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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20Puzzles | Algorithmic Puzzles is a book of puzzles based on computational thinking. It was written by computer scientists Anany and Maria Levitin, and published in 2011 by Oxford University Press.
Topics
The book begins with a "tutorial" introducing classical algorithm design techniques including backtracking, divide-and-conquer algorithms, and dynamic programming, methods for the analysis of algorithms, and their application in example puzzles. The puzzles themselves are grouped into three sets of 50 puzzles, in increasing order of difficulty. A final two chapters provide brief hints and more detailed solutions to the puzzles, with the solutions forming the majority of pages of the book.
Some of the puzzles are well known classics, some are variations of known puzzles making them more algorithmic, and some are new. They include:
Puzzles involving chessboards, including the eight queens puzzle, knight's tours, and the mutilated chessboard problem
Balance puzzles
River crossing puzzles
The Tower of Hanoi
Finding the missing element in a data stream
The geometric median problem for Manhattan distance
Audience and reception
The puzzles in the book cover a wide range of difficulty, and in general do not require more than a high school level of mathematical background.
William Gasarch notes that grouping the puzzles only by their difficulty and not by their themes is actually an advantage, as it provides readers with fewer clues about their solutions.
Reviewer Narayanan Narayanan recommends the book to any puzzle aficionado, or to anyone who wants to develop their powers of algorithmic thinking. Reviewer Martin Griffiths suggests another group of readers, schoolteachers and university instructors in search of examples to illustrate the power of algorithmic thinking.
Gasarch recommends the book to any computer scientist, evaluating it as "a delight".
References
Algorithms
Puzzle books
2011 non-fiction books
Oxford University Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20VTV%20Awards | The 2016 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Chuyển động 2016) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2015 to July 2016. It took place on September 7, 2016 in Ho Chi Minh City and hosted by Trấn Thành & Ái Phương.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters
Special performances
In Memoriam
Thanh Tùng - Composer
Châu Huế - Director
Thúy Lan - Singer
Hán Văn Tình - Actor, Comedian
Lương Minh - Composer
Vũ Quốc Hương - Cinematographer
Trần Lập - Rocker, Songwriter
References
External links
2016 television awards
VTV Awards
2016 in Vietnamese television
September 2016 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Signal%20Command%20Cybernetic%20Security%20Unit | The Army Signal Command Cybernetic Security Unit () is a cyber warfare unit of the Italian Army.
History
The Initial Formation Team of the Army Signal Command Cybernetic Security Unit was established in September 2018. The Cybernetic Security Unit was established on 1 April 2019 and, on 20 June 2019, the Unit reached the Initial Operational Capability. On 30 June 2020, the Cybernetic Security Unit reached full operational capability.
Mission
The Cybernetic Security Unit performs:
Cyber defence, together with the Task Force C4 of Theater;
Information research, in support of G2/J2 cells;
Cyber command staff and forensic operations in support of personnel, future operations and logistics cells, for planning cybernetic military operations and traditional military operations with effects in cyberspace;
Other Cyber operations, according to the assigned tasks and missions.
The Cybernetic Security Unit is tasked with performing cyber operations related to the defence of IT networks and Command-and-Control systems, Operational Technology, for the protection of critical infrastructures and platforms and weapon systems and Disruptive Technology.
The Cybernetic Security Unit operates under the Network Operations Command (a joint command) alongside the Joint Telecommunications School. The Cybernetic Security Unit personnel also operates within both the cyber-deployed operational units and the staff of the supported Command.
Organisation
According to Defence Undersecretary Angelo Tofalo, the Army Signal Command Cybernetic Security Unit is framed under the command of the Signals Commander. The Unit, at the battalion level, consists of two Cybernetic Security Companies and one Training and Innovation Section.
Emblem
The coat of arms of the Army Signal Command Cybernetic Security Unit depicts Janus Bifrons.
The badge is in enameled metal, in the shape of a Samnite shield, with a silver-blue edge. In the middle, on a light blue background, Janus (parted per pale) is charged: in the first partition, there is the human forehead in cornflower blue colour, and in the second, the cybernetic forehead is covered by dark blue electronic circuit tracks. The 5-pointed gold star appears at the base of Janus.
All the elements of the badge are placed on a light blue background, a symbol of communication and an emblem of loyalty. The other elements that make up the badge are represented through shades of the same blue, while the score that represents the cybernetic front of the Janus is covered with veins similar to traces of an electronic printed circuit, a symbol of the high technological level of the Unit.
See also
Comando Interforze per le Operazioni Cibernetiche
List of cyber warfare forces
Army Signal Command (Italy)
References
Cyberwarfare
Army units and formations of Italy post-1946
Military units and formations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20Cleniuk | Brenda Cleniuk (died 2020) was a Canadian curator, artist, and art administrator who served as Director of Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum (one of a network of Canadian artist-run centres) in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Life and work
Cleniuk had undergraduate degrees in literature, psychology, Fine Art (art history) and had formal training in performing arts disciplines. Cleniuk worked with Neutral Ground for 26 years, from 1991 to 2017. Neutral Ground was founded in 1982 and has hosted over 600 exhibitions of established and emerging artists. In 1996 she co-founded Soil - a Digital Media Suite to provide technological resources and other services for digital media artists, undertaking residencies and commissions some in partnership with Queer City Cinema and Videographe . Cleniuk championed emerging artists working in performance and in interactive and experimental media, including Robin Poitras, Julie Andreyev, Camille Turner, Ken Gregory, Adam Hyde of Radioqualia, Paul Wong, Garnet Hertz and others. In 2008 she won the Mayor's Arts and Business Award for Excellence in Arts Management . Cleniuk was connected to the new media art scene internationally, attending festivals and conferences such as ISEA, PixelAche in Helsinki, and the Performance Network symposium. Her interest in new media art was focused on the interrelationship between technology and the body; the nature of networked technologies; and "how cyberspace could be used for the betterment of the imagination and its use in concept formation, identity, revelation, and the interrelationships between culturally disparate groups."
References
External links
2020 deaths
Canadian women curators
21st-century Canadian women artists
Canadian art curators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQQB | KQQB is a broadcast radio station airing Brokered Programming. The station is licensed to Stockdale, Texas and serves Stockdale and the southeastern portion of the San Antonio metro area in Texas. KQQB is owned and operated by Centro De Adoracion Internacional Co.
History
KQQB was originally licensed to Hallettsville, Texas at the time of its launch in 1979. A construction permit has been applied for to expand the station's daytime-only power from 2,500 watts to 20,000 watts. Thus, this will allow it to be heard across the entire San Antonio Metro area and Victoria, Texas as well.
1520 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency.
References
External links
1979 establishments in Texas
Radio stations established in 1979
QQB
QQB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clario%20Tech | Clario is a security software development company that offers consumer-facing digital security and privacy applications for use on a range of operating systems including iOS, Android, macOS.
Clario Tech allegedly has more than 800 team members in various worldwide locations, the majority appear to be operating from Ukraine. The workforce consists of software developers, marketing specialists, security researchers and customer support agents. In 2019, the company announced it would invest $30 million during 2020 to develop its cybersecurity products and make them accessible for all.
Products
Clario
Clario security application was officially launched at the Consumer Electronic Awards in January 2020 in Las Vegas. Clario announced its aim was to offer a new online security product via a user-friendly dashboard, integrating cybersecurity technology with 24/7 human support against digital threats.
The cybersecurity application has been reviewed in various publications including the Evening Standard who called it the “Uber of cybersecurity”.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Clario launched a 24/7 IT support hotline for anyone to call if they experienced technology issues while in lockdown. The company's 600+ team were on hand to respond to any reported issues.
Clario received the AV-TEST certification in December 2020 and was featured in the honorable mentions list in the Privacy Focused tool nomination as part of the Product Hunt's 2020 Golden Kitty Award Winners in 2020.
MacUpdate
MacUpdate is a Macintosh software download website founded in 1997 by Joel Mueller. In 2017, the site was sold to Zeobit, and subsequently was acquired by Clario Tech in 2020.
MacKeeper
MacKeeper is utility software that offers system cleaning, privacy features and antivirus for macOS. Clario Tech has become the owner of the MacKeeper software since 2019 with aim to accelerate the transformation of MacKeeper.
Clario cybersecurity research
Clario Tech has undertaken numerous pieces of research into cybersecurity trends in 2020 and 2021. These include "Which Company Uses the Most of Your Data?", "The State of Cybercrime in US and UK", "Cybercrime Hotspots".
References
Antivirus software
Security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet%20inception%20distance | The Fréchet inception distance (FID) is a metric used to assess the quality of images created by a generative model, like a generative adversarial network (GAN). Unlike the earlier inception score (IS), which evaluates only the distribution of generated images, the FID compares the distribution of generated images with the distribution of a set of real images ("ground truth").
The FID metric was introduced in 2017, and is the current standard metric for assessing the quality of generative models as of 2020. It has been used to measure the quality of many recent models including the high-resolution StyleGAN1 and StyleGAN2 networks.
Definition
For any two probability distributions over having finite mean and variances, their Fréchet distance iswhere is the set of all measures on with marginals and on the first and second factors respectively. (The set is also called the set of all couplings of and .). In other words, it is the 2-Wasserstein distance on .
For two multidimensional Gaussian distributions and , it is explicitly solvable asThis allows us to define the FID in pseudocode form:INPUT a function .
INPUT two datasets .
Compute .
Fit two gaussian distributions , respectively for .
RETURN .In most practical uses of the FID, is the space of images, and is an Inception v3 model trained on the ImageNet, but without its final classification layer. Technically, it is the 2048-dimensional activation vector of its last pooling layer. Of the two datasets , one of them is a reference dataset, which could be the ImageNet itself, and the other is a set of images generated by a generative model, such as GAN, or diffusion model.
Interpretation
Rather than directly comparing images pixel by pixel (for example, as done by the L2 norm), the FID compares the mean and standard deviation of the deepest layer in Inception v3. These layers are closer to output nodes that correspond to real-world objects such as a specific breed of dog or an airplane, and further from the shallow layers near the input image.
Variants
Specialized variants of FID have been suggested as evaluation metric for music enhancement algorithms as Fréchet Audio Distance (FAD), for generative models of video as Fréchet Video Distance (FVD), and for AI-generated molecules as Fréchet ChemNet Distance (FCD).
Limitations
Chong and Forsyth showed FID to be statistically biased, in the sense that their expected value over a finite data is not their true value.
Also, because FID measured the Wasserstein distance towards the ground-truth distribution, it is inadequate for evaluating the quality of generators in domain adaptation setups, or in zero-shot generation.
Finally, while FID is more consistent with human judgement than previously used inception score,
there are cases where FID is inconsistent with human judgment (e.g. Figure 3,5 in Liu et al.).
See also
Fréchet distance
References
Fréchet spaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belur%20Math%20railway%20station | Belur Math railway station is a terminal railway station of the Kolkata Suburban Railway network, which connects Belur Math, temple and the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, with Howrah via the Eastern main line of Eastern Railway.
Nearby places of interest
The Belur Math which is the headquarters of the Ramkrishna Mission and a leading tourist and pilgrimage destination for people across the world, is located on the banks of river Ganga, at a distance of about 1.5 km from the station. It was established by Swami Vivekananda in the year 1938 and also contains the Samadhi of the great Saint and youth icon along with that of Sarada Devi and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
See also
Kolkata Suburban Railway
References
Railway stations in Howrah district
Kolkata Suburban Railway stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya%20TV | Diya TV is an American broadcast television network that was founded in 2009 by Ravi Kapur, an award-winning journalist, and is based in San Francisco, California. It is the widest distributed Asian American owned and themed television network in the United States, reaching in excess of 75 million people over the air.
Diya TV provides programming geared toward Indian American and South Asian interests in the United States, with programming rooted in news and investigative journalism in English, Hindi and Punjabi.
Ravi Kapur was the former owner of KAXT-CD in San Francisco, which was formerly affiliated with Diya TV. Diya TV is referred to as "America’s first and only South Asian broadcast television network".
List of affiliates
WRJK-LD - Arlington Heights, Illinois
KLEG-CD - Dallas, Texas
KMMC-LD - San Francisco, California
KAAP-LD - San Jose, California
WLVO-LD - Atlanta, Georgia
WSWF-LD - Orlando, Florida
KFLA - Los Angeles, California
WISH-TV - Indianapolis, Indiana
WNYX/WXNY - New York, New York
W33ET-D - New York, New York
KQHO - Houston, Texas
WHNE - Detroit, Michigan
KBBV-CD - Bakersfield, California
Former affiliates
KAXT-CD - San Francisco, California
WRNT-LD - Hartford, Connecticut
WCRN-LD - Providence, Rhode Island
KBID - Fresno, California
References
External links
Diya TV website
Asia Television
Companies of Southeast Asia
2009 establishments in Southeast Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuarantineChat | QuarantineChat is a multilingual voice-based social networking service launched on March 1, 2020, by multimedia artists Danielle Baskin and Max Hawkins. The service is part of Dialup, an application with the same premise. The service is made for people to stay connected with other people amid the COVID-19 pandemic at select times during the day. As of late April 2020, it has reported to have more than 15,000 users.
History
Hawkins developed an early iteration of the service in 2012 named Call in the Night, that connects people in the same time zones between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. for "conversations about dreams." Baskin and Hawkins met at a Halloween party, where Baskin gave Hawkins a tarot reading. According to Baskin, the reading said that they were interested in "phone stuff," which possibly prompted Hawkins to share his idea. In 2019, they launched the app Dialup.
A year later, as COVID-19 spread rapidly in China, Hawkins' girlfriend talked about boredom while staying at home, which prompted Hawkins and Baskin to create QuarantineChat. The service was then launched on March 1. She hopes that the service "brings magic and serendipity to a new reality where thousands of people are stuck inside alone for the next month." Baskin, via Business Insider Australia, said that the purpose of the service is to "unify people using humour."
Usage was then noticed in Iran, Hong Kong, Portugal, and London, with the most users based on time zones are in the Pacific and Iran Standard Time. As of March 11, there were 70 users detected, with the number increasing to 15,000 on May 27.
Technique
Users register their phone numbers via the QuarantineChat website. They then download the Dialup app via the App Store or Play Store, depending on their mobile device's operating system (OS). Once users open the app and redeem the invitation given, an alert will pop up, explaining how the service works. Users can also select conversation themes, so that the system can connect users of the same interest. Prior to a random call arriving, the app will notify the user via a pre-recorded message. Often it will give a conversation prompt. Once a call arrives, users tap the button and will be able to call a random stranger. If the user's phone is not on, the system will divert the call to another user.
Responses
The service has gotten generally positive reviews. Technology website Gadgets360 states that "it simulates the magic of having a surprise conversation with a complete stranger, who is stuck at home as well due to this viral epidemic." The New York Times states, "Each conversation provided me with the illusion of floating, even briefly, into the slipstream of someone else's life. The conversations were, for the most part, effortless, inconsequential. I didn't know when they were going to come, and I didn't know where they were going to go. When I hung up, I felt transported." Mashable's Anna Iovine stated, "There may be days I don't pick up the phone [...], but having |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily%20Wang | Li Lily Wang is a Chinese statistician whose research interests include nonparametric statistics, semiparametric statistics, large data sets and high-dimensional data, and official statistics. She is an associate professor of statistics at George Mason University .
Education and career
Wang studied economics at Tongji University, graduating in 2000, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Tongji University in 2003. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Michigan State University in 2007. Her dissertation, Polynomial Spline Smoothing for Nonlinear Time Series, was supervised by Li-Jian Yang.
She became a faculty member in the University of Georgia department of statistics in 2007, and moved to Iowa State University as an associate professor in 2014. While holding these faculty positions, she has also worked as a visiting scholar at the United States Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Recognition
Wang was named an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2008. In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for contributions to spatial, survey, image and functional analysis using nonparametric and semiparametric methods, especially to partially linear models, confidence envelopes and bivariate smoothing". She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese statisticians
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Tongji University alumni
Michigan State University alumni
University of Georgia faculty
Iowa State University faculty
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20VTV%20Awards | The 2017 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Điểm hẹn 2017) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2016 to July 2017. It took place on September 7, 2017 in Hanoi and hosted by Lại Văn Sâm & Thanh Vân Hugo.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters/Awarders
Several winners was announced by the hosts Lại Văn Sâm & Thanh Vân Hugo, then the awarder only appeared to give the prize.
