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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature%20Venture | Creature Venture is a 1980 video game published by Highlands Computer Services.
Gameplay
Creature Venture is a game in which the player must find the treasure of the haunted Stashbuck mansion. Creature Venture was one of the first games to use animation in adventuring.
Reception
William Zurfluh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "It will provide many hours of challenging entertainment for even the seasoned expert. In conclusion I would recommend Creature Venture for either the novice or expert. I do not think you will be disappointed."
References
External links
Softalk
Electronic Fun
Review in Creative Computing
Entry in The Book of Adventure Games
1980 video games
1980s horror video games
Adventure games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raseef22 | Raseef22 () is a liberal Arabic media network founded in 2013 based in Beirut, Lebanon. It publishes content in Arabic and English from different Arab states and describes itself as an independent media platform. International Media Support mentions Raseef22 along with HuffPost Arabic and Al Jazeera as one of the biggest Pan-Arab online platforms.
Name
The Arabic word raseef () means platform or pavement, and the number 22 refers to the number of states in the Arab League.
History
Kareem Sakka co-founded Raseef22 in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, which he cites as a source of inspiration. In an article in The Washington Post, he wrote that Raseef22 was created as a "digital space for those eager to know what was going on around them."
Raseef22 was one of the 500 websites censored in Egypt in late 2017 after it published an article on Egyptian security agencies' vies to influence the media. After the site was blocked in Egypt, it was targeted in a cyber attack that took it offline in locations around the world.
Jamal Khashoggi wrote for Raseef22 regularly. One of his notable articles was "Notes on the Freedom of the Arabs from Oslo, Norway," published June 5, 2018.
The site was blocked in Saudi Arabia December 2018 when the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ordered its censorship due to its "unprecedented response to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul." This decision might have also been related to Raseef22's coverage of Saudi-Israeli relations and interviews with activists later imprisoned or placed under house arrest coverage
In 2019 the (AJL) in Paris gave Raseef22 a golden foreign press award for its six-month series of articles on gender and sexuality issues.
Readership
According to its publisher in 2019, the news agency counted 12 million readers annually from 22 Arab nations. Of the readership, he wrote that it "believes in the talent and promise of the Arab mind and sees the ugliness of tyranny, patriarchy, misogyny and the futility of proxy rulers and wars." Al-Quds Al-Arabi described Raseef22 as "oriented to the youth."
References
Digital media
Arabic-language websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202019%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2019 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. The chart week runs from Monday to Sunday.
During 2019, sixteen singles reached number one in Panama. Of those sixteen number-one singles, twelve were collaborations. In total, twenty-four acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with eighteen—Felipe Araujo, Pedro Capó, Farruko, Snow, Silvestre Dangond, Camila Cabello, Juanes, Alessia Cara, Greice Santo, Jonas Brothers, Natti Natasha, Sech, Darell, Shawn Mendes, Jace López, Real Phantom, Nacho and Yandel—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
Daddy Yankee's "Con Calma" was the longest-running number-one of the year and later ranked as the best-performing single of 2019 in Panama, leading the chart for fourteen non-consecutive weeks, becoming the fourth song with most weeks at number one in Panama following "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber (2017), "Dura" by Daddy Yankee (2018) and "Mi Gente (Remix)" by J Balvin and Willy William featuring Beyoncé (2017–18).
Daddy Yankee and Sebastián Yatra were the only acts to have multiple number-one songs in 2019, with three apiece.
Chart history
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2019 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer%20Transition%20Kit | The Developer Transition Kit is the name of two prototype Mac computers made available to software developers by Apple Inc. The first Developer Transition Kit was made available in 2005 prior to the Mac transition to Intel processors to aid in the Mac's transition from PowerPC to an Intel-based x86-64 architecture. A second Developer Transition Kit was made available in 2020 prior to the Mac transition to Apple silicon as part of its initiative to transition the Mac away from Intel to Apple's ARM64-based Apple silicon.
Intel Developer Transition Kit (2005)
During Apple's 2005–2006 transition from PowerPC to Intel processors, the company made available the first Developer Transition Kit (DTK), a prototype Intel-based Mac computer for developers.
During Apple's 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference, then-CEO Steve Jobs emphasized the non-commercial nature of the prototype hardware: "This is a development platform only. This is not a product; this will never be shipped as a product. It’s just for you guys to get started in development. You actually have to return them by the end of 2006. We don’t want them floating around out there. These are not products."
The computer identified itself as "Apple Development Platform" (ADP2,1), and consisted of a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB SATA hard disk drive, and optical disk drive in a Power Mac G5 case slightly modified with an altered cooling system. Connectivity included USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and Gigabit Ethernet. Software included Xcode 2.1 and a version of Mac OS X 10.4.1 which runs on Intel's x86 architecture.
The Intel DTK was available to software developers on a loan basis, and Apple required developers to return the prototype computers to the company within a week of December 31, 2006. Apple required developers to be a Select or Premier Apple Developer Connect (ADC) member, with memberships starting at 499 per year and additional requirement to pay 999 to receive an Intel DTK. Apple then offered developers a free Intel-based iMac in exchange for sending back the DTK. The Intel DTK would be directly succeeded by the first-generation Mac Pro.
Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit (2020)
Specifications
At the 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference, on June 22, 2020, Apple announced another Developer Transition Kit (DTK) intended to assist software developers during the transition of the Mac platform to the ARM architecture. Described informally as "an iPad in a Mac mini’s body," the DTK carries a model number of A2330 and identifies itself as "Apple Development Platform." It consisted of an A12Z processor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, and a variety of common I/O ports (USB-C, USB-A, HDMI 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet) in a Mac mini case. Support for wireless communication based upon Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth 5.0 was included, while Thunderbolt 3 support, built-in to every Mac commercially available as of June 2020, was not included. It eventually appeared in the first |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202020%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2020 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. The chart week runs from Monday to Sunday.
In 2020, eleven singles reached number one in Panama; a twelfth single, "Ya No Más" by Nacho, Joey Montana and Yandel featuring Sebastián Yatra, began its run at number one in December 2019. Of those eleven number-one singles, fourteen acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with nine—Karol G, Nicki Minaj, Carlos Vives, Myke Towers, CNCO, Greeicy, Cali y El Dandee, Wisin and The Weeknd—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
"Tusa" by Karol G and Nicki Minaj was the longest-running number-one of the year, and later ranked as the best-performing single of 2020 in Panama, leading the chart for fourteen consecutive weeks, tying with "Con Calma" by Daddy Yankee featuring Snow (2018) as the fourth longest-running number-one song in Panama.
Carlos Vives is the only act to have multiple number-one songs in 2020, with three apiece.
Chart history
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2020 in Panama
Panama 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202016%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2016 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. The chart week runs from Monday to Sunday.
Monitor Latino started monitoring radio stations in Mexico and the United States in 2003, and since then, the company expanded into other Latin American markets, and currently it monitors radio stations and issues music charts for 18 countries, including Panama.
The first weekly chart issue was dated December 5, 2016, with "Safari" by J Balvin featuring Pharrell Williams, Bia and Sky, debuting at number one and spending four consecutive weeks atop the chart, becoming their first number-one song ever in Panama.
Chart history
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2016 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20microscopy | Computational microscopy is a subfield of computational imaging, which combines algorithmic reconstruction with sensing to capture microscopic images of objects. The algorithms used in computational microscopy often combine the information of several images captured using various illuminations or measurements to form an aggregated 2D or 3D image using iterative techniques or machine learning. Notable forms of computational microscopy include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, quantitative phase imaging, and Fourier ptychography. Computational microscopy is at the intersection of computer science and optics.
References
Imaging
Microscopy
Multidimensional signal processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Fang%20%282018%20film%29 | White Fang () is a 2018 French-Luxembourgish computer-animated film directed by Alexandre Espigares. Based on the 1906 book of the same name by Jack London, the film features the voices of Nick Offerman, Rashida Jones, Paul Giamatti, and Eddie Spears as natives of Alaska who, at different times, come to know White Fang, a free spirited and at times violent wolfdog who eventually bonds with Offerman's character, a gentle master named Weedon Scott. The film also features Dave Boat, Daniel Hagen, and Stephen Kramer Glickman in the original English version, and Virginie Efira, Raphaël Personnaz, and Dominique Pinon in the French dub.
The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2018. After a limited theatrical run in France and the United States, Netflix acquired the film and released it later that year, on July 6, 2018. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences. During its theatrical run, White Fang grossed $7.8 million worldwide.
Plot
White Fang, a wolfdog, is mauled during a dog fight. Town marshal Weedon Scott tries to interfere, but White Fang's owner, Beauty Smith, overpowers him, knocking him out with his cane. When the police search for Weedon, he runs away.
In a flashback, White Fang lives with his mother, another wolfdog. While searching for a shelter, they get attacked by a lynx. White Fang's mother successfully kills the predator, but not without injury. While Scott camps for the night after escaping a pack of wolves with Hank, another Marshall, and Jim Hall, a criminal being transported to prison, White Fang and his mother head to their campground to search for food. Hank notices the pair and attempts to shoot White Fang's mother to put her down due to her injured leg. Scott stops Hank from killing White Fang's mother and instead gives White Fang a piece of salmon, saying that he might be able to return the favour in the future. White Fang and Kiche then end up encountering the pack of wolves Weedon encountered. Kiche then throws the salmon towards the pack to distract them, giving her and White Fang a chance to escape.
While searching for food the following morning, White Fang and his mother come across an Indigenous camp. When a man named Three Eagles attempts to kill White Fang's mother, Grey Beaver, another man recognises her as Kiche, his old sled dog. Three Eagles leaves Kiche to Grey Beaver, who decides to train her to become a sled dog again. Later, Hank comes to the camp area to tell the Indigenous people that their land is currently on sale due to a recent gold strike, and Grey Beaver resolves to buy back the land by selling beaver pelt mittens in Fort Yukon.
When Grey Beaver realises that there are no beavers on his side of the land, he decides to give Kiche to a man named William in exchange for trapping beavers on William's side. After selling the amount of mittens he needs to buy back the land, Grey Beaver travels to Fort Yukon with White Fang, where they run into Smith. Smith attempts to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBS%20Television%20%28Uganda%29 | NBS Television, owned by Kin Kariisa, is a Ugandan television network with its headquarters located at Next Media Park, Plot 13, Summit View Road, Naguru, Kampala District.
Background
The story of Next Media Services started with the founding of NBS Television with broadcasts commencing on June 16, 2008, when it was registered and got its license, owning just one transmitter and headquartered at Media Plaza in Kamwokya, a Kampala Suburb. The founding of the television heralded the launch of sister companies that include Sanyuka TV, Salaam TV (with broadcasting based on the Islamic faith), Nile post (an online newspaper), Next Radio, and Next Conference Centre ( an events center), Next Productions and Next Communications. The group celebrated its tenth anniversary in June 2018 and later moved to Next Media Park, the former headquarters of the now defunct WBS TV. NBS Television has several notable senior on-air personalities, including Joseph Kigozi; the current Chief of Strategy, Canary MugumeRukh-Shana Namuyimba, and Solomon Serwanjja as news presenters. One of the most celebrated female journalists in the East African region, Joy Doreen Biira, was a pioneer presenter.
The flagship station is known for its focus on politics, hence “The Political Command Centre” slogan. The station has one of the biggest political talk shows in the country, Frontline which airs every Thursday night and brings together political leaders from different political parties and Barometer, the Luganda equivalent which airs every Tuesday night.
NBS also has a series of business, movies, sports, youth and entertainment shows.
The group's Luganda television Sanyuka TV airs shows such as the Startimes Uganda Premier League and the popular showbiz program Uncut which also airs on NBS Television for a short period.
Personalities
Canary Mugume
Canary Mugume is a Ugandan investigative journalist with NBS Television and a Léo Africa Young Emerging Leaders Program Fellow. His investigative reporting is specialized in current affairs, dysfunctions of the economy, and social matters and led him to be elevated to the prime news bulletin Live @ 9 together with Isabella Tugume on Monday 2 August 2021.
Samson Kasumba
Samson Kasumba is a Ugandan Pastor, News anchor and Show host. He works with NBS Television especially live at 9.
He was working with Urban TV Uganda before he joined NBS Television in 2016. He was also part of the Topowa Campaign by CCEDU, a human Rights advocate team sensitizing people during the 2016 general elections. He was of recent arrested for allegedly undermining government measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Solomon Serwanjja
Solomon Serwanjja is a Ugandan investigative journalist and news anchor with NBS Television. In 2019, Serwanjja was awarded the Komla Dumor Award, an annual award presented by the BBC "to an outstanding individual living and working in Africa, who combines strong journalism skills, on-air flair, and an exceptional talent i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharti%20Infratel | Bharti Infratel Limited was an Indian telecommunications infrastructure company that provided telecom infrastructure such as telecom towers, fiber networks and other related infrastructure. Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, the company was established by Bharti Airtel in July 2007 by spinning-off its mobile towers to a new wholly-owned subsidiary. Bharti Infratel was the first Indian company to start a tower infrastructure sharing business. It was India's largest consolidated tower infrastructure company, directly owning 95,372 towers as on 31 March 2020.
Bharti Infratel was merged with Indus Towers on 19 November 2020. Bharti Airtel now holds a 36.73% stake in Indus Towers.
History
On 23 January 2007, Bharti Airtel announced that it would spin-off its mobile towers to a new wholly-owned subsidiary called Bharti Infratel Limited. Bharti Infratel Limited was incorporated in July 2007.
Bharti Infratel initiated an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2012 raising US$764 million. The IPO was subscribed 1.3 times and was the largest IPO in India since Coal India in October 2010. Bharti Infratel was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange on 28 December 2012.
The company used to be in the NIFTY 50 index. In September 2020, Divi's Laboratories and SBI Life Insurance Company replaced Bharti Infratel and Zee Entertainment Enterprises on the index.
Merger with Indus Towers
Indus Towers was incorporated in November 2007 as an Indian telecommunications infrastructure company offering passive infrastructure services to telecom operators and other wireless services providers such as broadband service providers. Bharti Infratel held a 42% stake in the company, with Vodafone Group holding 42% and Vodafone Idea holding 11.15%. The remaining 4.85% stake was held by private equity firm Providence Equity.
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Group, and Vodafone Idea announced on 25 April 2018 that they had signed an agreement to merge Bharti Infratel with Indus Towers. The merger was originally planned to go through before October 2019. However, due to delays in approvals, it was postponed to December 2019 by when the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was supposed to give its permission. Owing to further delays by the DoT and the National Company Law Tribunal, the deadline was extended multiple times to 24 June 2020.
The DoT approved the merger on 21 February 2020. The merger received foreign direct investment approval and was due to be completed by 31 August. The merger was approved by Bharti Infratel's board on 1 September, and by Vodafone Group in October 2020.
The merger was completed on 19 November 2020. Vodafone Idea received as compensation for its 11.15% stake. Post-merger, Bharti Airtel received a 36.73% stake in the merged entity and Vodafone Group held a 28.12% stake. The remaining shares are held by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners (3.1%) and public shares (35.2%). The merger made Indus Towers the sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW190814 | GW 190814 was a gravitational wave (GW) signal observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors on 14 August 2019 at 21:10:39 UTC, and having a signal-to-noise ratio of 25 in the three-detector network. The signal was associated with the astronomical superevent S190814bv, located 790 million light years away, in location area 18.5 deg2 towards Cetus or Sculptor. No optical counterpart was discovered despite an extensive search of the probability region.
Discovery
In June 2020, astronomers reported details of a compact binary merging, in the "mass gap" of cosmic collisions, of a first-ever "mystery object", either an extremely heavy neutron star (that was theorized not to exist) or a too-light black hole, with a black hole, that was detected as the gravitational wave GW190814.
The mass of the lighter component is estimated to be 2.6 times the mass of the Sun ( ≈ ), placing it in the aforementioned mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.
Despite an intensive search, no optical counterpart to the gravitational wave was observed. The lack of emitted light could be consistent with either a situation in which a black hole entirely consumed a neutron star or the merger of two black holes.
See also
Gravitational-wave astronomy
List of gravitational wave observations
Multi-messenger astronomy
Notes
References
External links
(24 June 2020; Science Fellow)
(24 June 2020; LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
(23 June 2020; Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
(23 June 2020; Gravitational-wave Open Science Center (GWOSC))
Black holes
Gravitational waves
Neutron stars
Theory of relativity
August 2019 events
2019 in science
2019 in space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20the%20Millennium | Music of the Millennium was a nation-wide public survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 1999 by HMV music stores, in partnership with the Channel 4 television network and Classic FM radio. One of many culture-related surveys leading up to the new millennium, it polled listeners to decide the best music of the previous 1000 years. Around 600,000 people participated in the poll, making it the largest survey on popular music up to that time.
Respondents listed their choice of best artist or work in ten categories. The results were announced on 6 November and presented seven days later on Channel 4's three-hour TV special Music of the Millennium. The Beatles, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Madonna, Queen, Louis Armstrong, Mozart and Vivaldi each topped categories in the survey.
Concept and launch
HMV launched Music of the Millennium as a marketing venture on 18 January 1999. It followed a similarly titled survey conducted the previous year by HMV and Channel 4 to determine the "greatest album of all time". Concluding on 24 January 1998 and televised as Music of the Millennium – The Final Countdown, the earlier survey attracted 36,000 respondents, all aged between 19 and 45. The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band topped the poll, ahead of the Stone Roses' self-titled debut album and the Beatles' Revolver. On the Channel 4 TV special, the results were discussed by a panel that included John Peel, Jo Whiley, Bob Geldof, Paul Gambaccini and Justine Frischmann, interspersed with pre-recorded endorsements from individuals such as Fay Weldon, John Cooper Clarke and Loyd Grossman.
For the 1999 poll, the organisers sought to broaden its scope beyond albums and attract a wider range of musical tastes. The survey consisted of ten categories: Most Influential Musician, Best Band, Best Album, Best Songwriter, Best Song, Best Male Singer, Best Female Singer, Best Jazz Musician, Best Piece of Classical Music, and Best Classical Composer. HMV marketing executive Cormac Loughran said that the company hoped the year-long survey would "run like an election", with people eager to ensure recognition for their preferred artists. He likened it to a "social statement" that would demonstrate music's impact on the British people.
