as a basis allows describing circuit generators. High quality, free access documentation exists in several languages.
Circuits described in Chisel can be converted to a description in Verilog for synthesis and simulation.
Code examples
A simple example describing an adder circuit and showing the organization of components in Module with input and output ports:
class Add extends Module {
val io = IO(new Bundle {
val a = Input(UInt(8.W))
val b = Input(UInt(8.W))
val y = Output(UInt(8.W))
})
io.y := io.a + io.b
}
A 32-bit register with a reset value of 0:
val reg = RegInit(0.U(32.W))
A multiplexer is part of the Chisel library:
val result = Mux(sel, a, b)
Use
Although Chisel is not yet a mainstream hardware description language, it has been explored by several companies and institutions. The most prominent use of Chisel is an implementation of the RISC-V instruction set, the open-source Rocket chip.
Chisel is mentioned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a technology to improve the efficiency of electronic design, where smaller design teams do larger designs.
Google has used Chisel to develop a Tensor Processing Unit for edge computing. Some developers prefer Chisel as it requires 5 times lesser code and is much faster to develop than Verilog.
Circuits described in Chisel can be converted to a description in Verilog for synthesis and simulation using a program named FIRRTL.
See also
VHDL
Verilog
SystemC
SystemVerilog
References
External links
University of California, Berkeley
Hardware description languages
Science and technology in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%202004 | NBA ShootOut 2004 is a basketball video game developed by 989 Sports and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 in 2003. It is the final installment in the NBA ShootOut franchise. Tracy McGrady of the Orlando Magic is the cover athlete.
Reception
The PlayStation 2 version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2003 video games
Basketball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 2004
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20First%20TV | The First, also called The First TV and stylized as The F1rst, is a conservative opinion and commentary network in the United States started in October 2019. It has five hosts; including Bill O'Reilly.
History
The First was launched in October 2019 on Pluto TV, a streaming platform owned by Paramount Global. It was started in partnership with Red Seat Ventures. It offers about 45 hours of original programming a week. In January 2023, The First was added to DirecTV, after it concurrently dropped Newsmax TV due to demands for carriage fees.
Hosts
The First launched with two hosts in October 2019, former combat veteran Jesse Kelly and former CIA analyst Buck Sexton. In January 2020, the network added California-based talk radio host Mike Slater and conservative female talk radio host Dana Loesch. On June 1, 2020, the network announced that Bill O'Reilly was joining the network with his show No Spin News. He began the online show in 2017 after being fired from Fox News Channel, in the wake of The New York Times publishing details of six sexual misconduct lawsuits O'Reilly had settled. Former OANN host, CPAC speaker, and conservative podcaster Liz Wheeler was added to the network in January of 2023.
Reception
Tyler Hersko of IndieWire criticized ViacomCBS for their involvement in O'Reilly's show, commenting that its Pluto TV debut coincided with the date that its entertainment and youth channels were made unavailable for eight minutes 46 seconds in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Hersko found this hypocritical in light of comments made by O'Reilly about African-Americans. A petition by ViacomCBS employees urged the company to remove The First for similar reasons.
References
External links
Official website
Conservative media in the United States
2019 establishments in the United States
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Streaming media systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Lyttle | William Lyttle (1931–2010) was a British civil engineer notable for digging an extensive network of tunnels under his home in London.
Excavation
Lyttle, originally from Ireland, inherited a 20-room property in the London borough of Hackney. In the mid-sixties he dug out a wine cellar under his home. Having done so, he said that he had "found a taste for the thing" and kept on digging, for some forty years. He created a network of tunnels, wide and narrow, on several levels. Tunnels led in all directions, some of them up to in length, and reaching as far down as the water table. One excavation connected with the Dalston Lane tunnel, and the railway line.
Lyttle dumped the clay he dug up in his garden and sometimes in empty rooms of the house. At some point, he stopped maintaining his house and the building fell into disrepair.
Lyttle's work attracted complaints from neighbours when sinkholes began to appear in the pavement, and when water and power supplies were interrupted. The local pub also expressed concern that its cellar could collapse into one of Lyttle's tunnels. Serious complaints to Hackney Council may have started around the turn of the century, leading to inspections but at first not to firm actions. Because of the state of the house and the complaints an ultrasound inspection was carried out in 2006, revealing the extent of the tunnels.
When asked by journalists why he had excavated the tunnels, he said "I'm just a man who loves to dig" and that he just wanted "a big basement". He also said that "There is great beauty in inventing things that serve no purpose."
Lyttle was dubbed "The Mole Man of Hackney" by the press.
Legal challenges
Lyttle was evicted in 2006, and Hackney Borough Council filled the tunnels with aerated concrete. He contested the decision in court and returned to his home for a short time. In 2008, the High Court of Justice ordered that Lyttle cover the costs of the council making the structure safe, at a total of £293,000.
After this, Lyttle was moved to a hotel for three years, before being rehoused in an apartment in a high-rise building. He was put on the top floor, to discourage tunnelling. While there he knocked a hole in a dividing wall between two rooms.
Property after Lyttle
Some 33 tonnes of soil and debris were removed from Lyttle's former garden and from some of the rooms, including the wrecks of three cars and a boat. In 2012 the property was sold for £1.1 million. By 2020, the house had been renovated by the architect David Adjaye to form a home and studio for the artist Sue Webster.
See also
Hobby tunneling
Williamson Tunnels
Sources
1931 births
2010 deaths
British civil engineers
British people of Irish descent
People from De Beauvoir Town
Tunnels in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotoma%20Paleoecology%20Database | The Neotoma Paleoecology Database (Neotoma) is an open international data resource that stores and shares multiple kinds of fossil, paleoecological, and paleoenvironmental data. Neotoma specializes in fossil data holdings at timescales covering the last several decades to the last several million years. Neotoma is organized and led by scientists and enhances data consistency through community curation by experts. Neotoma data are open to all and available to anyone with an internet connection.
Neotoma data are used by scientists and teachers (especially paleoecologists, biogeographers, and archaeologists) to study the responses of species and ecosystems to past environmental change and growing human activity. Paleoclimatologists use Neotoma data to help reconstruct past climates. Sample research questions addressed include: 1) How sensitive are ecosystems to past climate change. 2) Why were rates of tree range expansion so fast after the end of the last ice age, given that tree seed dispersal distances are usually so short (Reid’s Paradox)? 3) Where and when did humans begin transforming ecosystems? 4) What were the causes and consequences of the widespread extinctions of large animals over the last 50,000 years? 5) Which ecosystems are characterized by abrupt change between alternate stable states and what triggers these abrupt changes? 6) How have freshwater resources and aquatic ecosystems been affected by human land use and activity over the last several decades?
Data types and data volume
The species and taxa stored in Neotoma represent a breadth of terrestrial and aquatic organisms: plants (pollen and larger fossils), mammals and other vertebrates, insects and other invertebrates, diatoms, ostracodes, and testate amoebae. Neotoma also stores the age estimates provided by radiometric dating (e.g. radiocarbon, lead-210) and the age estimates that are derived from statistical models of age as a function of depth in sediment column. The Neotoma data model is extensible to other types of paleoecological and paleoenvironmental variables.
Data volume in Neotoma is growing rapidly, as are the data holdings in other paleontological and contemporary databases. As of May 2020, Neotoma held 7 million individual observations from over 38,700 datasets, 18,600 sites, 7,000 scientific papers, 6,000 authors, and 100 countries [1]. For comparison, On Nov 8, 2017, Neotoma held 3.8 million observations, from 17,275 datasets and 9,269 sites.
History
The intellectual foundations of Neotoma trace back to efforts by early paleontologists and paleoecologists in the first half of the 20th century to assemble many individual records into larger mapped syntheses. As von Post wrote, paleoecologists must “think horizontally, work vertically,” i.e. think across both time and space to understand the processes governing the ever-changing distribution of species, the associations among species, and the diversity of life.
These efforts accelerated in the 1970s and 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology%20of%20the%20Wars%20of%20the%20Three%20Kingdoms | The Chronology of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms lists major events that occurred during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The presentation of the data in a table format allows interested parties to copy and transfer the data to other software or databases with discrete data fields.
Scope of historical coverage
Included as components of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms are:
Bishops' Wars
The Irish Rebellion of 1641
The Irish Confederate Wars
The First English Civil War
The Second English Civil War
The 1650–1652 Anglo-Scottish war
Scotland's participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
The Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland
Glencairn's Rising in Scotland
Data fields included
Data fields include:
Event - This field includes a short commentary on individual battles, sieges, along with other significant events that provide context to the overall history.
Start Date - These fields provide the most commonly accepted date (month, day, and year) on which the event began or occurred.
End Date - These fields provide the most commonly accepted date (month, day, and year) on which the event ended.
Event Location - This field provides the location of the battles and sieges discussed as events.
Associated Wars - These fields provide the name(s) of the war(s) associated with the individual events.
Notes regarding the data fields
Dates
With respect to the dates provided for the individual events, portions of some dates have been estimated based upon imprecise historical dating (e.g. spring, summer, fall, winter, early in the month, the middle of the month, etc.). In these cases, the dates are shown in red font.
Many of the dates were taken from Wikipedia articles. As of publication of this article in September 2020, the dates of the events in the table are fully consistent with Wikipedia articles associated with the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Event locations
Some locations were the site of multiple events during the War of the Three Kingdoms. In those cases a numerical count is provided after the name of the location (e.g. Oxford 1st, Oxford 2nd, etc.). If a location was the site of a single event, no numerical count will be shown. A siege of a location is only counted once and will include appropriate notations (e.g. Siege Starts, Siege Continues, and Siege Ends).
Associated wars
In some cases, an event is associated with multiple wars. In those cases, two fields (Primary and Secondary) will be populated.