Special performances
References
External links
2017 television awards
VTV Awards
2017 in Vietnamese television
September 2017 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Little%20Nanay%20episodes | Little Nanay is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from November 16, 2015 to March 23, 2016, replacing My Faithful Husband on Beautiful Strangers timeslot.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20imprint%20%28computer%20vision%29 | Proposed as an extension of image epitomes in the field of video content analysis, video imprint is obtained by recasting video contents into a fixed-sized tensor representation regardless of video resolution or duration. Specifically, statistical characteristics are retained to some degrees so that common video recognition tasks can be carried out directly on such imprints, e.g., event retrieval, temporal action localization. It is claimed that both spatio-temporal interdependences are accounted for and redundancies are mitigated during the computation of video imprints.
The option of computing video imprints exploiting the epitome model has the advantage of more flexible input feature formats and more efficient training stage for video content analysis.
See also
Epitome (data processing)
Image epitomes
References
Data processing
Image processing
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMIRAD | The International Musical Instrument Registry & Database, recognized formally by their acronym: IMIRAD, is an international non-governmental organization founded in Washington, DC, United States in 1999. The organization provides musicians with low-cost or free evaluations, registrations and theft-log reports for musical instruments. IMIRAD was founded by an international team of musical experts, educators & historians with a stated universal mission: "The preservation & embodiment of Musical Instruments, Musical Art, History & Antiquities".
Theft prevention
To deter theft and reunite musicians with lost or stolen gear, IMIRAD offers a dedicated section that allows users to report missing instruments. As of 2020, IMIRAD does not charge for the service, which is provided to the public along with traditional musical instrument registrations.
International collaboration
In 2016 IMIRAD partnered with Hong Kong Luxury Retailer Luxify in providing registry services for all instruments showcased by the retailer.
United States collaboration
On July 4, 2020, Weymann Guitars announced that all past and future instruments will be automatically registered with IMIRAD registration service.
References
International nongovernmental organizations
1999 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Musical instruments
Directories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCIM%20%28FM%29 | WCIM (104.9 FM) is a Christian radio station as part of the Family Life Network. Licensed to Montour Falls, New York and broadcasting to the Elmira-Corning area, the station was acquired by Family Life Ministries in 2021.
History
In 2020, WNGZ moved to the 93.1 frequency (with the WNGZ calls parked on AM 1490 in Watkins Glen) and tweaked to a full blown active rock format using the moniker The New Rock Edge. On July 3, 2020, WNGZ changed its callsign to WPHD and flipped to classic hits as part of a five-station frequency swap.
In June 2021, WPHD changed its format from classic hits (which moved to WGMM 98.7 FM Corning) to Family Life Network's religious format under new WCIM calls.
Previous logo
References
External links
CIM
Schuyler County, New York
Radio stations established in 1973
1973 establishments in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galit%20Shmueli | Galit Shmueli is a data scientist who works in Taiwan as Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University. She is the author of many textbooks in business statistics and is known for her work on information quality, and on clarifying the difference between explanations and predictions in statistical analyses.
Education and career
After first-year studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Shmueli graduated summa cum laude from the University of Haifa in 1994, with a bachelor's degree in statistics and psychology. She then moved to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for graduate study in the statistics program of the faculty of industrial engineering and management, earning a master's degree in 1997 and completing her Ph.D. in 2000. Her dissertation, Run-Related Distributions and their Application to Industrial Statistics, was jointly supervised by Ayala Cohen and Paul D. Feigin.
After a visiting assistant professorship at Carnegie Mellon University, she became an assistant professor of statistics in the department of decision, operation, and information technologies in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002, where she was tenured in 2007. After a sabbatical in Bhutan she became Professor in Residence and Co-Director of Rigsum Research Lab at the Rigsum Institute of IT & Management in Bhutan from 2010 to 2014. She joined the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad as SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics in 2011, and she co-directed the Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy there from 2012 to 2013. She moved again to National Tsing Hua University as Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor in 2014. At National Tsing Hua University she was Director of the Center for Service Innovation & Analytics at the university's College of Technology Management from 2014 to 2020. Since 2020, she has directed the Institute of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University.
In 2020 she became the founding editor-in-chief of the INFORMS Journal on Data Science.
Books
Shmueli's books include:
Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications (with N. R. Patel and P. Bruce, Wiley, 2006; various later editions)
Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research (with W. Jank, Wiley, 2008)
Modeling Online Auctions (with W. Jank, Wiley, 2010)
Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making (with D. R. Hardoon, Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2013)
Information Quality: The Potential of Data and Analytics to Generate Knowledge (with R. S. Kenett, Wiley, 2017)
Recognition
Shmueli was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for extraordinary contributions to statistical methods for biosurveillance, online commerce, and information quality, and for outstanding dissemination of statistical ideas through journal and textbook publications". She is also an Elected Member of the International Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP%20serialization%20format | The PHP serialization format is the serialization format used by the PHP programming language. The format can serialize PHP's primitive and compound types, and also properly serializes references. The format was first introduced in PHP 4.
In addition to PHP, the format is also used by some third-party applications that are often integrated with PHP applications, for example by Lucene/Solr.
Syntax
The syntax generally follows the pattern of one-letter code of the variable type, followed by a colon and the length of the data, followed by the variable value, and ending with a semicolon.
References
External links
PHP Scripts
PHP: Serialize
PHP
Data serialization formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Poor%20Se%C3%B1orita%20episodes | Poor Señorita is a 2016 Philippine television drama comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from March 28, 2016 to July 15, 2016, replacing Little Nanay.
Mega Manila and Urban Luzon ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Superset | Apache Superset is an open-source software application for data exploration and data visualization able to handle data at petabyte scale (big data). The application started as a hack-a-thon project by Maxime Beauchemin (creator of Apache Airflow) while working at Airbnb and entered the Apache Incubator program in 2017. In addition to Airbnb, the project has seen significant contributions from other leading technology companies, including Lyft and Dropbox. Superset graduated from the incubator program and became a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation in 2021.
Features
Dashboard creation
Enterprise authentication (OpenID, LDAP, OAuth, ...)
Integration with Apache ECharts
Lightweight semantic layer
Visualization plugin support
Compatible with most SQL-speaking datasources
Managed providers
Maxime Beauchemin's company, Preset, offers Superset as a managed service (SaaS).
See also
Apache Airflow
References
External links
Apache Software Foundation
Data analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%20Cabin%20Masters | Maine Cabin Masters is a reality television show airing on the Magnolia Network (formerly known as DIY Network) that chronicles the restoration and renovation of cabins in Maine. The show centers on contractor Chase Morrill, his designer sister Ashley Morrill, and her carpenter husband Ryan Eldridge. Also featured in each episode are master carpenters Matt "Dixie" Dix and Jared "Jedi" Baker. It debuted on January 2, 2017, and as of November 2022 is in its eighth season. Over its first three seasons, it was DIY's highest rated program.
Premise
Each episode begins with Chase introducing Ashley and Ryan to a new cabincalled "camps" in the local parlanceand its owners. Typically, the cabins are in poor shape and badly in need of renovation. A budget and deadline are set. The Cabin Masters then make every attempt to restore these structures, remaining true to their original function, but sometimes adding modern amenities like solar panels and composting toilets. At the end of the episode, the Cabin Masters "reveal" the renovated cabin to its owners and ceremoniously hand over its keys.
Chase is the team's leader, but the work is done collaboratively. As the designer, Ashley chooses paint colors and the like, and seeks objects that are unique to Maine culturesuch as tote bags made from old sails.
References
External links
DIY Network Page
Official Website
Home renovation television series
2017 American television series debuts
DIY Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20One%20of%20the%20Boyz%204%20Now%20for%20Now | "Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now" is the premiere episode of the ninth season of the American animated comedy series Bob's Burgers and the 151st episode overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30, 2018. It was written by sister-duo Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux and directed by Ian Hamilton.
Plot
A news report on the band "Boyz 4 Now" shows that they are having auditions for a fourth member after a new album sells poorly. While Tina Belcher is taking napkins out of the car, she bumps into Damon, a boy going to the tryouts, and says it is love at first sight. She decides to dress as a boy to meet him again at the tryouts since girls are not allowed to go to them. She struggles to keep focus due to other boys at the tryouts, so she hides in the bathroom, but starts fantasizing about Chad who is also hiding in the bathroom.
She makes up reasons to cut people in line, fantasizes about a boy who will not let her cut him, and runs past several people in line when people are distracted when another girl is caught. When she makes it to Damon, she starts fantasizing about his friend, then realizes that she does not love Damon because of all the boys she fantasized about. She is caught by security, and when watching the band reveal the new member after her family comes to pick her up, it is revealed that the "new" member is Boo Boo after his attempt of being a solo singer failed.
Teddy comes into the restaurant with a baby rat, asking them to watch it for a couple of hours. While watching over the rat, Hugo comes into the restaurant to buy water and hears the rat squeal. After a brief investigation and Bob hiding the rat in his underwear, they get Hugo to leave.
Reception
Brianna Wellen of The A.V. Club gave this episode a B−, stating, "It's a little upsetting that the premiere would neglect so many members of the Belcher family, and yet Tina is the perfect outlet for what the show is about: the Belchers are overly confident while also questioning every move they make and ultimately find themselves in the middle of a story. That's where Tina ends up while trying to join her favorite boy band, and it's a shame that there wasn't anyone else along for the ride."
The episode was watched by 2.47 million people.
On December 6, 2018, it was announced that Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux had been nominated in the animation category for the 2019 Writer's Guild Awards for writing this episode.
On July 16, 2019, it was announced that this episode had been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, giving the show its eighth consecutive nomination in that category. It later lost out to The Simpsons' Season 31 episode "Mad About the Toy".
References
External links
2018 American television episodes
Bob's Burgers (season 9) episodes
Musical television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20United%20States%20television%20broadcasts%20of%201989 | The following is a list of most watched United States television broadcasts of 1989 (single-network only) according to Nielsen.
Most watched by week
References
Most watched 1989
Most watched |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20Canadian%20television%20broadcasts%20of%201996 | The following is a list of most watched Canadian television broadcasts of 1996 (single-network only) according to Nielsen Media Research.
Most watched by week
References
Canadian television-related lists
1996 in Canadian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20VTV%20Awards | The 2018 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Sắc màu 2018) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2017 to July 2018. It took place on September 7, 2018 in Hanoi and hosted by Minh Hà & Thành Trung.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters
Special performances
References
External links
2018 television awards
VTV Awards
2018 in Vietnamese television
September 2018 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapo | Gapo is a Vietnamese social networking service based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Users are able to create a personal profile and share text, photos and videos with others on the platform. Users can also use Gapo for live streaming, instant messaging, blogging, and online payments.
Gapo was launched in July 2019 by Hà Trung Kiên and Duong Vi Khoa.
History
Gapo was founded in response to calls for Vietnam's Communist-led government to produce a domestic alternative to social media giants like Facebook and Google. Gapo officially launched on July 23, 2019 at an event in Hanoi.
The company received 500 billion đồng (US$22 million) in funding from technology corporation G-Group to be utilized in the first phase of development. They also partnered with Sony Music Entertainment to provide music content to its services.
Features
Gapo features a news feed for posting content, livestreaming, instant messaging, and blogging.
It also allows users to pay online and access public services.
Reception
Within two days of launch, Gapo received about 200,000 registrations. By September 2019, the user base increased to one million.
Upon launch, Gapo experienced significant technical difficulties. Users complained about the inability to sign up for a new account and said that certain functions were not available for use at launch. This issue caused Gapo to temporarily suspend their services in order to perform upgrades and bug fixes. Gapo relaunched the next day, though many users reported that the access speed decreased.
The mobile app also received mixed reviews from users in both the App Store and the Google Play Store, with an average rating of 3.1 and 3.5, respectively.
Most users found the app to be a knockoff of Facebook, although some users praised the app for being locally developed.
Expert opinions on platform viability
Le Hong Hiep of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute was doubtful that a Vietnamese-owned social network service could be as powerful as a foreign-based service, stating that Vietnam might not be able to develop a viable social media network to compete with the likes of Facebook or Google. Others, like blogger Ann Chi, said that, due to local players complying with local censorship policy, there is a chance that locals might not trust Gapo and other local services in light of possible surveillance.
Regarding the targeted user base figure for the end of 2019 and 2021, experts cautioned that the company might need an additional trillion đồng of funding to reach its planned user base targets. In response, the company stated that Gapo was never meant to compete with Facebook, but instead noted that the main difference between Gapo and Facebook is that Gapo provides a personalized user experience through customization.
Censorship
Gapo has the right to censor posts and news that are deemed offensive and inaccurate by users or not approved by the censorship curators.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Hanoi
Vietn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Milliken | Kyle Milliken is an American computer hacker from Arkansas best known for hacking Kickstarter, Disqus, and Imgur for the purpose of sending unsolicited email. Milliken stole data on more than 168 million people. In 2014 the FBI raided his $2 million, 25,000-square-foot estate in the Burbank Hills. He is reported to have earned over $1.4 million between 2010 and 2014. In 2018 he was sentenced to 17 months in a federal work camp. Upon his release, Milliken said he was not interested in returning to a life of crime, but in using his skills for good as a security consultant.
References
Living people
1989 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire%20TV | Histoire TV is a French television channel, owned by Groupe TF1. The network mainly carries programming about historical events.
History
Histoire was launched on 14 July 1997 by an alliance of public holdings (France Télévisions, INA and La Sept-Arte) and private shareholders (Pathé, Wanadoo and Suez).
In June 2004, the Groupe TF1 acquired fully Histoire, privatizing it.
On 2 January 2012, the TF1 pay-TV channels joined ISP optional packages. Previously, Histoire was exclusively available on TPS, Canalsat and for 0.49€ on Free.
In December 2012, Discovery Communications acquired 20% of TF1 pay-TV thematic channels for €170 million for Eurosport and €14 million for Ushuaïa TV, Histoire, Stylia and TV Breizh.
On 17 July 2015, TF1 sold its remaining 49% stake in Eurosport to Discovery Communications for €492 million. At the same time, the French group bought out the 20% stake held by the American group in its pay-TV channels (TV Breizh, Histoire and Ushuaïa) for 14.6 million euros.
Patrick Buisson, who was the channel managing director from 2007 to 2018, had his son Georges hired there until the latter was "exfiltrated" from the Stylia channel after disagreements with his father.
The "TV" logo was adopted by TV Breizh, Ushuaa TV, and Histoire on December 4th, 2019.
Its competitor is Toute l'Histoire.
References
Television networks in France
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in France
Television stations in France
French-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram%20Sethi | Vikram Sethi is an American author and cyber security specialist. He is a professor of information systems and supply chain management and former director of the Institute of Defense Studies and Education at Wright State University. He also served as an advisor to the dean.
Education
Vikram Sethi received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He earned his MBA from Wright State University and a PhD from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career
Sethi began his teaching career as an assistant professor at Southwest Missouri State University (renamed Missouri State University, Springfield, MO). He later became associate professor and PhD coordinator at the College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington between 1999 and 2003. He joined the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University in 2003 as a department chair and professor of information systems and operations management. In 2006, he founded the Institute of Defense Studies and Education at Wright State University and served as its director until 2017. The institute supports the US Department of Defense, commercial industry and others by employing experts from government, the military, academia and the private sector. The institute has R&D capabilities in automatic-identification technologies and sensor space. In October 2011, the institute hired retired US Air Force commander, Major General Gary T. McCoy to serve as senior adviser and help develop its educational programs. In September 2015, the institute was part of a consortium, led by Fairfax, Virginia-based SRA International Inc., that was awarded a U.S. Army contract worth up to $181 million for providing automatic-identification technologies and service to help the military track, locate and monitor parts and equipment. In September 2015, Wright State University’s Institute of Defense Studies and Education was part of a consortium, led by Fairfax, Virginia-based SRA International, that was awarded a U.S. Army contract worth up to $181 million for providing automatic-identification technologies and service to help the military track, locate and monitor parts.