When announcing the venture, HMV said it planned to distribute 500,000 voting forms across its 108 stores and produce 25 million shopping bags to serve as additional forms. Classic FM helped publicise the project, while Channel 4 broadcast five-minute segments featuring musicians discussing their favourite artist or piece of music. The first batch of clips included Sinéad O'Connor (discussing Bob Marley), Herbie Hancock (George Gershwin) and Alexander O'Neal (Otis Redding). By July, fifteen of these segments had aired on Channel 4.
Shortly after the launch, Billboard magazine quoted Loughran as saying that 1999 was "going to be a year of lists", in the lead-up to the new millennium, and HMV's aim was to create "the definitive list". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasson%20Dock%20branch%20line | The Glasson Dock Branch Line was a railway line in Lancashire, England. Opened in 1883, this 5-mile branch line connected Glasson Dock to the UK rail network at Lancaster, with stations at Glasson Dock, Conder Green and at a private halt, Ashton Hall railway station. Passenger and freight services were provided, and its success came from transporting goods from the dock at Glasson and from St Georges Quay in Lancaster.
History, operation and decline
Glasson Dock was taking in 10,000 tons a day by 1830, with ships from the Isle of Man and elsewhere. So, it was decided a branch line would be built so ship-brought cargo could be transported by rail. There was a goods shed after Lancaster, which was where a separate, shorter line (St George's Quay branch) joined the railway. Due to its low-lying nature, the line was prone to flooding. The dock slowly declined though, and the goods services finally stopped in September 1964. Passenger services left Lancaster Castle Station on the westside down-bay platform, but they ceased in July 1930.
The route today
The route is easily traceable, leaving the West Coast Main Line just before the Carlisle Bridge. It is now a much-used cycleway, starting at the Lune Millennium Bridge in Lancaster, that forms part of the larger Bay Cycle Way. Conder Green Station is still visible, as is the halt at Ashton Hall, though the one at Glasson Dock has been demolished.
References
Closed railway lines in North West England
Historic transport in Lancashire
Railway lines opened in 1883
Railway lines closed in 1964
London and North Western Railway
Rail transport in Lancashire
History of Lancaster
Transport in the City of Lancaster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear | Trilinear may refer to:
Trilinear filtering, a method in computer graphics for choosing the color of a texture
Trilinear form, a type of mathematical function from a vector space to the underlying field
Trilinear interpolation, an extension of linear interpolation for interpolating functions of three variables on a rectilinear 3D grid
Trilinear map, a type of mathematical function between vector spaces
Trilinear coordinates
Trilinear polarity, in geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline%20Asiimwe | Jackie Asiimwe–Mwesige, (nee:Jacqueline Asiimwe) (born March 1970), is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and philanthropy advisor. She is the current Chairperson of the East African Philanthropy Network (EAPN) and chief executive officer of CivSource Africa, a philanthropy advisory service company that she founded in 2017.
She concurrently serves as the chairperson of the International Centre for Research on Women Uganda, an affiliate of the International Center for Research on Women ICRW, based in Washington, DC, United States. Jacqueline is a member of the Global Board of ICRW. She also served as the Deputy Programme and Advocacy Manager for the Civil Society Capacity Building Programme, funded by the European Union, from 2007 until 2009.
Early life and education
She was born in March 1970 at Mengo Hospital in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Her parents are Reverend Benon Mugarura Mutana and Mrs Joye Mugarura.
Asiimwe attended Mengo Primary School where she sat P7 in 1983. She then joined Gayaza High School the oldest girls' secondary school in Uganda, from 1984 to 1989 for both O-Level and A-Level studies. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, awarded by Makerere University, Uganda's largest and oldest public university.
She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, obtained from the Law Development Centre in Kampala. Her Master of Laws degree was awarded by Georgetown University Law School, in Washington, D.C.
Career
While still an undergraduate at Makerere University, Jacqueline became a member of the Uganda chapter of Federacion Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA) (International Federation of Women Lawyers), starting as a volunteer.
She also worked as an advocacy officer at Uganda Women's Network (UWONET). During this time, she worked with many women who silently grapple with issues of maintenance, domestic violence, and rape.
She also worked as a country manager for an anonymous donor, Deputy Programme and Advocacy Manager for European Union Civil Society Capacity building programme, Chief Executive Officer Uganda Women's Network, Fellow; Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Asiimwe is the Chief Executive Officer CivSource Africa an organization that identifies and supports the work of funding agencies and philanthropists in Africa. The organization particularly seeks to connect with and support local/Africa led philanthropy and provides grant management and advisory services on context and strategy.
Asiimwe has also served as a Chairperson of the Ugandan affiliate of the International Center for Research on Women. She is a board member of Femme Forte, Project Soar and East Africa Philanthropy Network. She also served as the country manager for Uganda at Wellspring Advisors, an American philanthropic advisory firm.
Asiimwe is known for zealous fight for women's rights, not only in Uganda, but also internationally. She participated in the "Black Monday" campaign; an initiative by several civil society organisations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiverTV | RiverTV is a Canadian OTT internet television service owned by VMedia that launched on June 4, 2020. RiverTV is a virtual multichannel video programming distributor (vMVPD), primarily offering Canadian specialty channels and video on demand content.
The service initially launched in a closed beta on May 4, 2020 before releasing publicly in June with a free 7-day trial offer for new subscribers.
RiverTV is the first standalone Live TV service to launch in Canada; StackTV, a streaming package offered by Corus Entertainment that functions similarly, launched the previous year in 2019.
Programming
In addition to live linear feeds and on demand services from various domestic television broadcasters, RiverTV also distributes several U.S-based networks not available on traditional TV providers.
Canadian networks
Blue Ant Media
Cottage Life
Makeful
Smithsonian Channel
T+E
CBC/Radio-Canada
CBC
CBC News Network
ICI Tele
ICI RDI
ICI Explora
ICI ARTV
Channel Zero
CHCH Hamilton
Rewind
Silver Screen Classics
Corus Entertainment
Adult Swim
Cartoon Network Canada
Crime + Investigation Canada
Food Network Canada
Global TV (feed varies depending on the province)
HGTV Canada
The History Channel
History2
Lifetime Canada
MovieTime
National Geographic
Showcase
Slice
Treehouse
YTV
W Network
WildBrain
Family Channel
WildBrainTV
Family Jr.
U.S Networks
Bloomberg Quicktake
Cheddar
Law & Crime
Newsmax
Revolt
Add-ons
Documentary Channel,
ducktv
France 24
Hollywood Suite
i24 News
Mezzo Live HD
TELETOON+
Planète+
Super Channel
TRT Arabi
TRT World
Former
Newsy
Availability
As of July 2020, RiverTV's content can be accessed through the service's apps for Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, and iOS devices within Canada.
Footnotes
References
External links
Official Website
Video rental services
Internet television streaming services
Subscription video on demand services
Canadian video on demand services
VMedia
2020 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Norwegian%20films%20of%20the%202020s | Some films produced in Norway in the 2020s:
2020s
References
External links
Norwegian film at the Internet Movie Database
2020s
Lists of 2020s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202017%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2017 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. The chart week runs from Monday to Sunday.
During 2017, five singles reached number one in Panama. Of those, all five were collaborations. In total, eleven acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with nine—Zion & Lennox, Maluma, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber, Beyoncé, Willy William, Joey Montana and Sebastián Yatra—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
In Panama, the best-performing single of 2017 was "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber. The song, currently holds the record for the longest-running number-one song in Panama, spending a record-extending 24 consecutive weeks topping the Panamanian charts. It also became the second song to debut at number one in Panama, and first since J Balvin's 2016 single, "Safari".
Joey Montana became the first Panamanian act to top the charts as his collaboration with Sebastián Yatra, "Suena El Dembow" reached number one in late 2017, becoming for both Montana and Yatra, their first number-one song in Panama. The song also became the fifth longest-running number-one song in the country, spending 11 non-consecutive weeks atop the charts.
J Balvin became the only act to have more than one number one song in 2017, with him earning two songs: "Otra Vez" featuring Zion & Lennox, and "Mi Gente (Remix)" with Willy William featuring Beyoncé.
Chart history
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2017 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Data%20Monitor | Trade Data Monitor (TDM) is a trade data company based in Charleston, SC and Geneva, Switzerland. It procures and aggregates monthly import and export statistics for over 110 countries using Harmonized System commodity codes, offers specialized training in trade statistics, and provides clients with a searchable database and built-to-order statistical reports.
Trade Data Monitor has been widely cited for international trade statistics. Organizations that have cited TDM include international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund, and branches and publications of the United States government, such as the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Commerce, and the United States International Trade Commission. TDM has also been cited in published research, including in the journals ARE Update and Choices, and in California Agriculture, a book published by the University of California. It has also appeared in news media, now with increasing frequency as the economic impact of the China–United States trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to changes in international trade. Recently, TDM has been cited by The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, among other news sources.
TDM was founded by C. Donald Brasher Jr., an internationally recognized specialist in trade data analysis who has advised more than 16 governments and has worked with the United States Department of Commerce, the International Business and Economic Research Corporation in Washington, DC, and the Center for International Technological Cooperation and Development at the American University. He has also been quoted by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and the Journal of Commerce.
References
External links
TradeDataMonitor.com
International trade organizations
Organisations based in Geneva
Organizations based in Charleston, South Carolina
Organizations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202018%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2018 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. The chart week runs from Monday to Sunday.
During 2018, twelve singles reached number one in Panama; a thirteenth single, "Mi Gente (Remix)" by J Balvin and Willy William featuring Beyoncé began its run at number one in July 2017. Of those twelve number-one singles, ten were collaborations. In total, twenty-two acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists, with fourteen—Becky G, Bad Bunny, Demi Lovato, Nicky Jam, Will Smith, Era Istrefi, Anitta, Lalo Ebratt, Trapical, DJ Snake, Selena Gomez, Cardi B, Ozuna and Kenny Man—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
In Panama, the best-performing single of 2018 was "Dura" by Daddy Yankee. It spent 19 non-consecutive weeks atop the charts, becoming the second longest-running number-one song in the country, behind "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi (2017). With "Dura", Daddy Yankee holds the record as the act with the most cumulative weeks at number one in Panama, with 43 weeks in total.
J Balvin once again became the only act to have multiple number-one singles in Panama. In 2018, J Balvin earned three number-one songs: "X" with Nicky Jam, "No es justo" with Zion & Lennox and "Mocca (Remix)" with Lalo Ebratt. It became the third consecutive year that J Balvin hit a number-one song in the country.
Chart history
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2018 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataWorks%20Plus | DataWorks Plus LLC is a privately held biometrics systems integrator based in Greenville, South Carolina. The company started in 2000 and originally focused on mugshot management, adding facial recognition beginning in 2005. Brad Bylenga is the CEO, and Todd Pastorini is the EVP and GM. Usage of the technology by police departments has resulted in wrongful arrests.
Products
The company focuses on biometrics storage and matching, including fingerprints, palm prints, irises, tattoos, and mugshots.
Face Watch can continuously detect on live video streams, recognizing faces on individual video frames and cataloging the timestamps.
FACE Plus is their photo (still image) facial recognition program. It includes advanced filtering and can reconstruct a 3D model from photos to correct their angle, called pose correction.
DataWorks uses facial recognition algorithms from NEC, Rank One Computing (of Colorado, CEO Brendan Klare), and Cognitec. Both the NEC and Rank One algorithms showed algorithmic bias in a NIST study. DataWorks' EVP and GM, Todd Pastorini told New York Times that they don't formally measure the accuracy or bias, but "We've become a pseudo-expert in the technology".
Installations
California
DataWorks created the "California Facial Recognition Interconnect". This statewide face recognition network is used by the Los Angeles County Sheriff (9 million images), San Diego County Sheriff (2.5 million images), Sacramento County Sheriff (1.75 million images), San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department/Riverside County Sheriff's Department (2.7 million images), Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office (since 2012, 1 million images), San Francisco Police Department (1 million images; see below), and unidentified agencies in San Mateo County and San Joaquin County.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff, using Cognitec's algorithm, acquired in 2008 on a 7-year contract, and signed a 7-year, $3.5m contract extension in 2015. The contract renewal was approved unanimously by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. In addition to Interconnect, Los Angeles County has access to fingerprinting, facial recognition, tattoo matching (2 million images or templates), composite drawing, and access to DMV images in the unrelated Cal-Photo.
Other California uses
The San Diego County Sheriff's use of DataWorks is well established to at least 2007. A report discussed DataWorks installing a trial of Face Plus for facial recognition that year. The facial recognition system was in place and being upgraded to use Cognitec's algorithm in 2010.
The San Francisco Police's most recent 3-year contract was signed in 2017 for $150k per year. It included what was labeled "FR Software" and a "Face Plus" server. It also included the "Mugshot database". San Francisco banned government usage of facial recognition software beginning in May 2019. DataWorks's Pastorini said their tools don't use neural nets or machine learning like Microsoft's Face API or Amazon Rekognition, statin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet%20es-Sar | Khirbet es-Sar is an archaeological site in Jordan. It lies in the western suburb of modern Amman, on the edge of a plateau (972 m a.s.l.). In the MEGA Jordan database, which stores information about sites located in Jordan, Khirbet es-Sar can be found under numbers 11304 (as Sarah) and 3007 (as Kh. Sar).
Its original name is unknown, and some scholars identify it with the ancient city of Jazer, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible and in 1 Maccabees.
Archaeological research
The site was first mentioned by Selah Merrill in 1881, and other travelers referred to it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well. In 2000, Chang-ho C. Ji from La Sierra University in California included Khirbet es-Sar in his survey project. He identified a square building with a courtyard, which was thought to be a qasr (castle), and several other architectural complexes. However, no excavations or comprehensive reconnaissance were carried out.
Since 2018, work in Khirbet es-Sar has been conducted by an expedition from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, directed by Prof. Jolanta Młynarczyk and Dr. Mariusz Burdajewicz from the Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw in cooperation with Department of Antiquities of Jordan. The first-ever excavations on the site were preceded by non-invasive research: the whole area was surveyed using an electrical resistivity method, and all architectural objects visible on the surface were documented. The interpretation of the complex described earlier as qasr was corrected—current research suggests it was a temple complex. The walls of the square building were constructed of large stone blocks and measured 20 m in length. The temple was built in the 7th century BC. A rectangular courtyard with two rows of limestone arcades was added to it later.
The geophysical prospection revealed that there were numerous walls of buildings under the surface. The first complete map of the settlement, which had functioned from the Iron Age to the medieval period, was created on this basis. Pottery fragments from different periods were also identified; about 80% of them belong to Mamluk painted pottery. Khirbat es-Sar lies on the road linking the Jordan Valley with Rabbath Ammon, the Greco-Roman Philadelphia (modern Amman), so it must have been an important strategic and trade center.
References
Młynarczyk, J., Burdajewicz, M. with Appendix by Ryndziewicz, R.. Archaeological survey at the site of Khirbat el-Sar/Sara) Jordan, with Appendix: Preliminary results of the geophysical survey at Khirbat al-Sar/Sara, Jordan. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 27/1 (2018)
Glueck, N. Explorations in Eastern Palestine III, The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. 18/19 (1939)
Merrill, S. East of the Jordan, New York 1881
External links
MEGA-Jordan database
Archaeological expedition in Khirbet es-Sar
Archaeological sites in Jordan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.J.%20Garcia-Luna-Aceves | J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves is a Mexican-American computer engineer, currently professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Until 2023, he was the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California at Santa Cruz UCSC, holding the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair of Computer Engineering, is CITRIS Campus Director for UCSC, and was a Principal Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC). He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to theory and design of communication protocols for network routing and channel access and a fellow to AAAS.
Education
He obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana ("La Ibero"), Mexico City, Mexico in 1977 and his M.S. and Ph.D., Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1980 and 1983.
Career
Prior to joining UCSC in 1993, he was a Center Director at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. He first joined SRI as an SRI International Fellow in 1982. He was a Visiting Professor at Sun Labs in Menlo Park, California in 1999, and was a Principal of Protocol Design for NOKIA from 1999 to 2003. He is past Chair of the Computer Engineering Department at UCSC.
Hwwas elected a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias) in 2013. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2006, an ACM Fellow in 2008, and a AAAS Fellow in 2010.
He received the IEEE MILCOM Technical Achievement Award in 2016 and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2011 from the IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC) Technical Recognition Award in 2012 for contributions to the theory and design of communication protocols for routing and channel access in ad-hoc wireless networks; and the SRI International Exceptional-Achievement Award in 1985 and 1989 for multimedia communications and adaptive routing algorithms. He was a Visiting Professor at the Computing Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, Mexico in 2012.
He is the co-recipient of the IEEE Fred W. Ellersick 2008 MILCOM Award for Best Unclassified Paper.
His current research interest is the analysis and design of algorithms and protocols for computer communication. At UCSC, he leads the Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG), which is home to many research projects that focus on internetworking, information-centric networks, wireless networks, the Internet of Things, and cyber-physical networks.
Publications
His most cited papers are:
Murthy S, Garcia-Luna-Aceves JJ. An efficient routing protocol for wireless networks. Mobile Networks and applications. 1996 Jun;1(2):183-97.(Cited 2065 times, according to Google Scholar)
Rajendran V, Obraczka K, Garcia-Luna-Aceves JJ. Energy-efficient collision-free medium access control for wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Emb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUQUEEN | JUQUEEN was a Blue Gene/Q system supercomputer built by IBM. Financed by the Helmholtz Association and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from North Rhine-Westphalia, it was put into operation in 2012 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich as the successor to the JUGENE supercomputer.
JUQUEEN was the fastest computer in Europe and ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers. It was also one of the most energy-efficient systems in the world for its time and ranked 5th on the Green500 list. It consisted of 458,752 processor cores and had a maximum computing power of 5.9 petaflops.
JUQUEEN was used for several research projects, including the Human Brain Project.
JUQEEN was shut down in May 2018 after six years of operation and replaced by the successor JUWELS.