Database
Sources
17th century in England
17th century in Ireland
17th century in Scotland
Wars involving England
Wars involving Ireland
Wars involving Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionomia | Bionomia (formerly Bloodhound Tracker) is a database and database entry tool which permits the name strings of collectors, and of taxonomists who determine specimen data, to be assigned to the unique person who collected or identified the specimen. If the person is living, this is done via their ORCID iD, and if dead, via their Wikidata identifier. It thereby resolves ambiguity where two or more collectors have similar names; or where one collector has worked under two names, or a single name written in two or more ways. The specimen data associated with, and used by, Bionomia are the aggregated GBIF data.
This mechanism of contributing to specimen data arose from a project initiated by the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) in March 2019, and is motivated (in part) by "the world-wide importance of natural history collections, (which) are at risk because they are critically underfunded or undervalued. A contributing factor for this apparent neglect is the lack of a professional reward system that quantifies and illustrates the breadth and depth of expertise required to collect and identify specimens, maintain them, digitize their labels, mobilize the data, and enhance these data as errors and omissions are identified by stakeholders." It is also motivated by the fact that the important work of taxonomists in identifying specimens in collections across the world fails to be recognised, and this failure, fails both institutions and taxonomists. In August 2018, Bionomia was launched (under the name Bloodhound Tracker) as a submission to the Ebbe Nielsen Challenge.
Other papers which set the scene, the rationale and the purpose of Bionomia are:
The primary task in Bionomia is to resolve the name strings of the various collectors and the taxonomists who have determined the species of a specimen into unique human beings. This having been done, the records of plant and animal specimens contained in GBIF downloads (permanently referenced by DOIs), together with the papers derived from them, and linked to the Bionomia people profiles. Hence, the taxonomic work fundamental to plant research can be tracked back to both the holding institution and to the taxonomist, linking institution, taxonomist, and the science generated.
Thus, Bionomia, by quantifying taxonomists' contributions, allows their work to be counted, not only in terms of specimen counts, but also in terms of counts of scientific papers.
Contributing
To attribute collection/identification data in Bionomia and to see the profile data of collectors/identifiers, a person needs to be logged on to the Bionomia site via an ORCID id (preferably public).
Collector profiles are by default private, which means that the profile of any living person who has contributed to specimen data aggregated by GBIF cannot be seen until the particular collector/identifier makes their profile public. A private profile means that a collector's data is neither visible nor verifiable by others. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Saddik | El Saddik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (born 1969), Lebanese-Canadian computer engineer and scientist
Wafaa El Saddik (born 1950), Egyptian egyptologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning%20%28artificial%20neural%20network%29 | In the context of artificial neural network, pruning is the practice of removing parameters (which may entail removing individual parameters, or parameters in groups such as by neurons) from an existing network. The goal of this process is to maintain accuracy of the network while increasing its efficiency. This can be done to reduce the computational resources required to run the neural network. A biological process of synaptic pruning takes place in the brain of mammals during development (see also Neural Darwinism).
Node (neuron) pruning
A basic algorithm for pruning is as follows:
Evaluate the importance of each neuron.
Rank the neurons according to their importance (assuming there is a clearly defined measure for "importance").
Remove the least important neuron.
Check a termination condition (to be determined by the user) to see whether to continue pruning.
Edge (weight) pruning
Most work on neural network pruning focuses on removing weights, namely, setting their values to zero.
Early work suggested to also change the values of non-pruned weights.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Kapamilya%20Channel | The following is a list of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Channel, a 24-hour Philippine pay television network owned and operated by ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under Lopez Holdings Corporation owned by the López family. The network serves as the replacement of the main terrestrial ABS-CBN after ceasing its free-to-air broadcast operations as ordered by the National Telecommunications Commission (headed by Gamaliel Cordoba) and former Solicitor General Jose Calida on May 5, 2020. Kapamilya Channel carried most of the programs that ABS-CBN aired before the shutdown.
For the previously aired shows of the network, see the list of programs previously broadcast by Kapamilya Channel and the list of ABS-CBN drama series.
Current original programs
News and current affairs
News Patrol
Tao Po!
TV Patrol
TV Patrol Weekend
The World Tonight
Drama
Anthology
Ipaglaban Mo!
Series
Can't Buy Me Love
FPJ's Batang Quiapo
I Am U (2023)
Kokey
Nag-aapoy na Damdamin
Pira-Pirasong Paraiso
Senior High
Super Inggo
Variety
ASAP Natin 'To
It's Showtime
Kids-oriented
Team Yey!
Team Yey Vlogs
Educational
Agricoolture
Art Smart
Heroes of Zero
I Love You 1000
MathDali
Ready, Set, Read!
Wikaharian
Wow
Game
Everybody, Sing! (season 3)
I Can See Your Voice (season 5)
Minute to Win It: Last Man Standing
Talk
Magandang Buhay )
Comedy
Goin' Bulilit
Informative
Dok Ricky, Pedia
G Diaries
My Puhunan: Kaya Mo!
Rated Korina
Team FitFil
Religious
Kapamilya Daily Mass
The Healing Eucharist Sunday TV Mass
Current acquired programs
Film and special presentation
FPJ Da King
Kapamilya Action Sabado
Kapamilya Blockbusters
Kapamilya Gold Hits
KB Family Weekend
Movie Central Presents
Sunday's Best
Super Kapamilya Blockbusters
Cartoons
• Bubu and the Little Owls (2023; delayed telecast on A2Z and Jeepney TV)
• Dinoman (2023; delayed telecast on A2Z and Jeepney TV)
• Mr. Bean Live (2023; delayed telecast on A2Z and Jeepney TV)
• Superbook Reimagined (2023; simulcast on A2Z)
• The Flying House (2023; simulcast on A2Z)
Foreign drama
The World of a Married Couple
See also
List of programs distributed by ABS-CBN Entertainment
List of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN
List of programs broadcast by A2Z (TV channel)
List of ABS-CBN specials aired
List of programs streamed by Kapamilya Online Live
List of programs broadcast by TV5 (Philippine TV network)
References
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Corporation
Lists of television series by network
Philippine television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Kuwait%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Kuwait by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Kuwait
Kuwait
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESF%20Camps | Education, Sports and Fun Camps (ESF) is a network of summer day camps. ESF operates 60+ different camps at 12 ESF Camp locations in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland and Florida. ESF is described by Philadelphia Magazine as the "gold standard of summer day camps."
History
ESF was founded by brothers Michael and Bill Rouse in 1982 as a two-week summer tennis camp at the Haverford School. Michael, who was 15 at the time, needed to raise $3,200 to play in the United States Tennis Association National Tournament.
In 2019, the Aspen Institute recognized ESF as a Project Play Champion at the institute's annual Project Play Summit.
Activities
In total, ESF has more than 60 different camps at their 10 locations. They offer traditional day camp options such as Mini Camp, Day Camp, and Senior Camp which offer options including art, music, science and sports. However, ESF also has specialty camp options including Tennis Camp, Specialty Major Camps, SportsLab powered by Under Armour and Tech Camps.
ESF works with many organizations including the Philadelphia Zoo, the Franklin Institute, Cirque du Soleil and The Walt Disney Company for their camp programming. They also work with many sports teams including the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers, Arsenal F.C., and Brooklyn Nets to offer specialty sports experiences.
References
Summer camps in Pennsylvania
Summer camps in Maryland
Summer camps in Connecticut
Summer camps in New Jersey
Summer camps in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters%20and%20Signal%20Battalion | The Headquarters and Signal Battalion () is a battalion sized signal unit of the Estonian Land Forces. It is a part of the Cyber Command and its primary task is to ensure communication between the different units of the Estonian Defence Forces, Estonian Defence League and to train reserve signal officers. The battalion must also ensure the strategic signalling and information technology support for the Defence Forces and realise development projects in the area of defence, information technology and electronic warfare.
The battalion is currently based at Ämari Air Base and is commanded by Lieutenant colonel Priit Averkin.
History
The predecessor of the battalion was established on 21st November 1918 at the beginning of the Estonian War of Independence. Even though the unit changed its name multiple times during the conflict, it still maintained its original mission to ensure communications between headquarters and fronts.
After the war in 1924, various radio and telegraph units were merged into a battalion sized unit, the Signal Battalion ().
By 1940, the battalion had become a modern signal corps with proper equipment and training.
Battle of Raua Street
When the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in June 1940, the Signal Battalion was ordered to relocate from its garrison to a building of a local Tallinn high school and surrender its weaponry. When the communists also came for the signallers' personal items, they were kicked out of the building. By the time they came back with Red Army soldiers, the signallers had already armed themselves and a shootout broke out between the opposing sides. The building was attacked by 6 armoured cars and heavy machine guns. By the end of the battle, the Estonians had suffered 1 killed and 3 wounded, and the Red Army had suffered at least 10 dead. It was the only armed act of resistance from the Estonian Defence Forces against the occupying Soviets.
After these events, the Signal Battalion was merged into the Red Army's 22nd Rifle Corps which was destroyed during the Baltic Operation in 1941.
1993-present
On 29th October 1993, the battalion was re-established as the Single Signal Battalion () and the unit returned to its old garrison in Ülemiste, Tallinn which they had to leave from in 1940.
In 2011, the battalion adopted its current name.
In 2021, the battalion relocated to Ämari Air Base.
Current structure
Headquarters and Signal Battalion:
Battalion Headquarters
Signal School
HQ Company
Signal Company
HQ Defence Service
See also
Cyber Command
Electronic warfare
Cyberwarfare
References
External links
Official website
Military units and formations established in 1918
Military units and formations established in 1993
Battalions of Estonia
1918 establishments in Estonia
1993 establishments in Estonia
Military communications units and formations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Morocco%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Morocco by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Morocco
Morocco
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20van%20Keeken | Amy van Keeken is a Canadian musician, as well as a radio DJ for CKUA Radio Network.