Sethi also served as Director, Data Intensive Supply Chain Research
Center of the University, whose focus is on supply chains that are strongly supported by information technology and data, including RFID. Additionally, he manages the university's supply chain program which offers certifications in nine subject areas. Besides, he was on the board of the Dayton RFID Convergence Center, a business incubator dedicated to RFID technology.
Sethi also set up Wright State University’s Center of Professional Education in 2007 and serves as its director. One of his early accomplishments was the development of a Stress Management and Determination Inventory (SMDI), a psychological assessment of stress in information systems professionals that combines 33 stre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer%20%281982%20video%20game%29 | Soccer is a 1982 video game published by Gamma Software.
Gameplay
Soccer is a sports game in which 2-4 players compete in an arcade-style game.
Reception
Allen Doum reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The graphics are of the kind that leave George Plimpton flat. For those who like the arcade style sports games, these games fall short of what the computer is capable of. However, as two-player sports games, they can be exciting."
References
External links
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Book of Atari Software 1983
Review in Electronic Games
Review in Antic
1982 video games
Association football video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20computing | Character computing is a trans-disciplinary field of research at the intersection of computer science and psychology. It is any computing that incorporates the human character within its context. Character is defined as all features or characteristics defining an individual and guiding their behavior in a specific situation. It consists of stable trait markers (e.g., personality, background, history, socio-economic embeddings, culture,...) and variable state markers (emotions, health, cognitive state, ...). Character computing aims at providing a holistic psychologically-driven model of human behavior. It models and predicts behavior based on the relationships between a situation and character. Three main research modules fall under the umbrella of character computing: character sensing and profiling, character-aware adaptive systems, and artificial characters.
Overview
Character computing can be viewed as an extension of the well-established field of affective computing. Based on the foundations of the different psychology branches, it advocates defining behavior as a compound attribute that is not driven by either personality, emotions, situation or cognition alone. It rather defines behavior as a function of everything that makes up an individual i.e., their character and the situation they are in. Affective computing aims at allowing machines to understand and translate the non-verbal cues of individuals into affect. Accordingly, character computing aims at understanding the character attributes of an individual and the situation to translate it to predicted behavior, and vice versa.
''In practical terms, depending on the application context, character computing is a branch of research that deals with the design of systems and interfaces that can observe, sense, predict, adapt to, affect, understand, or simulate the following: character based on behavior and situation, behavior based on character and situation, or situation based on character and behavior.'' The Character-Behavior-Situation (CBS) triad is at the core of character computing and defines each of the three edges based on the other two.
Character computing relies on simultaneous development from a computational and psychological perspective and is intended to be used by researchers in both fields. Its main concept is aligning the computational model of character computing with empirical results from in-lab and in-the-wild psychology experiments. The model is to be continuously built and validated through the emergence of new data. Similar to affective and personality computing, the model is to be used as a base for different applications towards improving user experience.
History
Character computing as such was first coined in its first workshop in 2017. Since then it has had 3 international workshops and numerous publications. Despite its young age, it has already drawn some interest in the research community, leading to the publication of the first book under the same titl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Mazey | Crazy Mazey is a 1982 maze video game published by Datamost.
Gameplay
Crazy Mazey is a game in which the player collects money in a series of mazes, avoiding killer cars that try to crash into the player's car.
Reception
Daniel Hockman reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "If you like Head On you will find Crazy Mazey even more enjoyable."
References
External links
Review in Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Electronic Games
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Softalk
1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Datamost games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Foreign%20Exchange | Computer Foreign Exchange is a 1982 video game published by Avalon Hill.
Gameplay
Computer Foreign Exchange is a game in which the player acts on behalf of an American company with international assets trying to accumulate money the fastest.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "this is a decent game and a good program provided you have someone to play with. The price is right and it only takes 16K!"
References
1982 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Business simulation games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HawkEye%20360 | HawkEye 360 is an American geospatial analytics company headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. It is a commercial seller of radio frequency (RF) signal location data gathered by a satellite constellation.
History
In 2015, HawkEye 360 was founded with the idea of using space and RF technology to generate usable data by advanced signal geolocation using small satellites. The main idea was to collect and geolocate RF signals for commercial use. The company received initial seed financing from Allied Minds, a Boston-based venture capital firm, to expand the business.
In 2016, HawkEye 360 began contracting the construction of their Pathfinder cluster of satellites with Deep Space Industries (DSI) and UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). In November 2016, the company completed the initial Series A round; led by Razor's Edge Ventures with major participation from defense industrial base leader, Raytheon. While waiting for the satellites to be built and launched, the company began exhibiting its technology through flight demonstrations and successfully received a patent for determining the location of RF transmitters.
The company's advisory board includes former members of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, retired Army and Air Force general officers, and former Intelligence Community leaders.
In December 2018, HawkEye 360 launched the company's first set of small satellites, known as the Pathfinder cluster, into orbit as part of Spaceflight's SSO-A SmallSat Express ride-share aboard a SpaceX Falcon9. The satellites, in both this first cluster and a later second cluster, were built by UTIAS Space Flight Laboratories (SFL). As of 2023, all satellites are still operational.
In April 2019, it released its first product - RFGeo, whose purpose is to identify and locate RF signals so customers can then view and analyze data.
In October 2019, HawkEye 360 expanded the company's signal waveform library to include ultra-high frequency (UHF) band and L band frequencies, and an update to RFGeo. The company's signal expansion into the UHF band enabled monitoring of push-to-talk radios, which have the potential to aid the discovery of cross-border smuggling operations and poaching. The update to RFGeo includes a process to extract vessels' MMSI identifiers embedded into their channel 70 broadcasts. Once this happens, a specific vessel can be matched to its broadcast, enabled by emitter tracking of objects. The RFGeo update also includes a catalog of previously collected RF Geo data so customers can order and access archived data.
In December 2019, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) granted HawkEye 360 a contract to explore combining commercial RF capabilities into NRO's geospatial intelligence architecture. Also in 2019, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a license allowing HawkEye 360 to eventually launch up to 80 incremental satellites for the eventual steady-state operation of a 15-cluster constellation.
In 2020, the N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sheasby | Michael Sheasby is an Australian actor, known for his roles as Steve Carmody in the Seven Network television soap opera Home and Away (2012), as Bert Ford in the Seven Network drama series A Place to Call Home (2013–2014), as Hayden Cole in the Network Ten psychological thriller drama The Secrets She Keeps (2020) and as Walter Moody in the TVNZ drama television miniseries The Luminaries (2020) wherein viewers were entranced by the authenticity of his Scottish accent.
Early life
Sheasby was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and immigrated with his family to Australia in 2001.
Filmography
Stage
Awards and nominations
References
External links
21st-century Australian male actors
National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
South African emigrants to Australia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid%20Verbauwhede | Ingrid Verbauwhede is a professor at the COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) Research Group of the Electrical Engineering Department, KU Leuven, where she leads the embedded systems team. She is a pioneer in the field of secure embedded circuits and systems, with several awards recognising her contributions to the field. She is member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts since 2011. She is a fellow of IEEE.
Education
Verbauwhede received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, and Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, in 1991. Her PhD dissertation was on "VLSI design methodologies for application-specific cryptographic and algebraic systems".
Career
Verbauwhede received a NATO post-doctoral fellowship to work at the Electronics Research Lab of the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, United States).
Since 2003, she is part of the COSIC and iMinds research groups in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at KU-Leuven, Belgium. She is also an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles.
Research
Verbauwhede's main research interests are system and architecture design, embedded systems, ASIC and FPGA design and design methodologies for real-time, low power embedded systems and more specifically embedded security systems. Her projects investigate fast, low power encryption platforms, which can also be easily reprogrammed and reconfigured, and how even the lightest devices can be made resistant against security hacks. She advocates security as another design dimension for lightweight devices, e.g., things in IoT (Internet of Things) should be designed and optimized for security.
Verbauwhede is an inventor on several patents in the domains of logic circuits, and digital signal processing, security e.g., Advanced Encryption System (AES) architecture.
She is the author of the book Secure Integrated Circuits and Systems (). She also co-authored the book titled Lattice-Based Public-Key Cryptography in Hardware (Computer Architecture and Design Methodologies) () with Sujoy Sinha Roy.
Awards and recognition
Verbauwhede was elected as a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2011.
In 2013, she became an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design of secure integrated circuits and systems.
She received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2016 with her Cathedral project on Post-Snowden Circuits and Design Methods for Security.
In 2017, she received the IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to design methodologies for tamper-resistant and secure electronic systems.
In 2021, she became a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research for pioneering and sustained contributions to cryptographic hardware and embedded systems.
References
Flemish scientists
Belgian women computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylumia | Stylumia is an Indian software as a service company based in Bangalore, Karnataka. Stylumia is better known for providing artificial intelligence-driven fashion analytics tools to apparel industries.
Formation and services
In 2015, the Stylumia was founded by an entrepreneur Ganesh Subramanian. Since its inception, the company has developed several market Intelligence tools for fashion industry. In 2016, Stylumia has introduced artificial intelligence based tools for fashion trend forecasting, demand prediction, predictive distribution and design generation. In 2017, Stylumia expanded their business to Europe. In 2020, Stylumia expanded their business to North America.
Stylumia has helped "reduce fashion industry's carbon footprints by 60 million garments per annum."
The company has been recognised for its sustainability efforts and was chosen as one of the six circular change makers in 2019.
In 2019, Stylumia was selected for the Target Accelerator Program to support Target's global business strategy.
Recognition
Nasscom Emerge50 Product, 2019
Amazon AI Conclave Award – Retail, 2019
Circular Changemaker by Fashion for Good, 2019
Aegis Graham Bell Award
References
External links
2015 establishments in Karnataka
Companies based in Bangalore
Software companies established in 2015
Software companies of India
Indian companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willingdon%20Dam | Willingdon Dam is situated to the east of the town of Junagadh, near the foot of Datar hills, in Gujarat State, and built on the Kalwa River in India. The dam was named after Marquess Willingdon, the Governor of India at that time. On the top of adjoining Datar hills is a shrine of Saint Jamiyal Shah Datar, which is a popular place of worship for both Hindus and Muslims. The climb to the Datar hills is about 2500 steps or .
See also
Girnar
References
Dams in Gujarat
Tourist attractions in Junagadh district
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mystic is a New Zealand environmental teen drama television series produced by Libertine Pictures and Slim film+television for CBBC, TVNZ and the Seven Network.
Created by Amy Shindler and Beth Chalmers, it is based on Pony Club Secrets, Stacy Gregg's series of pony novels, the first of which is Mystic and the Midnight Ride (2007). Set on the fictional peninsula of Kauri Point, New Zealand, Mystic tells the story of Issie Brown and her new-found friendships with the town's teen horse riders, and their efforts to save Kauri Point from an industrial development that threatens it. It stars Macey Chipping. The series premiered on CBBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK on 14 July 2020. After the first season had aired, Mystic was renewed for two more seasons.
Cast and characters
Macey Chipping as Issie Brown. Having just moved from London to Kauri Point, she struggles to make friends and misses her old home. However, a chance encounter with wild ponies Blaze and Mystic convinces her to stay.
Laura Patch as Amanda Brown, Issie's mother.
Cathy Downes as Mitch, Amanda's mother and Issie's grandmother.
Phil Brown as Sam Tucker, father of Natasha Tucker.
Kirk Torrance as Tom Avery
Jonny Brugh as Kenny Burford, mayor of Kauri Point.
Antonia Robinson as Natasha Tucker, one of Kauri Point's teen riders.
Max Crean as Dan Townley, one of Kauri Point's teen riders.
Jacqueline Joe as Caroline Burford, one of Kauri Point's teen riders.
Joshua Tan as Caleb Burford, one of Kauri Point's teen riders.
Harriet Walton as Stella Tarrant, one of Kauri Point's teen riders.
Romy Mukerjee as Anisha
Milo Cawthorne as Adam
Katlyn Wong as Corinne
Anais Shand as Dora
Kelson Henderson as Jake
Carrie Green as Miriama
Alison Bruce as Julia
Xander Manktelow as Hamish Tarrant
Madeleine Adams as Bianca, Dulmoth Park Rider
Annise Boothroyd as Nicole, Dulmoth Park Rider
Production
On 2 October 2018, NZ on Air announced their decision to fund 13 28-minute episodes of Mystic for up to $1,000,000.
Gilly Poole, Suzanne Crowley and Tina Cleary were the series' casting directors. On 10 March 2020, it was announced that Macey Chipping and Laura Patch would play Issie Brown and her mother respectively, alongside a New Zealand cast of Phil Brown, Jacqueline Joe, Kirk Torrance, Cathy Downes, Jonny Brugh, Antonia Robinson, Max Crean, Josh Tan and Harriet Walton.
The series was scheduled to start filming in New Zealand in January 2020, and on 10 March 2020, it was revealed that filming had begun in Auckland, New Zealand. Filming halted when New Zealand went into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on 5 April 2020, the BBC reported that Chipping had temporarily returned to the UK. Eight episodes from the first season were completed pre-COVID, with the other five completed during the pandemic. After the first series had completed airing, Mystic was renewed for second and third seasons. In February 2022, it was announced by Up TV that the show would premiere as part o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-quadratic%20regulator%20rapidly%20exploring%20random%20tree | Linear-quadratic regulator rapidly exploring random tree (LQR-RRT) is a sampling based algorithm for kinodynamic planning. A solver is producing random actions which are forming a funnel in the state space. The generated tree is the action sequence which fulfills the cost function. The restriction is, that a prediction model, based on differential equations, is available to simulate a physical system.
Motivation
The control theory is using differential equations to describe complex physical systems like an inverted pendulum. A set of differential equations forms a physics engine which maps the control input to the state space of the system. The forward model is able to simulate the given domain. For example, if the user pushes a cart to the left, a pendulum mounted on the cart will react with a motion. The exact force is determined by newton's laws of motion.
A solver, for example PID controllers and model predictive control, are able to bring the simulated system into a goal state. From an abstract point of view, the problem of controlling a complex physical system is a kinodynamic motion planning problem. In contrast to a normal path planning problem, the state space isn't only a 2d map which contains x and y coordinates. But a physical underactuated system has much more dimension, e.g. the applied forces, rotating angles and friction to the ground. Finding a feasible trajectory in the complex state space is a demanding problem for mathematics.
Description
LQR tracking
Linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) is a goal formulation for a system of differential equations. It defines a cost function but doesn't answer the question of how to bring the system into the desired state. In contrast to linear problems, for example a line following robot, kinodynamic problems can be solved not with a single action but with a trajectory of many control signals. These signals are determined and constantly updated with the receding horizon strategy, also known as model predictive control (MPC). LQR tracking means to find and evaluate trajectories for solving a system of differential equations.
In contrast to a PID controller, which is only able to find the next control action, a LQR tree is able to store a sequence of actions in advance. This is equal to a multistage solver which keeps the time horizon in mind. An action taken in the now will affect the system indirectly in the future with a delayed feedback.
History
The algorithm is a university-driven research project. The first version was developed by Perez et al. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 in the AI laboratory. In 2016 the algorithm was listed in a survey of control techniques for autonomous vehicles and was adapted by other academic robotics teams like University of Florida for building experimental path planners. In 2018, the algorithm was included in the Pythonrobotics library. The algorithm is currently being tested on the Astrobee, a six degree of freedom (DOF) free-flyer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Marimar%20episodes | Marimar is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 1994 Mexican television series of the same title. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from August 24, 2015 to January 8, 2016, replacing Pari 'Koy.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
Season 2 (2015-2016)
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%201917 | Battle 1917 is a 1983 video game published by Cases Computer Simulations Ltd.