External links
Official website (archived)
References
IBM supercomputers
Supercomputing in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingying%20Fan | Yingying Fan is a Chinese-American statistician and Centennial Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She is currently the Associate Dean for the PhD Program at USC Marshall. She also holds joint appointments at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Keck Medicine of USC. Her contributions to statistics and data science were recognized by the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze in 2017 and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture in 2023. She was elected Fellow of American Statistical Association in 2019 and Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for seminal contributions to high-dimensional inference, variable selection, classification, networks, and nonparametric methodology, particularly in the field of financial econometrics, and for conscientious professional service" in 2020.
Jointly with her collaborators, she has developed some popular statistical and data science tools including the GIC, MXK, DeepLINK, and SIMPLE as well as some fundamental asymptotic theory for the eigenvectors of large random matrices and high-dimensional random forests.
Some representative publications:
1). Chi, C.-M., Vossler, P., Fan, Y. and Lv, J. (2022). Asymptotic properties of high-dimensional random forests. The Annals of Statistics 50, 3415-3438.
2). Fan, J., Fan, Y., Han, X. and Lv, J. (2022). SIMPLE: statistical inference on membership profiles in large networks. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 84, 630-653.
3). Zhu, Z., Fan, Y., Kong, Y., Lv, J. and Sun, F. (2021). DeepLINK: deep learning inference using knockoffs with applications to genomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, e2104683118.
4). Candès, E. J., Fan, Y., Janson, L. and Lv, J. (2018). Panning for gold: 'model-X' knockoffs for high dimensional controlled variable selection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 80, 551-577.
5). Fan, Y. and Tang, C. (2013). Tuning parameter selection in high dimensional penalized likelihood. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 75, 531-552.
References
American statisticians
Women statisticians
University of Southern California faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20Latvia | The following is a list of biggest lakes of Latvia.
Lakes by area
Lakes by depth
Notes
External links
Database of lakes in Latvia
Lists of lakes by country |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPA%20model | In the analysis of social networks, the uniform-preferential-attachment model, or UPA model is a variation of the Barabási–Albert model in which the preferential attachment is perceived as having a double nature. New nodes joining the network may either attach themselves with high-degree nodes or with most recently added nodes. This behaviour can be noticed in some examples of social networks, such as the citation network of scientific publications.
Model description
For an UPA network with nodes , we define for an arriving node a subset of nodes with . This subset is called a window, which represents the w last nodes inserted into the network. A new node may link itself either with a node from the window subset, with probability p, or with any other node from with probability 1-p. In the former case, the node probability distribution is uniform: each node has a probability of being chosen. In the latter, node selection follows a preferential attachment rule, as in the Barabási–Albert model.
The window size may be constant during the addition of new nodes, expressed by , where is a discrete time variable. It can also grow with time in accord to , where , which means that window size growth is linear with the size of the network. The network keeps its asymptotic power law behavior in degree distribution for both cases.
Note that when and , the UPA model reduces to the Barabási–Albert model.
Degree distribution
The degree distribution for an UPA network is, considering and :
And for we have:
Where is the Beta function and is:
The demonstration of these formulae involves the analysis of recursive functions and the Azuma-Hoeffding Inequality. It is observable that for and , the degree distribution follows a power law with exponent , as expected for the equivalent Barabási–Albert model. It is also proven that for every probability and window size , the network asymptotically follows a power law and thus keeps its scale free behavior.
Occurrences in real world
Reddit
An UPA network may be used to model Reddit positive votes (upvotes). Consider each node represented by a post and the links representing upvotes given by the author after posting . Whenever a user posts a comment, he or she usually look in the same topic for another post to comment on, which characterizes a uniform attachment. However, this user may also find it more interesting to search for another topic to comment on, possibly a popular one. The latter represent a preferential attachment in the UPA network model.
Citation network
A citation network of scientific publications is usually represented by scientific papers as nodes and citations as links. Considering a network of papers from the same field of knowledge, whenever a new node is inserted into this network, it either attaches itself to the latest publications (uniform attachment) or to the most important papers in its field of expertise (preferential attachment). Thus, the general behavior of these ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%3A%20Edgerunners | is a 2022 cyberpunk web anime series based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red. The series was animated by Japanese Studio Trigger under the supervision of Polish CD Projekt and premiered on Netflix in September 2022. Set in the Cyberpunk universe created by Mike Pondsmith, the anime serves as a prequel to the game and takes place about a year before the events of Cyberpunk 2077.
Upon its release, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners received highly positive reviews, with praise directed at its characters, animation, and worldbuilding. In October 2022, CD Projekt announced that the anime would not be receiving a second season and stated that, while they were open to collaborating with Trigger for future projects, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners had always been planned as a standalone work.
Synopsis
Setting
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is set in Night City, a self-reliant metropolis located in the Free State of California that suffers from extensive corruption, cybernetic addiction, and gang violence. The city is split into six districts, each of which has its own precise living requirements, and is controlled by several megacorporations, including Arasaka and its rival Militech. The anime's story is primarily set in Santo Domingo, the oldest, poorest, and most industrial district of Night City.
Plot
In a dystopia overrun by corruption, crime, and cybernetic implants, an impulsive but talented street kid named David, after losing everything he has in a drive-by shooting, makes the choice to survive on the wrong side of the law as an "edgerunner": a high-tech, black-market mercenary also known as a "cyberpunk".
Characters
A Latino American teenager who is a top student at the prestigious Arasaka Academy. Due to coming from a poor family, he is relentlessly bullied by his classmates and feels like he does not belong at school. A sudden and devastating tragedy leads him to abandon his education and puts him on the path of becoming an edgerunner.
A young netrunner who becomes romantically involved with David and introduces him to the criminal underworld of Night City. She has a particular hatred towards Arasaka and dreams of traveling to the Moon.
A trigger-happy edgerunner and a member of Maine's crew. She is also Pilar's younger sister.
A veteran edgerunner who commands his own crew. He is one of Gloria's clients and allows David to join the crew under his guidance.
Maine's girlfriend and second-in-command.
A foul-mouthed techie and a member of Maine's crew. He is also Rebecca's older brother.
A veteran netrunner who is often cold and stoic, and a member of Maine's crew.
A member of Maine's crew who works as the group's getaway driver.
A fixer who works for Militech. He has a business relationship with Maine's crew and often hires them to conduct jobs that usually involve them performing corporate espionage against Arasaka.
A local ripperdoc who helps upgrade and install David's cybernetic implants, as well as providing him with the required imm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issues%20relating%20to%20social%20networking%20services | The advent of social networking services has led to many issues spanning from misinformation and disinformation to privacy concerns related to public and private personal data.
Spamming
Spamming on online social networks is quite prevalent. The primary motivation for spamming is to make money, usually from some form of advertising. Detecting such spamming activity has been well studied by developing a semi-automated model to detect spam. For instance, text mining techniques are leveraged to detect regular activity of spamming which reduces the viewership and brings down the reputation (or credibility) of a public pages maintained over Facebook. On some online social networks like Twitter, users have evolved mechanisms to report spammers which has been studied and analyzed.
Privacy
Privacy concerns with social networking services have been raised, with growing concern from users about the privacy of their personal information and the threat of sexual predators. Users of these services also need to be aware of data theft and viruses. However, large services, such as Myspace and Netlog, often work with law enforcement to try to prevent such incidents. In addition, there is a perceived privacy threat in relation to placing too much personal information in the hands of large corporations or governmental bodies, allowing a profile to be produced on an individual's behavior on which decisions, detrimental to an individual, may be taken. Furthermore, there is an issue over the control of data and information that was altered or removed by the user may, in fact, be retained and passed to third parties. This danger was highlighted when the controversial social networking site Quechup harvested e-mail addresses from users' e-mail accounts for use in a spamming operation.
In medical and scientific research, asking subjects for information about their behaviors is normally strictly scrutinized by institutional review boards, for example, to ensure that adolescents and their parents have informed consent. It is not clear whether the same rules apply to researchers who collect data from social networking sites. These sites often contain a great deal of data that is hard to obtain via traditional means. Even though the data are public, republishing it in a research paper might be considered invasion of privacy.
Privacy on social networking sites can be undermined by many factors. For example, users may disclose personal information, sites may not take adequate steps to protect user privacy, and third parties frequently use information posted on social networks for a variety of purposes. "For the Net generation, social networking sites have become the preferred forum for social interactions, from posturing and role playing to simply sounding off. However, because such forums are relatively easy to access, posted content can be reviewed by anyone with an interest in the users' personal information". The UK government has plans to monitor traffic on social n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest%20N.%20Iandola | Forrest N. Iandola is an American computer scientist. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by Kurt Keutzer. As part of his dissertation he co-authored SqueezeNet, a deep neural network for image classification that is optimized for smartphones and other mobile devices.
Iandola and Keutzer went on to co-found a company called DeepScale. The firm squeezes deep neural networks onto low-cost automotive grade processors for use in driver assistance systems. Tesla acquired DeepScale in 2019.
In 2020, he co-authored SqueezeBERT, an efficient neural network for natural language processing.
References
Further reading
American computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Openda-Mvati | Kathleen Openda-Mvati is a Kenyan journalist and former television host with the Kenya Television Network (KTN).
She received an Eisenhower Fellowship and was a Chevening Scholar. In 2018, she was appointed Chairperson of the Council of the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC).
References
Living people
Kenyan television journalists
Kenyan women television journalists
Kenyan television presenters
Kenyan women television presenters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20to%20Singularity | Cell to Singularity is an incremental game developed and published by Computer Lunch. An exploration of evolution, naturalism, and civilization, the game uses idle mechanics to help players learn about science and history. Cell to Singularity is a freemium game; while the game is free and can be played without spending money, players can buy special "boosts" or in-game currency that will help them advance faster.
Gameplay
The game begins with a view of the Earth from space. Players must use their fingers or mouse to tap on the Hadean Earth; tapping generates Entropy Points. After tapping some points, the Tech Tree of Life is then unlocked. Entropy is used to unlock upgrades, and to purchase life forms that automatically generate Entropy. Progression involves increasing the player's Entropy accumulation, advancing further through different eras of Earth’s history as they obtain more Entropy. When the planet and its organisms evolve, visual changes occur in 3D modeled "gardens" where the player can view the creatures and developments that they’ve purchased.
Evolving homo sapiens unlocks a new currency for the player called Idea Points. Players gain currencies continuously, with the simulation continuing to earn points while the game is offline. Occasionally, "boosts" may become available, which allow the player to gain a small advantage in the game. This game's premium currency, purple cubes of a fictional substance called "Darwinium" (named after Charles Darwin) can be obtained via in-app purchase or through in-game events or achievements.
Players will eventually reach the point of creating a technological singularity in the civilization tree. This causes the simulation to “crash” and restart from the beginning. This is, in reality, a prestige mechanic: the player's earned Entropy and Idea Points are converted into a new currency called MetaBits, which are used to upgrade the simulation and unlock new areas of study in the Reality Engine.
Expansions
Mesozoic Valley – Branching off of the main tech tree is the Mesozoic Valley, a separate simulation featuring the evolution and eventual extinction of the dinosaurs. Released in December 2019, this expansion introduced a new gameplay style, similar to the gameplay of AdVenture Communist, including Trait Cards which can be used to upgrade individual creatures and a new level-based progression system.
The Beyond – The second expansion of Cell to Singularity, the space-themed Beyond, was released on November 6, 2021. The launch of the expansion was marked by an in-game event where players tapped on a black hole icon. This milestone was reached after four days, and the simulation became available to play.
History
Cell to Singularity began development in 2017, inspired by Computer Lunch co-founder Andrew Garrahan’s love of nature documentaries. Wanting to create a game about science and history, Garrahan saw the emergent popularity of the incremental game genre as a good fit for the more relaxed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartcar%2C%20Inc. | Smartcar, Inc. is a software company based in Mountain View, California. It allows software developers to locate, unlock, and read data from vehicles using an API.
History
Smartcar was founded in 2014 by Sahas and Sanketh Katta. In December 2014, the company raised $2 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. In March 2018, the company announced a series A round of $10 million led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Andreessen Horowitz.
In July 2018, Smartcar emerged from stealth and launched documentation and SDKs for integrating Smartcar’s API into mobile apps and web applications.
In April 2019, Smartcar accused rival startup Otonomo of API plagiarism.
As of June 2020, venture capitalists Forest Baskett (NEA) and William Krause (Andreessen Horowitz) were serving on Smartcar’s board of directors.
In January 2022, the company announced a Series B round of $24 million with John Tough of Energize Ventures joined the board of directors along with NEA and a16z reinvesting.
API
Smartcar’s API can be integrated into mobile and web applications. The app requires the user to agree to share specific vehicle telematics information with the mobile or web application which, according to Smartcar, allows the user to locate and unlock the vehicle, check its mileage, fuel level and electric-vehicle battery remotely from the application without the need for an on-board diagnostics device. Smartcar’s customers include Samsung SmartThings, Turo, the state of Utah, and Aventi. In August 2020, Smartcar and Canadian firm Pitstop entered into a partnership to create hardware-free maintenance tracker for fleet vehicles.
References
Software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Affordabox | GMA Affordabox is a Philippine ISDB-Tb digital terrestrial television provider distributed and being marketed by GMA New Media, a subsidiary of GMA Network, Inc. The service distributes digital set-top boxes and USB OTG dongles with free-to-air digital TV channels, broadcast markup language, emergency warning broadcast system, functional auto-on alert, digital display, and info display services to select areas in the Philippines.
History
In June 2010, the National Telecommunications Commission announced that it would formally adopt the Brazilian standard ISDB-Tb for digital broadcasting and issued a circular commanding all the country's television networks to switch-off their analog services on December 31, 2015, at 11:59 p.m. Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8). But due to delay of the release of the implementing rules and regulations for digital television broadcast, the target date was moved to 2023.
In February 2013, GMA Network was able to conduct field tests of digital broadcast using the Japanese standard ISDB-T in digital television on UHF Channel 27 (551.143 MHz), despite they remain unconvinced saying European standard DVB-T2 is superior to ISDB-T. However, in October 2013, the NTC issued a draft memorandum circular adopting the Japanese/Brazilian standard as the sole standard in the delivery of digital terrestrial television (DTT) services in the Philippines.
On May 15, 2019, GMA's digital broadcast was moved to its permanent frequency on Channel 15, due to its former frequency, Channel 27 will used by GMA News TV beginning on June 4, as the blocktime deal between GMA and ZOE terminated, resulting to its said channel's former frequency Channel 11 became silent the following day.
In June 2020, images of GMA's owned DTV set-top box were surrounded online and a teaser was revealed on June 17. GMA Network officially launched GMA Affordabox on June 26, 2020 during Tutok to Win sa Wowowin.
Offered services
GMA Affordabox
GMA Network's flagship product digital set-top boxes intended for home use.
GMA Now
On December 12, 2020, GMA Network released its mobile dongle designed for USB OTG-capable Android smartphone, dubbed as GMA Now on Lazada and Shopee online. It allows users to watch free-to-air channels on their Android smartphones and has extra features such as a video-on-demand feature to stream GMA's online content, a Groupee Chat (web chat), and interactive promos to join. It also supports Picture-in-picture mode and screen recording. GMA Network officially launched GMA Now on February 7, 2021 during All-Out Sundays, and it also announced it will support for iPhone users soon.
Channel lineup
UHF Channel 15 (479.143 MHz)1
1 For Mega Manila only, channel and frequency varies on regional stations.
Channel and frequency
See also
Digital terrestrial television in the Philippines
Notes
References
GMA Network (company)
Digital television in the Philippines
Products introduced in 2020
2020 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Emergent%20Network | The Jewish Emergent Network is a network of seven independent Jewish congregations that share a "devotion to revitalizing the field of Jewish engagement, a commitment to approaches both traditionally rooted and creative, and a demonstrated success in attracting unaffiliated and disengaged Jews to a rich and meaningful Jewish practice."
The various members of the Network have a wide range of religious perspectives, but share a commitment to reaching populations that are not addressed by traditional American synagogues and fighting "demographic free fall." The Network currently includes IKAR in Los Angeles, Kavana in Seattle, The Kitchen in San Francisco, Mishkan in Chicago, Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., and Lab/Shul and Romemu in New York.
Background and critical response
The organization takes its name, "Jewish emergent," from a series of articles by Shawn Landres, who developed the term by studying three types of non-traditional Jewish communities: lay-led independent minyanim, "start-up" congregations that were still led by clergy, and "parashuls" (a Jewish spiritual community where religious worship activity is not the primary religious activity). Most of its member congregations describe themselves as re-inventing traditional aspects of Judaism to be relevant to the needs of their participants in the 21st century.Some commentators, however, have noted that, despite this, the Network and similar independent Jewish communities have begun to re-institute many of the features more commonly found in traditional American Jewish communities, such as membership and acquiring permanent spaces for worship and community services. Others, such as historian of American Judaism Jonathan Sarna, argue that the Network's approach is in line with American traditions of reinventing Judaism, such as American Reform congregations or the independent havurah movement in the 1970s.
Current Activities
The organization holds an annual conference entitled "(Re)VISION Conference." From 2016-2020, it funded a fellowship for a total of 14 junior rabbis to be placed in multi-year fellowships at each of its member institutions.
During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Network engaged in several approaches to online Jewish holiday observance, including an all-night Torah study program for Shavuot and an online program for repentance and reflection during the month of Elul.
External links
Official website
References
Non-denominational Judaism
Jewish religious organizations
Jewish organizations based in the United States
Unaffiliated synagogues in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Towsley | Don Towsley may refer to:
Don Towsley (animator) (1912–1986), American animator
Don Towsley (computer scientist) (born 1949), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech%20Wiewi%C3%B3rowski | Wojciech Wiewiórowski is a Polish lawyer, university teacher and former National Personal Data Protection Inspector in Poland. He currently holds the seat of European Data Protection Supervisor.
He was born on 13 June 1971 in Łęczyca, Central Poland. In 1995 he graduated from Faculty of Law in University of Gdańsk. He obtained his PhD in law in 2000.
In 2006 he entered public service, being appointed as an IT advisor to Ludwik Dorn, at the time the Minister of Interior and Administration in Poland. In 2008 he took the seat of the chief information officer in this ministry.