History
Performing career
Amy van Keeken began her performing career initially in acting in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the late 1990s. However, beginning in the mid-2000s, van Keeken began to receive recognition for her work as a songwriter and musician. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Amy van Keeken performed as a guitarist and vocalist in the Canadian indie rock band the Secretaries. In 2009, van Keeken participated in "That's Edmonton For You," a compilation of musicians from Edmonton including artists such as Cadence Weapon and the Wet Secrets. Van Keeken has also performed with Canadian singer-songwriter Colleen Brown as well as the band the AwesomeHots. In 2017, Capital City Records Podcast described Amy van Keeken as "deep into the Edmonton music scene as a musician, singer, educator and broadcaster on both CJSR and CKUA."
Releases
In 2014, van Keeken's Live Right received a rating of four out of five stars in the Edmonton Journal. In 2017, van Keeken was nominated for the Edmonton Music Awards in two categories: Female Artist of the Year and Roots/Folk Recording of the Year. Amy van Keeken released her album In Dreams in 2018.
Radio broadcasting
In 2015, van Keeken began deejaying on CKUA Radio Network.
Discography
Per MusicBrainz.
with The Secretaries
The Secretaries (2009)
Show Me/The Way I Feel (2014)
with Mysticeti
Awake/Asleep (2017)
Solo
So Long (2013)
Live Right (2014)
So Long/Live Right (2015)
All the Time (2016)
In Dreams (2018)
Same Old/Let Me Ease You (2020)
See also
Music of Alberta
References
External links
Official website
CKUA webpage
Living people
Canadian women guitarists
Musicians from Edmonton
Musicians from Vancouver
21st-century Canadian women musicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20India%20Tanzeem%20Ulama-e-Islam | All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam (AITUI), also known as Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam is an organisation of Bareilvi-Sunni Muslims. In 2019 an article in the Times of India via the Times News Network feed claimed AITUI was the predominant Sunni organization in the country.
Activities
Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi General secretary of Tanzeem said A fatwa for boycotting Chinese products., On the occasion of 103 Urse Razvi, while issuing the "Muslim Agenda" in the press conference, has instructed Muslims to pay attention to education, business, and family and stop the evils spreading in the society, otherwise there will be big losses in the future. Shahbuddin said in a statement issued to the press that if Shahrukh Khan had taught his son Aryan in a madrasa, he would not have seen this day.
History
AITUI was established by Maulana Ashfaq Hussain Qadri in Delhi. The general secretary is Maulana Sahabuddin Razvi.
Events
Conference against terrorism 2016
At a conference in the Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi culminated in the issuing of a fatwa against terrorism, with concerns expressed over activities of Wahabis
International Ghareeb Nawaz World Peace Conference 2019
A key conference organised by AITUI was the International Ghareeb Nawaz World Peace Conference on 24 February 2019 at the Ramlila Maidan ground in New Delhi. According to the Spokesperson of AITUI, Shujaat Ali Quadri In the Event a fatwa was issued against the terrorism by the prominent Mufti and Ulema.
See also
All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board, (AIUMB)
References
Sufi organizations
Sunni organizations
Islamic organisations based in India
Sunni Islam in India
Barelvi organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Perlegos | George Perlegos (born 1950) is a Greek-American computer scientist and engineer, best known for pioneering the use of EEPROM and founding Atmel.
Early life and education
Perlegos was born in 1950 to parents Eleni and Pete Perlegos in Arcadia, Greece. Perlegos and his two brothers came to the United States in 1962 and he began working as a grape farmer. He finished high school in Lodi, California, and graduated from San Jose State University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He later completed a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1975, and from 1975–1978 attended courses there in pursuit of a PhD.
Career
In 1972, his first job after San Jose State was at American Micro Systems Inc (AMI), then a leading supplier of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). His first assignment there was to design a single-chip calculator using MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) integrated circuits technology. He simultaneously enrolled in Stanford University to learn more about MOS processing and circuit design. He stayed with AMI through 1974.
Intel
While attending Stanford, Perlegos interviewed at Intel Corporation. At this time Intel had a new project to develop nonvolatile memory technologies and a new semiconductor chip. After learning about the opportunities to work on these new technologies during the interview, he left AMI for Intel in 1974. While at Intel, he became an expert in semiconductor device physics, circuit design, and semiconductor fabrication processes. His first task, to design and develop an N-channel EPROM different from its predecessor the P-channel EPROM, that would work with the microprocessors Intel was developing at the time. The project known as the 2708, was introduced by Intel in 1975. His invention of the N-channel EPROM was important, as it was the first time a positive voltage and channel injection was used for a nonvolatile memory device, thus requiring significantly lower voltage than its P-channel predecessor. The 2708 was a revolutionary chip, particularly for use with microprocessors. In 1978, Perlegos designed and developed the Intel 2816, an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM) that eliminated the lengthy UV exposure cycle using tunneling to both program and erase the memory.
SEEQ Technology
Leaving Intel with other Intel employees in 1981, he founded SEEQ Technology. He developed an improved version of EEPROM. that could be programmed and erased on the system board for the first time. The improved version of EEPROM "A 5V-only 16K EEPROM utilizing oxynitride dielectrics" could be programmed and erased on the system board for the first time. It used an on-chip charge pump to generate required programming voltages. It was this ability to program and erase at system levels that allowed EEPROM/FLASH devices to be incorporated in all computers, laptops, cellphones etc
ATMEL
In 1984, Perlegos founded Atmel corporation and was CEO of Atmel from 1984 to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Lebanon%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Lebanon by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Lebanon
Lebanon
Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapan%20Desai | Sapan Sharankishor Desai (born April 6, 1979) is an American physician, and the owner of Surgisphere, originally a textbook marketing company that claimed to provide large sets of medical data on COVID-19 patients. This data and the research using it has been discredited, and two papers Desai co-authored that used this data were retracted after being published in prominent medical journals.
Early life and education
Desai was born and raised in the North Shore (Chicago) region of Illinois by Indian parents. He is a graduate of the Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois) and took 13 Advanced Placement classes there. Desai attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and studied biology, graduating at age 19. He then joined the combined M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. During this time, he completed his Ph.D. degree in anatomy and cell biology, and M.D. degree by age 27. His doctoral adviser said that Desai claimed to be enrolled at John Marshall Law School, and later described himself as having his J.D., but there is no evidence of this being true. A 2004 publication from his period in Chicago showed signs of data manipulation (numerous duplicated regions in photographs), upon re-examination in June 2020.
He graduated in 2006, then matched to Duke University for residency as a general surgeon.
In 2008 Desai, still a surgical resident, founded Surgisphere to market medical textbooks, produced by Surgisphere, to medical students. Fake 5-star reviews on Amazon from accounts impersonating physicians were found.
The Guardian noted that "in 2010, his Wikipedia page was flagged for deletion" because editors questioned his accomplishments. The New York Times described him as an unreliable physician, and a chief resident from Duke said "You couldn't trust what he said. You would verify everything that he did and take everything he did with a grain of salt." Thirteen people interviewed by the New York Times said there were "broad concerns inside the surgery department" about Desai. He would make improbable claims about patients and wouldn't follow through on their care.
Desai received his online M.B.A. degree in 2012 from Western Governors University in three months.
Career and further controversy
In 2012, Desai became a fellow in vascular surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He published the Journal of Surgical Radiology, which closed in 2013 despite reportedly having accrued 50,000 subscribers, because he "ran out of time." The New York Times described his performance at the Texas hospital as problematic and having "antagonized some supervisors" to the point that they asked for him to be expelled, but he passed the program. Dr. Hazim Safi, the department chair, said "I intervened and he graduated", attributing the problems to personality, not skill. From July 2014 to May 2016, Desai was a vascular surgeon at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in charge of surg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEN%20Track | SEN Track is an Australian radio network operated by Sports Entertainment Network, a division of Pacific Star Network. The network launched on 28 March 2020 and broadcasts live coverage of horse, thoroughbred and greyhound racing to nine cities and towns in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. It is a sister network to the Melbourne-based 1116 SEN.
History
SEN Track was born out of SEN+, which commenced broadcasting in Melbourne on 13 August 2018. The station was a simulcast of the 1116 SEN service, opting out for coverage of sports including the NFL, VFL, NBL and Super Rugby. The station also broadcast coverage of the 2019 Spring Racing Carnival.
On 3 July 2019, Pacific Star Network announced its subsidiary Crocmedia had acquired 23 broadcasting licences from Gumnut Nominees, the licensee of Italian language radio network Rete Italia, at the value of .
On 27 March 2020, Crocmedia announced it would launch SEN Track, a radio station covering horse, thoroughbred and greyhound racing. At the time, racing codes were the only Australian sports operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. SEN Track launched the following day in Melbourne, replacing SEN+, and on the former Rete Italia frequencies in Perth and Wollongong. In April, the network expanded to Gosford, Ingham and Atherton, with Crocmedia announcing it would replace Vision Christian Radio in Brisbane and Rete Italia on the Gold Coast from September.
In June 2020, Crocmedia announced it would sell the licence of its Melbourne station to ACE Radio, and seek to acquire a further three narrowcast licences from Gumnut Nominees, covering Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin.
Programming
Networked programming is produced mostly from Crocmedia's studios in South Melbourne. In Melbourne and Perth, the station simulcasts the final hour of Garry & Tim and the first two hours of Whateley from 1116 SEN.
In New South Wales and Queensland, two local programs — Breakfast with Joel and Jimmy and Sportsday Central — are produced from studios in North Sydney. Play-by-play coverage of Friday night National Rugby League matches also air in these markets under the NRL Nation brand, while coverage of Central Coast Mariners A-League matches are broadcast in Gosford.
Notable presenters
Gary Belcher (Sportsday Central)
Joel Caine (Breakfast in New South Wales)
Garry Lyon (Garry & Tim)
Scott Sattler (Sportsday Central)
Jimmy Smith (Breakfast in New South Wales)
Tim Watson (Garry & Tim)
Gerard Whateley (Whateley)
Transmitters
References
External links
Pacific Star Network
Australian radio networks
Radio stations in Melbourne
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio stations in Sydney
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations in Brisbane
Radio stations on the Gold Coast, Queensland
Radio stations in Queensland
Radio stations in Perth, Western Australia
Sports radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Annapurna%20Express | The Annapurna Express is an English-language broadsheet newspaper previously published and distributed weekly but Daily from 15th Dec 2022 in Nepal. It was started in 2017 by Annapurna Media Network, which also owns Annapurna Post, AP1 TV and Radio Annapurna Nepal.