Gameplay
Battle 1917 is a game in which players oppose each other using armies, and must kill the other player's king to win.
Reception
Russell Clarke reviewed Battle 1917 for White Dwarf #54, and stated that "Perhaps because every victory is viewed equally with no opportunity for personal betterment. Its claim to be the machine age's answer to Chess can safely be ignored. Good value though!"
Review
Crash (Mar, 1984)
References
External links
Review in Crash
Review in Crash
Review in Home Computing Weekly
Review in Popular Computing Weekly
1983 video games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
World War I video games
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvalingam%E2%80%93Whyatt%20algorithm | The Visvalingam–Whyatt algorithm, also known as the Visvalingam's algorithm, is an algorithm that decimates a curve composed of line segments to a similar curve with fewer points.
Idea
Given a polygonal chain (often called a Polyline), the algorithm attempts to find a similar chain composed of fewer points.
Points are assigned an importance based on local conditions, and points are removed from the least important to most important.
In Visvalingam's algorithm, the importance is related to the triangular area added by each point.
Algorithm
Given a chain of 2d points , the importance of each interior point is computed by finding the area of the triangle formed by it and its immediate neighbors. This can be done quickly using a matrix determinant. Alternatively, the equivalent formula below can be used
The minimum importance point is located and marked for removal (note that and will need to be recomputed). This process is repeated until either the desired number of points is reached, or the contribution of the least important point is large enough to not neglect.
Advantages
The algorithm is easy to understand and explain, but is often competitive with much more complex approaches.
With the use of a priority queue, the algorithm is performant on large inputs, since the importance of each point can be computed using only its neighbors, and removing a point only requires recomputing the importance of two other points.
It is simple to generalize to higher dimensions, since the area of the triangle between points has a consistent meaning.
Disadvantages
The algorithm does not differentiate between sharp spikes and shallow features, meaning that it will clean up sharp spikes that may be important.
The algorithm simplifies the entire length of the curve evenly, meaning that curves with high and low detail areas will likely have their fine details eroded.
See also
Curve fitting
Alternative algorithms for line simplification include:
Ramer–Douglas–Peucker
Reumann–Witkam
Opheim simplification
Lang simplification
Zhao–Saalfeld algorithm
References
External links
1992 Paper proposing the method.
Geometric algorithms
Digital signal processing
Computer graphics algorithms
Articles with example pseudocode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20daily%20evening%20American%20network%20TV%20news%20programs | This is a listing of American television network programs currently airing or have aired during evening.
Evening news programming begins at 6:30pm, 5:30pm, or 3:30pm Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone, after network affiliates' late local news. On PBS, and cable television, news starts at 6:00 pm, earlier, or later ET/PT.
Current
All times Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone—see effects of time on North American broadcasting for explanation.
Former
Broadcast networks
NBC
The Huntley–Brinkley Report (October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970)
Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly (June 4, 2017 – July 30, 2017)
PBS
Nightly Business Report (January 21, 1979 – December 27, 2019; distributed by American Public Television)
BBC OS (TV Only) (January 1, 2020 – March 30, 2023)
BBC World News America (June 1, 2019 – June 30, 2023; but continues on PBS stations as not a PBS program anymore)
Cable networks
BBC World News
BBC OS (TV Only) (February 17, 2014 – March 30, 2023)
CNBC
Bullseye (December 8, 2003 – March 11, 2005)
Business Center (1997 – December 5, 2003)
The News with Shepard Smith (September 30, 2020 – November 3, 2022)
On the Money (October 3, 2005 – August 29, 2009)
CNN
Connie Chung Tonight (June 24, 2002 – March 2003)
Cuomo Prime Time (August 28, 2017 – November 29, 2021; cancelled after Chris Cuomo's suspension on November 30, 2021, and then fired on December 4, 2021; then moved to NewsNation)
Democracy in Peril (January 17, 2022 – January 28, 2022)
Larry King Live (June 3, 1985 – December 16, 2010)
Piers Morgan Live (January 17, 2011 – March 28, 2014)
Don Lemon Tonight (April 14, 2014 – October 7, 2022; moved to CNN This Morning)
John King, USA (March 22, 2010 – June 29, 2012)
NewsNight with Aaron Brown (November 5, 2001 – November 4, 2005)
Sports Tonight (June 1, 1980 – May 15, 2002)
Fox News
The O'Reilly Factor (October 7, 1996 – April 21, 2017)
Tucker Carlson Tonight (November 14, 2016 – April 21, 2023)
Fox Business
Lou Dobbs Tonight (2011 – February 5, 2021; cancelled due to voting fraud for the 2020 United States Presidential Election)
Local television
KQED Newsroom (January 19, 1968 – June 23, 2023)
References
Lists of American television series
American television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20Insights | CB Insights is a private company with a business analytics platform and global database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities. The platform is targeted at private equity, venture capital, investment banking, angel investing, and consulting professionals by providing insights about high growth private companies.
Founding
CB Insights was founded on January 1, 2008, by Anand Sanwal, and Jonathan Sherry and is headquartered in New York. CB Insights uses a combination of big data tools and algorithms, as well as sentiment analysis on publicly available signals to gather and analyze data about private companies, investors, and industries.
Funding
The company has raised capital in three rounds of funding with the most recent one being $10 million in series A funding raised in 2015, led by the growth stage investment firm RSTP. The company had previously raised $1.15 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for its private company scoring software, called Mosaic.
Clients and partners
Some of CB Insights clients include Cisco, Salesforce, Castrol, Gartner, as well as top-tier VCs including, NEA, Upfront Ventures, RRE, and FirstMark Capital. The company periodically partners with companies such as The New York Times Company, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, to generate reports on the health of private companies, growth startups, and venture capital across industries.
CB Insights' primary competitors include Crunchbase, and Owler.
CB Insights AI 100
Since 2017, CB Insights publishes the annual global rating of companies in artificial intelligence classified into multiple categories.
Acquisitions
The company announced acquisition of VentureSource data assets from Dow Jones & Company on July 15, 2020. The assets will add to the company's private market coverage capabilities.
References
Market intelligence
Knowledge bases
Online companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 2008
Startup databases
Companies based in New York City
Business intelligence companies
2008 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing-Pha%20Tsai | Jing-Pha Tsai (also Jeffrey J. P. Tsai) is a computer scientist and the current president of Asia University (Taiwan) in Taiwan.
Career
He received his PhD degree in computer science from Northwestern University, and taught in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago from 1985 to 2010. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Society for Design and Process Science(SDPS), and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute.
He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
Awards and honors
University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois Foundation
IEEE Technical Achievement Award
IEEE Meritorious Service Award
References
External links
Living people
Taiwanese computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belajar%20dari%20Rumah | Belajar dari Rumah (Study from Home or Learning from Home, abbreviated as BDR) is an Indonesian educational programming block created by Ministry of Education and Culture in TV Edukasi to facilitate education via television in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Originally aired in partnership with the Indonesian public television network TVRI, the block was moved to TV Edukasi starting in April 2021.
On weekdays, Belajar dari Rumah consisted of preschool program and instructional programming for all school levels (primary school, junior high school, and senior high school) as well as parenting program and selected national movies on primetime. On weekends, the block shows educational and cultural programming for all ages.
References
External links
Official website (survey page)
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television
Indonesian television series
2020 Indonesian television series debuts
Educational television series
TVRI original programming
Television programming blocks in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspies | Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies (published as Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage in the United States) is a 2015 non-fiction book by the historian and BBC journalist Gordon Corera about the history of digital covert operations. It examines the history of digital surveillance and code-breaking, and how it has transformed into modern cyberwarfare.
Reception
The book was very positively received. Richard Norton-Taylor writing in The Guardian felt that "If you are looking for a clear and comprehensive guide to how communications have been intercepted, from cable-cutting in the First World War to bulk data collection exposed by Ed Snowden, this is it ... A most readable account of how computers and the internet have transformed spying". Ed Vulliamy in The Observer noted that the book "takes us through the labyrinth of cyber-espionage ... It concerns a psychosis of control, whereby the digitisation of spying infests every cranny of our lives".
In The Sunday Times Stephen Dorril described it as "Riveting ... Making use of excellent sources...[Corera] has produced a highly relevant read that addresses the key debate in intelligence gathering - the balance between privacy and security". Alan Judd writing in The Spectator felt that Correa "explores the evolution of computers from what used to be called signals intelligence to their transforming role in today's intelligence world. The result is an informative, balanced and revealing survey of the field in which, I suspect, most experts will find something new" and The Economist wrote of the book's conclusion that "The true golden age of spying and surveillance - whether carried out by states or, increasingly, by companies - is now".
References
2015 non-fiction books
Non-fiction books about espionage
Simon & Schuster books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20VTV%20Awards | The 2019 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Thách thức 2019) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2018 to July 2019. It took place on September 7, 2019 in Hanoi and hosted by Thành Trung, Ngô Kiến Huy & Minh Hà.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters/Awarders
Special performances
References
External links
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
2019 television awards
VTV Awards
2019 in Vietnamese television
September 2019 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Marriner-Dodds | Robert Marriner-Dodds (born December, 1991), is a British tabletop role-playing game designer best known for creating Carbon 2185 | A Cyberpunk RPG which has been featured in New Scientist.
Personal life
Marriner-Dodds was born in Southend-on-Sea, England. He studied Video game design at college and Computer science at university in Cambridge.
Marriner-Dodds has a sister, Cassandra Dodds and a daughter (born 2018).
Marriner-Dodds came out as Queer in October 2020 via social media.
Career
Dragon Turtle Games
Marriner-Dodds founded Dragon Turtle Games in 2016 while in Hong Kong. Between 2017 and 2018 through Dragon Turtle Games he wrote and published Dragon Drop Adventures 1, 2, and 3, a series of simple adventures for Dungeons & Dragons designed to be easy to run for new gamemasters.
In 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter Marriner-Dodds wrote and released Carbon 2185 | A Cyberpunk RPG. The crowdfunding campaign for Carbon 2185 reached more than 14 times the funding amount required to publish the game and was, at the time, the most funded cyberpunk project ever to appear on Kickstarter. Carbon 2185 went on to receive widespread acclaim and was featured in various publications such as Forbes, New Scientist, and RPG Net.
Studio Cerca
In early 2020 Marriner-Dodds and his sister Cassandra Dodds co-founded Studio Cerca. Through Studio Cerca, the siblings intend to write and publish family friendly Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Content inspired by the works of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and the films of Studio Ghibli.
References
Role-playing game designers
1991 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%20Ring%20Railway | The Delhi Ring railway, a part of Delhi's suburban railway services, is a circular railway network in Delhi that runs parallel to the Ring Road. It was laid in 1975 primarily to service freight trains that could bypass the crowded and passenger-heavy Old Delhi and New Delhi railway stations. The network was upgraded for the 1982 Asian Games with the introduction of 24 additional services. Its circular route takes trains 90–120 minutes to complete, both clockwise and anti-clockwise via the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station between 8 am and 7 pm. With a return ticket for the entire journey costing , compared to with Delhi Metro, which is around , it is preferred by poor and middle-class families. It runs seven clockwise and six anti-clockwise trains at a peak frequency of 60 to 90 minutes during the morning and evening rush hours. Prior to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, seven stations near the sports venues, namely Chanakyapuri, Sarojini Nagar, Inderpuri Halt, Lajpat Nagar, Sewa Nagar, Lodhi Colony and Safdarjung, received a facelift at the cost of .
History
The ring-railway service was introduced on a track laid in 1975 so that the large number of goods trains originating, terminating, or passing through the city, could bypass the main passenger stations at New Delhi, Old Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin. The track was called the 'Delhi Avoiding Line'. Today, however, the Northern Railway's service for passengers within the city has become something which Delhiites are avoiding. There are 12 electric trains on the ring rail. Only three of the twelve EMUs run to full capacity. The rest have just 1-2% occupancy. The ring railway starts and ends at the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station with trains running in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions around the city.
In 2018, Ministry of Railways (India) announced plans to integrate the Ring Railway into Delhi Metro system through Interchanges and convert it into a robust Suburban rail system.
List of Stations
List of the 21 railway stations in clockwise direction (starting from Hazrat Nizamuddin) is as follows:
Popularity
The ring railway service was quite popular through the 1980s and '90s when Delhi's transport infrastructure was just gathering pace, but since then, with the rapid expansion of the Delhi Metro coupled with an extensive bus network and more recently, the opening of the RRTS, the ring railway has remained neglected by the city as well as the Railways. On average, only 3,700 passengers take the trains every day. The biggest reason for the failure of the railway is a lack of a feeder network, such as approach roads and feeder buses to the stations. The stations are situated at remote locations and are difficult to access by passengers. There is also a problem of security as many stations have been encroached. The trains on this network also run behind schedule most of the time. The network is now utilized as a freight corridor and limited passenger train services are available during |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hololive%20Production | (stylized in lowercase) is a virtual YouTuber agency owned by Japanese tech entertainment company Cover Corporation. In addition to acting as a multi-channel network, Hololive Production also handles merchandising especially in music production and concert organization. As of January 2023, the agency manages 75 VTubers in three target languages (Japanese, Indonesian and English), totalling over 50 million subscribers, including several of the most subscribed VTubers on YouTube.
The name "Hololive" was initially used for Cover's 3D stream distribution app, launched in December 2017, and later its female VTuber agency, whose first generation debuted from May to June 2018. In December 2019, Hololive was merged with Cover's male Holostars agency and INoNaKa music label under the unified "Hololive Production" brand.
History
2016–19: Beginnings and growth
was founded on 13 June 2016 by an entrepreneur who had developed video game characters in collaboration with Sanrio at the content company Imagineer and founded various startup companies. Cover at first focused on augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) software, and received funding from incubator firms Tokyo VR Startups and Recruit.
At the end of March 2017, the company showcased a tech demo for a program enabling real-time avatar motion capture and interactive, two-way live streaming. According to Tanigo, the idea for a "virtual idol" agency was inspired by other virtual characters, such as Hatsune Miku. Kizuna AI, who began the virtual YouTuber trend in 2016, was another likely inspiration.
Cover debuted , the first VTuber using the company's avatar capture software, on 7 September 2017. On 21 December, the company released hololive, a smartphone app for iOS and Android enabling users to view virtual character live streams using AR camera technology. On 5 April 2018, Cover removed the application's AR features and changed it into a tool for mapping a user's facial movements onto animated avatars in real-time. This update enabled at-home auditions using the iPhone X. The first generation of Hololive VTubers debuted from May to June 2018, and a second generation followed in August and September. Hololive Gamers, a group specializing in let's plays, debuted in December 2018 and April 2019.
On 8 January 2019, Hololive announced that it had signed a contract with the Chinese video platform Bilibili, under which it would open 15 channels on the platform and simultaneously stream there and on YouTube. It would also begin collaborating with Chinese-speaking volunteers to translate Hololive videos, and start releasing original content for the Chinese market. On 17 May, Cover opened permanent talent auditions in China and Japan.
On 19 May, Cover formed an in-house music label, INoNaKa (INNK) Music, from AZKi and former independent VTuber Hoshimachi Suisei. The 1st generation of Holostars, a new all-male VTuber agency, began debuting in June 2019, followed by more in September and October of the sa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%20Quiet%20%28disambiguation%29 | Be quiet is a slang term meaning "shut up".
Be quiet may also refer to:
be quiet!, a German computer hardware brand
Be Quiet, a song by Pitbull
Bee Quiet, an episode from the animated cartoon Stoppit and Tidyup
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techman | Techman Robot Inc., formerly a business division of Quanta Storage Inc., is an independent company under Quanta Computer established in 2015. The company is most recognized for its cobot with a built-in vision system – the TM Robot series, which previously won the COMPUTEX D&I Gold Award. Techman Robot Inc. is also among the first companies to receive the TARS certification.
Techman Robot Inc. is headquartered in Taiwan and has overseas branches in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Busan, and Alblasserdam. The company also partners with distributors in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Overview
According to Nikkei Asia they are "a leader in the field of collaborative robots."