On 25 June 2010 he was appointed as the National Data Protection Inspector in Poland. He was holding that position until 2014, when he became the Assistant General Inspector in the office of European Data Protection Supervisor, at that time Giovanni Buttarelli. When he died, Dr Wiewiórowski was appointed as in-charge. Then in November 2019 he was recommended by the European Parliament to take the seat of the Inspector. He took the office on 6 December 2019.
His research interests include Legal technology as well as Personal data protection. He lives in Brussels with his wife and two daughters.
References
1971 births
Living people
University of Gdańsk alumni
Polish lawyers
People from Łęczyca
Polish legal scholars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padak%20%282012%20film%29 | Swimming to Sea () is a 2012 South Korean adult computer-animated musical survival horror drama film written and directed by Dae-Hee Lee. It stars Hyen-jee Kim, Young-jun Si, Young-mi Ahn, Kyeng-soo Hyen and Ho-san Lee. It premiered at the 2012 Jeonju International Film Festival, and was released on July 25, 2012 to South Korean theaters. It was later distributed on Steam on June 6, 2016 as Padak by the comic book publisher eigoMANGA.
Although the film was well-received by critics in South Korea, it was met with mixed reviews elsewhere, mainly criticising the cheap animation.
Plot
A mackerel from the ocean is placed in the fish tank of a seafood restaurant in a Korean fishing village. She is driven to escape after witnessing another mackerel being prepared as food. Her tank is co-inhabited by a group of farm fish consisting of a striped beakfish named Bream, a snapper named Nollaemi, a sleepy sea bass named Bar, a saltwater eel named Jooldom, and the youthful greenling named Spotty. They are ruled by an old flatfish, whom they refer to as "The Master", who hides underneath a grate and instructs the tank's fish to prolong their survival by playing dead when humans approach the restaurant. The fish derive sustenance from dead and dying fish that are periodically dropped into their tank. After witnessing the mackerel leap out of the tank in an unsuccessful escape attempt, the shocked farm fish christen her with the nickname "Padak Padak" (or "Flappy"). Each night, the Master, who falsely claims to also be from the ocean, gives riddles to the farm fish loosely based on stories of the ocean told to him by a mate who had been eaten before him.
Following a violent confrontation between Flappy and the Master, Jooldom grants Flappy permission to provide the night's riddle. Flappy uses the opportunity to encourage the group to ponder a means of escape. Bar proposes that the king crabs in the tank below theirs are able to break the glass walls, and can be convinced to do so by Flappy, who can speak their language. The night's meeting ends with Flappy being beaten by the group after she questions the Master's authority. The next day, as the restaurant's tanks are being cleaned, Flappy and Spotty make another unsuccessful escape attempt, in which Flappy abandons her own effort when Spotty's progress is impeded. That night, Flappy, in spite of her hunger and out of stubborn pride against the Master, declines to join in devouring a dying halibut, who mocks the Master's cowardice before his death. Flappy leaps into the king crab tank, where she is nearly killed until a young boy mischievously scoops her out of the tank and places her in the restaurant's aquarium. The starved Flappy devours all but one of the aquarium's clownfish before injuring herself on a knight decoration's sword and losing consciousness.
Spotty's own attempt to speak to the king crabs in their tank results in his death, and his body is placed in the farm fish's tank. As the Master sudd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSpeed | DeepSpeed is an open source deep learning optimization library for PyTorch. The library is designed to reduce computing power and memory use and to train large distributed models with better parallelism on existing computer hardware. DeepSpeed is optimized for low latency, high throughput training. It includes the Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) for training models with 1 trillion or more parameters. Features include mixed precision training, single-GPU, multi-GPU, and multi-node training as well as custom model parallelism. The DeepSpeed source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.
The team claimed to achieve up to a 6.2x throughput improvement, 2.8x faster convergence, and 4.6x less communication.
See also
Comparison of deep learning software
Deep learning
Machine learning
TensorFlow
References
Further reading
External links
AI at Scale - Microsoft Research
GitHub - microsoft/DeepSpeed
ZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters - Microsoft Research
C++ libraries
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Free and open-source software
Microsoft development tools
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
Software using the MIT license
2020 software
Deep learning software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berita%20RTM | Berita RTM (, stylised as BERITA rtm), also known as Saluran Berita RTM (), or BES (Berita Ehwal Semasa, ) is a free-to-air Malaysian television network owned and operated by Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). With 'Yang Sahih di Berita RTM' (Trustworthy at RTM News) as its corporate slogan, the network is headquartered at the Wisma Berita RTM in Angkasapuri and was launched on 25 June 2020 alongside its television channel at 7.45 pm (MST) and broadcast via myFreeview channel 123. It broadcasts specialised news covering of current affairs and talk shows in high definition (HD). Berita RTM channel broadcast 24 hours a day covering a wide range of languages, mainly in Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil in addition to East Malaysian languages: Iban, Kadazan, Dusun and Bajau.
The network offers 25 daily news slots, 12 talk shows a week, five days of business news and two weekly magazine programs. The dynamic transformation of the new channel also offers a variety of features compared to other TV channels as it broadcasts its multimedia news from 12 noon to 2 pm followed by 7 pm to 9 pm. The launching of the network was officiated by Minister of Communications and Multimedia, Saifuddin Abdullah as part of government’s initiative to counter the fake news.
The channel is live-streamed on RTM's streaming service, RTM Klik, and on Youtube.
Programming
Berita RTM focusing on news and news-related programs broadcast 24 hours daily in 4 languages: Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil. The channel offers 25 daily news slots, 12 talk shows a week, five business news days and two weekly magazine programs that contribute to the empowerment of the public with a wealth of information. The channel also simulcasts news programmes originally targeted at TV1 and TV2 viewers. The network also allows viewers to watch multi-language radio news broadcasts as well as live broadcasts from RTM radio stations across the country which also discuss specific issues at the state level. One of the network’s TV programmes is Pastikan Sahih (Ensure Trustworthy), a TV program aimed to combatting viral fake news. It aired at 6.30 pm Weekdays.
Beginning 1 April 2021, RTM's 75th anniversary, East Malaysian language news (Iban, Kadazan, Dusun and Bajau) are also available on the channel besides on sister channel TV Okey. Beginning 14 February 2023, RTM airs both the morning and evening parliamentary sessions live on the channel.
See also
Astro Awani
Bernama TV
References
External links
2020 establishments in Malaysia
Radio Televisyen Malaysia
Television stations in Malaysia
24-hour television news channels in Malaysia
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Multilingual news services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20Orange | MAX Orange, also known as Route 303 or the North Crosstown BRT, is a bus rapid transit line in Calgary, Alberta. Part of Calgary Transit's MAX network, it largely travels east-west along 16 Avenue N and north-south along 52 Street NE. It connects CTrain stations on the Red and Blue lines to the northwest and northeast quadrants of Calgary.
Stations and route
MAX Orange begins in the northwest at Brentwood station on the Red Line, travelling west to the Alberta Children's Hospital and Foothills Medical Centre. From Foothills Medical Centre, MAX Orange travels east along 16 Avenue N before turning north along 36 Street NE to Rundle station on the Blue Line. MAX Orange then travels east along 32 Avenue NE and north along 52 Street NE to Saddletowne station, the terminus of the Blue Line and MAX Orange.
See also
MAX Yellow
MAX Teal
MAX Purple
MAX
Calgary Transit
References
Orange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20departments%20of%20Benin%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of the 12 departments of Benin by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Human Development Index
Benin
Benin, Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20Yellow | MAX Yellow, also known as Route 304 or the Southwest BRT, is a bus rapid transit line in Calgary, Alberta. Part of Calgary Transit's MAX network, it largely travels north-south along Crowchild Trail SW, 14 Street SW, and 24 Street SW. It connects CTrain stations in downtown Calgary to the southwest quadrant.
Stations and route
MAX Yellow begins in the southwest at Woodpark Boulevard. It travels northeast to the Southwest Transitway where it meets MAX Teal. After stopping at Mount Royal University, it travels north along Crowchild Trail to Bow Trail. MAX Yellow terminates in Downtown Calgary, connecting to the Red Line, Blue Line, and MAX Purple.
See also
MAX Orange
MAX Teal
MAX Purple
MAX
Calgary Transit
References
Yellow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20Teal | MAX Teal, also known as Route 306 and the South Crosstown BRT, is a bus rapid transit line in Calgary, Alberta. Part of Calgary Transit's MAX network, it connects CTrain stations on the Red and Blue lines to the southwest and southeast quadrants of Calgary.
Stations and route
MAX Teal begins in the southwest at Westbrook station on the Blue Line, travelling southeast, partially along the Southwest Transitway where it meets MAX Yellow. MAX Teal stops at Heritage station on the Red Line, before continuing southeast to terminate at Douglas Glen station, the terminus of the future Green Line.
See also
MAX Orange
MAX Yellow
MAX Purple
MAX
Calgary Transit
References
Teal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAX%20Purple | MAX Purple, also known as Route 307 or the 17 Avenue SE BRT, is a bus rapid transit line in Calgary, Alberta. Part of Calgary Transit's MAX network, it largely travels east along 17 Avenue SE (International Avenue) from downtown Calgary.
MAX Purple, along with Route 1, provide service for East Calgary's primary transit corridor, and has become an important transit connector for Greater Forest Lawn residents. During its planning stages, Mayor Naheed Nenshi insisted the new line be made his favourite colour purple, citing his family's personal connection to International Avenue. The line itself operates on the former eastward service of Route 305 and replaces the retired bus route 126 Applewood Express. Future plans for the line include the permanent eastward extension into neighbouring Chestermere via 17 Avenue SE/Chestermere Boulevard, as well as a potential long-term conversion into an LRT line.
History
Since the introduction of the MAX Purple line in 2018, it has been credited as a key driver of International Avenue's urban redevelopment. The MAX Purple has attracted local interest as a project that rectifies an over century-long promise to bring adequate rapid transit to Greater Forest Lawn.
The settlement of the Town of Forest Lawn was first initiated in 1901, when two land promoters promoted the new community with a false rumour of a future streetcar connection east of the Bow River. By 1961, Forest Lawn was annexed by the expanding City of Calgary, yet was not given any assurance of adequate transit to Calgary's growing downtown. Between the 1970s and 1980s, public transit investments for the Greater Forest Lawn area did not keep pace with the area's growing commercial and residential developments, ultimately contributing to the area's urban decay. This was primarily motivated by the City's early plans to convert Forest Lawn's high street 17 Avenue SE into a six-lane thoroughfare at the expense of the neighbourhood's businesses. In the 1990s, neighbourhood advocates established the International Avenue Business Revitalization Zone (BRZ), as a vehicle to bring urban renewal to a largely neglected region of the city.
Early attempts to implement rapid transit for Greater Forest Lawn started in the early 1970s, with the introduction of the Blue Arrow 110 express bus service. This service complimented the already established Route 1 Bowness/Forest Lawn and 126 Applewood Express bus routes which connected Greater Forest Lawn with City Centre. These attempts were advanced by the International Avenue BRZ, who in 1995 submitted two proposals to the City which outlined steps for Forest Lawn's urban revitalization through meaningful transportation planning. Another proposal was submitted in 2003 by the BRZ in collaboration with the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design, which envisioned a multi-modal, retail-based boulevard supported by a light rail transit service. In 2008, Calgary Transit brought bus rapid transit (BRT) to Gre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20coding%20in%20data%20visualization | Data visualization involves presenting data and information using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps. It simplifies complex data, making patterns and trends more apparent, aiding in better understanding and decision-making. And color coding in data visualization is implemented to help users of data to easily read, understand and categorize the different facets of information that a given set data is trying to explain.
Origins
Origins of color coding include rubrics, the Four Color Theorem of cartography and Jacques Bertin's 1967 book, Sémiologie Graphique (Semiology of Graphics). Contemporary color coding for data visualization is enabled by four technologies: statistics, color technology, displays and computing. Visualization of data was proceduralized by statisticians John Tukey and Edward Tufte in their respective landmark books Exploratory Data Analysis in 1977 and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in 1982. They did not emphasize the use of color. Others demonstrated the superiority of color coding to speed visual search of displayed information, and to locate and organize information of interest. A third prerequisite for color-coded data visualization is high-resolution, high-contrast, high-luminance color electronic displays. Honeywell Corporation and Boeing Corporation assembled technical data that are still germane to use of color displays. More recently, the US Federal Aviation Administration has published technical guidance for visualization of dynamic (air traffic) data on self-luminous color displays.
Humans have an innate ability to perform color-coded visual search. Without training or practice, the search time with color coding can be reduced by a factor of ten or more, compared to a search of the same information display without color coding. For example, Figure 1a illustrates prolonged search without color coding, while Figure 1b demonstrates color coding making data salient.
Fundamentals of color coding for data search and grouping
Color-coded visualization
Color coding has diverse applications to data visualization. A general principle is to align salience of colors with relevance of displayed information. The person searching might be given the color of the item to be found, or they may know the color of the sought category based on their experience. Alternatively, their task could require looking for an item that stands out as different, signified by color, with no target color given.
Salient colors might be used, for example, to highlight patterns or to enable rapid search:
Another application of color coding is to show symmetries in visualized data. Color coding can connect and untangle, e.g., trends on a plot, or the continuity of axons in the neural connectome. New applications of the innate skill to search, or group, based on color are still being invented, e.g., for networks, the Road Coloring Theorem, heat maps, the genome, genomic structural variation, genome browsers, and spatial data li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddy%20Nevile | Elizabeth 'Liddy' Nevile (born 1947) is an Australian academic and a pioneer in using computers and the World Wide Web for education in Australia. In 1989-1990 she was instrumental in establishing the first program in the world that required all students to have laptop computers, at Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, Australia.
Education
BJuris/LLB (Monash University) with a major in Pure Mathematics.
MEd (RMIT University).
PhD (RMIT University).
Career
Laptops in schools
In the early 1980s, Nevile worked with primary school students (including her own children) using the Logo programming language and Turtle educational robots. In 1984 she wrote Let's Talk Turtle with Carolyn Dowling. This provided a curriculum for teaching programming in the classroom with Logo and Turtles. In 1988, while working for the Australian Council for Educational Research (1986-1990), she launched the Sunrise Schools project. This project drew upon the constructivist theory of knowing of Jean Piaget, and the constructionism theory of learning as instantiated in the Logo programming language of Seymour Papert. Nevile organised for the first Sunrise classroom to be held in the Melbourne Museum.
During this period, Nevile and Dowling visited international educational research groups, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This allowed them to create links with significant researchers including Papert, Hal Abelson, Andy diSessa, Brian Silverman and Steve Ocko.
In 1989, with the support of principal David Loader, Nevile worked with the Methodist Ladies College to establish a trial with a Year 7 Sunrise class "...which was considered immensely successful." This was followed in 1990 with all Year 5 students required to own a laptop. For the school, "...the laptop introduction process effected an environment of radical change and radical rethinking of the role of both teacher and learner." These were the world's first classes where every child had their own computer.
In 1990 the program was adopted by the Queensland Department of Education for implementation in Coombahbah, Queensland. It began with two Year 6 groups - one group of thirty having continual access to the laptop and the other group sharing one to two. In 1991 the program was extended to include Year 7 as well.
World Wide Web and adaptability
In 1990, Nevile established the Sunrise Research Laboratory at RMIT University (1990-1999). The program adopted John Mason's ‘discipline of noticing’ to anticipate and understand the impact of ubiquitous computing on academic life.
As the World Wide Web developed, Nevile worked on incorporating it into her work with teachers and schools. From 1996, Sunrise Research Laboratory produced the OZeKIDS series of CD-ROM, providing Australian schools with tutorials on coding HTML and examples of websites such as the National Library of Australia.
From 1996, Nevile was instrumental in developing the case for opening a branch office of the World Wide Web Cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20A.%20Garfinkle | Louis Alan Garfinkle (1928-2005) was an American scriptwriter and the co-developer of the Collaborator computer screenwriting program. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with four others for The Deer Hunter. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease at his home in Studio City in 2005.
He was born in Seattle in 1928 and studied at the University of Southern California from which he received his B.A. in 1948.
Garfinkle was one of the co-creators with director Cary Brown and fellow screenwriter Francis Feighan of the Collaborator, an interactive scriptwriting computer program that was popular in the 1990s. Garfinkle's obituary in the Los Angeles Times stated that Collaborator "poses questions aimed at shaping a movie treatment and prods the writer to flesh out characters".
Garfinkle also co-wrote the story for the 1973 Broadway musical Molly that starred Kaye Ballard.
Garfinkle collaborated on five films with the director Albert Band.
Credits
The Young Guns (1956)
I Bury the Living (1958)
Face of Fire (1959)
The Doberman Gang (1972)
Little Cigars (1973)
The Deer Hunter (1978) (co-writer)
References
External links
American male screenwriters
University of Southern California alumni
Writers from Seattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20Thunder%20%28retail%20chain%29 | NASCAR Thunder was a retail chain of NASCAR collectables (die-cast toys and clothing). The chain was owned and operated by the MTV Networks subsidiary of Viacom and had 11 stores throughout the Southeastern and Southwestern United States.
NASCAR Thunder opened in May 1996 as a subsidiary of The Nashville Network (TNN), then a subsidiary of Gaylord Entertainment Company. The first store was located at the Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Over the years, the chain opened more stores, including another location in Atlanta, along with additional stores in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Knoxville, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Florida, Dallas, Texas and several other cities. Some stores also had meet and greets with several NASCAR drivers, including Darrell Waltrip, Richard Petty, and his son Kyle Petty, among others.
In 2000, CBS, which bought TNN three years prior, merged with Viacom, who announced on February 21, 2001, that it would close all 11 of its stores, citing an economic downturn as well as the company declaring the chain not profitable. The announcement came just three days after the death of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt during a crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 and three months after TNN and CBS lost the broadcast rights to NASCAR.
References
Retail companies established in 1996
Retail companies disestablished in 2001
1996 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2001 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Duluth, Georgia
Paramount Media Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer.NET | Infer.NET is a free and open source .NET software library for machine learning. It supports running Bayesian inference in graphical models and can also be used for probabilistic programming.
Overview
Infer.NET follows a model-based approach and is used to solve different kinds of machine learning problems including standard problems like classification, recommendation or clustering, customized solutions and domain-specific problems. The framework is used in various different domains such as bioinformatics, epidemiology, computer vision, and information retrieval.