ApEx Pioneers
The Annapurna Express held an event named Salute on May 23,2022 to honor 100 individuals for their contributions to all facets of life. The 50 pioneers received a token of love, while the 50 visionaries received a medal of distinction.
ApEx Series
ApEx Series is a five-part detailed reporting on a particular topic. The Annapurna Express has already completed ApEx Series on Ropeways in Nepal, Climate Change, NEPSE and Domestic Violence among others.
References
External links
Newspapers published in Nepal
English-language newspapers published in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentraleyes | Decentraleyes is a free and open-source browser extension used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation. Its primary task is to block connections to major CDNs such as Cloudflare and Google (for privacy and anti-tracking purposes) and serve popular web libraries (such as JQuery and AngularJS) locally on the user's machine. Decentraleyes is available for Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox + Firefox ESR, Google Chrome, Pale Moon and Opera web browsers.
Overview
Decentraleyes is bundled with 14 Javascript libraries; AngularJS, Backbone.js, Dojo, Ember.js, Ext Core, jQuery, jQuery UI, Modernizr, MooTools, Prototype (including script.aculo.us), SWFObject, Underscore.js, and Web Font Loader. It can locally redirect connections to the Google Hosted Libraries, Microsoft Ajax CDN, CDNJS (Cloudflare), jQuery CDN (MaxCDN), jsDelivr (MaxCDN), Yandex CDN, Baidu CDN, Sina Public Resources, and UpYun Libraries networks. With these bundled resources in the software package, they are served to the user locally from their machine, as opposed to from a server. The blocking of connections to these CDNs is claimed to result in faster loading times for the end user.
Reception
Lifehacker has recommended Decentraleyes as a solution to help prevent the user's data from being tracked by Google. CloudPro, a UK-based cloud computing publication, endorsed Decentraleyes as a way of blocking malicious man-in-the-middle CDN attacks.
History
Decentraleyes was first released in late 2015, compatible with the Firefox browser.
Between 2016 and 2017, a spinoff extension called LocalCDN was created. It brought the functionality of Decentraleyes to Chromium based browsers, for which it was not available at the time (until later that year).
In October 2017, Decentraleyes 2.0.0 was released. The new version was rewritten from scratch to comply with the new Firefox browser add-on standards and had a more consistent user interface and better support for right-to-left languages.
References
External links
2015 software
Free security software
Google Chrome extensions
Internet privacy software
Computer-related introductions in 2015
Free Firefox WebExtensions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Montenegro%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of Montenegro by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
References
Human Development Index
Ranked lists of country subdivisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Research%20Information%20Bureau | The Media Research Information Bureau (MRIB) was a music chart research company that operated in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 2008. It was best known for compiling the chart data for The Network Chart Show which was broadcast by many TV and radio shows, as well as being published in many music newspapers and magazines. MRIB also compiled other genre charts for the United Kingdom.
History
Foundation
MRIB was founded in 1981, by Luke Crampton, and Dafydd Rees. In December 1984, data from MRIB showed that pirate radio station Laser 558 had an audience of nearly five million people.
The Network Chart
MRIB's Network Chart was a rival competitor to the "official" UK chart that was compiled by Gallup and that is now published by the Official Charts Company (OCC). MRIB's Network Chart was broadcast by more than 40 commercial and Independent Local Radio stations. It was reported in March 1991 that the Network Chart compiled by MRIB had a radio audience size that was gaining on the BBC Radio 1 chart show which broadcast the chart that was compiled by Gallup for the OCC (then CIN). Later that month Music & Media magazine reported that they were switching to publishing the MRIB charts for the UK which they would also use to compile the European Hot 100 Singles and European Top 100 Albums charts. There were sometimes public disputes over accuracy between Gallup and MRIB such as when the former placed Whitney Houston's single "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" at number 10 while the latter placed it at number 2 in the same week. MRIB's Network Chart was published in music publications NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds, as well as on ITV's Teletext service. MRIB's Network Chart used sales data starting from different days of the week from those Gallup used for its Radio 1 chart. However, in July 1993 it was announced that the Top 10 of the Network Chart would use the same sales data as Gallup's chart for CIN and Radio 1, when Pepsi took over sponsorship from Nescafé, but that the lower 11-40 positions would still combine sales with radio airplay data. This new Network Chart was compiled by Spotlight Publications who beat MRIB to the contract. Although MRIB's chart was no longer broadcast on commercial and independent radio, it was still used in publications such as NME and Melody Maker.
Other charts
MRIB also compiled the UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts that were published in many newspapers and magazines such as Melody Maker. Alongside the Network Chart, they also compiled regional charts for ILR stations such as the London chart used on Alan Freeman's Pick of the Pops Take Two on Capital Radio and the North East England chart used on Metro Radio and published in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. In the 1980s MRIB compiled the disco charts for the UK that were published in Record Business (which was later absorbed into Music Week and published as the Disco and Dance chart). From 1982 through the 1990s the UK rock charts that were publis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSC%20%28company%29 | OpenSC is a joint venture by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Australia and BCG Digital Ventures. It produces a digital platform that uses data to verify a product's sustainable production claims and tracks that product throughout its individual supply chain. Consumers can then view the product's history by scanning a QR code with their mobile device.
History
In 2017, WWF Australia ran a small-scale pilot program tracing tuna from fisheries in the Pacific Ocean as part of the WWF's Panda Labs program. Using data and experience from that project, WWF Australia collaborated with BCG Digital Ventures on the blockchain tracking platform, OpenSC. That platform designed to verify sustainable production claims and track food through its supply chain was officially launched on 17 January 2019. OpenSC-tracked food was served at the company's launch event in Sydney and later at a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. At its outset, the platform tracked items such as seafood products like fish, but the company planned to add other commodities to its platform in the future. Markus Mutz has been OpenSC's CEO since its outset.
Austral Fisheries, which is a part of the global Japanese seafood company Maruha Nichiro, was one of the initial companies to adopt the OpenSC platform to track their fish and prawns. In July 2019, it was announced that Nestlé would start a pilot program to track food using the OpenSC platform. As part of the program, Nestlé will trace its milk from producers in New Zealand to its own Middle East-based factories and warehouses. It also plans to use OpenSC to trace its palm oil supply chains in the Americas at a future date. In September 2019, it was announced that OpenSC had raised $4 million (USD) in funding to assist with the further development of its platform. Investors included Working Capital and Swiss angel investor, Christian Wenger.
Platform
The OpenSC platform uses technology and real-time data to verify a product was produced in an ethically or sustainable way, and it then tracks the food and other products throughout their entire supply chain. Although the company started out tracking fish and beef, it has expanded traceability to items like palm oil and dairy. OpenSC typically focuses on improving transparency of commodities with known "environmental or human rights risks within their supply chains," and its tracking data is designed to help companies and consumers ensure that products are ethically and sustainably sourced. Consumers can scan a QR code (typically on restaurant menus or on the product itself) to get access to the data about the product's history, which is stored on an open blockchain.
References
External links
Official website
Australian companies established in 2019
Companies based in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugrats%20%282021%20TV%20series%29 | Rugrats is an American computer-animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain. It has been described as a reboot of the original TV series of the same name that ran from 1991 to 2004. The series premiered on May 27, 2021, on Paramount+; it is the second Nickelodeon-based series created for the streaming service. As with previous incarnations of the franchise, the series is produced by Klasky Csupo.
In September 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on April 14, 2023.
Premise
Just like the original series, Rugrats focuses on the experiences of a courageous, adventurous one-year-old baby named Tommy Pickles and his group of playmates and other infants and toddlers.
Voice cast
The surviving voice actors of the titular "Rugrats" reprise their roles from the original series, though the adult roles from the original series have been recast, including Betty DeVille who was originally voiced by the returning Kath Soucie.
Children
E. G. Daily as Tommy Pickles
Nancy Cartwright as Chuckie Finster
Kath Soucie as Phil and Lil DeVille
Cheryl Chase as Angelica Pickles
Cree Summer as Susie Carmichael
Adults
Tommy Dewey as Stu Pickles
Ashley Rae Spillers as Didi Pickles
Anna Chlumsky as Charlotte Pickles
Timothy Simons as Drew Pickles
Natalie Morales as Betty DeVille
Tony Hale as Chas Finster
Michael McKean as Grandpa Lou Pickles
Nicole Byer as Dr. Lucy Carmichael
Omar Benson Miller as Randy Carmichael
Supporting
Henry Winkler as Boris Kropotkin
Swoosie Kurtz as Minka Kropotkin
Charlet Chung as Kimi Watanabe
Hiromi Dames as Kira Watanabe
Tara Strong as Dil Pickles
Production
In early September 2015, it was announced on Variety that Nickelodeon may "seek to experiment with retooled versions of classics" that could include Rugrats. The following day, The Independent announced that "Rugrats could soon be back on our screens too." In July 2016, it was revealed that Nickelodeon was in talks with Klasky Csupo and Paul Germain about a possible revival of the TV series.
In late July 2016, Arlene Klasky stated that she would be willing to work on a revival of the series, along with co-creators Gabor Csupó and Paul Germain. In October 2016, a Nickelodeon senior vice president stated in response to a fan question that Rugrats was among other shows being considered for revival.
In mid-July 2018, it was announced that Nickelodeon had given a series order to a 26-episode revival of the series, executive produced by Klasky, Csupó, and Germain. In May 2020, it was announced that the revival series was delayed until 2021.
In late February 2021, it was announced that the reboot would premiere on Paramount+ in late spring 2021. A sneak peek was also uploaded to social media platforms. In March, an all-new cast for the parents were revealed.