Founded as a subsidiary of Quanta in 2016 Techman is based in Taoyuan's Hwa Ya Technology Park. Quanta head Barry Lam has a mobile Techman robot in his office which serves refreshments to guests.
History
Techman Robot Inc., a former business division of Quanta Storage Inc. (TWSE 6188), was founded as an independent subsidiary in 2015.
Mr. Shi-chi Ho, General Manager of Quanta Storage Inc. at the time, established a robotics laboratory as a business division for the company in 2012. The laboratory developed the first collaborative robot (cobot) with a built-in vision system – the TM5
In 2014. The TM5 was subsequently unveiled at the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2015.
The first commercial TM5 was shipped at the end of 2016, and the company became the world's second-largest cobot brand by 2018.
Techman Robot signed an MOU with automated product giant Omron in Kyoto on 11 May 2018, committing to the promotion of cobots to various industries worldwide.
At the end of 2019, the TM AI+ software solution was introduced to expand cobot applications from pick-and-place to product inspection. The TM AI+ has now been widely incorporated in the semiconductor and logistics industries.
By 2019 it was the world's second largest manufacturer of cobots after Universal Robots. As of 2021 they were still the second largest manufacturer of cobots with 10% of the market share to Universal Robotic’s 50%.
In 2021 Omron and Techman announced that Omron would be acquiring a 10% stake in Techman. The value of the investment was undisclosed.
Leadership
Haw Chen is the CEO of Techman.
Collaborations
Techman is working with Vincennes University and Telamon Robotics to develop a cobot training curriculum.
Products
TM Robot Series
TM Operator Series
TM Smart Factory Series
Industrial Applications
Manufacturing
TM Robot is suitable for manufacturing a range of products, including automobiles, electronics, semiconductors, machinery, home appliances, furniture, toys, and apparel. It can also be applied to streamline the production lines of metal and plastic products, parts, and accessories.
Catering
TM Robots can be applied in restaurants and kitchens to streamline catering processes.
Warehousing
TM Robots make up fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network%20of%20Abortion%20Funds | The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is a national social justice organization that aims to increase access to abortion for low-income people across the U.S.
Founding and history
The National Network of Abortion Funds is a social justice organization that was founded by 22 grassroots abortion funds from 14 states at a conference held May 1–2, 1993, at the National 4H Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The NNAF incorporated in 1994. A six-person national board was elected at the 1993 conference, and each board member was assigned several funds for which they had networking and communicating responsibilities.
Since 1994, the NNAF has charged its board with increasing the organization's diversity of age, race, and ethnicity. From 1993 to 2003, the NNAF functioned with minimal paid infrastructure: office space was donated by Hampshire College, Marlene G. Fried served as unpaid executive director and fundraiser, Shawn Towhey acted as unpaid communications director, and other national board members coordinated and implemented the programmatic work of the organization through task forces. Beginning in 1998, grants from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation enabled the NNAF to hire three consultants (development, organizational, and technology), which enabled it to reach new levels of sustainability and growth. In 2005, the board created the position of National Case Manager to oversee distribution of monies specifically designated for abortion funding. Currently, the NNAF is the only national organization that focuses on abortion rights that is led entirely by black women.
The NNAF now consists of well over 80 grassroots organizations in 38 states and four different countries. Funding is provided through donations from business and individuals, and is divided into each of these individual organizations. The NNAF works as an umbrella group to provide networking opportunities between these smaller individual organizations that are typically state-based to raise and divide funds and obtain the necessary technology to be able to directly support women seeking assistance with obtaining an abortion.
In 2000, the NNAF joined with 200 organizations to begin a campaign fighting against the injustice of the Hyde Amendment and punitive welfare reform. In 2016, the NNAF rallied alongside thousands of other organizations after the ruling that the state of Texas cannot place restrictions on abortion services that cause an undue burden. In 2017, the NNAF grew to include individual people as members.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also plays a role in the foundations and history of the NNAF. In 2009, negotiations regarding the ACA served as a catalyst to reinforce the Hyde Amendment restrictions that were already in place. Some of these restrictions included the continuous limiting of federal funds that could potentially fund abortions that endanger the life of the woman at hand or that are the result of incest, foul play, or rape. In the years that foll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%20Seed%20%28video%20game%29 | Demon Seed is a fixed shooter written by Jeffrey Sorensen and Philip MacKenzie for the TRS-80 and published in 1982 by Trend Software. The same programmers developed the TRS-80 Color Computer version published in 1983 by Computer Shack. Demon Seed is a clone of the 1980 arcade game Phoenix.
Gameplay
Demon Seed is a game in which the player uses artillery against rows of attacking birds.
Reception
Dick McGrath reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Although the concept is not original, it is well executed, with fine graphics and interesting sound. I rate it a 7 out of 10 overall."
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
Review in The Rainbow
Review in Creative Computing
80-U.S.
Review in Color Computer Magazine
1982 video games
Dragon 32 games
Fixed shooters
TRS-80 Color Computer games
TRS-80 games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian%20%28video%20game%29 | Jovian is a 1982 video game published by Computer Shack.
Gameplay
Jovian is a game in which the player maneuvers carefully to avoid objects in space to make an attack against an enemy space station.
Reception
Dick McGrath reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The game is definitely challenging and can become addictive I rate it a solid 8 out of 10."
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
80-U.S.
1982 video games
Multidirectional shooters
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg%20%28video%20game%29 | Cyborg is a 1982 video game published by Computer Shack.
Gameplay
Cyborg is a science fiction game in which gladiators compete against each other in a large open testing arena where obstacles and small mazes conceal targets for scoring points.
Reception
Dick McGrath reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Cyborg is an interesting, challenging arcade game with beautifully smooth action graphics. I give it a 7.5 out of 10."
References
External links
Article in 80-U.S.
1982 video games
Action games
Maze games
Science fiction video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games about cyborgs
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Scannell | Kevin Scannell (born 11 May 1970) is an American professor of mathematics and computer science at Saint Louis University.
Career
Kevin Scannell is the professor of mathematics and computer science at Saint Louis University. His work focuses on developing online computing resources for small, minority or under-resourced languages, with a particular interest in Irish and other Celtic languages. He has developed an Irish thesaurus, grammar checker, and spell checker, and dictionaries and translation engines for Irish, Scottish, and Manx Gaelics. Scannell is a member of the team which localises platforms including Gmail, Twitter and WhatsApp into Irish. He founded Indigenous Tweets in 2011 to promote the use of social media through indigenous and minority languages. He translated 20 hours worth of coding material into Irish for the Hour of Code in 2016. In 2019 he created an Irish language name generator called .
In 2019, he won a Fulbright Scholarship working on developing language technologies for Irish using deep learning and neural networks in collaboration with researchers at in Carna, County Galway.
He is active in developing the Irish-language Wikipedia, and adding Irish content to Wikidata.
Personal life
Scannell was born on 11 May 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a BS in 1991. In 1996 he was awarded his doctorate from University of California, Los Angeles. He started learning Irish in the 1990s.
References
External links
Scannell on the podcast Bitesize Irish
1970 births
American translation scholars
Living people
Saint Louis University faculty
American Wikimedians
Irish-language writers
Linguists from the United States
21st-century linguists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20of%20quantification | Ethics of quantification is the study of the ethical issues associated to different forms of visible or invisible forms of quantification. These could include algorithms, metrics/ indicators, statistical and mathematical modelling, as noted in a review of various aspects of sociology of quantification.
According to Espeland and Stevens an ethics of quantification would naturally descend from a sociology of quantification, especially at an age where democracy, merit, participation, accountability and even ‘‘fairness’’ are assumed to be best discovered and appreciated via numbers. In his classic work Trust in Numbers Theodore M. Porter notes how numbers meet a demand for quantified objectivity, and may for this be by used by bureaucracies or institutions to gain legitimacy and epistemic authority.
For Andy Stirling of the STEPS Centre at Sussex University there is a rhetoric element around concepts such as ‘expected utility’, ‘decision theory’, ‘life cycle assessment’, ‘ecosystem services’ ‘sound scientific decisions’ and ‘evidence-based policy’. The instrumental application of these techniques and their use of quantification to deliver an impression of accuracy may raise ethical concerns.
For Sheila Jasanoff these technologies of quantification can be labeled as 'Technologies of hubris', whose function is to reassure the public while keeping the wheels of science and industry turning. The downside of the technologies of hubris is that they may generate overconfidence thanks to the appearance of exhaustivity; they can preempt a political discussion by transforming a political problem into a technical one; and remain fundamentally limited in processing what takes place outside their restricted range of assumptions.
Jasanoff contrasts technologies of hubris with 'technologies of humility' which admit the existence of ambiguity, indeterminacy and complexity, and strive to bring to the surface the ethical nature of problems. Technologies of humility are also sensitive to the need to alleviate known causes of people’s vulnerability, to pay attention to the distribution of benefits and risks, and to identify those factors and strategies which may promote or inhibit social learning.
For Sally Engle Merry, studying indicators of human rights, gender violence and sex trafficking, quantification is a technology of control, but whether it is reformist or authoritarian depends on who has harnessed its power and for what purpose. She notes in order to make indicators less misleading and distorting some principles should be followed:
democratize the production of indicators
develop in parallel qualitative research to verify the validity of assumptions
keep it the indicators simple
test or adopt multiple framings
admit the limits of the various measures
The field of algorithms is the regime of quantification where the discussion about ethics is more advanced. An important work in this respect is Weapons of Math Destruction of Cathy O'Neil. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Snow%20Queen%3A%20Mirrorlands | The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands () is a 2018 Russian 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure family film written by Andrey Korenkov, Robert Lence and directed by Robert Lence and Aleksey Tsitsilin. Wizart Animation took charge of design while Boris Mashkovtsev, Yuri Moskvin, , Pavel Stepanov and Vadim Vereshchagin produced the film. The film stars the voices of as Gerda and Nikolay Bystrov, Filipp Lebedev, Lyasan Utiasheva, , , , , , , , Mikhail Yuryevich Tikhonov in supporting roles.
For the first time in Russian animation history, a film was co-directed by a Hollywood animator. Mirrorlands is the fourth film in The Snow Queen franchise, following The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice, and like the previous installments, the stories are inspired by the 1844 fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film follows the war between magicians and technocrats.
The film was presented at film markets and festivals such as AFM and Cannes. The film released in Russia and in Commonwealth of Independent States on 1 January 2019. The film received generally positive reviews with some reviews denoting the film is similar to the stories of Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov.
Plot
Gerda and Kai are finally reunited with their parents. Together they move to a certain province, ruled by a powerful inventor King Harald. In a family full of professional magicians, only Gerda doesn't have the ability to wield magic. However, the family is satisfied by selling first-class magic trinkets. One day an old woman comes to buy a trinket at their shop. Gerda tells it cost ten dinars. The old woman couldn't buy it all because of her retirement benefits. She almost leaves, before Gerda tells her to buy it for free.
A new competition at the court was announced, with families including Gerda's clamoring to go and get the position as court magician. Sadly, Gerda is the only one who stays at the home, responsible to guard the store items. King Harald is an ardent advocate of technical progress. He builds machines and robots. Harald decides to banish all magicians from the realms. Harald nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen's previous deeds. As reparation, Harald issues a new decree that the products of scientists, engineers and the inventors will be the standard while the amulets, potions and talismans of the magicians will be relegated or even forbidden. King Harald finds a way to ban all the magic from the world - all the possessors of magic powers are now trapped in Mirrorlands
After the king traps all the world's magicians in the polar internment zone, Gerda finally finds out why all the magicians vanish at the palace. Gerda takes this mystery into her own hands as she battles to keep magic alive through kindness and friendship. However she is sent to jail at the top of the castle. Meanwhile, inside the Mirrorlands zone, a meeting is held for all the possessors of magic. Gerda's parents believe only their daughter can rescue them. They travel to the Snow Quee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batory%20%28disambiguation%29 | Batory is the Polish spelling of the name of the Hungarian Báthory noble family.
People
Don Batory, an American computer scientist
Ivan Bátory (born 1975), a Slovak cross-country skier
Jan Batory (1921-1981), a Polish film director
Józef Batory (1914-1951), a Polish soldier and resistance fighter
Ronald Batory (born 1950), an American railroad executive and administrator
Stefan Batory (1533-1586), King of Poland from 1576 to 1586
Ships
, a 1932-built patrol boat in the Polish Border Guard and, later, Navy
, an ocean liner launched in 1935 and scrapped in 1971
, an ocean liner built in 1952 and scrapped in 2000
Other uses
Chorzów Batory, a district of the Polish city of Chorzów
Stefan Batory Foundation, a Polish NGO supporting the development of democracy in Poland and elsewhere
See also
Bathory (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20of%20Adventure | Spirit of Adventure may refer to:
Spirit of Adventure (video game), a 1991 Attic Entertainment computer role-playing game
The Spirit of Adventure, a 1915 American short film
MS Berlin (1981), a cruise ship that operated for Saga Cruises as Spirit of Adventure from 2006 to 2012; later operated for FTI Cruises from 2012 to 2020 as FTI Berlin and Berlin
Spirit of Adventure (2020 ship), a cruise ship set to operate for Saga Cruises in 2020
Spirit of Adventure, an airship in Up (2009 film)
"The Spirit of Adventure", a song by Michael Giacchino featuring Craig Copeland from Up (film score)
Spirit of Adventure Council |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola%20Bonizzoni | Paola Bonizzoni is an Italian computer scientist. She is a professor of computer science at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Her research areas include computational complexity, graph algorithms,
computational biology, and bioinformatics.
Career
Bonizzoni studied computer science at the University of Milan where she graduated in 1988 and obtained a doctorate in 1993 under the supervision of Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Giancarlo Mauri, and Grzegorz Rozenberg. She worked at the University of Milan while holding visiting positions at the University of Colorado Boulder, UC Davis, and McMaster University. Since 1998, she has been affiliated with the Università di Milano-Bicocca where she was promoted to professor in 2007. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Bonizzoni is Managing Editor of the journal Computability and editor of the book series Theory and Application of Computability. From 2016 to 2020, she served as the third President of the Association Computability in Europe. As of 2020, she is a member of the Association Council.
References
External links
Italian women computer scientists
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca
University of Milan alumni
Computational biologists
Italian bioinformaticians
Women computational biologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%203%20%28Guatemalan%20TV%20channel%29 | Canal 3 is the first commercial TV station and the second overall station in Guatemala. It began its TV service in 1956.
Its programming broadcasts its own productions and telenovelas, among other international productions. It is owned by Grupo Chapín TV, a subsidiary of Remigio Ángel González's Albavisión group.
History
On May 15, 1956, Channel 3 began broadcasting and became the first private station in Central America. Its first studio was located in the 8th. avenue and 9th. Zone 1 street, and its antenna was located in the city center. In 1961 the studio was destroyed after a fire, forcing the channel to be off the air for a few months. Later, it moved its facilities to a location in Las Majadas, zone 11.
The channel is considered pioneer of television, as it was the first to make live broadcasts from mobile units and in color broadcasting. It was the fourth country in Latin America to do so, after Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
In 1968, the Canal 3 facility was looted. On February 4, 1976, it suffered material losses from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
In the 1980s, it incorporated stereo sound, but in 1982 the government of Efrain Rios Montt gave the order to close the channel for about a month. In 1988, Canal 3 and Televisiete were sold to Televisa.
In 1990, it began broadcasting 24 hours a day.
In 1992, both channels were sold to Miami-based television corporation Albavisión.
The station made its first broadcasts in high definition during World Cup Germany 2006 experimentally on Channel 19 of the band UHF.
In 2015, the group Grupo Chapín TV was created, along with its sister channels.
Controversies
On June 2, 2016, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala and Public Prosecutor's Office announced the State Cooperation Case in Guatemala State Co-optation. According to the investigations, in 2008, Otto Pérez Molina, general secretary of the Patriotic Party, was shaping up as the presidential candidate. Because his party needed funds, a group of companies controlled by Roxana Baldetti was used to receive illicit money, including Comercial Urma, Publicmer, Publiases and Serpumer. These entities began receiving money from Guatemala Radio and Television and Televisiete.