Development of the framework was started by a team at Microsoft’s research centre in Cambridge, UK in 2004. It was first released for academic use in 2008 and later open sourced in 2018. In 2013, Microsoft was awarded the USPTO’s Patents for Humanity Award in Information Technology category for Infer.NET and the work in advanced machine learning techniques.
Infer.NET is used internally at Microsoft as the machine learning engine in some of their products such as Office, Azure, and Xbox.
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub. It is also available as NuGet package.
See also
Machine learning
ML.NET
scikit-learn
References
Further reading
External links
Infer.NET
GitHub - dotnet/infer
Machine Intelligence and Perception - Microsoft Research
Infer.NET - Practical Implementation Issues and a Comparison of Approximation Techniques
Applied machine learning
Applications of artificial intelligence
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Microsoft Research
Software that uses Mono (software)
Open-source artificial intelligence
Probabilistic models
Probabilistic software
Software using the MIT license
2008 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Washington%20Brown | Deborah Washington Brown (June 3, 1952 - June 5, 2020) was an American computer scientist and speech recognition researcher who worked at AT&T Bell Labs, and other companies for many years doing speech recognition research. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate in computer science (then a part of their applied math program) at Harvard University in 1981. She was one of the first black female computer scientists to graduate from a U. S. doctoral program.
Early life and education
Born Deborah Blanche Washington on June 3, 1952, in Washington D. C., Brown was the youngest of 4 children (with a twin brother Melvin Charles Washington) of Edwin and Lola Washington. She attended high school at the National Cathedral School 1966–70. She was admitted to the New England Conservatory of Music in 1970 to pursue her dream of becoming a classical pianist, but left in 1971 for Lowell Technological Institute after being dissuaded about her prospects. She received a bachelor's degree with honors in mathematics at Lowell in 1975. She received a Master's (1977) and a PhD (1981) in Applied Math at Harvard University advised first by Harry R. Lewis and then by Tom Cheatham. Her thesis was on "The solution of difference equations describing array manipulation in program loops". She was elected Commencement marshal at her Harvard graduation.
Computer science career
Brown's first job was at Norden Systems, developing software for missile defense technology. In the late 1980s, she joined AT&T Bell Labs as a Member of Technical Staff and later Principal Member of Technical Staff. Her speech technology career continued at other companies until her death in 2020.
Brown worked at the forefront of many applications of speech recognition during her career, and her contributions to the field are seen in part through her 11 United States Patents on which she is a named inventor. These include data collection methods using automatic speech recognition (ASR) instead of human agents, methods for correcting ASR errors in user id recognition (numbers or names) over the phone using confusion matrices, innovations in grammar generation and pruning for ASR,
methods for identifying prompt-specific caller responses, multiple methods to identify errors in recognition of user account numbers due to ASR issues using confusion matrices of possible answers, a Natural Language Call Router, and a system to bridge text chat interaction with a voice-enabled interactive voice response system.
Personal life
In addition to her technological achievements, Brown was also an accomplished classical pianist. Throughout her career in computer science, Brown continued to study and teach piano, playing at Carnegie Hall and excelling in competitions.
Brown married Ruel “Rula” Brown on May 26, 1979. They have two daughters.
See also
Women in computing
References
External links
Harvard University Alumni Profile
Harvard University Doctoral Dissertation with Historical Note
Obit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDL%20%28disambiguation%29 | KDL is a kernel error on operating systems such as BeOS/Haiku.
KDL may also refer to:
Kadaloor LRT station, Singapore
Kärdla Airport, Estonia
Kent District Library, United States
Kevin de León, American politician
Kirby's Dream Land
Compagnie des Chemins de fer Katanga-Dilolo-Léopoldville, former railway company in the Belgian Congo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot%20the%20Littlest%20Reindeer | Elliot the Littlest Reindeer is a 2018 Canadian computer-animated Christmas film written and directed by Jennifer Wescott and featuring the voices of Josh Hutcherson, Samantha Bee, Martin Short, Morena Baccarin, Jeff Dunham and John Cleese.
Voice cast
Josh Hutcherson as Elliot, a pony
Samantha Bee as Hazel, a red goat
Martin Short as Lemondrop/Ludzinka/Blitzen
Morena Baccarin as Corkie
Jeff Dunham as Clyde/Peanutbutter
John Cleese as Donner
George Buza as Santa Claus
Angela Fusco as Mrs. Claus
Robert Tinkler as Walter/Russian Coach
Julie Lemieux as Olga/Computer Translator/Swedish Coach/Reindeer 1/Moshennika/Blueberry
Christopher Jacot as DJ/Ignacio/Kitchen Elf
Carly Heffernan as Sasha/Reindeer 4
Reception
The film received negative reviews from critics and has rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews with an average rating of . Nell Minow of RogerEbert.com awarded the film one and a half out of five stars. Tara McNamara of Common Sense Media awarded the film two stars out of five.
References
External links
2018 computer-animated films
Canadian animated feature films
Canadian Christmas films
2010s English-language films
2010s Canadian films
2010s Canadian animated films
Santa Claus in film
Screen Media films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible%20Minds | Possible Minds: Twenty-five Ways of Looking at AI, edited by John Brockman, is a 2019 collection of essays on the future impact of artificial intelligence.
Structure
Twenty-five essayists contributed essays related to artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Norbert Wiener's 1950 book The Human Use of Human Beings, in which Weiner, fearing future machines built from vacuum tubes and capable of sophisticated logic, warned that "The hour is very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door. We must cease to kiss the whip that lashes us." Wiener stated that an AI "which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made, or will be acceptable to us". The essayists seek to address the question: What dangers might advanced AI present to humankind? Prominent essayists include Daniel Dennett, Alison Gopnik, Jaan Tallinn, and George Dyson. Brockman interleaves his own intros and anecdotes between the contributors' essays.
Ideas
Multiple essayists state that artificial general intelligence is still two to four decades away. Most of the essayists advice proceeding with caution. Hypothetical dangers discussed include societal fragmentation, loss of human jobs, dominance of multinational corporations with powerful AI, or existential risk if superintelligent machines develop a drive for self-preservation. Computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis states "Humans might be seen as minor annoyances, like ants at a picnic". Some essayists argue that AI has already become an integral part of human culture; geneticist George M. Church suggests that modern human are already "transhumans" when compared with humans in the Stone Age. Many of the essays are influenced by past failures of AI. MIT's Neil Gershenfeld states "Discussions about artificial intelligence have been (manic-depressive): depending on how you count, we're now in the fifth boom-and-bust cycle." Brockman states "over the decades I rode with (the AI pioneers) on waves of enthusiasm, and into valleys of disappointment". Many essayists emphasize the limitations of past and current AI; Church notes that 2011 Jeopardy! champion Watson required 85,000 watts of power, compared to a human brain which uses 20 watts.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews stated readers who want to ponder the future impact of AI "will not find a better introduction than this book." Publishers Weekly called the book "enlightening, entertaining, and exciting reading". Future Perfect (Vox) noted the book "makes for gripping reading, (and the book) can get perspectives from the preeminent voices of AI... but (the book) cannot make those people talk to each other." Booklist stated the book includes "many rich ideas" to "savor and contemplate". In Foreign Affairs, technology journalist Kenneth Cukier called the book "a fascinating map".
Explanatory notes
References
2019 non-fiction books
Penguin Press books
Artificial intelligence publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook%20Inc. | , formerly Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd., is a Japanese personal computer manufacturer owned by Sharp Corporation; it was owned by, and branded as, Toshiba from 1958 to 2018. It claims its Toshiba T1100, launched in 1985, as the first mass-market laptop PC. Toshiba had used "DynaBook" or "dynabook" as a sub-brand since 1989, but Dynabook became the worldwide brand in 2019.
, Dynabook Inc. had 162.9 billion yen (US$ billion) in annual sales and 2,680 employees; , Dynabook Americas described the business as being a "$60 billion global company employing nearly 200,000 in 30 countries".
History
The company began as Kawasaki Typewriter Co., Ltd. in 1954, but was bought by Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. (later Toshiba Corporation). Its name was changed to Toshiba Typewriter Co., Ltd. in 1958, Toshiba Business Machines Company in 1968, Toshiba Information Systems Corporation in 1984 after merging in Toshiba Business Computers Company, and Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd. in 2016.
Toshiba era
The dynabook was a portable computer concept first introduced by Alan C. Kay in the 1960s and 1970s. Tetsuya Mizoguchi, an executive in Toshiba's mainframe computer division, read Kay's paper "Personal Dynamic Media" in the March 1977 IEEE Computer; and inspired by the concept of a computer that could be carried and used by anyone of any age, Mizoguchi became determined to develop such a computer.
The Dynabook trademark was already owned by other companies in Japan and the United States: Toshiba didn't use the name in the U.S., but ASCII Corporation had acquired the rights in Japan, so Toshiba paid a fee to ASCII to use the name there. The trademark rights in Britain, France, and West Germany were also able to be acquired.
The first Toshiba computer with the name DynaBook was announced on June 26, 1989. In August 1989, Mizoguchi sent a letter and a Toshiba DynaBook T1000SE to Kay in Boston, and in December Kay was Mizoguchi's guest at Toshiba. In 1990, the T1000SE became mandatory for all 82 students at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne.
Sharp era
In 2018, Toshiba Corporation was in the midst of an accounting scandal, and was under pressure to cut costs; Toshiba Client Solutions Co., Ltd., became 80.1% owned by Sharp Corporation, in turn majority-owned by Foxconn; Sharp paid $36 million for the shares. TCS then changed its corporate name to Dynabook. Sharp exercised a call option on the remaining 19.9% of the shares on June 30, 2020, making Dynabook wholly owned by Sharp in August 2020, and indicated plans for Dynabook to have an initial public offering in 2020 or 2021.
Product lineup
Current
E series – consumer laptops (since 2019)
Portégé – ultrabooks, formerly subnotebooks (1994–2016, 2019–present)
Satellite Pro – prosumer laptops (1994–2016, 2020–present)
Tecra – business laptops (1994–2016, 2019–present)
Former
Libretto – handheld subnotebooks (1996–2002, 2005, 2010)
Qosmio – gaming laptops (2004–2014)
Satellite – consumer lapto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontoparietal%20network | The frontoparietal network (FPN), generally also known as the central executive network (CEN) or, more specifically, the lateral frontoparietal network (L-FPN) (see Nomenclature), is a large-scale brain network primarily composed of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex, around the intraparietal sulcus. It is involved in sustained attention, complex problem-solving and working memory.
The FPN is one of three networks in the so-called triple-network model, along with the salience network and the default mode network (DMN). The salience network facilitates switching between the FPN and DMN.
Anatomy
The FPN is primarily composed of the rostral lateral and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (especially the middle frontal gyrus) and the anterior inferior parietal lobule. Additional regions include the middle cingulate gyrus and potentially the dorsal precuneus, posterior inferior temporal lobe, dorsomedial thalamus and the head of the caudate nucleus.
Function
The FPN is involved in executive function and goal-oriented, cognitively demanding tasks. It is crucial for rule-based problem solving, actively maintaining and manipulating information in working memory and making decisions in the context of goal-directed behaviour. Based on current cognitive demands, the FPN flexibly divides into two subsystems that connect to other networks: the default mode network for introspective processes and the dorsal attention network for perceptual attention.
Clinical significance
Disruption of the nodes of the FPN has been found in virtually every psychiatric and neurological disorder, from autism, schizophrenia and depression to frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Nomenclature
The term central executive network (CEN) is generally equivalent to the frontoparietal network in literature, distinguishing it from the dorsal attention network (DAN), with which it has several similarities, though sometimes it has been used to include the DAN.
The FPN has fewer similarities with the salience network (which has also been equated with the cingulo-opercular network or ventral attention network). Regardless, it has sometimes been grouped together with either the DAN or the salience network (usually the latter) under the name executive control network (ECN). The term frontoparietal control network (FPCN) has also been used, generally also for a grouping of the FPN and the salience network.
Other names for the FPN have included the multiple-demand system, extrinsic mode network, domain-general system and cognitive control network.
In 2019, Uddin et al. proposed that lateral frontoparietal network (L-FPN) be used as the standard name for this network.
See also
Default mode network
Salience network
References
Brain
Neural circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWVN-FM | 94.1 Magik FM (DWVN 94.1 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Century Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Quezon Ave., Vigan.
References
External links
Magik FM Vigan FB Page
Radio stations in Ilocos Sur
Radio stations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdad%20oculta | Verdad oculta is a Colombian police crime drama television series deloveped by Dramax for RCN Televisión that premiered on this network on 1 July 2020. The drama is based on the book by Germán Castro Caycedo, Una verdad oscura. It is written by Verónica Triana and Pedro Miguel Rozo, and directed by Rodrigo Triana and Jorge Alí Triana.
The series was acquired by Sony Pictures Television for worldwide distribution. It is filmed in places like Urabá, Chocó, Costa Atlantica, La Dorada, Medellín and Bogotá.
The series is stars Verónica Orozco as Diana Manrique, and Rodrigo Candamil as Raúl Ceballos.
Cast
Verónica Orozco as Diana Manrique
Rodrigo Candamil as Raúl Ceballos
Andrés Suárez Montoya as Jorge Ramírez
Andrés Castañeda as Uriel Zurria
Sebastián Sierra as Gerónimo
Juan Pablo Barragán as Dubán Correa "Alambres"
Brenda Hanst as Irma Castaño
Gustavo Angarita as Manuel Sepúlveda
Pilar Álvarez as Cecilia Tamayo
Víctor Hugo Morant as Procurador Fernando
Eduardo López as Julián Botero
María Barreto as Sandra Castañeda
Jerónimo Cantillo as Yéison Vergara
Brian Moreno as Fabio Montoya "Mesías"
Andrés Felipe Martínez as Camilo Tapia
Rodolfo Silva as Jhonny Zurria
Nelson Camayo as William Gallo
Julio Pachón as Alcides Montoya
Brian Moreno as Fabio Montoya
Lina Castrillón as Yolima Ferrero
Valentina Duque as Zully Berrio
Kevin Bury as Junior Zurria
Pedro Roda as Comandante
Mauricio Mejía as Jimmy Henao
Sandra Reyes as Belén Caicedo
Emilia Ceballos as Mayerly Garzón
Valentina Afanador as Jazmín Berrio
Ana María Durán as María Angélica Tamayo
Television rating
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Episodes
References
Colombian television series
Television series about organized crime
Works about organized crime in Colombia
2020 telenovelas
2020 Colombian television series debuts
2020 Colombian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS%2015 | iPadOS 15 is the third major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers. The successor to iPadOS 14, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 7, 2021 along with iOS 15, macOS Monterey, watchOS 8, and tvOS 15. It was released to the public on September 20, 2021. It was succeeded by iPadOS 16, which was released on October 24, 2022.
iPadOS 15 is the final version of iPadOS that supports the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 4, as its successor, iPadOS 16, drops support for those models.
Features
Home screen
The home screen grid is reduced by one row to accommodate the new widgets when placed (23 icons), and rotates in portrait orientation, just like iOS 12 and earlier.
Widgets
Widgets can now be placed directly anywhere on the home screen. There are more widgets, many of which now have a new fourth size to pick from, being extra-large.
App Library
iPadOS 15 introduces the App Library from the iPhone in iOS 14 to the iPad.
Multitasking
New multitasking user interface allows users to enter split view, slide over, enter full screen with quick gestures. The multiwindow shelf gives quick access to all running apps.
Quick Note
A new feature, called Quick Note, can be taken by swiping from the corner with fingers or the Apple Pencil, the Control Center or a keyboard shortcut.
Safari
Safari has been redesigned just like in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey. Safari has tab groups which allow the user to organize tabs into user-defined groups. Users can download third party extensions for Safari in the App Store.
Other
Universal Control allows a user to use a single keyboard and mouse across different Macs and iPads and new keyboard shortcuts have been added in iPadOS 15.4.
The Translate app is now available in iPadOS 15.
The iPadOS 13 default wallpapers were removed in the first beta of iPadOS 15.
iPadOS 15 features a new wallpaper in two modes: light and dark.
All models of iPad now have a "Low Power Mode" option in Settings, like the iOS "Low Power Mode" option in Settings, and can also be added to the Control Center.
Supports Live Text in iPads with A12 Bionic or later.
Introduces Focus mode like in iOS 15.
The Today View has been removed and replaced by widgets placed directly anywhere on the home screen
Supported devices
All devices supporting iPadOS 14 also support iPadOS 15. Devices include:
iPad Air 2
iPad Air (3rd generation)
iPad Air (4th generation)
iPad Air (5th generation)
iPad (5th generation)
iPad (6th generation)
iPad (7th generation)
iPad (8th generation)
iPad (9th generation)
iPad Mini 4
iPad Mini (5th generation)
iPad Mini (6th generation)
iPad Pro (1st generation)
iPad Pro (2nd generation)
iPad Pro (3rd generation)
iPad Pro (4th generation)
iPad Pro (5th generation)
Releases
The first developer beta of iPadOS 15 was released on June 7, 2021, and the first public beta was released on June 30, 2021, six days after the release of the second develope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit91.9%20Bendigo | hit91.9 Bendigo (official callsign: 3BDG) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Hit Network. The station is broadcast to Central Victoria from studios in the Bendigo suburb of Golden Square.
The station commenced broadcasting in 1999 as 91.9 Star FM when 3CV, a Maryborough-based station, obtained a supplementary FM licence. On 15 December 2016, the station was relaunched as Hit91.9.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the station's Golden Square studios from 9am–12pm weekdays, consisting of a three-hour mornings show presented by Em Tressider.
References
External links
Contemporary hit radio stations in Australia
Radio stations in Bendigo
Radio stations established in 1991
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20width%20limits%20of%20neural%20networks | Artificial neural networks are a class of models used in machine learning, and inspired by biological neural networks. They are the core component of modern deep learning algorithms. Computation in artificial neural networks is usually organized into sequential layers of artificial neurons. The number of neurons in a layer is called the layer width. Theoretical analysis of artificial neural networks sometimes considers the limiting case that layer width becomes large or infinite. This limit enables simple analytic statements to be made about neural network predictions, training dynamics, generalization, and loss surfaces. This wide layer limit is also of practical interest, since finite width neural networks often perform strictly better as layer width is increased.