The reboot premiered on Paramount+ on May 27, 2021 and began airing on Nickelodeon on August 20, 2021. A second batch of episodes was released on Oct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast.ai | fast.ai is a non-profit research group focused on deep learning and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 2016 by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas with the goal of democratizing deep learning. They do this by providing a massive open online course (MOOC) named "Practical Deep Learning for Coders," which has no other prerequisites except for knowledge of the programming language Python.
Massive Open Online Course
The free MOOC "Practical Deep Learning for Coders" is available as recorded videos, initially taught by Howard and Thomas at the University of San Francisco. In contrast to other online learning platforms such as Coursera or Udemy, a certificate is not granted to those successfully finishing the course online. Only the students following the in-person classes can obtain a certificate from the University of San Francisco.
The MOOC consists of two parts, each containing seven lessons. Topics include image classification, stochastic gradient descent, natural language processing (NLP), and various deep learning architectures such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recursive neural networks (RNNs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Applications and alumni
In 2018, students of fast.ai participated in the Stanford’s DAWNBench challenge alongside big tech companies like Google and Intel. While Google could obtain an edge in some challenges due to its highly specialized TPU chips, the CIFAR-10 challenge was won by the fast.ai students, programming the fastest and cheapest algorithms.
As a fast.ai student, alumna Sara Hooker created software to detect illegal deforestation. She later became a founding member of Google AI in Accra, Ghana—the first AI research office in Africa.
Software
In the fall of 2018, fast.ai released v1.0 of their free open-source library for deep learning called fastai (without a period), sitting atop PyTorch. Google Cloud was the first to announce its support. This open-source framework is hosted on GitHub and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
References
External links
Artificial intelligence associations
Computer science research organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20P.%20Hendon | Christine P. Hendon is an electrical engineer and computer scientist and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City. Hendon is a pioneer in medical imaging. She develops biomedical optics technologies, using optical coherence tomography and near infrared spectroscopy systems, that enable physicians to perform guided interventional procedures and allow for structure-function dissection of human tissues and organs. Her advances in imaging technologies have led to improved diagnostic abilities and treatments for cardiac arrhythmias as well as breast cancer and preterm birth. She has been recognized for her development of optical imaging catheters for cardiac wall imaging by Forbes 30 under 30, the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, and by President Obama with the Presidential Early Career Awards in 2017.
Early life and education
Hendon (born Christine Fleming), wanted to pursue a career as a teacher during her childhood. In high school, she enjoyed math and science, and participated in the Institute for Climate and Planets program hosted by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. This program inspired her to pursue a career in science.
In 2000, Hendon pursued her undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and became immediately involved in undergraduate research. Hendon graduated with her Bachelors of Science in 2004.
Hendon then pursued her Master's of Science and her PhD training at Case Western Reserve University in Biomedical Engineering. She completed her M.S. in 2007, and her Ph.D. in 2010. During her PhD, Hendon worked under the mentorship of Andrew M. Rollins where she began using and optimizing Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) techniques to create volumetric images of human tissues and organs for use in treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. She developed an automated algorithm for fiber orientation in the plane parallel to the wall surface of cardiac tissue in order to properly characterize early structural changes in the myocardium due to disease and injury to guide treatment. Her work showed that OCT can help to visualize real time ablation (RFA) therapy to guide physicians treatment progression and thus improve the outcomes of RFA therapy.
Following her Ph.D., Hendon moved back to Massachusetts and pursued her Postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Biomedical Optics Wellman Center for Photomedicine. During this time, Hendon optimized the depth resolved spectral analysis of OCT. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in 2012.
Career and research
In 2012, Hendon was recruited to Columbia University as an assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 2018, Hendon was promoted to Associate Professor with ten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad%20%28software%29 | The students education network (), with acronym Shad () That in addition to the abbreviation of the full name of the program, it refers to the word Shaad meaning happy, is a communication and educational software that was launched following the spread of the coronavirus due to the absence of students in schools in Iran. The software is owned by the Ministry of Education of Iran, and students, teachers and headmasters are the people who use this software.
At first, on 2020 April 4, Shaad Software was run only on messaging apps, and principals, teachers, and students needed to install one of the Bale, Soroush, Gap, iGap, and Rubica messengers and other, but on 2020 April 9, the Ministry of Education presented the software without needing to have those messengers. About 70% of Iranian students are members of this social network. Due to the emphasis of education on the installation and use of this software, a significant number of students were activated in this student network, which is estimated to be more than 17 million people. According to Mohammad Mehdi Nooripour, chairman of the Student Organization Assembly, Shad software has about 800,000 daily visits. 13 percent of Iranian students never had an electronic device for application setup.
History
During the pandemic Shad development was delayed, and it was replaced by online TV teachers, but it has so many problems.
It was called Social network of students.
Products and services
shaadbin.ir ("children search engine"- by Zarebin.ir)
Student real life identity authentication (15 million students)
Temporary free Internet bandwidth (mobile data-some designated Iranian mobile network corporations offered SIMs)
External APIs for Iranian mobile apps
Use
Private schools educators are not required to install the app.
Reception
Simultaneously with the unveiling of the software, many students and teachers criticized the software. They claimed that the software had low quality and could not compensate for the training for students. In the view of some, its inefficiency is due to the fact that some students live in deprived areas and lack facilities such as computers, laptops, smartphones, and even high-speed or regular Internet. On the other hand, Mohammad Mehdi Nooripour and Majid Najafizadeh, Representatives of students and teachers of Iran thanked the Minister of Education for setting up this network at a meeting of Student Organization. Recently, in an update, new features have been added and the performance of Shad has been improved.
See also
COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
References
External links
https://shad.ir/
Official website
Social software
Educational software
Android (operating system) software
Mobile applications
Instant messaging clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuZero | MuZero is a computer program developed by artificial intelligence research company DeepMind to master games without knowing their rules. Its release in 2019 included benchmarks of its performance in go, chess, shogi, and a standard suite of Atari games. The algorithm uses an approach similar to AlphaZero. It matched AlphaZero's performance in chess and shogi, improved on its performance in Go (setting a new world record), and improved on the state of the art in mastering a suite of 57 Atari games (the Arcade Learning Environment), a visually-complex domain.
MuZero was trained via self-play, with no access to rules, opening books, or endgame tablebases. The trained algorithm used the same convolutional and residual algorithms as AlphaZero, but with 20 percent fewer computation steps per node in the search tree.
History
On November 19, 2019, the DeepMind team released a preprint introducing MuZero.
Derivation from AlphaZero
MuZero (MZ) is a combination of the high-performance planning of the AlphaZero (AZ) algorithm with approaches to model-free reinforcement learning. The combination allows for more efficient training in classical planning regimes, such as Go, while also handling domains with much more complex inputs at each stage, such as visual video games.
MuZero was derived directly from AZ code, sharing its rules for setting hyperparameters. Differences between the approaches include:
AZ's planning process uses a simulator. The simulator knows the rules of the game. It has to be explicitly programmed. A neural network then predicts the policy and value of a future position. Perfect knowledge of game rules is used in modeling state transitions in the search tree, actions available at each node, and termination of a branch of the tree. MZ does not have access to the rules, and instead learns one with neural networks.
AZ has a single model for the game (from board state to predictions); MZ has separate models for representation of the current state (from board state into its internal embedding), dynamics of states (how actions change representations of board states), and prediction of policy and value of a future position (given a state's representation).
MZ's hidden model may be complex, and it may turn out it can host computation; exploring the details of the hidden model in a trained instance of MZ is a topic for future exploration.
MZ does not expect a two-player game where winners take all. It works with standard reinforcement-learning scenarios, including single-agent environments with continuous intermediate rewards, possibly of arbitrary magnitude and with time discounting. AZ was designed for two-player games that could be won, drawn, or lost.
Comparison with R2D2
The previous state of the art technique for learning to play the suite of Atari games was R2D2, the Recurrent Replay Distributed DQN.
MuZero surpassed both R2D2's mean and median performance across the suite of games, though it did not do better in every game.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IVM%20Podcasts | IVM (Indus Vox Media) Podcasts is an Indian multi-lingual podcast network founded in 2015 that hosts a wide variety of podcasts, including Cyrus Says, featuring Cyrus Broacha. IVM also featured celebrity Abhishek Bachchan on a football podcast. Also, Shashi Kapoor's son Kunal Kapoor and his son Zahan Kapoor had been a part of a podcast on the theatre.
History
It was founded on 8 March 2015, by Amit Doshi and co-founded by Kavita Rajwade.
IVM Podcasts produces and hosts a variety of podcasts across genres such as sports, entertainment, lifestyle, and business. Some of their popular podcasts include Cyrus Says, The Seen and the Unseen, The Habit Coach with Ashdin Doctor, Football Shootball, and Advertising is Dead.
Cyrus Says is a comedy podcast hosted by Cyrus Broacha, where he interviews celebrities and discusses various topics. The Seen and the Unseen is a policy and economics podcast hosted by Amit Varma, where he examines complex issues through the lens of liberty and individual rights. The Habit Coach with Ashdin Doctor is a self-improvement podcast where Doctor shares tips and tricks to help listeners build better habits. Football Shootball is a podcast about Indian football, while Advertising is Dead is about advertising and marketing.
IVM Podcasts has played a significant role in promoting podcasting in India and has been instrumental in creating a thriving podcasting community in the country.
References
External links
YouTube channel
Podcasting companies
2015 podcast debuts
YouTube podcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberAgent | is a Japanese digital advertising company, which was founded in 1998 by Susumu Fujita and headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It is owned by Susumu Fujita with 20.50% interest; Fujita is the representative director, while Yusuke Hidaka is the executive vice president.
CyberAgent is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 since 2000.