As the campaign progressed, channels increased payments to the four companies to the sum of Q17 679 200.00. Monthly, two payments were recorded for Q215 600.00, one for each channel. Both television stations benefited from million-dollar contracts after the new government took office in 2012.
Payments were not reported to the Supreme Electoral Court and were used to purchase new vehicles: ten trucks, one bus and five vans, which were used in the Patriot Party's presidential campaign.
References
http://www.cicig.org/index.php?mact-News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid-723&cntnt01returnid-TM 67-videos-title-Cooptation of the State of Guatemala-website-International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala-location-Guatemala-date-June 2, 2016-date-Jun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira%20Mayordomo | Elvira Mayordomo Cámara is a Spanish computer scientist specialising in the theory of computation. She is professor at the University of Zaragoza and currently the President of the Association Computability in Europe.
Career
Mayordomo studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Zaragoza, graduating in 1990. She obtained a doctorate at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the supervision of José Balcazar in 1994.
After her Ph.D., she returned to the University of Zaragoza, first as instructor (1994–1996), then as Profesora Titular (1996–2007), and finally, from 2007,
as Catedrática. Since 2004, she is also associate professor at Iowa State University.
Mayordomo is an editor of the journals ACM Transactions on Computation Theory,
Computability, and Theory of Computing Systems.
She is also the one of the editors of the book series Theory and Applications of Computability.
She has been on the Board (later Council) of the Association Computability in Europe since its foundation. She served as the chair of the CiE Publications Committee and became the fourth President of the Association in 2020.
Mayordomo has also been on the Steering Committee of the conference series Computability, Complexity, and Randomness (CCR) since 2009 and on the Council of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science since 2011.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV%20Awards | The VTV Awards () is an awards ceremony presented by Vietnam Television (VTV) to honour the most notable television productions aired on its network. It was launched in 2014 and is usually held in early September each year until 2021, when the date was moved to January 1 the following year.
Rules
The VTV Awards comprises two rounds:
Round 1
Nominees are selected by crews from departments/centers under VTV.
Voting by a jury or/and audiences will pick out Top 5 of each category. Before 2019, the result only based on audience's vote. Later, the votes are collected from both jury and audience except 2021 when the nominees for Top 10 & Top 5 are completely jury's picks.
Round 1 ends a week before the ceremony, it changed into a month since 2021. After this round, the score and votes will be refreshed in order to continue voting in Round 2.
Round 2
Top 5 nominees continues to get votes by jury and audience in this round (with a ratio of 50:50).
From 2014 to 2021:
Round 2 ends at 07:09 on the day of ceremony (the numbers 7 and 9 represent 7 September, the date of VTV's launch)
The organizers will pick out the person/group/product(s) voted the most in each category. The winners will be honoured in the live broadcast on the evening of the same day on VTV1.
Audience can vote via SMS, or on the official site of the awards, or VTVGo mobile app in 2021.
Since 2022:
Round 2 ends at 23:59 on December 30.
The votes are collected from both jury and audience with a ratio of 50:50 picking out the Top 3, and the winner will be honoured in the award ceremony on January 1.
Audiences can only vote via VTVGo mobile app.
Categories
Current categories
Currently, the awards has given prizes in 10 categories:
Discontinued categories
Awards for individuals
Presenter
Artist/singer
Comedian
Actor/actress
Guest/figure
Awards for productions
Drama
Precursor prize
Starting in 2003, 'The Most Beloved Vietnam Television Dramas' Voting Contest (Vietnamese: Cuộc thi bình chọn phim truyền hình Việt Nam được yêu thích nhất) is held annually or biennially by VTV Television Magazine to honor Vietnamese television dramas broadcast during the year(s) on two channels VTV1-VTV3. The awards ceremony takes place early next year.
Documentary
News reports
Image
Humanistic image
Topical image
Viral image
Stage
Program
References
External links
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
Official website
Television awards
Vietnamese awards
Awards established in 2014
Annual events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcademiaNet | AcademiaNet is an international database containing profiles of women scientists. It is a non-profit project with the goal to raise the share of women in leadership positions in academia. AcademiaNet was initiated in 2010 in Germany by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the publishing house "Spektrum der Wissenschaft". The Swiss National Science Foundation assumed responsibility of the platform in 2020.
Goals and functions
The share of women professors and executives at research institutions across Europe is low and rising only slowly. AcademiaNet is a resource aimed at facilitating the search for women researchers in view of academic appointments or as conference speakers, experts on scientific committees or peer reviewers. A search function allows users to find the registered scientists according to their field or discipline.
As opposed to databases such as "Request a Woman in STEMM" by 500 Women Scientists or "WiLS database of women in science", women cannot create their own profile on AcademiaNet; they need to be nominated by a scientific partner based on clearly defined criteria.
History
The Robert Bosch Stiftung founded AcademiaNet in 2010. In her speech inaugurating the platform in November 2010, the German Chancellor and physicist Angela Merkel said that science would not achieve its full potential if it remained predominantly male and did not promote half of its talents. She also said that AcademiaNet offered more visibility to women scientists, who contribute with their expertise to scientific endeavours.
Initially, the platform was in German and contained primarily researchers from Germany, who were nominated by institutions such as the Leibniz Association, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) or the Fraunhofer Society. Since 2012, the platform has become more international. The language of the platform is now English.
In 2020, the management of AcademiaNet passed from the Robert Bosch Stiftung to the Swiss National Science Foundation, which continues to work with the publishing house "Spektrum der Wissenschaft".
Renowned members
A number of renowned female scientists are member of AcademiaNet. Here a list of some of the most famous among them:
May-Britt Moser, psychologist and neuroscientists, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Janet Rossant, developmental biologist
Françoise Combes, astrophysicist
Riitta Hari, neuroscientist and physician
Caroline Dean, plant scientist
Ottoline Leyser, plant biologist
Partner organisations
AcademiaNet is a non-profit project. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and 21 European research funding organisations, including the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society, the Spanish National Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the European Molecular Biology Organization. AcademiaNet is also included in the search map of The Brussels Binder, a database for more women in European debates.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20prediction | In network theory, link prediction is the problem of predicting the existence of a link between two entities in a network. Examples of link prediction include predicting friendship links among users in a social network, predicting co-authorship links in a citation network, and predicting interactions between genes and proteins in a biological network. Link prediction can also have a temporal aspect, where, given a snapshot of the set of links at time , the goal is to predict the links at time .
Link prediction is widely applicable. In e-commerce, link prediction is often a subtask for recommending items to users. In the curation of citation databases, it can be used for record deduplication. In bioinformatics, it has been used to predict protein-protein interactions (PPI). It is also used to identify hidden groups of terrorists and criminals in security related applications.
Problem definition
Consider a network , where represents the entity nodes in the network and x represents the set of "true" links across entities in the network.
We are given the set of entities and a subset of true links which are referred to as observed links.
The goal of link prediction is to identify the unobserved true links.
In the temporal formulation of link prediction the observed links correspond to true links at a time , and the goal is to infer the set of true links at time
Usually, we are also given a subset of unobserved links called potential links , and we need to identify true links among these potential links.
In the binary classification formulation of the link prediction task the potential links are classified as either true links or false links.
Link prediction approaches for this setting learn a classifier that maps links in to positive and negative labels i.e. .
In the probability estimation formulation, potential links are associated with existence probabilities.
Link prediction approaches for this setting learn a model that maps links in to a probability i.e. .
Single link approaches learn a model that classifies each link independently.
Structured prediction approaches capture the correlation between potential links by formulating the task as a collective link prediction task.
Collective link prediction approaches learn a model that jointly identify all the true links among the set of potential links.
Link prediction task can also be formulated as an instance of missing value estimation task.
Here, the graph is represented as an adjacency matrix with missing values.
The task is to complete the matrix by identifying the missing values.
Matrix factorization based methods commonly use this formulation.
History
The task of link prediction has attracted attention from several research communities ranging from statistics and network science to machine learning and data mining.
In statistics, generative random graph models such as stochastic block models propose an approach to generate links between nodes in a random graph.
For social |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beautiful%20Strangers%20episodes | Beautiful Strangers is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from August 10, 2015 to November 27, 2015, replacing Let the Love Begin.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horovod%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Horovod is a free and open-source software framework for distributed deep learning training using TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet. Horovod is hosted under the Linux Foundation AI (LF AI). Horovod has the goal of improving the speed, scale, and resource allocation when training a machine learning model.
See also
Comparison of deep learning software
Differentiable programming
All-Reduce
References
External links
2017 software
Deep learning software
Free software programmed in C++
Free software programmed in Python
Free statistical software
Open-source artificial intelligence
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorter%20than%20the%20Day | Shorter than the Day is a 2020 art installation by Sarah Sze which overhangs LaGuardia Airport Terminal B's baggage claim. The spherical structure is built from a network of suspended rods and 900 photographs of the New York sky shot from dawn to dusk. She was partly inspired by the Grand Central Terminal clock. At the time of her work's unveiling, she called it her most complex sculpture.
Description
The installation artist Sarah Sze designed Shorter than the Day as a spherical constellation of suspended rods. Around its edges are 900 photographs of the New York sky shot from dawn to dusk. As the Earth revolves around the sun, by walking the perimeter of the work, the viewer sees the sky shift from day to night.
The sculpture hangs in LaGuardia Airport Terminal B, where it starts on the departures level atrium and passes through an opening in the floor into the baggage claim level. It is titled in reference to Emily Dickenson's poem, "Because I could not stop for Death".
Production
LaGuardia Gateway Partners and the Public Art Fund commissioned Shorter than the Day. Sze wanted the installation to be "almost like a mirage", ethereal and fragile, while capturing the "feeling of shifting time and place" that goes with air travel. She was also inspired by the definitional Grand Central Terminal clock.
The sculpture was fabricated by Amuneal, based in Philadelphia. Sze, a New York-based artist, was in the city during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and so continued her work on the sculpture with her team during that time. The printed photographs are connected to the aluminum and steel rods with alligator clips. The work weighs five tons.
At the time of the sculpture's unveiling, on June 11, 2020, Sze considered the work her most complex yet. The work was unveiled along that of three other artists in the terminal.
References
Further reading
External links
2020 sculptures
Installation art works
LaGuardia Airport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS%20BASIC | SDS BASIC, also known as CP-V BASIC, Batch BASIC or Sigma BASIC depending on the version, is a BASIC programming language compiler for Scientific Data Systems's (SDS) Sigma series mainframe computers, originally released in 1967. Xerox purchased SDS in 1969 and began rebranding it as Xerox Data Systems, and finally just Xerox, at which time the language became known as Xerox BASIC.
The original versions did not include support for string variables, although this was added for the version running under the CP-V operating system when it was released in 1971. The string library allowed manipulation of strings using array slicing syntax, similar to the system found in HP Time-Shared BASIC and a number of microcomputer BASICs like Integer BASIC and Atari BASIC.
This style of string manipulation differs from the model introduced in DEC's BASIC-PLUS, which used string functions. Altair BASIC was patterned on BASIC-PLUS, and this style became the de facto standard after the cross-platform version, Microsoft BASIC, became almost universal during the home computer era. This makes conversion from SDS to modern dialects somewhat difficult.
SDS BASIC is historically notable as the platform on which the original Star Trek computer game was written in the summer of 1971.
Syntax
In keeping with the original Dartmouth BASIC model, and in common with most mainframe-based BASICs, SDS BASIC was a compiler, not an interpreter, and used separate but tightly integrated tools for editing and running. The editor was dedicated to BASIC; as lines are entered they are analyzed for correct syntax and then stored in tokenized form. If a line is entered with a number at the start, it is placed into the appropriate location in the program based on the number, lines without numbers were immediately processed and then forgotten. SDS allowed line numbers in the range 1 to 99999. A simple example is:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
Like many versions of BASIC, SDS allowed a single line of code to contain multiple statements. In most dialects this is indicated using the colon, but SDS used either the backslash, or ampersand, . An equivalent line in SDS would be:
10 PRINT "HELLO" \ PRINT "WORLD"
Because SDS was a compiler, and the user's source code was stored separately, it preserved leading spaces in the code. They suggested using this to more clearly indicate the structure of loops:
10 LET J=0, K=1
20 FOR I=K TO 8
30 PRINT J
40 M=J, J=K, K=K+1
50 NEXT I
This example also includes the ability to set multiple values in a single LET statement, as seen in lines 10 and 40. This feature was also found in HP BASIC. As in most versions of BASIC, the keyword is optional, and is left out of line 40. Line 40 also illustrates the alternate form of assignment seen in a number of early BASICs, where multiple assignments can be separated with commas.
Common mathematical operations included , , and , using or for exponents. Logical comparisons, like HP, could be written in any orde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica%20Becher | Verónica Becher is an Argentinian computer scientist known for her work in logic and theoretical computer science. She is
Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Director of the KAPOW (Knowledgeable Algorithms for Problems on Words) at the
Department of Computation.
Career
Becher studied Computer Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, graduating in 1990. After that, she obtained an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the
University of British Columbia under supervision of Craig Boutilier in 1993 and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires under supervision of Carlos Alchourrón in 1999.
She is currently Professor (Profesora Titular) at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Principal Research at CONICET. She is also associated to the Paris Diderot University via the
international associate lab SINFIN (Systèmes, vérIfication, iNformatique Fondamentale, logIque, laNgages or Sistemas, lógIca, leNguajes, Fundamentos de la computacIón, verificacióN), a joint venture of the universities in Paris and Buenos Aires.
Becher as served as a member of the steering committee of the conference series Computability, Complexity, and Randomness (CCR) since 2004,
served on the Council of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 2008 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017, and on the Council of the
Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) from 2016 to 2019. Currently, she is
Second Vice President of DLMPST.
She was an editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information from 2005 to 2009 and is currently an editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic.
References
Argentine women computer scientists
Living people
University of British Columbia alumni
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s%20Middle-earth%20family%20trees | Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees contribute to the impression of depth and realism in the stories set in his fantasy world by showing that each character is rooted in history with a rich network of relationships. J. R. R. Tolkien included multiple family trees in both The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion; they are variously for Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, and Men.
The family trees gave Tolkien, a philologist, a way of exploring and developing the etymologies and relationships of the names of his characters. They imply, too, the fascination of his Hobbit characters with their family history. A further function was to show how aspects of character derive from ancestry.
Genealogies
The Lord of the Rings
The appendices to The Lord of the Rings provide family trees for Dwarves, Hobbits, and Men. The Hobbit trees are introduced with the words "The names given in these Trees are only a selection from many." Their development is chronicled in The Peoples of Middle-earth; it records that the Boffin and Bolger family trees were typed up for inclusion in Appendix C but were dropped at the last moment, apparently for reasons of space.
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion provides family trees for the Elves Finwë, father of Fëanor, and Olwë, ancestor of Galadriel and Lúthien; the Man Bëor the Old, ancestor of Beren, Hurin, and Turin; and of Hador, ancestor of Eärendil the mariner. In The Silmarillion, Tolkien described an extraordinarily complex set of family relationships, feuds, and migrations of family subgroups within the various lineages of Elves. The lengthy course of development of all these is detailed by Christopher Tolkien in Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales II, and The Lays of Beleriand. The family trees and resulting populations have been explored by Tom Loback in Mythlore.
Effects
Jason Fisher, in the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, writes that Tolkien's family trees serve multiple functions. They define the ancestry of both heroes and villains, along with all their relationships, just as in the medieval Icelandic sagas which Tolkien studied carefully. In this way, Tolkien was placing the Middle-earth sagas in a definite tradition. Secondly, the family trees provide a powerful impression of depth, bringing "essential details, texture, and verisimilitude" to his secondary world. In The Two Towers, the Wizard Gandalf jokingly warns Théoden, King of Rohan, of the ways of Hobbits with family affairs:
Thirdly, the trees allowed him, as a philologist, to develop, explore, and play with the etymologies and relationships of the names of his characters, something that he much enjoyed. Fourthly, the family trees helped to guide him while writing to avoid mistakes in describing relationships. Fifthly, the Hobbit-style genealogies imitate the hobbitic fascination with family history; Tolkien maintained the framing fiction that The Lord of the Rings was, in fact, the Red Book of Westmarch written entirely by Hobbits. Tolkien says as much i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Girvan | Michelle Girvan (born 1977) is an American physicist and network scientist whose research combines methods from dynamical systems, graph theory, and statistical mechanics and applies them to problems including epidemiology, gene regulation, and the study of Information cascades. She is one of the namesakes of the Girvan–Newman algorithm, used to detect community structure in complex systems.