Theoretical approaches based on a large width limit
The Neural Network Gaussian Process (NNGP) corresponds to the infinite width limit of Bayesian neural networks, and to the distribution over functions realized by non-Bayesian neural networks after random initialization.
The same underlying computations that are used to derive the NNGP kernel are also used in deep information propagation to characterize the propagation of information about gradients and inputs through a deep network. This characterization is used to predict how model trainability depends on architecture and initializations hyper-parameters.
The Neural Tangent Kernel describes the evolution of neural network predictions during gradient descent training. In the infinite width limit the NTK usually becomes constant, often allowing closed form expressions for the function computed by a wide neural network throughout gradient descent training. The training dynamics essentially become linearized.
The study of infinite width neural networks with a different initial weight scaling and suitably large learning rates leads to qualitatively different nonlinear training dynamics than those described by the fixed neural tangent kernel.
Catapult dynamics describe neural network training dynamics in the case that logits diverge to infinity as the layer width is taken to infinity, and describe qualitative properties of early training dynamics.
References
Deep learning
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Stocks%20%26%20Bonds | Computer Stocks & Bonds is a 1982 video game published by The Avalon Hill Game Company. It was released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and the CP/M-based Heath/Zenith Z-90 and Z-100. It is an adaptation of the 3M bookshelf game Stocks & Bonds, which was originally released in 1964.
Gameplay
Computer Stocks & Bonds is a game in which the stock market is simulated. Players have ten turns, each representing one year, to invest in securities (the eponymous stocks and bonds) with differing risks and yields. The securities' market prices fluctuate annually. The player who accumulates the most wealth by the end of the tenth year is declared the winner.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Plausible reasons are given for very large gains and losses but these are after the fact: winning is largely a matter of luck. Two factors make this game unique: it is the only one of the four available for computers other than the Apple and it is the only one which needs only 32K of RAM (instead of 48K)."
Reviews
PC Magazine - Dec, 1982
PC Magazine - Oct, 1983
References
External links
Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984
Review in Electronic Games
Article in Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
1982 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
CP/M games
DOS games
TRS-80 games
VIC-20 games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%20%28video%20game%29 | Controller is a simulation video game published in 1982 for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers by The Avalon Hill Game Company and developed by its division Microcomputer Games.
Gameplay
Controller is a game in which the player is an air traffic controller.
Reception
Bill Willett reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "I would recommend Controller to those who would like a "thinking" game that doesn't let you dawdle around moving planes like chessmen. The arcade player, however, may be disappointed with the slow (real time) action of the game."
References
External links
Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984
1982 video games
Air traffic control simulators
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Microcomputer Games games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrellita%20m%C3%ADa | Estrellita mía (English: My Little Star) is an Argentine telenovela directed by Diana Álvarez and starring Andrea del Boca and Ricardo Darín. It originally aired in 1987 on the Telefe network and was a commercial success.
Background
Estrellita mía is a TV series adaptation of the radionovela El ángel perverso written by Delia Fiallo. The story has been adapted numerous times before: Venezuelan TV network Venevisión originally turned it into the series Lucecita in 1967, and again in 1972 under the same title, followed by a version called Virginia in 1983; in Argentina, the story was originally broadcast as the series Estrellita, esa pobre campesina in 1968 and was subsequently adapted as the film Lucecita in 1976. For Andrea del Boca, Estrellita mía was her first telenovela in five years, after 1982's Cien días de Ana. Her song "Necesito creer otra vez" was used as the series' music theme and later appeared on her album Con amor.
Diana Álvarez and the series itself were nominated to the 1987 Martín Fierro Awards for the Best Director and the Best Television Series, respectively. From 1991 to 1992, the series was broadcast on Rete 4 in Italy as Stellina with Italian dubbing.
Plot summary
Estrellita is a young and poor peasant. When her mother falls ill and dies, she moves to Buenos Aires and is hired as a maid at the mansion of Miguel and Graciela, where her friend Modesta lives with her son Sergio and works as a cook. Miguel is Estrellita's biological father, but that is kept a secret. Before her mother died, he promised her to look after their daughter. After moving into his house, Estrellita meets Juanjo, who is married to Angelina, a disabled woman reliant on a wheelchair. Juanjo does not love Angelina and stays with her only out of guilt, thinking that her condition is a result of a car accident that he has involved her in. Estrellita and Juanjo fall in love with each other, but the girl is repeatedly discredited and humiliated by Graciela and Angelina, who, unknowingly to everyone, is only pretending to be disabled to keep Juanjo with her.
Estrellita becomes pregnant by Juanjo, but to avoid controversy, it is communicated that Sergio is the father. She decides to marry Sergio, but the wedding is eventually cancelled when she runs away, not being able to marry a man she does not love. By accident, Sergio discovers that Angelina is able to walk and subsequently sets her up so that her lie is exposed to everyone. Juanjo tells her he wants a divorce in order to be with Estrellita and their child. Angelina plots to kill Estrellita at her apartment by trying to throw her down the stairs. In the end, she loses her balance and tumbles down the stairs herself. Ironically, due to sustained injuries, she is now really not able to walk. Estrellita and Juanjo get married, and soon after that Miguel dies.
Angelina decides to move out of Buenos Aires and asks Juanjo to take her in a car to the airport. As a revenge, she grabs the steering wheel and cau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim%20Yakubets | Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets (Russian: Максим Викторович Якубец) is a Russian computer expert and alleged computer hacker. He is alleged to have been a member of the Evil Corp, Jabber Zeus Crew, as well as the alleged leader of the Bugat malware conspiracy. Russian media openly describe Yakubets as a "hacker who stole $100 million", friend of Dmitry Peskov and discussed his lavish lifestyle, including luxury wedding with a daughter of FSB officer Eduard Bendersky and Lamborghini with "ВОР" (Russian for "thief") registration plate. Yakubets impunity in Russia is perceived as clue of his close ties with FSB, but also criticized by domestic information security experts such as Ilya Sachkov.
Indictments
On November 13, 2019, Yakubets was charged in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania for allegedly conspiring in the development, maintenance, distribution, and infection of Bugat malware. The following day, he was charged in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska for his alleged involvement in the installation of Zeus.
References
Computer criminals
Ukrainian criminals
Russian computer criminals
Living people
1987 births
Hackers
Trojan horses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino%20%281982%20video%20game%29 | Casino is a 1982 video game published by Datamost.
Gameplay
Casino is a game in which five games are included: Blackjack, Keno, Poker, Roulette and Baccarat.
Reception
Stuart Gorrie reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Casino provides user with a little personal touch. As you enter the Casino, you are greeted and asked your name. Casino knows if you have been here before, as, you see, it keeps track of clientele. Casino knows all about you."
References
External links
Review in Softalk
1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Casino video games
Datamost games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami%20%28video%20game%29 | Tsunami is a 1981 video game published by Creative Computing Software.
Gameplay
Tsunami is a game in which the player must defend against alien attacks.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, stating that: "For those who like "Invader" games, Tsunami will be of great interest due to [its] variety and professional quality."
References
External links
Article in Creative Computing
1981 video games
Alien invasions in video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Fixed shooters
Science fiction video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Golf | Micro Golf is a 1981 video game published by Creative Computing Software for the Apple II.
Gameplay
Micro Golf is a game in which 1 to 4 players play miniature golf.
Reception
Bob Boyd reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "One of the best features of this game is that it is not limited to a special age or interest group. It is great for showing people your computer because there aren't hefty rules to learn, you can just start playing, and it is still very challenging for everyone."
References
External links
Review in Creative Computing
1981 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Miniature golf video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s%20in%20culture | This article is a summary of developments in culture during the 2010s.
Film
Superhero films became box office leaders. Animated films in the 2010s remained predominantly computer-generated. Traditional animation styles lost favor among general audiences, although (2D) anime remained popular.
3D films gained popularity, led by Avatar, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Monsters vs. Aliens in late 2009. In 2010, Avatar became the first film to gross more than US$2 billion. Other 3D releases were also successful. 360-degree video also became widely available with the introduction of consumer virtual reality.
Movies and television struggled to maintain their position, as online viewing grew rapidly. Internet piracy was a major concern for the industry. In 2012, Viacom launched a US$1 billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement. In early 2012, the United States Congress began debating the SOPA and PIPA bills that were heavily lobbied by the entertainment industry.
Avengers: Endgame grossed over $2.7 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing superhero film of all time and the highest-grossing movie of all time, surpassing 2009's Avatar.
Television
The American soap opera format lost popularity in favor of reality television and daytime talk shows. Prime-time television serials and Spanish-language telenovelas remain popular globally. A new development in global television is the great popularity of Turkish drama series in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Korean dramas continued to enjoy widespread mainstream popularity across Asia. The launch of Korean entertainment channels like Sony ONE and tvN Asia gave access to millions of viewers across parts of East, South and Southeast Asia to watch Korean programs simultaneously with the South Korean broadcast or hours after its broadcast in South Korea.
Cable providers saw a decline in subscriber numbers as cord cutters switched to lower cost online streaming services such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Video. These non-cable, internet-based media streaming services even began producing their own programming. TV sets, such as the Samsung SmartTV, started offering online streaming via television. The advent of streaming services has allowed for more serialized television content to rise in popularity which may allow for more complex and longer storytelling. This phenomenon is often referred to as the "Golden Age of Television", due to the large number of high-quality, internationally acclaimed television programs that debuted or aired during the decade. House of Cards became the first online-only web television series to earn major nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013. Disney+, a streaming service by Disney launched in November 2019 to big success.
Award winners
Music
Advances in music technology, such as the ability to use 32 or more tracks in real time, changed the sound of many types of music. Globalism and an increased demand for variety and pers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Loss%20of%20Innocence | A Loss of Innocence (also known as The End of Eden) is a 1996 American romantic drama television film that first aired on September 29, 1996, on the ABC television network. It is based on the novel On This Star by Virginia Sorensen.
Plot
In the 1920s, a successful New York pianist returns to his hometown of Templeton, a Mormon community in rural Utah. After he arrives, Erik Eriksen is treated distrustfully by the community members, including his family, for having "betrayed" them by not living his life according to their faith. Only his mother and his younger half-brother, Jens, support him unconditionally. However, trouble arises when Erik falls in love with Chelnicia. "Chel" is a beautiful young woman who not only plays the piano and is a dedicated Mormon, but also happens to be Jens's fiancée.
Cast
Jennie Garth as Chelnicia "Chel" Bowen
Rob Estes as Erik Eriksen
Polly Holliday as Christina Eriksen
Mike Doyle as Jens Eriksen
Michael Milhoan as Ivor Eriksen
Anne Sward as Ida Eriksen
Scott Wilkinson as John Brown
Marcia Dangerfield as Seenie
Melissa Moore as Esther Bowen-Dorius
Maria Mejias as Ruby Snow
Bill Osborn as Oley Eriksen
Peter Morse as Junior Eriksen
Wendy Lee Richhart as Hedvig Eriksen
Jed Knudsen as Karl Dorius
Steve Anderson as Bill Mac
Beverly Rowland as Woman on Train
Reb Fleming as Seamstress
Mary Pederson as Verla May
Danny Rees as Justice of the Peace
Allan Groves as Andy
Dennis Saylor as Jake
Production
The film was shot mostly in Heber Valley, Utah.
Reception
Writing for Deseret News, Scott D. Pierce reviewed the film. He criticized its plot as predictable, saying that "the movie telegraphs its every move well in advance". Pierce also found fault with Garth's acting: "Why either brother is interested is somewhat of a mystery. As portrayed by Garth, Chel comes off as sort of a simple-minded fool." Conversely, he praised the film's overall feel, saying "Loss looks great - and not just the Utah scenery", adding that the period costumes bring "an air of authenticity to a movie that, unfortunately, is sometimes as foolish as it is predictable." Pierce summed up the film with the rhetorical question: "What if Danielle Steel had set one of her romance novels in 1920s Utah and used the LDS Church as a backdrop?" He ultimately concluded that "Loss is, in the end, a predictable romance novel brought to TV. It's difficult to take it any more seriously than that."
References
External links
1996 films
1996 television films
1996 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
Films directed by Graeme Clifford
Films scored by Mark Snow
Mormonism in fiction
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
English-language romantic drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizzardi | Guizzardi is an Italian-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Giancarlo Guizzardi (born 1975), Brazilian–Italian computer scientist
Giuseppe Guizzardi (1779–1861), Italian painter
Laurindo Guizzardi (1934–2020), Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20graph | In knowledge representation and reasoning, a knowledge graph is a knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model or topology to integrate data. Knowledge graphs are often used to store interlinked descriptions of entities objects, events, situations or abstract concepts while also encoding the semantics underlying the used terminology.
Since the development of the Semantic Web, knowledge graphs are often associated with linked open data projects, focusing on the connections between concepts and entities. They are also prominently associated with and used by search engines such as Google, Bing, Yext and Yahoo; knowledge-engines and question-answering services such as WolframAlpha, Apple's Siri, and Amazon Alexa; and social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook.
History
The term was coined as early as 1972 by the Austrian linguist Edgar W. Schneider, in a discussion of how to build modular instructional systems for courses. In the late 1980s, the University of Groningen and University of Twente jointly began a project called Knowledge Graphs, focusing on the design of semantic networks with edges restricted to a limited set of relations, to facilitate algebras on the graph. In subsequent decades, the distinction between semantic networks and knowledge graphs was blurred.
Some early knowledge graphs were topic-specific. In 1985, Wordnet was founded, capturing semantic relationships between words and meanings an application of this idea to language itself. In 2005, Marc Wirk founded Geonames to capture relationships between different geographic names and locales and associated entities. In 1998 Andrew Edmonds of Science in Finance Ltd in the UK created a system called ThinkBase that offered fuzzy-logic based reasoning in a graphical context.
In 2007, both DBpedia and Freebase were founded as graph-based knowledge repositories for general-purpose knowledge. DBpedia focused exclusively on data extracted from Wikipedia, while Freebase also included a range of public datasets. Neither described themselves as a 'knowledge graph' but developed and described related concepts.
In 2012, Google introduced their Knowledge Graph, building on DBpedia and Freebase among other sources. They later incorporated RDFa, Microdata, JSON-LD content extracted from indexed web pages, including the CIA World Factbook, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. Entity and relationship types associated with this knowledge graph have been further organized using terms from the schema.org vocabulary. The Google Knowledge Graph became a successful complement to string-based search within Google, and its popularity online brought the term into more common use.
Since then, several large multinationals have advertised their knowledge graphs use, further popularising the term. These include Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon, Uber and eBay.
In 2019, IEEE combined its annual international conferences on "Big Knowledge" and "Data Mining and Intelligent Computing" into the Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Graph%20%28disambiguation%29 | A knowledge graph is a knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model.
Knowledge Graph may also refer to:
Google Knowledge Graph, a knowledge graph that powers the Google search engine and other services
Bing Knowledge Graph or Satori, used by the Bing search engine
LinkedIn Knowledge Graph (LKG), a knowledge base for LinkedIn
See also
Conceptual graph
Graph database
Knowledge base
Knowledge engine (disambiguation)
Social graph, such as Facebook's "entity graph" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech%20PreComputer%201000 | The VTech Precomputer 1000 is an electronic learning aid for ages 9 and above manufactured by VTech and released in August 21 1988 (USA) and 1989 (Europe). It contains a dot matrix LCD screen, and a standard size keyboard. It features a number of activities, including trivia on science, history and general knowledge.
The PreComputer 1000 is VTech's first child learning product to incorporate the BASIC programming language and is the predecessor to the PreComputer 2000.
Specifications
The VTech PreComputer 1000 relies upon a Zilog Z84C0004PEC (a Z80B clone) as its processing core. A 16Kbit (2Kx8bit) 2K Sharp LH5116-10 or Hyundai HY6116ALP-10 SRAM is used for RAM. As of 1992, a CMOS version of the Z80 marketed as the Z84 is used.
A Toshiba TC531000CP 1MBit (128Kx8bit) 128K ROM contains the Operating System and program data. This ROM can be augmented when a cartridge is inserted into the side mounted cartridge slot and then selected, thus providing expansion capability.
Text output is supplied by a single row 20 character dot-matrix LCD panel, sound output is via an inbuilt piezo element beeper.
Functions
The following functions are available on the unit:
Typing course
Fact quizzes (250 facts in each of the following categories: General Knowledge, History, Science & Geography)
Mathematics activities (5 activities for 1 or 2 players)
Games (1 single player typing game, Hangman and Scramble)
Calculator
BASIC (stylized as PRE-BASIC 1.0) programming with 9 example programs
BASIC implementation
PRE-BASIC 1.0 is a simplified unstructured BASIC implementation includes a simple line editor with the ability to change, insert or delete characters on a program line.
Supported features include:
Single character variable names for numbers and strings
String and numeric arrays up to three dimensions
Data manipulation with LET.. DATA.. READ.. RESTORE
Input and output with LIST.. PRINT.. INPUT
Mathematical functions (e.g. ABS, SGN, TAN)
Logical operations (e.g. NOT, OR, AND)
String handling (e.g. LEFT$, CHR$)
Flow control with IF.. THEN.. ELSE, FOR.. TO.. NEXT.. STEP and GOSUB.. RETURN
Single channel sound with 31 notes and 9 durations
Expansion Cartridges
The following cartridges were available for the PreComputer 1000 and also supported in the PreComputer 2000. The cartridges could only be inserted with the power off before re-powering and pressing the 'Cartridge' button to activate.
Bible Knowledge (Stock Code: 80-0989)
Fantasy Trivia (Stock Code: 80-1001)
General Knowledge II (Stock Code: 80-1002)
Super Science (Stock Code: 80-1410)
Speller (Stock Code: 80-1004)
Famous places and things (Stock Code: 80-1533) - Marketed for both PreComputer 1000 and 2000
The same Toshiba TC531000CP 128K ROM is used in some cartridges.