In 2016, it established a live streaming service called . On April 1, 2016 it was transferred to CyberAgent subsidiary AbemaTV and its name was changed to AbemaTV Fresh!, and on June 26, 2018 its name was changed to Fresh Live. Termination of the service began on February 12, 2019, when the creation of new channels, in addition to archiving and other functions, was disabled for most channels. Complete closure of the service on November 30, 2020, was announced on October 9, 2020. Since 2019, CyberAgent integrated the service with Openrec.tv, another live streaming service operated by CyberAgent subsidiary CyberZ, and some channels migrated to that service.
Controversies and criticism
In April 2015 a former employee of CyberAgent accused the company of unauthorized stealing of articles and images, inappropriate quoting, and undercover marketing were often pointed out with BuzzFeed Japan also accused the company of the same thing but the allegations were later denied.
In the fall of 2016, DeNA's healthcare information website "WELQ" had a problem due to inappropriate content and inappropriate citations, and from December 1 to 2, 2016, thousands of articles related to medical and health related to “Spotlight” and a few percent of approximately 35,000 articles related to by.S were deleted. CyberAgent explained that the privately held articles were written by registered users and with the company claiming could not be fully verified with addiction expanded the scope of private disclosure, and deleted all articles posted by registered users on both websites. A total of less than 100,000 articles were deleted.
See also
D.League
References
External links
Official site
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Digital marketing companies
Entertainment companies of Japan
Entertainment companies established in 1998
FC Machida Zelvia
Tokyo Verdy
Holding companies based in Tokyo
Holding companies established in 1998
Internet properties established in 1998
Japanese brands
Japanese companies established in 1998
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Mass media companies of Japan
Mass media companies established in 1998
Mobile game companies
Multinational companies headquartered in Japan
Pro Wrestling Noah
DDT Pro-Wrestling
Software companies based in Tokyo
Video game companies established in 1998
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
2000 initial public offerings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclones.tv | Cyclones.tv is a regional sports network and streaming network founded in 2012 (and first went on the air on August 31, 2013) to carry sports broadcasting. Cyclones.tv focuses solely on Iowa State University athletics. The channel used to carry live sporting events, but with the addition of the Big 12 Now streaming channel on ESPN+, the channel is expected to only carry game replays, coaches shows, vignettes and historical pieces. In the past, the channel would carry a wide range of third-tier events, including one non-conference football game per year, a handful of home, non-conference men's basketball games, and most of all home events in sports such as women's basketball, volleyball, softball, women's soccer and wrestling.
Iowa State athletics first started to monetize the streaming of Iowa State football games through an online portal known as CloneZone. CloneZone was used to webcast a pay-per-view version of Iowa State athletics events until 2012, when the online portal was rebranded as Cyclones.tv. Cyclones.tv existed solely as an online portal until August 31, 2013, when Mediacom unveiled a new television channel in and around the state of Iowa.
Football Games Carried by Cyclones.tv
Cyclones.tv carried a total of eight football games on traditional television, with the last game coming on December 1, 2018, as Iowa State hosted Drake.
References
Sports television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMN | WIMN may be:
WIMN-CD, a religious, class A digital television station located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico
WiMN - Women’s International Music Network
WIMN - Sisingamangaraja XII International Airport
WIMN-FM
WIMN-AM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ring is a dynamically typed, general-purpose programming language. It can be embedded in C/C++ projects, extended using C/C++ code and/or used as a standalone language. The supported programming paradigms are imperative, procedural, object-oriented, functional, meta, declarative using nested structures, and natural programming. The language is portable (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, WebAssembly, etc.) and can be used to create console, GUI, web, game and mobile applications.
History
In 2009, Mahmoud Samir Fayed created a minor domain-specific language called Supernova that focuses on User interface (UI) creation and uses some ideas related to Natural Language Programming, then he realized the need for a new language that is general-purpose and can increase the productivity of natural language creation. Ring aims to offer a language focused on helping the developer with building natural interfaces and declarative DSLs.
Goals
The general goals behind Ring:
Applications programming language.
Productivity and developing high quality solutions that can scale.
Small and flexible language that can be embedded in C/C++ projects.
Simple language that can be used in education and introducing Compiler/VM concepts.
General-Purpose language that can be used for creating domain-specific libraries, frameworks and tools.
Practical language designed for creating the next version of the Programming Without Coding Technology software.
Examples
Hello World program
The same program can be written using different styles. Here is an example of the standard "Hello, World!" program using four different styles.
The first style:
see "Hello, World!"
The second style:
put "Hello, World!"
The third style:
load "stdlib.ring"
print("Hello, World!")
Another style: similar to xBase languages like Clipper and Visual FoxPro
? "Hello, World!"
Change the Keywords and Operators
Ring supports changing the language keywords and operators.
This could be done many times in the same source file, and is useful for
Translating the keywords from English to other human languages (Non-English-based programming languages)
Customizing the language for use of a favorite style
Porting Legacy code written in other languages
Translate Ring keywords to Japanese
ChangeRingKeyword See 手紙を出す
ChangeRingOperator + そして
改行 = nl
します。 = :します。
手紙を出す "こんにちは、世界" そして 改行 します。
ChangeRingKeyword 手紙を出す See // キーワードの復旧
ChangeRingOperator そして + // 演算子の復旧
Translate Ring keywords to Arabic
ChangeRingKeyword See إطبع
إطبع "Hello, World!"
ChangeRingKeyword إطبع See
Use style similar to the Pascal programming language
ChangeRingKeyword func function
ChangeRingKeyword see write
begin = :begin
function main
begin
write("Hello, World!");
return 0;
end
ChangeRingKeyword function func
ChangeRingKeyword write see
Loop Command
The Loop command can take an integer to apply the continue semantics to enclosing outer loops
changeRingKeyword loop continue
count = 2
for x in 1:5
fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE/PAC%204000 | The GE/PAC 4000 computer systems are an obsolete line of computers manufactured by General Electric in Phoenix, Arizona beginning in the 1960s. PAC is short for Process Automation Computer, indicating the intended use of the systems for process control.
All 4000 systems are 24-bit, using fixed-point binary data, with between 1020 and 65,536 words of magnetic core memory, and a magnetic drum memory with 8192 to 262,144 word capacity. The CPU logic is implemented with discrete transistors. The systems can be configured with a wide variety of analog and digital inputs and outputs.
The 4020 is the low-end model of the system. Three models of the 4000, the 4040, 4050, and 4060 differ in storage speed— 5μsec, 3.4μsec, and 1.7 and 2.38μsec respectively— and by the implementation of a serial arithmetic unit on the 4040 vs. parallel on the other systems,
Software
The operating system for the 4000 series is called "G-E-MONITOR", a "skeleton real-time system program." "Several versions of MONTIOR are available, each tailored to the needs of a specific industry or process." Other software included Process Assembler Language (PAL), FORTRAN II, and Tabular Sequence Control (TASC). A set of memory load, dump, and change routines was provided.
Applications
A product brochure highlighted potential uses in the utility industry, food processing, manufacturing, the metal and chemical industry, paper and cement manufacturing, and petroleum.
References
Transistorized computers
General Electric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WHA%20broadcasters | After CBS lost the American television rights of the National Hockey League to NBC following the 1971-72 season (CBS was paying less than $2 million a year and NBC jumped to $5.3 million), the network covered the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association. The WHA's TV deal permitted it to sell week‐night games to other networks (CBS meanwhile, would show games on Sunday afternoons in addition the all-star game and playoffs). In addition, the WHA also sold a $3‐million package to Canada. On January 7, 1973, CBS aired its first WHA game between the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Winnipeg Jets live from the new St. Paul Civic Center with Ron Oakes, Gerry Cheevers and Dick Stockton announcing.
Local broadcasters
Notes
The Michigan Stags' radio station was WWJ 950. Gary Morrel was play-by-play announcer while Norm Plummer handled color commentary. (At least one broadcast had only two sponsors mentioned: Nolwood Chemical, a company owned by the Stags' owners, and the Stags themselves.) Michigan played just one game on local television: the season opener against the Indianapolis Racers, broadcast live from Indianapolis on WXON Channel 20. Detroit radio icon Vince Doyle called play-by-play and former Red Wing Marty Pavelich was the color commentator. The Stags won the game, 4-2, but few saw it; the Stags were up against game five of the 1974 World Series. Eight other games were scheduled to be televised but money became a problem by mid-November, especially after Michigan lost 11 of their next 12 following their season-opening win.
Games of the original Minnesota Fighting Saints were heard on WLOL Radio (1330 AM) from 1972 to 1976, with Frank Buetel as play-by-play announcer. Buetel was the original TV voice of the NHL's Minnesota North Stars from 1967 to 1970 on WTCN-TV (now KARE-TV). Buetel's color commentators included Roger Buxton and Bob Halvorson, the Saints' first-season public relations director (1972–73), and Bill Allard (1973–76). Al Hirt's version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" was used as the theme song for WLOL's Fighting Saints broadcasts. No local radio station carried games of the New Fighting Saints (1976–77). Fighting Saints games were televised sporadically on WTCN from 1973 to 1975. The first WTCN game was a home contest versus Cleveland on December 23, 1973, with Buetel and Allard simulcasting. Buxton called subsequent games on WTCN. In the 1973–74 season, one Saints home game was carried on KTCA-TV (PBS). No local TV station aired games of the New Fighting Saints.
See also
List of Edmonton Oilers broadcasters
List of Hartford Whalers broadcasters
Quebec Nordiques#Broadcasters
List of Winnipeg Jets broadcasters
References
Ice hockey-related lists
CBC Sports
CBS Sports
Mizlou Television Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando%20Health | Pando Health is a healthcare data platform created by Forward Clinical Ltd and named after the Pando (tree).
History
Pando was founded in 2017 by Dr Barney Gilbert, Lydia Yarlott and Philip Mundy with a vision of connecting healthcare for everyone. The company has raised approximately $10m USD in venture capital financing, including from Australian investment firm Skip Capital to allow international expansion in India and Australia.
Pando's core platform empowers healthcare professionals to collaborate and make expert decisions together. Usage during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom increased very substantially, with more than 2 million clinical messages processed per week in 2020.