Girvan is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Education and career
Girvan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, with a double major in mathematics and physics and a minor in political science. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at Cornell University in 2004. Her dissertation, The Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks, was supervised by Steven Strogatz.
After postdoctoral research at the Santa Fe Institute, she joined the University of Maryland faculty in 2007.
Recognition
In 2017 Girvan was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics, "for seminal contributions to the nonlinear and statistical physics of complex networks, including the characterization of network structures and dynamics, and interdisciplinary applications".
Personal life and family
Girvan is the daughter of US Air Force Captain Robert E. Girvan (1942–2009) and Shigeko Afuso Girvan (died 2008). In 2013 she married law professor Jonathan Siegel of George Washington University.
References
External links
Girvan Networks Lab
1977 births
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girvan%20%28surname%29 | Girvan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hector Girvan (1899–1969), Scottish footballer
Michelle Girvan (born 1977), American physicist and network scientist
Paul Girvan (born 1963), Northern Irish politician
Richard Girvan (born 1973), New Zealand international lawn bowler
See also
Girvan, a settlement in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20keyboard%20switches |
Commonly used mechanical switches on pre-built keyboards
Manufacturers frequently build computer keyboards using switches from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The switches used determine the feel of the keyboard.
Mechanical keyboard switches for custom keyboards
On the custom mechanical keyboard space, there are far greater quantity of keyboard switches. It is important to note that these do not portray the diversity and number of switches currently on the market.
Future
As time goes on, there are more and more switches being developed and manufactured across the world. Some are by new manufacturers, some are collaborations between companies and manufacturers, and some are consumer made. Some bigger databases that involve more than just our main manufacturers listed here.
On top of a variety of new switches being made, consumers are taking parts of different switches and then going on to make their own switches, called “Franken-switches.”
References
Computer keyboards
Keyboard switches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triller%20%28app%29 | Triller is an American video-sharing social networking service. The service allows users to create and share short-form videos, including videos set to, or automatically synchronized to music using artificial intelligence technology. Triller was released for iOS and Android in 2015, and initially operated as a video editing app before adding social networking features.
In mid-2020, the app gained prominence in India and the United States as a competitor to the similar Chinese-owned app TikTok, after the service was banned in India, and faced the threat of a ban in the U.S. Triller later expanded into sports promotion, distributing pay-per-view boxing events between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. and Jake Paul and Ben Askren, both incorporating appearances by internet, sports, music, and entertainment personalities.
History
Triller was launched in 2015 by co-founders David Leiberman and Sammy Rubin. The app was originally positioned as a video editor, using artificial intelligence to automatically edit distinct clips into music videos. They later launched Triller Famous, a page within the app that featured curated selections of user videos. In 2016, the app was purchased by Carnegie Technologies and converted into a social networking service by allowing users to follow each other and share their videos publicly. In 2019, Ryan Kavanaugh's Proxima Media made a majority investment. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and is currently led by CEO Mahi de Silva.
On June 29, 2020, Government of India banned TikTok, among other apps stating that they were "prejudicial to [the] sovereignty and integrity" of India. Triller, which had planned to enter into the Indian market by the end of 2020, saw a spike from less than 1 million users to over 30 million users in the country overnight. In July 2020, Triller sued ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, for infringing patents relating to video editing.
In August 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump signed an executive order which threatened to ban TikTok from operating within the United States, citing threats to national security, unless it was sold by ByteDance. The Trump administration stated that TikTok had until November 12, 2020, to assure the administration that the app did not pose any national security threats to the U.S. Following this order and news of possible purchases of TikTok's American operations by companies such as Oracle, Triller jumped from number 198 to number one in the App Store in the U.S., while TikTok dropped down to number three. The discussions surrounding TikTok's potential ban in the United States caused popular TikTok stars, including Charli D’Amelio and her family, to join Triller. Trump joined Triller himself and posted his first video on August 15, 2020. The video received over a million views within hours.
In August 2020, Triller partnered with B2B music company 7digital, which will provide Triller with access to its catalogue of 80 million tracks and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20Netflix%20exclusive%20international%20distribution%20programming |
The following are lists of Netflix exclusive international distribution programs:
Lists
List of Netflix exclusive international distribution TV shows
List of Netflix exclusive international distribution films
See also
List of Netflix original programming
List of ended Netflix original programming
List of Netflix original stand-up comedy specials
Lists of Netflix original films
List of Netflix India originals
External links
Netflix Originals current list on Netflix (based on geolocation)
Netflix lists
exclusive international distribution programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20Health | Temple Health also known as Temple University Health System is a non-profit academic healthcare network based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The healthcare network serves Pennsylvania and its flagship hospital is Temple University Hospital, a safety net hospital, located in Philadelphia. Research activities are carried out by the affiliates of Temple University Health System and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Locations
Temple Health operates the following hospitals:
Temple University Hospital
Temple University Hospital – Jeanes Campus
Temple University Hospital – Episcopal Campus
Temple University Hospital – Northeastern Campus
Temple Health - Fox Chase Cancer Center
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill Hospital
History
Temple Health began in 1891 as a way for the poor to get needed medical care. Samaritan Hospital was founded by Grace Baptist of Philadelphia and its leader Russell Conwell. In the hospital’s first year, it was overwhelmed with demand. The hospital outgrew its accommodations, and the church built a much-needed addition, promptly paid for by the church offerings. The church also founded Garretson Hospital in 1878. These hospitals were the beginning of Temple Health. Temple University eventually absorbed these hospitals, becoming part of the Temple University Health System.
Until 1994, Temple University and Temple University Hospital were one entity. Peter J. Liacouras, the president of Temple University at that time, and the board of trustees separated hospital-related activities with the creation of Temple University Health System (TUHS).
Affiliated hospitals that make up the health system are Fox Chase Cancer Center, Jeanes Hospital since 1996, and the Episcopal Campus of Temple University Hospital since 1997 primarily providing behavioral health services.
Northeastern Hospital became part of the health system in January 1995, but has since faced severe cuts to the services it provided. In July 2009, the hospital was converted to provide only ambulatory services. Temple University Children's Medical Center was built after the formation of the health system in 1994 consisting of 70 beds. The Children's Medical Center shut its doors in 2007 as it faced declining number of patients. TUHS also operates Temple Physicians which serves as a network of physician practices across the Greater Philadelphia Area established since 1996.
See also
List of hospitals in Philadelphia
References
External links
Healthcare in Pennsylvania
Hospital networks in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Inter%20Faith%20Network | The Inter Faith Network, fully known as The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom, is a registered charity that works with its member bodies "to advance public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, traditions and practices of different faith communities in Britain and to promote good relations between persons of different faiths." It was formed in 1987 and registered as a charity in 1997.
History
The Inter Faith Network works with faith communities, interfaith organizations, educators, and others to understanding of different religious and spiritual traditions across the United Kingdom. The IFN initially recognized only a few religious traditions, though gradually this was expanded to include additional faiths, including Druidry through its acceptance of The Druid Network as a religion in 2014.
References
External links
The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Interfaith organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muneeb%20Ali | Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Stacks, an open-source smart contract platform for Bitcoin. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Stacks network. He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.
Career
Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017. Ali co-founded Stacks (formerly Blockstack) with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.
His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing.
Ali was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Amazon Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.
In 2019, he convinced the SEC regulators to allow his company to start a token offering under Reg A+ exemption, becoming the first to do so. In 2020, Ali released a legal framework for non-security status of Stacks.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
American people of Pakistani descent
21st-century American businesspeople
Princeton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting-the-exponent%20lemma | In elementary number theory, the lifting-the-exponent lemma (LTE lemma) provides several formulas for computing the p-adic valuation of special forms of integers. The lemma is named as such because it describes the steps necessary to "lift" the exponent of in such expressions. It is related to Hensel's lemma.
Background
The exact origins of the LTE lemma are unclear; the result, with its present name and form, has only come into focus within the last 10 to 20 years. However, several key ideas used in its proof were known to Gauss and referenced in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. Despite chiefly featuring in mathematical olympiads, it is sometimes applied to research topics, such as elliptic curves.
Statements
For any integers , a positive integer , and a prime number such that and , the following statements hold:
When is odd:
If , then .
If is odd and , then .
When :
If and is even, then .
If and is odd, then . (Follows from the general case below.)
Corollary:
If , then and thus .
For all :
If and , then .
If , and odd, then .
Outline of proof
Base case
The base case when is proven first. Because ,
The fact that completes the proof. The condition for odd is similar.
General case (odd p)
Via the binomial expansion, the substitution can be used in (1) to show that because (1) is a multiple of but not . Likewise, .
Then, if is written as where , the base case gives .
By induction on ,
A similar argument can be applied for .
General case (p = 2)
The proof for the odd case cannot be directly applied when because the binomial coefficient is only an integral multiple of when is odd.
However, it can be shown that when by writing where and are integers with odd and noting that
because since , each factor in the difference of squares step in the form is congruent to 2 modulo 4.
The stronger statement when is proven analogously.
In competitions
Example problem
The LTE lemma can be used to solve 2020 AIME I #12:
Let be the least positive integer for which is divisible by Find the number of positive integer divisors of .
Solution. Note that . Using the LTE lemma, since and but , . Thus, . Similarly, but , so and .
Since , the factors of 5 are addressed by noticing that since the residues of modulo 5 follow the cycle and those of follow the cycle , the residues of modulo 5 cycle through the sequence . Thus, iff for some positive integer . The LTE lemma can now be applied again: . Since , . Hence .
Combining these three results, it is found that , which has positive divisors.
References
Lemmas in number theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Maloof | Joan Maloof (born ) is an American environmental activist and author. She founded the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2012.
Maloof was raised in Delaware. Her father was a chemical engineer. She is the author of five books. Her first, Teaching the Trees, was published in 2005, and her second, Among the Ancients, in 2011. In 2017, she published The Living Forest with photographer Robert Llewellyn.
She is a professor emeritus at Salisbury University.
References
External links
Living people
1950s births
American women environmentalists
American women non-fiction writers
American environmentalists
Activists from Delaware
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Writers from Delaware
Salisbury University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia%20Abr%C3%A3o | Sonia Maria de Souza Abrão (born June 20, 1963) is a Brazilian journalist, television presenter and writer. She has worked for newspapers, magazines and TV networks such as SBT, RecordTV and RedeTV!.
Abrão has hosted various shows throughout her career, including Falando Francamente (2002–2004), Sonia e Você (2004–2006) and A Tarde É Sua, which is still on the air since 2006. In addition to her television work, she has published cookbooks, self-help books and a biography.
Biography
Abrão was born in São Paulo on June 20, 1963, and graduated in Journalism at the Faculdade Cásper Líbero. Throughout her career she has worked for newspapers and magazines such as Notícias Populares, Contigo!, Amiga and Diário de S. Paulo. In 1991 she debuted as a journalist for SBT's Aqui Agora, retaining her position until 1997, when she was invited to join Domingo Legal as a reporter. In 2002 she was given her first solo variety show, Falando Francamente, which ended its run in 2004 after she joined RecordTV. There she hosted Sonia e Você until 2006, when a series of divergences prompted her departure. Shortly after she was invited by RedeTV! to host A Tarde É Sua, which continues to be broadcast to the present day.
Besides her career in television, Abrão has also published the cookbooks/memoirs Santas Receitas (2007) and Doces Lembranças (2013), the latter alongside her sister Margareth Abrão; the self-help books Abaixo a Mulher-Capacho! (2009) and Homens que Somem (2012); and As Pedras do Meu Caminho (2015), a biography of Polegar frontman Rafael Ilha.
Personal life
A devout Catholic Christian, Abrão was married to entrepreneur Jorge Damião for 17 years (from 1988 to 2015), with whom she had a son, Jorge Fernando Abrão Damião (born 1992); later in life she would reveal that, before getting pregnant with Jorge Fernando, she suffered a miscarriage. In 2017 she embraced veganism.
She was a cousin of Charlie Brown Jr. frontman Alexandre Magno Abrão, better known as Chorão.
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian women journalists
Brazilian television presenters
Brazilian women television presenters
Brazilian writers
Women food writers
Brazilian biographers
Brazilian women biographers
Brazilian memoirists
Self-help writers
Mass media people from São Paulo
Brazilian Roman Catholics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20Tanzania | Tanzania's busiest airports is the list of top busiest airports across various aerodromes in the country. The tables below contain annual data published by the Tanzania Airports Authority on the busiest airports in Tanzania by total passenger traffic, aircraft movements and cargo handled.
The lists are presented in chronological order. The number of total passengers for an airport is measured in persons and includes any passenger that arrives at, departs from or is on a transit from that airport. The number of total aircraft movements is measured in airplane-times and includes all the takeoffs and landings of all kinds of aircraft in scheduled or charter conditions. The total cargo handled is expressed in metric tonnes and includes all the freight and mail that arrives at or departs from the airport.
2017 – 2018
Passenger traffic
Aircraft Movements
Cargo Tonnage
References
Tanzania
Busiest
Airports
Airports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mynatt | Mynatt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Elizabeth Mynatt (born 1966), American computer scientist
Jerry Mynatt (born 1968), American football player and coach
See also
Myatt
Mynett |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scincella%20rufocaudata | The red-tailed ground skink (Scincella rufocaudata) is a species of skink found in Vietnam and Cambodia.
References
Scincella
Reptiles of Vietnam
Reptiles described in 1983
Taxa named by Ilya Darevsky
Taxa named by Nguyen Van Sang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banica%2C%20North%20Macedonia | Banica () is a village in the municipality of Strumica, North Macedonia.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Banica had 1,191 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 750
Macedonians 438
Others 3
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 1,137 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Macedonians 1,129
Serbs 2
Bosniaks 1
Others 5
References
Villages in Strumica Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Lehmann%20%28scientist%29 | Jens Lehmann is a computer scientist, most noted for his work on knowledge graphs and Artificial Intelligence. He is a principal scientist at Amazon (company), honorary professor at TU Dresden and a fellow of European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. Formerly, he was a full professor at the University of Bonn, Germany and lead scientist for Conversational AI and Knowledge Graphs at Fraunhofer IAIS.
Research
In 2007, he co-founded the DBpedia knowledge graph project.
He also works on Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, in particular for learning concepts in Description Logics (DLs) as well as OWL class expressions.
Within the field of Question Answering, he developed approaches to transform natural language questions into queries against a knowledge graph.
Furthermore, he investigates representation learning approaches for knowledge graphs and their application in downstream machine learning tasks.
Within the scope of the Center for Explainable and Efficient AI Technologies CEE AI, a collaboration between the Fraunhofer Society and Technische Universität Dresden, Jens Lehmann was coordinating the Fraunhofer IAIS Dresden lab with a main focus on Conversational Artificial Intelligence.
Recent projects include a demonstrator presented at Hannover fair 2019 in a collaboration between the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Internet Technologies, Volkswagen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, and the SPEAKER project towards an AI platform for business-to-business speech assistants.
Education and Career
Jens Lehmann graduated with a master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Dresden and the University of Bristol in 2006. He then obtained a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat) with grade summa cum laude at the Leipzig University in 2010 and was a research visitor at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he became a leader of the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web research group (AKSW) at the Leipzig University. Subsequently, he was appointed as professor at University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS in 2015. Since 2016, he is leading the Smart Data Analytics Research Group involving researchers from the University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, the Institute of Applied Informatics co-affiliation with the University of Leipzig and TU Dresden. In 2019, he started the Fraunhofer IAIS Dresden lab.