References
External links
20th Century Retro Games entry (Gallery page for VTech models 1000, 1000 jr, 2000, ProScreen and Variety)
BASIC for Kids: The VTech PreComputer 1000 at Vintage Computing and Ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Animals | Network for Animals (NFA) is a campaign-directed to animal welfare organization that financially supports and provides logistical help for animal shelters, animal welfare initiatives and raises public awareness about animal issues in Australia, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mauritius, Montenegro, the Philippines, South Africa, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, the United States, Zimbabwe, Australia, Malta, and Israel.
History
Headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in the United States and South Africa, NFA was founded in 1997 by animal activist Brian Davies. Davies also founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in 1969. He is known for his historic campaign to save the seals in the 1970s, which ultimately led to the ban on killing baby whitecoat seals in Canada. Following his retirement from IFAW in 1997, he remained active in animal welfare through NFA and its sister organization, the Political Animal Lobby (PAL).
Initially, NFA focused on the illegal dog-meat trade in the Philippines but subsequently increased its efforts to include a wide range of animal welfare issues in its campaigns. Today, NFA provides practical assistance to animals, while PAL focuses on political action for animals, based on the belief that fundamental improvements in the treatment of animals must involve political change. Currently, NFA is led by Davies, along with his wife Gloria Davies (Chief Executive Officer), David Barritt (executive director) and Paul Seigel (Chief Fundraiser).
Funding
NFA receives no government grants and is funded primarily by voluntary donations from nearly a million supporters worldwide. NFA utilizes direct mail fundraising and online appeals as its form of direct marketing to acquire new donors or supporters and retain the level of their contributions.
Media
As part of its efforts to document and broadcast the issues it works to address, NFA uses various media. This includes using live footage of cruelty cases and streaming the contents over the Internet and various social media platforms, giving the public a virtual first-hand view of animal cruelty. For example, NFA helped expose cruelty inflicted on donkeys and mules that were being abused on the Greek island of Santorini. In Kenya, NFA footage uncovered a slaughterhouse where 2,000 donkeys a month were killed for their skins and legally exported to China. NFA also exposed conditions at chicken farms in Turkey that breached Turkish law and international hygiene standards, as well as the illegal killing of some 14,000 dogs over 20 years in Tavşanli and Tepecik on the instruction of local officials.
NFA also produces a podcast, each episode covering a different story about animals.
Campaigns
NFA runs and funds projects and advocacy work in at least 19 countries around the world.
Horse fighting
NFA is instrumental in the fight against the illegal practice of organized horse fighting in Mindanao, in the Southern Philippines. As |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Turing%20Trust | The Turing Trust is a British charitable organisation that supports education in sub-Saharan Africa through the reuse of computers and improvement of associated teacher training.
The trust was set up by the family of the computing pioneer Alan Turing. It was founded by Alan Turing's great-nephew, James Turing, in 2009. Sir Dermot Turing has been a trustee since its inception. Countries where the trust is active include Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. Its main focus at present is in Malawi where it is working with Computers for Enhanced Education to set up computer labs in schools across the Northern and Central Regions.
The Turing Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales #1156687 and Scotland SC046150. It has partnered with Arcturus publishing in the production of a number of Turing-related puzzle books. The trust was based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 2020 moved to Loanhead, Midlothian, just south of Edinburgh.
References
External links
Turing Trust on LinkedIn
2009 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2009
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Information technology charities based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Edinburgh
Organisations based in Midlothian
Education in Africa
Information technology in Africa
Computer recycling
Teacher training programs
Sub-Saharan Africa
Alan Turing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20bench | The internet bench, also known as the "cyber seat", was the first internet-enabled bench. It was installed in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, on 6 August 2001. It was customized to allow seating for four people at a time who could plug their laptops into modem jacks for free. The bench became popular as a picture-taking location and was also covered by international television crews. With the advent of Wi-Fi, the bench was deactivated. It holds a Guinness World Record for being the "oldest internet bench".
Description
The internet bench was installed in the Abbey Gardens in Bury St Edmunds by MSN (owned by Microsoft) with the support of the St Edmundsbury Borough Council. It supported four people at a time who could plug their laptops into provided modem jacks for free. MSN said they chose Bury St. Edmunds after receiving "applications from local authorities around the country". It cost about £60 for the bench and £30 for the modem. MSN agreed to pay for the modem for three months, after which it was the local council's responsibility to pay if they wanted to continue the project.
History
The first user was Brian Bagnall, mayor of Bury St. Edmunds.
During its first days, the bench was vandalized when someone tried to "block one of the modem plugs".
BBC News reported that on first few days of the launch, two teenagers discovered that the bench could be used to make free international calls, so they phoned the local council to tell them about the problem, and also tried to reach Bill Gates but were only able to reach his secretary. After that, engineers disabled the ability to make long-distance calls.
Ann Clarke, a local council spokeswoman, said that people were fascinated with the bench; according to her, TV crews from Japan and Korea showed "intense media interest". She added that people would come to the bench just to take pictures with it. The bench was regularly patrolled and the garden where the bench was located was locked at night to prevent vandalism.
Owing to the advent of Wi-Fi, the bench was deactivated, and now has a plaque stating that while it was innovative in 2001, it has been "superseded".
Guinness World Record
It holds a Guinness World Record for being the "oldest internet bench".
Gallery
References
Benches (furniture)
Microsoft
Bury St Edmunds
2001 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Information%20Network | Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting the African American community, carrying mostly important national news headline stories as well as current events and special interest features. Some stations also incorporate local news, traffic, weather and sports updates into the network feed. Tony Coles is the network's president and Tanita Myers is the news director.
History
On June 29, 2020, 15 iHeartMedia radio stations in markets with large African American populations (including AM, FM, and HD Radio subchannel stations) ceased their regular programming, and began stunting with clips of speeches by prominent African Americans, such as Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" address, interspersed with messages stating that "our side of the story is about to be told", and promoting a major change in their programming at 12:00 p.m. EDT the next day.
On June 30, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. EDT, iHeartMedia officially launched the Black Information Network (BIN) on the 15 stunting stations, carrying national news coverage catered to African American communities. The service draws from other iHeartMedia services for local traffic and weather updates, and promotes podcasts oriented towards the audience. The network will be carried by additional stations over time, and is also being distributed on the iHeartRadio streaming platform.
BIN also serves as the provider of news content for iHeartMedia stations carrying formats that predominantly target African-Americans, including hip hop, R&B, and gospel. Stations not owned by iHeart may also subscribe to the service, with newscasts available at the :00 and :30 mark each hour.
Alongside traditional advertising, BIN is also being backed by a group of "national founding partners", including Bank of America, CVS Health, GEICO, Lowe's, McDonald's, Sony, 23andMe, and Verizon Communications which will air outreach towards African-American communities on the network. Currently, the number of minutes each hour devoted to commercials is considerably lower than most radio networks.
On September 10, 2020, iHeartMedia announced that it would acquire WWRL in New York City, a station that had historically carried formats serving the African American community, to carry BIN beginning November 2. BIN programming was previously available in the New York radio market via 105.1 WWPR-FM's third HD Radio subchannel. On December 2, 2020, iHeartMedia announced that it would acquire Fort Worth's KHVN and its simulcast partner KKGM, with an intent for them to be BIN's stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, replacing their existing Black Gospel format.
Stations
Asterisk (*) indicates HD Radio broadcast.
Gray background indicates low-power FM translator.
References
External links
IHeartRadio digital channels
Radio stations established in 2020
African-American radio
2020 establishments in the United |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Data%20Protection%20Commissioner | The Office of the Polish Data Protection Commissioner or officially President of the Personal Data Protection Office (Polish: Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych, PUODO) is an independent national data protection authority responsible for upholding the European Union fundamental right of individuals to data privacy through the enforcement and monitoring of compliance with data protection legislation in Poland. It was established in 1997 as the Bureau of the General Inspector of the Personal Data Protection (Polish: Biuro Generalnego Inspektora Ochrony Danych Osobowych, GIODO).
The independent role and powers of the national data protection authority are as set out in legislation in the Data Protection Act 2018 (Polish: ).
The authority is based in Poland's capital Warsaw, and its commissioner is an independent administrative body elected by members of the Lower House of Polish Parliament (Polish: Sejm) and approved by the Senate. Dr. Edyta Bielak-Jomaa became the first commissioner in 2018, after serving as the general inspector from 2015 to 2018. On 16 May 2019, Jan Nowak was appointed as a new commissioner. The prefix "Minister" (abbreviated to "Min.") is an honorific style that is traditionally used before the names of former and acting general inspectors and commissioners.
Some initiatives of the Polish Data Protection Commissioner's Office include encouraging personal data protection awareness, and promoting data protection education. Office organizes annual essay contest addressed to law students at Polish universities and awards the National Data Protection Commissioner's Prize for best essays on data protection and administrative law.
References
External links
Official Website
LGPD Law Practice
Data protection authorities
Organizations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale | Tailscale Inc. is a software company based in Toronto, Canada. Tailscale develops a partially open-source software-defined mesh virtual private network (VPN) and a web-based management service. The company provides a zero config VPN as a service under the same name.
History
Founded in 2019 by Google engineers Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw, David Carney, and Brad Fitzpatrick, the company secured funding of $12 million in a Series A round in November 2020 led by Accel with seed investors, Heavybit and Uncork Capital participating. In May 2022, the company became a Unicorn, raising a $100 million Series B round, led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors.
The company's name is inspired from a research paper The Tail at Scale published by Google.
Software
The open-source software acts in combination with the management service to establish peer-to-peer or relayed VPN communication with other clients using the WireGuard protocol. If the software fails to establish direct communication it falls back to using relays provided by the company. The IPv4 addresses given to clients are in the carrier-grade NAT reserved space. This was chosen to avoid interference with existing networks. The configuration also allows routing of traffic to networks behind the client on some clients.
See also
LogMeIn Hamachi
ZeroTier
Notes
References
External links
Virtual private network services
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Transportation | Columbia Transportation is a fare-free bus network providing service to Columbia University campuses. It is operated by Academy Bus Lines and Luxury Transportation to serve employees and students. The buses are open to all Columbia faculty, students, Dodge Fitness Center members, and anyone else who holds a Columbia ID card.
Routes
Active routes
Former Routes
Columbia Commuter Shuttles
In August 2020, Columbia announced that they would start commuter shuttle service in the Fall 2020 semester. These buses would function as express buses, linking areas that do not have direct connections to Columbia to each campus. The contractor for these routes is Academy Bus Lines, using coach buses. The original system included the Yankee Stadium Commuter Route, which functioned essentially as a park and ride route, however this was discontinued due to extremely low ridership. The buses assigned to the Yankee Stadium route were reassigned to the East Manhattan Route. The Queens-Riverdale Commuter Route, however still serves the Southfield Commuter Lot at Citi Field park and ride in Queens. The Commuter Shuttle Service ended on December 30, 2021.
Evening Shuttle
On June 9, 2020, Columbia announced that the Evening Shuttle service, previously provided by the Columbia Public Safety department, would restart with an on-demand service model. Users would order cars from the ridesharing service Via, and provided the rides were within the coverage area, Columbia Transportation would reimburse. This program would operate 7 days a week, from 6 pm to 3 am in the summer, and 4 pm to 3 am in the winter. In January 2022, Service was expanded eastwards, covering much of Central Harlem. In June 2022, the service was changed to operate from 8 pm to 3 am. The service was estimated to have 162,000 riders during the 2021-2022 academic year. On , the hours were changed again. Rides would operate from 6 to 8 pm, only from street corner to street corner, and past 8 pm on a door-to-door basis, where rides are offered to anywhere in the zone.
Fleet
Active
Intercampus, Lamont, Manhattanville, and Fort Lee Shuttles
Bakers Field Shuttle
Arbor Shuttle
The Arbor Shuttle uses various cutaway buses operated by subcontractors for Columbia Residential.
Retired
References
Columbia University
Bus transportation in New York City
Bus transportation in New Jersey
Transportation in Bergen County, New Jersey
Bus routes in Manhattan
University and college bus systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly%20Zenz | Kimberly Zenz is a cybersecurity research with an emphasis on the RuNet. Her work experience includes RuNet researcher at Verisign iDefense and Head of Threat Intelligence at the Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation (German Cyber Security Organization). In 2019, a Moscow court reportedly accused her of passing along information of interest to the Russian government to U.S. intelligence officials. Zenz refuted these accusations and repeatedly requested to testify. The court ignored her request and did not permit her to testify.
Education
Zenz went to Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia), College of William & Mary, and Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
Career in the RuNet
Zenz previously worked as senior analyst for Verisign's iDefense threat intelligence based in Reston, Virginia, with an emphasis on Russian-speaking cybercriminals. She also worked as Head of Threat Intelligence at the Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation (German Cyber Security Organization) in Berlin, where she created the international research program. She was also a nonresident senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security in Washington DC.
Her work has been featured in multiple books and media publications, including Spam Nation by Brian Krebs, Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn. She is the co-author of Cyberfraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures" and the Oxford University Publication titled "Cyber Security in the Russian Federation."
U.S. intelligence allegations
In 2010, ChronoPay CEO Pavel Vrublevsky alleged that Zenz had been passing along information about his company to U.S. intelligence officials. Mr. Vrublevsky is a convicted cybercriminal who served time in Russian prison. The men accused in the treason case all participated in his investigation and conviction.
In 2019, a Moscow court reportedly accused Zenz of passing information about Mr. Vrublevksy's criminal operations to U.S. intelligence officials. They accused renowned Russian cybercriminal investigator Ruslan Stoyanov of giving her the materials.
Zenz has denied these claims. She was in Moscow the week before the accused men were arrested, but was never questioned. She also requested to testify for the defense, but all of her requests were ignored by the Russian court. In 2019, Zenz spoke at BlackHat USA about the case, her experiences being accused, and the infighting among Russian security services that she believes played a role in the Russian treason case.
In their book, "The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries," Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan report that the case was also motivated by a desire by Russian security services to stop international cooperation between Russian investigators and researchers and those in the West.
References
1977 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKCS%207 | In cryptography, "PKCS #7: Cryptographic Message Syntax" (a.k.a. "CMS") is a standard syntax for storing signed and/or encrypted data. PKCS #7 is one of the family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) created by RSA Laboratories. The latest version, 1.5, is available as RFC 2315.
An update to PKCS #7 is described in RFC 2630, which was replaced in turn by RFC 3369, RFC 3852 and then by RFC 5652.
PKCS #7 files may be stored both as raw DER format or as PEM format. PEM format is the same as DER format but wrapped inside Base64 encoding and sandwiched in between and . Windows uses the ".p7b" file name extension for both these encodings.
A typical use of a PKCS #7 file would be to store certificates and/or certificate revocation lists (CRL).
Here's an example of how to first download a certificate, then wrap it inside a PKCS #7 archive and then read from that archive:
$ echo '' | openssl s_client -connect example.org:443 -host example.org 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 > example.org.cer 2>/dev/null
$ openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile example.org.cer -out example.org.cer.pem.p7b
$ openssl pkcs7 -in example.org.cer.pem.p7b -noout -print_certs
subject=C = US, ST = California, L = Los Angeles, O = Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, OU = Technology, CN = www.example.org issuer=C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, CN = DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
References
External links
Man page for openssl-pkcs7
Cryptography standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda%20Daniels-Race | Theda M. Daniels-Race is an American engineer and Michael B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor in the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University. Her research is in nanoelectronics, specialising in the growth and characterization of nanomaterials and hybrid electronic devices based on compound semiconductors.
Early life and education
Daniels-Race became very interested in science at a young age, and after a conversation with her parents before she began kindergarten about how long people spend in school, decided at age five that one day she would pursue a Ph.D. to become a scientist.
Daniels-Race was a recipient of the National Achievement Scholarship and obtained her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1983. She completed an MSc in the same discipline from Stanford University in 1985, funded by the Graduate Engineering Minorities Fellowship.
She was one of the ten students selected for the nationally awarded AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship Program to pursue her doctorate in electrical engineering at Cornell University. Daniels-Race's thesis was titled "A spectrometric study of high-energy electrons using planar-doped barrier (PBD) launchers", and her research focused on developing a series of spectrometers based on PBD launchers to observe quantum mechanical phenomena. In her work, she used molecular beam epitaxy techniques to grow vertical field effect transistor spectrometers and demonstrated the first observation of hot electrons and ballistic transport effects in these systems. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1990, and was the 19th African American woman to earn a PhD in physics, astronomy or a related field in the United States.
Research and career
Daniels-Race joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Duke University in 1989, where she established the university's first molecular beam epitaxy laboratory and founded their experimental research programme into III-IV semiconductor materials, with federal funding from the National Science Foundation. She was a visiting scholar at the Microelectronics Research Center at the University Texas Austin in spring 1995. From 2001 to 2003, she was awarded funding from the US Department of Energy to investigate the effects of variation in molecular beam epitaxy growth of tensile-strained two-dimensional structures. Her work at Duke was also focused on studying quantum mechanical phenomena such as electron-phonon interactions, and developing microelectronic devices based on GaAs, AlGaAs and InAlAs quantum wells.
In 2003, she joined Louisiana State University as an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering, where she is now Michael B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor. At LSU, she began a new line of research studying vacuum deposition growth techniques to develop hybrid electronic materials based on compound semiconductor electronics. Her group was awarded funding from the Board of Reg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VST%20Enterprises | VST Enterprises, Ltd. was a cybertechnology company based in Manchester and New York founded by Louis-James Davis. In 2017 the company was valued at £234 million based on inbound investments.
It operated in more than 16 countries in which it could use its VCode system to provide secure financial transactions, virtual mobile wallet payments, and secure identification and authentication. It launched a subsidiary in Pakistan in June 2020 with Shaz Sulaman and Ajaz Sulaman. The VCode is like a circular QR Code.
It had a contract with the Zimbabwe government to use its technology to tackle illegal mining, counterfeiting and issues with border control, as well as introducing identity cards and tax collection for informal businesses. Louis-James Davis was appointed Science & Technology Ambassador for the country by President Emerson Mnangagwa at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
In May 2020 it was reported to be in discussions with NHSX and the Home Office about using its VCode technology with the V-Health Passport|url=https://v-health.com |.
In June 2020 Richard Caborn, the former sports minister, reported that the firm was involved in designing the V-Health Passport being considered by ministers and the Premier League to see if the digital passport would allow fans to start coming back to football matches.