It is approved by the NHS Clinical Communication Procurement Framework. In July 2021 there was a security breach which saw NHS patients’ photos automatically uploaded onto users’ smartphones.
References
Application software
Software companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-X | Gaia-X is an initiative to develop a federated secure data infrastructure for Europe, and ensure European digital sovereignty. It aims to develop digital governance, based on European values of transparency, openness, data protection, and security, which can be applied to cloud technologies to obtain transparency and controllability across data and services. The project name is a reference to the Greek goddess Gaia.
Originally presented at the 2019 Digital Summit in Dortmund, Germany, the initiative is under the von der Leyen Commission of European strategic autonomy and is under continuous development. The initiative is based in Belgium and has the legal form of an international non-profit organization (AISBL). It aims to develop a proposal for the next generation of data infrastructure for Europe, and promote the digital sovereignty of European users of cloud services.
Goals
The reported objective of Gaia-X is to design the next generation of a federated European data infrastructure. To accomplish this it hopes to specify common requirements for a European data infrastructure and develop a reference implementation.
According to the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), openness, transparency and European connectivity are central to Gaia-X. The stated goal of this digital ecosystem is to ensure that companies and business models from Europe can be competitive. Gaia-X's objective is not to become a Cloud service provider or a Cloud management platform. The implementation of Gaia-X is described as not being intended to create a competing product to existing offers (e.g. hyperscalers). Instead, its stated aim is to link different elements via open interfaces and standards, in order to connect data and make them available to a broad audience. Gaia-X also reportedly seeks to enable the creation of different types of innovation platforms.
Solutions
According to its project statement, the project aims to combine existing central and decentralized infrastructures to form a "digital ecosystem" using secure, open technologies with clearly identifiable Gaia-X nodes. The ecosystem will have software components from a common repository and standards based on relevant EU regulations. Gaia-X intends to offer significant benefits from a data and infrastructure perspective, including innovative cross-sector data cooperation and more transparent business models.
Gaia-X Association AISBL
Gaia-X Association AISBL was established in June 2020 as an international non-profit association under Belgian law (French: Association Internationale sans but lucratif, short: AISBL) and headquartered in Brussels.
The founding members on the German side included:
Beckhoff Automation
BMW
Bosch
DE-CIX
Deutsche Telekom
German Edge Cloud
PlusServer
SAP
Siemens
The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the International Data Spaces Association, and the European cloud provider association CISPE were co-founders of the Gaia-X Association.
On the Frenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowrider%20%28video%20game%29 | Lowrider, known in Japan as , is a music video game developed and published by Pacific Century Cyber Works and Jaleco Entertainment for PlayStation 2.
Reception
The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40.
References
External links
2002 video games
Music video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Jaleco games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Centrella | Joan Mary Centrella is an American astrophysicist known for her research on computer simulations of general relativity, gravity waves, gravitational lenses, and binary black holes. She is the former deputy director of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and is Executive in Residence for Science and Technology Policy at West Virginia University.
Education and career
Centrella graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1975. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in 1980.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas and University of Illinois, and an additional year as an astronomy lecturer at the University of Texas, she became an associate professor of physics at Drexel University in 1984. She moved to the Goddard Space Flight Center in 2001, and became deputy director in 2010. She moved again to West Virginia University in 2019.
Recognition
Centrella was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998. NASA awarded her the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2007, the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science in 2008, and the Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Mentoring in 2013.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Drexel University faculty
NASA astrophysicists
American women physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam%C3%A1s%20Terlaky | Tamás Terlaky is a Hungarian-Canadian-American professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University. He is especially well known for his work on criss-cross algorithms, interior-point methods, Klee-Minty examples for path following algorithms, and optimization.
Biography
Terlaky was born on January 10, 1955, in Kaposvár, Hungary. He studied Mathematics and Operations Research at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He earned his Ph.D. in 1981 under the supervision of Emil Klafszky. Terlaky taught at Eötvös Loránd University from 1981 to 1989; at the Delft University of Technology from 1989 to 1999; and at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario from 1999 to 2008, when he moved to Lehigh University. At Lehigh, he holds the George N. and Soteria Kledaras Endowed Chair. From 2008 to 2017, he served as the Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. Since 2020 he is Director of the Quantum Computing and Optimization Laboratory.
He was founding Chair (2000) and since 2003 Honorary Chair of EUROPT, The Continuous Optimization Working group of EURO. From 2017 to 2019, he was elected as Chair of the SIAM Activity Group of Optimization. Since 2019, he is Vice President of INFORMS.
Career
In 1985 and 1987, Terlaky independently published on the criss-cross algorithm. The theory of oriented matroids has also been used by Terlaky and Zhang (1991) to prove that their criss-cross algorithms have finite termination for linear programming problems.
Terlaky has previously taught at Eötvös Loránd University and Delft University of Technology. From 1999 to 2008, he was Professor at the Department of Computing and Software at McMaster University, and was also the founding director of the School of Computational Engineering and Science at the same university.
In 2020, Terlaky, along with Luis Zuluaga and Boris Defourny, was the recipient of a large quantum computing research grant from DARPA.
Terlaky is also a founding editor-in-chief of Optimization and Engineering (founded in 1998), a journal specializing in mathematical optimization and its applications. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Computational Optimization and Applications, European Journal on Operational research, Optimization Methods and Software, Optimization Letters, and Journal of Computational Sciences.
Recognition
Terlaky has been elected as:
2005: Fellow of the Fields Institute
2017: Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2018: Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
2020: Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
2021: Fellow of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)
In 2017, he was awarded the 2017 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for helping to improve algorithmic efficiency at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachiyarpuram | Nachiyarpuram is an Indian Tamil language drama aired on Zee Tamil network and on their official ZEE5 platform. It premiered on 8 July 2019 from Monday to Saturday. Then It was rescheduled from Monday to Friday. The series stars the real-life couple Rachitha Mahalakshmi and Dinesh Gopalsamy. Due COVID-19 pandemic, this series was ended with final Episode-218 on Zee Tamil.
Synopsis
Jyothi and Karthi, fall in love with each other. But their family were separated in past as Jyothi's aunt Jayalakshmi marries a man Natarajan against her family, she is none other than Karthi's mother. How Jyothi and Karthi marries against their families forms crux of the story.
Cast
Main
Recurring
Casting
Saravanan Meenatchi fame Rachitha Mahalakshmi and Poove Poochudava fame Dinesh Gopalsamy, the real life couple plays the lead roles. They both joins second time in television fiction after Pirivom Santhippom TV series. Actress Vadivukkarasi plays a negative role, where Girish, Deepa Nethran, Premi Venkat, Bharathi Mohan, Deepa Shankar, Venkat Subha, Farina and Rhema plays supporting roles.
References
External links
Zee Tamil original programming
Tamil-language romance television series
2019 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows
2020 Tamil-language television series endings
Television shows set in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raheem%20Beyah | Raheem Beyah (born December 23, 1976) is an American computer engineer, researcher, and educator. As of January 15, 2021 he is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to becoming the Dean, he was the vice president for Interdisciplinary Research and the Motorola Foundation Professor and the executive director of Georgia Tech's online masters in cyber security (OMS Cyber) program. Beyah is also the co-founder and chair of industrial security company Fortiphyd Logic, Inc.
Early life and education
In his youth Beyah wanted to be an astronaut, but was drawn to the field of computer engineering through his love for video games. He matriculated through the Atlanta Public Schools System and graduated from Frederick Douglass High School. Beyah received his B.S. in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 1998 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2003, respectively. His thesis "A Deployable Approach to Better Than Best Effort Quality of Service", was advised by John A. Copeland and Raghupathy Sivakumar.
Career
Beyah began his career working at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). After being promoted to the level of Consultant, Beyah left and returned to Georgia Tech to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, advised by Copeland. While completing his Ph.D., he worked as a research engineer at Georgia Tech. In 2005 he joined the computer science department at Georgia State University as an assistant professor while maintaining an adjunct professor appointment at Georgia Tech. In 2011, he returned to Georgia Tech full time as an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Beyah's research interests are in the areas of network security and monitoring, cyber-physical systems security, network traffic characterization and performance, and critical infrastructure security. His works have been frequently cited. Beyah serves as the Director of the Communications Assurance and Performance (CAP) research group. Through this group he has discovered several flaws in critical infrastructure components.
His work has been highlighted in Forbes, USA Today,
DARKReading, WIRED Magazine and NETWORKWORLD. In 2017, Beyah and his students introduced a proof of concept of LogicLocker, the first ransomware for programmable logic controllers.
Beyah was promoted to Professor, appointed to the Motorola Foundation Endowed Professorship, and appointed as Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation in 2016. He served as interim Steve W. Chaddick School Chair for the 2017-2018 academic year. Upon stepping down, he was appointed as the executive director for Georgia Tech's Online Masters in Cybersecurity (OMS Cyber) program. In 2019, he became Georgia Tech's Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research and was later asked to lead the Institute's data security efforts b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick%E2%80%93Reisch%20sort | Kirkpatrick–Reisch sorting is a fast sorting algorithm for items with limited-size integer keys. It is notable for having an asymptotic time complexity that is better than radix sort.
References
Sorting algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit%C3%BA%20%28entertainment%29 | Mitú (stylized in all lowercase) is an English-language Latino media company, multichannel network (MCN) and digital content publisher. In 2016, the network became the largest Hispanic focused digital channel in the world with 2 billion views per month.
Background
mitú was founded in 2012 by Emmy award-winning Beatriz Acevedo, Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. The networking conglomerate achieved 40 million subscribers across 1200 partner channels by 2014. The company's YouTube channel (we are mitú) has 373,000 direct subscribers as of May 2020. mitú is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Peter Chernin put together a $3 million investment vehicle to initially fund mitú in 2012, and in 2014, Disney's Maker Studios followed with second round funding of $10 million. By 2016, the network was serving 2 billion video views per month on Facebook and YouTube. Series C fuding, which included Verizon, brought venture funding levels to $43 million. In 2018, Acevedo and several top executives were cut from mitú in a reorganization when Maker Studios was folded into Disney Digital Network. Latido Networks, a division of GoDigital Media Group, acquired mitú in early 2020 ,its e-commerce shop mitushop.com and, Latino TV Channel Mitu TV. Their brands include wearemitú, somos mitú, Fierce, crema and Things That Matter.
References
Multi-channel networks
2012 establishments in California
English-language websites
Hispanic and Latino |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chrisley%20Knows%20Best%20episodes | Chrisley Knows Best is an American reality television series that premiered on the USA Network on March 11, 2014. It revolves around the lives of Georgia real estate tycoon Todd Chrisley and his wealthy family. The show was filmed in Roswell and Alpharetta, suburbs of Atlanta, before moving primarily to Nashville during the fourth season. In June 2022, Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley were found guilty on federal charges of bank fraud and tax evasion and submitting false documents to banks to take out loans and fund their lavish lifestyle. In November 2022, the couple was sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Season 4 (2016)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2018)
Season 7 (2019)
Specials (2019–20)
Season 8 (2020–21)
Season 9 (2021–22)
Season 10 (2023)
References
Lists of American reality television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsboat | Newsboat is a free and open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals for Unix-like operating systems, released under the MIT License. It is an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter which was abandoned in September 2017. Newsbeuter's original developers advise users to switch to Newsboat, and Newsboat's version numbers continued where Newsbeuter left off. Newsboat supports feed formats RSS and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in the OPML format. It also supports podcasting and synchronization with other news reading services.
Installation
Newsboat has been tested on Linux (with glibc and musl-libc), FreeBSD and macOS. The program can be installed from binary packages on major Linux and BSD distributions and Homebrew, it is available as a distribution-independent snap package, or it can be compiled from source.
Operation
Newsboat is controlled entirely with the keyboard, and its default keybindings resemble those of vi. The keyboard shortcuts and a lot of other options can be configured with a single text file.
The feeds are placed in another plain textfile. Because Newsboat, like most feedreaders, supports the OPML format it can also import files from other feedreaders. In addition to merely importing feedlist from other readers, Newsboat can act as a client for news reading services like Tiny Tiny RSS, The Old Reader, Inoreader, NewsBlur, the newsreader apps for ownCloud and Nextcloud, and some more.
Podcast support
Newsboat also provides basic podcast support through Podboat, a separate but included application that facilitates downloading and queuing of podcast episodes. It does not actually play the podcasts; for this an external media player is needed. While viewing a podcast feed in Newsboat, a user can press a single key to download the episode to their download queue. All the information will be stored in a queue file in the newsboat directory. Podboat reads this queue and downloads the episode(s) to the user's local drive.
Reception
According to a review on Opensource.com "Newsboat is an excellent RSS reader, whether you need a basic set of features or want your application to do a whole lot more." Luke Baker of website Linuxlinks summarized his preview as "Newsboat is a wonderful, open source RSS reader. It’s lean, compact, super fast, endowed with a good feature set, and a worthy continuation of the Newsbeuter project. The software is extremely configurable and offers a great feature set without any bloat." Linux Magazine in its FOSSPicks praises Newsboats speed: "Everything happens so quickly. With your feeds listed in the main view, pressing R will reload the state of every feed in your list, and this happens quickly even with dozens of feeds." and mentions the benefits of a simple distraction-free text interface.
See also
List of feed aggregators
Comparison of feed aggregators
References
External links
News aggregators
Free software that uses ncurses
Software using the MIT license
Console applic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataGueule | DataGueule (or #Datagueule) is a TV show and a web series with a variable publication (one or two episodes per month) broadcast since June 2014 on France 4 as well as on YouTube, Dailymotion and PeerTube.
The programme offers animated videos concerning news on a fun way, and condensed with a didactic aim. Each episode try to reveal and figure out the mechanisms of society and their unknown aspects.
The DataGueule's team is made up of Henri Poulain (creator and producer), Julien Goetz (co-author and co-creator) and of Sylvain Lapoix (investigator and co-author).
Description
Composition of the episodes
Until the fourth season, the episodes were short, on average between 3 and 5 minutes, condensing the numerals, realities and future ideas quickly.
During the fifth season, the episodes are dividing in three parts : the first explaining the situation and setting numerals out quickly in few minutes, before a phase of interview of a specialist in this subject, who explains more in detail the problem and the possibilities, that are picked again in the last part. The images and texts are arranged in mosaic, depicting an image in the fourth first seasons, and an emblematic statue of our society in the fifth.
Authors
Julien Goetz works at the beginning of the 2000s for the very one multimedia editorial board of Radio France as a freelance web developer during six or seven years. Then, he joins the OWNI company (acronym of "Objet web non identifié", in English : "Unidentified Web object") during two years to make data journalism in 2011.
In 2011, he takes part in other projects like Nuit sujet (in English : "Night subject") with Radio Nova where debates are approached. From September 2012 to June 2013, he is co-author in C Politique on France 5. In May and June 2014, he contacts France 4 for the creation of the DataGueule's channel. He is also actor from time to time and is often employed to make voice-over.
He co-writes with Jean-Marc Manach a report for Arte, titled Une contre-histoire de l'Internet (in English : "a counter-history of the Internet"). From November 2013 to March 2014, he works with Premières Lignes Télévision and Journalism++ on Jeu d'influence (in English : "Influence game"), a concept mixing game and documentary talking about the crisis' questions. In 2015, he works to the writing of a documentary of 90 min.
It is on June 6, 2014, that the channel DataGueule appear for the first time on the Web, with a video about Ukraine. Their research work begins on May 6, 2014. The principle of this programme is to "deconstruct several mechanisms, with humor and if possible an historical prism (...) subjects about which we realize that it doesn't run smoothly. Even if we must dissect them to understand exactly what doesn't run smoothly".
This programme isn't the one who create the genre, an Australian first concept existed yet, named Hungry Beast, but owing to numerals and datas used as well as the informal tone that France 4 allows, the ton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Network%20Against%20Racism | The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) is a member organisation which campaigns against racism and other discrimination in Ireland.
History
Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) was founded with the mission of "combating racism and all related forms of discrimination in every sphere of life in Ireland", formerly known as ENAR Ireland. It is the umbrella organisation of over 164 Irish civic society organisations.
Core activities
INAR's work includes organising campaigns and projects, developing policies and training, and conducting research. It is a member of the European Network Against Racism. In March 2020, INAR published a report which outlined a large increase in the frequency of racist discriminatory incidents, hate incidents, hate crimes and hate speech incidents in Ireland in the preceding two years, from 140 incidents in 2018 to 530 in 2019. They called on the Irish government to develop a National Action Plan Against Racism to combat this. Alongside a number of other organisations they called for the introduction of hate crime legislation as recommended by the UN in 2019. One of their projects was the creation of a smartphone application for the reporting of incidents of racial abuse or discrimination, iReport.ie, which was launched in 2013. The goal is to collect data relating to racist incidents in Ireland to better understand the nature and frequency of these events. They have also reported on the perceptions of the victims of racial abuse, highlighting the inadequate response from the Gardaí.
References
Human rights organisations based in Ireland
Anti-racist organizations in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20Asia%20Channel | Heart of Asia Channel (known on-air as Heart of Asia and stylized as HEART OF asia) is a Philippine free-to-air television channel owned by GMA Network Inc. The channel was on test broadcast from June 12 until June 28, 2020, and was officially launched on June 29, 2020. It operates Monday to Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:10 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 a.m. to midnight.
Overview
Background
Heart of Asia is inspired from the programming block of the same name by GMA Network that airs Filipino-dubbed Asian dramas.
Heart of Asia Channel airs Asian dramas that have been broadcast on its sister channels, GMA and GTV (formerly QTV/Q and GMA News TV) along with channel-only exclusive Asian dramas that never been aired on the aforementioned channels. The channel also airs local dramas previously broadcast on GMA, as well as local and Asian films broadcast on GMA, GTV and I Heart Movies.
Plans
In 2019, GMA Network, Inc. has announced its plans to invest for its second phase its transition to digital television, including partnering with American entertainment company JungoTV and Philippine media company Solar Entertainment Corporation (SEC) to distribute content in across all its channels. In preparation of releasing a self-patented digital television box named GMA Affordabox, and as part of its 70th founding anniversary, GMA Network launched a new channel, Heart of Asia, which its plans to include in their digital channel lineup of DZBB-DTV Channel 15.
Launch
On June 7, 2020, GMA Network announced to the audiences to re-scan their digital TV boxes on June 12, 2020, to receive their new channel lineup which includes GMA, GMA News TV and Heart of Asia Channel. The channel plans to air dramas shown on GMA Network's The Heart of Asia and FantaSeries programming blocks, as well as GMA-produced drama programs previously aired on cable/satellite channel Fox Filipino, jointly run with Fox Networks Group, and local and Asian movies.
Heart of Asia Channel was on test broadcast on June 12, 2020, airing provisional programs while showing promotional plugs for the upcoming programs with assigned programming blocks. The channel debuted on June 29 with regular programming.
On February 27, 2023, Heart of Asia, along with other GMA Network-owned channels, switched its broadcast from the original 4:3 format to 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format.
Programming
The channel's programming blocks are listed in alphabetical order:
Current
Absolutely Asian — the channel's secondary programming block consisting of mixed Asian dramas. It was formerly known as Asian Invasion.
Action Flicks — a film presentation of Asian action films.
Asian CineMix — a film presentation of mixed Asian films.
ATINovelas — a programming block featuring Filipino dramas by GMA Network. ATINovelas is a portmanteau of Filipino words "atin" ("our own") and "novelas".
Feel na Films — a film presentation of Asian romance and drama films.
K-Feels — the channel's primary programming block |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmueli | Shmueli is a Jewish name and may refer to:
Doron Shmueli, Israeli politician
Galit Shmueli, Data scientist
Shmueli Ungar, American religious singer
Zehava Shmueli, Israeli long distance runner |
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