The company went into administration in 2022 after its parent company Davis Co. Holdings, owned by Louis-James Davis withdrew funding.
In September 2022, the assets of the company were bought by a Davis Co. Holdings subsidiary.
Louis-James Davis is the current CEO of Nova Wallet (a financial technology company) and is continuing to deliver keynote talks on VCode and how it can be used within cyber security, digital identity and financial inclusion globally.
References
Companies based in Manchester
Software companies of England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-south%20traffic | In computer networking, north-south traffic is network traffic flowing into and out of a data center.
Traffic
Based on the most commonly deployed network topology of systems within a data center, north-south traffic typically indicates data flow that either enters or leaves the data center from/to a system physically residing outside the data center, such as user to server.
Southbound traffic is data entering the data center (through a firewall and/or other networking infrastructure). Data exiting the data center is northbound traffic, commonly routed through a firewall to Internet space.
The other direction of traffic flow is east-west traffic which typically indicates data flow within a data center.
See also
Virtual private network
References
Data processing
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal%20Campaign%20%28video%20game%29 | Guadalcanal Campaign is a 1982 computer wargame developed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). It was Grigsby's first released game and has been cited as the first monster wargame made for computers.
Guadalcanal Campaign was a commercial and critical success that helped to establish Grigsby in the game industry. Grigsby followed it with Bomb Alley. Continuing to work with SSI, he went on to become a prominent name in the computer wargame field, releasing 23 games with the company by 1996.
Gameplay
Guadalcanal Campaign is a computer wargame that simulates the Solomon Islands campaign of World War II.
Development
Guadalcanal Campaign was the first game released by designer Gary Grigsby. He recalled beginning development in December 1981. In early 1982, while phoning Strategic Simulations' hotline about its game Torpedo Fire, he got into a conversation with company head Joel Billings that led to an offer to publish Guadalcanal Campaign. Grigsby said that he had "nearly completed a crude working version" by the time that he talked to Billings. Grigsby developed the game in his spare time at night while working a day job at the United States Department of Defense, an arrangement he called "incredibly hard". He later said that he had made "a lot of little fragments of games" before Guadalcanal Campaign, but that it was the first full project he had undertaken. Guadalcanal Campaign was released in 1982, after roughly 8 months of work.
Reception
Guadalcanal Campaign was a commercial success. According to Craig Ritchie of Retro Gamer, it sold roughly 3,500 copies, which he called "an outstanding figure for such a niche market".
Richard Charles Karr reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "It is this writer's opinion that Guadalcanal Campaign is the best historical simulation (and one of their best games) from SSI to date. The essential aspects of historicity and playability are well-matched, with easy accessibility of gaming information, a well-organized set of rules, and good research combining to provide for a game that will keep you at your computer for days at a time." Rich Sutton of Video Games called it "one of the best simulations available for beginner and expert alike".
Legacy
Guadalcanal Campaign has been cited by Computer Gaming World, Electronic Games and author Rusel DeMaria as the first monster wargame released for computers. According to Retro Gamer, it "set the standard for a long line of award-winning wargames to come." It helped to establish both Grigsby and SSI in the game industry; Grigsby himself went on to be one of the computer wargame genre's most respected contributors. He continued his relationship with SSI; by 1996, he had worked with the company on 23 games. In 2001, he co-founded the studio 2 by 3 Games with SSI's Joel Billings and Keith Brors, where they continued to work together on wargames such as War in the Pacific and Gary Grigsby's World at War.
References
Ext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latifur | Latifur is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
Latifur Khan, Bangladeshi computer scientist
Latifur Rahman (1936–2017), Bangladeshi politician
Latifur Rahman (businessman) (died 2020), Bangladeshi comprador and businessman
Latifur Rahman (politician), Bangladeshi politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20Gladiators | Galactic Gladiators is a 1982 computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations for the Apple II and IBM PC.
Gameplay
Galactic Gladiators is a game in which the player fights against an alien opponent.
Reception
David Long reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Easy to learn and fast to play, GG is a great starter game for "arcaders" who've never tried a "wargame" before. But, much like chess, it will take a long time to really feel like you've mastered this game (I sure haven't!) and the possibilities are endless."
Chris Smith reviewed SSI's RapidFire Line in The Space Gamer No. 59, and commented that "The game has two very strong points: secret movement and freshness."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1992
Softline #2.2 (1982-11)
References
External links
Review in Softalk
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Electronic Games
Another review in Electronic Games
Review in Family Computing
Review in Micro (French)
1982 video games
Apple II games
Multiplayer video games
Science fiction video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latte%20and%20the%20Magic%20Waterstone | Latte and the Magic Waterstone () is a 2019 German-Belgian computer-animated film directed by Mimi Maynard, Regina Welker, and Nina Wels. Based on the 1971 book of the same name by Sebastian Lybeck, it was adapted for film with a screenplay by Martin Behnke, Andrea Deppert, Marina Martins, and Jesper Møller. The film premiered at the Schlingel International Film Festival in 2019, and was released in Germany on December 25, 2019. It was later released on Netflix as an original film on July 31, 2020.
The film stars Luisa Wietzorek as Latte, an ambitious hedgehog, and Tim Schwarzmaier as Tjum, a shy and clumsy red squirrel, on a journey to retrieve the magic waterstone from the thief who stole it. In the English dub produced by Netflix, Latte and Tjum are voiced by Ashley Bornancin and Carter Hastings respectively. Other stars include Henning Baum and Timur Bartels in the German dub, and Danny Fehsenfeld, Gunnar Sizemore, and Leslie Miller in the English dub. Latte and the Magic Waterstone received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.
Plot
Latte, an orphaned hedgehog, is a social outcast in a small forest community of woodland animals. Her only friend, a red squirrel named Tjum, is convinced that Latte is a princess after she lies that her father was the king of a faraway kingdom. A recent drought forces the community to conserve water more carefully than usual, storing what little they can find in pumpkins. An emergency council meeting is called, during which an elderly crow insists that the drought was caused by the theft of a magic waterstone. The crow insists that for the water to return, someone must steal the waterstone back from King Bantur, who took it. The town is unconvinced, but Latte takes it upon herself to retrieve the waterstone and return it to the White Mountains.
Latte encounters a beaver building a dam on the dry river banks who points her in the right direction. Tjum's younger sister convinces him to find and accompany Latte to keep her safe on the journey. Tjum follows Latte in an attempt to change her mind, but Latte is determined. The pair are attacked by a lynx but are saved by the beaver, who renders the lynx unconscious with a heavy log. Despite the danger, Latte still refuses to return home without completing her mission. On the first night, the pair meet Greta, a poison dart frog, who lets them stay in her cave. Greta gives Latte and Tjum food and water, and tells them about the waterstone, whose existence Tjum is still skeptical of.
In the morning, Greta gives Tjum a bag of waterberries that can quell one's thirst, and tells him to ration them carefully. Greta warns the pair about a pack of wolves that are also after the waterstone. Not long after, Latte and Tjum are cornered by the wolves, led by Lupo, but the wolves let them go when Latte reveals her mission. On the second night, Latte begs Tjum for a waterberry, and Tjum relents after losing a game of cups and balls. Latte reveals that she is not truly a pri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20stochastic%20simulation | Hybrid stochastic simulations are a sub-class of stochastic simulations. These simulations combine existing stochastic simulations with other stochastic simulations or algorithms. Generally they are used for physics and physics-related research. The goal of a hybrid stochastic simulation varies based on context, however they typically aim to either improve accuracy or reduce computational complexity. The first hybrid stochastic simulation was developed in 1985.
History
The first hybrid stochastic simulation was developed by Simon Duane at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. It combined the Langevin equation with microcanonical ensembles. Duane's hybrid stochastic simulation was based upon the idea that the two algorithms complemented each other. The Langevin equation excelled at simulating long-time properties, but the addition of noise into the system created inefficient exploration of short-time properties. The microcanonical ensemble approach meanwhile excelled at exploring short-time properties, but became less reliable for long-time properties. By combining the two methods, the weakness of each could be mitigated by the strength of the other. Duane's initial results using this hybrid stochastic simulation were positive when the model correctly supported the idea of an abrupt finite-temperature transition in quantum chromodynamics, which was an controversial subject at the time.
Since then many hybrid stochastic simulations have been developed, aiming to overcome deficiencies in the stochastic simulations that they were based upon.
Methods
The Dobramysl and Holcman Method
The Dobramysl and Holcman mixed analytical-stochastic simulation model was published in 2018 by Ulrich Dobramysl and David Holcman, from the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford respectively. It simulates parts of Brownian trajectories, instead of simulating the entire trajectory. This approach is particularly relevant when a Brownian particle evolves in an infinite space. Trajectories are then simulated only in the neighborhood of small targets. Otherwise, explicit analytical expressions are used to map the initial point to a distribution located on an imaginary surface around the targets. This method has many possible applications, including generating gradient cues in an open space and simulating the diffusion of molecules that have to bind to cell receptors.
Principle of the algorithm
The algorithm avoids the explicit simulation long trajectories with large excursions and thus it circumvents the need for an arbitrary cutoff distance for the infinite domain. The algorithm consists of mapping the source position to a half-sphere containing the absorbing windows. Inside the sphere, classical Brownian simulations are run until the particle is absorbed or exits through the sphere surface. The algorithm consists of the following steps:
The source releases a particle at position .
If , map the particle's position to the surface of the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20Music%20Channel | Country Music Channel (CMC) was an Australian cable and satellite music television channel owned and operated by Foxtel Networks. It was the only country music video channel in Australia, created after the departure of MusicCountry from the Australian market.
Country Music Channel ceased operations at the end of June 2020, and was replaced by a regional version of CMT (owned by Network 10 parent company Paramount Networks UK & Australia).
References
External links
Country Music Channel Website
2004 establishments in Australia
Australian country music
Music video networks in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Defunct television channels in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in Australia
Foxtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%2025%20Tower | The Net 25 tower is a free-standing lattice tower with a triangular cross-section used by Net 25 a Philippine television network based out of Quezon City. Built-in the year 2000, the tower stands tall.
It is currently the second tallest structure in the Philippines and one of the tallest lattice towers in the world. Its transmitter transmits the signals of Net 25 (DZEC-TV), INCTV 48 (DZCE-TV) & Eagle FM 95.5 (DWDM-FM).
See also
Lattice tower
List of tallest freestanding steel structures
References
External links
http://www.eaglebroadcasting.net/dzec/
Lattice towers
Towers completed in 2000
Broadcast transmitters
Buildings and structures in Quezon City
Transmitter sites in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Ranch%20episodes | The Ranch is an American sitcom, created as original programming for Netflix by Don Reo and Jim Patterson. The show is centered around the Bennett family and their cattle ranch in Colorado.
The show ran for four seasons, with each season consisting of 20 episodes broken into two 10 episodes parts. All episodes in each part were released as simultaneous batches, with the first part airing on April 1, 2016. All episodes are named after American country music songs.
Series overview
Episodes
Part 1 (2016)
Part 2 (2016)
Part 3 (2017)
Part 4 (2017)
Part 5 (2018)
Part 6 (2018)
Part 7 (2019)
Part 8 (2020)
References
Lists of American sitcom episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80%20Million%20Tiny%20Images | 80 Million Tiny Images is a dataset intended for training machine learning systems. It contains 79,302,017 32×32 pixel color images, scaled down from images extracted from the World Wide Web in 2008 using automated web search queries on a set of 75,062 non-abstract nouns derived from WordNet. The words in the search terms were then used as labels for the images. The researchers used seven web search resources for this purpose: Altavista, Ask.com, Flickr, Cydral, Google, Picsearch and Webshots.
The 80 Million Tiny Images dataset was retired from use by its creators in 2020, after a paper by researchers Abeba Birhane and Vinay Prabhu found that some of the labeling of several publicly available image datasets, including 80 Million Tiny Images, was causing models trained on them to exhibit racial and sexual bias. They have asked other researchers not to use it for further research and to delete their copies of the dataset.
The CIFAR-10 dataset uses a subset of the images in this dataset, but with independently generated labels.
References
Machine learning
Datasets in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20VTV%20Awards | The 2014 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV 2014) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2013 to July 2014. It took place on 5 September 2014 in Hanoi and hosted by Nguyên Khang. This is the first ceremony to be held.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters
Special performances
References
External links
2014 television awards
VTV Awards
2014 in Vietnamese television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat | EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organized crime members to plan criminal activities. Police infiltrated the network between at least March and June 2020 during a Europe-wide investigation. An unidentified source associated with EncroChat announced on the night of 12–13 June 2020 that the company would cease operations because of the police operation.
The service had around 60,000 subscribers at the time of its closure. As a result of police being able to read unencrypted EncroChat messages, at least 1,000 arrests had been made across Europe as of 22 December 2020.
Background
EncroChat handsets emerged in 2016 as a replacement for a previously disabled end-to-end encrypted service. The company had revealed on 31 December 2015 the Version 115 of EncroChat OS, which appears to be the first public release of their operating system. The earliest version of the company's website archived by the Wayback Machine dates to 23 September 2015.
According to a May 2019 report by the Gloucester Citizen, EncroChat was originally developed for "celebrities who feared their phone conversations were being hacked". In the 2015 murder of English mobster Paul Massey, the killers used a similar service providing encrypted BlackBerry phones based on PGP. After the Dutch and Canadian police compromised their server in 2016, EncroChat turned into a popular alternative among criminals for its security-oriented services in 2017–2018.
The founders and owners of EncroChat are not known. According to Dutch journalist Jan Meeus, a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the developers.
Through a marketing strategy of "relentless online advertising", EncroChat rapidly expanded during its four and a half years of existence, benefiting from the closure of its competitors PGP Safe and Ennetcom. The network eventually reached an estimated 60,000 total subscribers at the time of its closure in June 2020. According to the French National Gendarmerie, 90 percent of subscribers were criminals, and the British National Crime Agency (NCA) said it found no evidence of non-criminals using it.
EncroChat first came to the attention of the media when it was revealed that high-profile criminals Mark Fellows and Steven Boyle had been using the encrypted devices to communicate during the May 2018 gangland murder of John Kinsella in Rainhill. The service resurfaced in the media during the summer of 2020 after law enforcement announced that they had infiltrated the encrypted network and investigative journalist Joseph Cox, who had been reviewing EncroChat for months, published an exposé in Vice Motherboard.
Functionality and services
The EncroChat service was available for handsets called "carbon units", whose GPS, camera and microphone functions were disabled by the company for privacy reasons. Devices were sold with pre-insta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions | Wikifunctions is a collaboratively edited catalog of computer functions to enable the creation, modification, and reuse of source code. It is closely related to Abstract Wikipedia, an extension of Wikidata to create a language-independent version of Wikipedia using its structured data. Provisionally named Wikilambda, the definitive name of Wikifunctions was announced on 22 December 2020 following a naming contest. Wikifunctions is the first Wikimedia project to launch since Wikidata in 2012.
After three years of development, Wikifunctions officially launched in July 2023.
References
External links
Project overview on Meta-Wiki
Project updates on Meta-Wiki
Computer-related introductions in 2023
Creative Commons-licensed websites
Internet properties established in 2023
Semantic Web
Wikidata
Wikimedia projects
Source code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike%20Oniwinde | Kike Oniwinde is a British former javelin thrower, and the co-founder of BYP Network. BYP Network is a platform that connects Black professionals with each other and corporations.
Early life and education
Oniwinde was born in 1992 and as a child lived in East London with her mother and two brothers. She took Economics and double Maths at A-level, gaining 'A' grades, and then entered the University of Nottingham, graduating with Upper Second class BSc Economics in 2014. She then studied at University of Florida, supported by a track and field scholarship, and gained an MSc degree in Management.
Athletics career
Her skill with the javelin was recognised and she competed from 2005 onwards for Havering Athletics Club, moving to Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club in 2012. She first represented Great Britain at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn in 2011.
She won three medals in the British University Championships while at University of Nottingham, although a back injury affected her performance. While at University of Florida, she was in the university athletics team and reached the top twenty in performance with the javelin in the USA Collegiate competitions. She qualified for the Commonwealth Games. She continued competing until 2017.
Financial career
Oniwinde was an intern at Goldman Sachs and Citi Investment Bank while a student, and worked for a financial technology start-up after graduation. In 2016 she founded the BYP Network App to connect black young professionals with each other and corporations. In 2019 it had 30,000 members in 65 countries. She undertook the NEF Fast Track programme to support her development as an entrepreneur.
BYP Network
BYP Network, often dubbed 'the LinkedIn for black professionals', has now grown to a platform of tens of thousands of members across the globe. With a focus on changing the black narrative to one focused on aspirations, attainability and achievement, BYP is now a community that connects black professionals with each other and corporations. Oniwinde noticed a significant gap in the social media network area which connected black professionals in one place. The BYP app encompasses social networking and career development, specifically focusing on the D&I space. It has transformed this area with a variety of features, from platforms for black groups to connect and collaborate, an in-app job board, live events and much more all in one place.
In 2019, BYP Network hosted a Senior Leadership Conference which attracted 900 attendees, and guest speakers from senior professionals in industries within Tech, Finance. Over August and July, BYP aimed to scale their business through an equity crowdfund campaign with seedrs, and within five days of going public, they raised £500,000 with over 1,000 investors. In August, BYP announced a total raise of over £850,000 ($1.1m), meaning Kike became one of thirty-five female founders to have raised over $1million.
Awards
She was awarded the Southeastern Conf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20VTV%20Awards | The 2015 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Ấn tượng 2015) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2014 to July 2015. It took place on 6 September 2015 in Hanoi and hosted by Đinh Tiến Dũng, Thành Lộc & Minh Hà.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters
Special performances
In Memoriam
Celebrating 45 years since the first TV program was broadcast, the In Memoriam part tributes several important former leaders in VTV history.
Trần Lâm
Huỳnh Văn Tiểng
Lý Văn Sáu
Vũ Tá Duyệt
Nguyễn Văn Hán
Hoàng Tuấn
Chu Doanh
References
External links
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
2015 television awards
VTV Awards
2015 in Vietnamese television
September 2015 events in Vietnam |
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