In 2022, he moved to Amazon as principal scientist and was awarded honorary professor at TU Dresden.
Awards
The impact of his research has been awarded in different ways by the community. He received the 10 Year SWSA Award for his work on DBpedia together with other co-founders that was published at the International Semantic Web Conference, the Semantic Web Journal outstanding paper Award, ESWC 7-Year Most Influential Paper Award, Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2013, the ISWC 2011 Best Research Paper Award, and the Journal of Web Semantics Most Cited |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19%20datasets | COVID-19 datasets are public databases for sharing case data and medical information related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aggregate statistics
United States
Volunteer/non-government
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Global
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: Global aggregated data including cases, testing, contact tracing, and vaccine development
World Health Organization (WHO) Coronavirus Disease Dashboard: a database of confirmed cases and deaths reported globally and broken down by region. This database is part of the WHO Health Data Platform.
COVID-19 Africa Open Data Project: a volunteer-run database and dashboard reporting region, country and district level case counts, deaths, healthcare worker infections, healthcare services and urgent needs.
Data hubs
Health Data Research UK provides a searchable registry of health data resources from the United Kingdom, including COVID-19 related datasets.
NIH Open Access Datasets: The National Institutes of Health provide open-access data and computational resources related to COVID-19.
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19): The Semantic Scholar project of the Allen Institute for AI hosts CORD-19, a public dataset of academic articles about COVID-19 and related research. The dataset is updated daily and includes both peer-reviewed articles and preprints. CORD-19 was originally released on March 16, 2020, by researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technhology, Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine. The dataset is created through the use of text mining of the current research literature.
Topic-specific and special-interest resources
Genomics
Consensus genome data for SARS-CoV-2 is available through GISAID for registered users and included in an interactive Phylogenetic tree dashboard on Nextstrain, an open-source pathogen genome data project.
Imaging (Radiology)
Characteristic imaging features on chest radiographs and computed tomography (CT) of people who are symptomatic include asymmetric peripheral ground-glass opacities without pleural effusions. The University of Montreal and Mila created the "COVID-19 Image Data Collection" in March which is a public data repository of chest imaging. The Medical Imaging Databank in Valencian Region released a large dataset of chest imaging from Spain. The Italian Radiological Society is compiling an international online database of imaging findings for confirmed cases. Online radiology case sharing platforms such as Eurorad and Radiopaedia serve as platforms for sharing COVID-19 case data and imaging.
References
datasets
Datasets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Because%20of%20You%20episodes | Because of You is a 2015 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from November 30, 2015 to May 13, 2016, replacing Beautiful Strangers.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataSpii | DataSpii (pronounced data-spy) is a leak that directly compromised the private data of as many as 4 million Chrome and Firefox users via at least eight browser extensions. The eight browser extensions included Hover Zoom, SpeakIt!, SuperZoom, SaveFrom.net Helper, FairShare Unlock, PanelMeasurement, Branded Surveys, and Panel Community Surveys. The private data included personally identifiable information (PII), corporate information (CI), and government information (GI). DataSpii impacted the Pentagon, Zoom, Bank of America, Sony, Kaiser Permanente, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Symantec, FireEye, Trend Micro, Boeing, SpaceX, and Palo Alto Networks. Highly sensitive information (e.g., private network topology) associated with these corporations and agencies was intercepted and sent to foreign-owned entities.
The data was made publicly available via Nacho Analytics (NA), a marketing intelligence company which described itself as "god mode for the internet." Both paid and free-trial members of NA were provided access to the leaked data. Upon signing up for NA membership, members were then provided access to the data via a Google Analytics account.
DataSpii leaked un-redacted information related to medical records, tax returns, GPS location, travel itinerary, genealogy, usernames, passwords, credit cards, genetic profiles, company memos, employee tasks, API keys, proprietary source code, LAN environment, firewall access codes, proprietary secrets, operational materials, and zero-day vulnerabilities.
DataSpii was discovered and elucidated by cybersecurity researcher Sam Jadali. By requesting data for a single domain via the NA service, Jadali was able to observe what staff members at thousands of companies were working on in near real-time. The NA website stated it collected data from millions of opt-in users. Jadali, along with journalists from Ars Technica and The Washington Post, interviewed impacted users, including individuals and major corporations. According to the interviews, the impacted users did not consent to such collection.
References
Data security
Data breaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towards%20a%20New%20Socialism | Towards a New Socialism is a 1993 non-fiction book written by Scottish computer scientist Paul Cockshott, co-authored by Scottish economics professor Allin F. Cottrell. The book outlines in detail a proposal for a complex planned socialist economy, taking inspiration from cybernetics, the works of Karl Marx, and British operations research scientist Stafford Beer's 1973 model of a distributed decision support system dubbed Project Cybersyn. Aspects of a socialist society such as direct democracy, foreign trade and property relations are also explored. The book is, in the authors' words, "our attempt to answer the idea that socialism is dead and buried after the demise of the Soviet Union."
The book was covered in an article in Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2017, as well as reviewed by Leonard Brewster in the Spring 2004 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
Contents
The book is divided into 15 chapters, excluding the introduction:
Inequality
Eliminating Inequalities
Work, Time and Computers
Basic Concepts of Planning
Strategic Planning
Detailed Planning
Macroeconomic Planning
The Marketing of Consumer Goods
Planning and Information
Foreign Trade
Trade Between Socialist Countries
The Commune
On Democracy
Property Relations
Some Contrary Views Considered
Ideas presented
The main features distinguishing Cottrell and Cockshott's ideas from other socialist tendencies are:
A rigorous theoretical defense of economic planning
The use of non-circulating labor money to replace circulating currency
Athenian-style participatory democracy, specifically the use of sortition rather than election to fill as many political offices as possible
Each of these represented major divergences from what was then the main currents of socialist opinion. The fall of the Soviet Union had convinced many socialists that economic planning was to be abandoned. Cottrell and Cockshott in contrast argued that new computer technology plus participatory democracy was actually making economic planning possible to greater extent than ever, a fact that would be noted in other books on economic planning in Japan and private industry. Marx considered non-circulated labor credits as crucial for socialism in his work Critique of the Gotha Program (while critiquing incompetent attempts to implement them), and an earlier generation of socialists (notably Edward Bellamy in his popular 19th century book Looking Backwards), had advocated for them. But after Frederick Engel's death, Karl Kautsky moved the socialist movement away the idea in the early 1900s, leading (among other things) to labor money never being implemented in the USSR (given Kautsky's substantial influence on Lenin's socialist organizing). Under Cottrell and Cockshott's labor credits idea, someone working 8 hours a day would receive 8 hours credit, goods and services would be priced in terms of the labor required to make them, prices would be adjusted upward/downward in accordance with supply an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20data%20acquisition | Seismic data acquisition is the first of the three distinct stages of seismic exploration, the other two being seismic data processing and seismic interpretation. Seismic acquisition requires the use of a seismic source at specified locations for a seismic survey, and the energy that travels within the subsurface as seismic waves generated by the source gets recorded at specified locations on the surface by what is known as receivers (geophones or hydrophones).
Before seismic data can be acquired, a seismic survey needs to be planned, a process which is commonly referred to as the survey design. This process involves the planning regarding the various survey parameters used, e.g. source type, receiver type, source spacing, receiver spacing, number of source shots, number of receivers in a receiver array (i.e. group of receivers), number of receiver channels in a receiver spread, sampling rate, record length (the specified time for which the receiver actively records the seismic signal) etc. With the designed survey, seismic data can be recorded in the form of seismic traces, also known as seismograms, which directly represent the "response of the elastic wavefield to velocity and density contrasts across interfaces of layers of rock or sediments as energy travels from a source through the subsurface to a receiver or receiver array."
Survey parameters
Source types for land acquisition
For land acquisition, different types of sources may be used depending on the acquisition settings.
Explosive sources such as dynamite are the preferred seismic sources in rough terrains, in areas with high topographic variability or in environmentally sensitive areas e.g. marshes, farming fields, mountainous regions etc. Such type of sources needs to be buried (coupled) into the ground in order to maximize the amount of seismic energy transferred into the subsurface as well as to minimize safety hazards during its detonation. An advantage of explosive sources is that the seismic signal (known as the seismic wavelet) is minimum phase i.e. most of the wavelet's energy is focused at its onset and therefore during seismic processing, the wavelet has an inverse that is stable and causal and hence can be used in attempts to remove (deconvolve) the original wavelet. A significant disadvantage of using explosive sources is that the source/seismic wavelet is not exactly known and reproducible and therefore the vertical stacking of seismograms or traces from these individual shots can lead to sub-optimal results (i.e. the signal-to-noise ratio is not as high as desired). Additionally, the seismic wavelet cannot be precisely removed to yield spikes or impulses (the ideal aim is the dirac delta function) corresponding to reflections on seismograms. A factor that contributes to the varying nature of the seismic wavelets corresponding to explosive sources is the fact that with each explosion at the prescribed locations, the subsurface's physical properties near the so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20VPN | Mozilla VPN is an open-source virtual private network web browser extension, desktop application, and mobile application developed by Mozilla. It launched in beta as Firefox Private Network on September 10, 2019, and officially launched on July 15, 2020, as Mozilla VPN.
History
The free, limited-use Firefox Private Network web browser extension beta version was released on September 10, 2019, as part of the relaunch of Mozilla's Test Pilot Program, a program that allowed Firefox users to test experimental new features which had been shuttered in January 2019. The beta of the subscription-based standalone virtual private network for Android, Microsoft Windows, and Chromebook launched on February 19, 2020, with the iOS version following soon after.
Firefox Private Network was rebranded as "Mozilla VPN" on June 18, 2020, and officially launched as Mozilla VPN on July 15, 2020. At launch, Mozilla VPN was available in six countries (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand) for Windows 10, Android, and iOS (beta). As planned, the service also launched in Germany and France in April 2021.
Cybersecurity firm Cure53 conducted a security audit for Mozilla VPN in August 2020 and identified multiple vulnerabilities, including one critical-severity vulnerability. In March 2021, Cure53 conducted a second security audit, which noted significant improvements since the 2020 audit. The second audit identified multiple issues, including two medium-severity and one high-severity vulnerability, but concluded that by the time of publication, only one vulnerability remained unresolved, and that it would require "a strong state-funded attacker-model" to be exploitable. Mozilla disclosed most of the vulnerabilities in July 2021 and released the full report by Cure53 in August 2021.
Features
Mozilla VPN masks the user's IP address, hides location data from the websites accessed by the user, and encrypts all network activity. A limited-monthly-use free version is available as a web browser extension for the Firefox browser, and a paid version for all device activity is available on the mobile operating systems iOS and Android and the desktop operating systems Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. The paid version of Private Network uses the Swedish Mullvad VPN service, which uses the WireGuard VPN standard, while the free version uses the American Cloudflare service. It also comes with Custom DNS servers and Multi-hop.
Availability
Mozilla VPN is available to subscribe in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US to connect to servers in 30+ countries.
See also
Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network
Ethernet VPN
Internet privacy
Mediated VPN
Virtual private server
VPN service
References
Firefox
Free and open-source software
Free Firefox WebExtensions
Mozilla
Software using the M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Computer%20Engineers%20of%20the%20Philippines | The Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines (ICpEP, formerly Philippine Institute of Computer Engineers) is a non-profit professional organization of computer engineers in the Philippines. It is registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-stock and non-profit organization. ICpEP is also the official computer engineering organization for academic community and industry practitioners in the Philippines.
History
In 1992, a group of computer engineers formed a professional organization for computer engineers, the Philippine Institute of Computer Engineers, or PhICEs. But after years of being active and conducting conventions, seminars, and symposia to fellow computer engineers and students, PhICEs became inactive.
In 2008, several computer engineers tried to revive the professional organization after it's been inactive for years. Then the organization was reformed as Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines.
History of ICpEP.SE
ICpEP.SE or Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines Student Edition, is a student chapter of the ICpEP, which aims to link academics to various colleges and universities. The first group of student chapters started in 2008, it was founded by 11 schools, namely, Adamson University, Asia Pacific College, Central Colleges of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Far Eastern University Institute of Technology, Mapua Institute of Technology, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Manila, STI College-Recto, Technological Institute of the Philippines-Manila, and Technological Institute of the Philippines-Quezon City. And now, there are more than sixty-eight schools across the Philippines that have an ICpEP student chapter.
See also
Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines
Computer engineering
References
External links
ICpEP official website
ICpEP Singapore Chapter website
ICpEP Facebook page
Professional associations based in the Philippines
Computer science-related professional associations
Engineering societies
1992 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Kelly%20III | John E. Kelly III is an American executive at IBM. He has been described as the "father" of Watson, a computer system most known for competing against humans on Jeopardy! He joined IBM in 1980 and has served as the director of IBM Research.
Kelly has received the Frederik Philips Award and the Robert N. Noyce Medal, both of which are presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as a board member for his alma maters, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as the New York Academy of Sciences and the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Kelly was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry through technology innovations and strategic leadership.
Early life and education
Kelly was raised in Albany, New York, and attended Bishop Maginn High School.
He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Union College in 1976. Kelly received his master's degree in physics and doctorate in materials engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1978 and 1980, respectively.
Career
Kelly has held various roles at IBM since 1980. He was named director of the company's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in 1990, then became IBM Research's vice president of systems, technology and science in 1995. Kelly served as general manager of IBM Microelectronics from 1999 to August 2000. In 2007, he succeeded Paul Horn as the head of IBM Research. He has also served as a senior vice president of cognitive solutions and director of IBM Research, and an executive vice president. He serves as chairman of the IBM Academy of Technology's board of governors.
In 2020, Kelly represented IBM at a conference on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, where he signed the "Rome Call for AI Ethics", which advocated for the responsible use of AI technologies. He also announced IBM's partnership with the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Vatican City to use Watson to gather data about brain cancer and other diseases. In late February, Kelly was tasked with building and directing IBM's COVID-19 Task Force.
On the 18th of December, 2020, IBM announced that Kelly will retire from the company at the end of the year.
Semiconductors
In 1997, during Kelly's tenure as vice president of IBM's chip division, the company developed a method of manufacturing computer chips with copper instead of aluminum.
Kelly is a board member and former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. He received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal for outstanding contributions to the microelectronics industry, as well as the IEEE Frederik Philips Award for accomplishments in the management of research and development. In 2013, he received the National Academy of Engineering's Arthur M. Bueche Award for his work on semiconductor technology.
Intellectual property
In his role as senior vice president of technology an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Zamolo | Rebecca Lynn Zamolo (born September 28, 1982) is an American YouTuber known for her Game Master Network YouTube series and franchise. She is also known for her presence on TikTok, with over 17.7 million followers as of August 2023.
Internet career
Zamolo's personal YouTube channel is focused on challenge, DIY, dancing and gymnastics videos. She also has a YouTube channel with her husband Matt Yoakum called Matt Slays which similarly features challenge video content. In 2018, Zamolo began an escape room-inspired YouTube channel and detective Alternate Reality Game series called Game Master Network (formerly The Real Game Master) which features her and Matt solving clues to defeat an antagonist known as the "YouTube Hacker". In October 2020, a spin-off endless runner video game based on the series called The Game Master Network was released as an app to iOS and Android, created by Zamolo and digital product studio BoundaryLA. That December, a subscription service was also released through the app which allows subscribers to gain access to exclusive content, including musical performances, behind-the-scenes clips, character backstories and Q&As, for $8 a month. Other media released in connection to the series include a YouTube musical entitled Giant Rewind Musical in Real Life and two books published by HarperCollins. In October 2021, Rebecca and Matt were signed by management firm Underscore Talent. In addition to her YouTube content, Zamolo also runs a TikTok channel.
Personal life
Rebecca Zamolo is the oldest of 5 siblings. She was competitive gymnast and a track runner, and prior to being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis moved to Los Angeles, California, to become an actress. She was later diagnosed with the diseases after experiencing symptoms of severe abdominal pain and bleeding. Her colon also showed signs of pre-cancer. In 2014, she had her colon and large intestine removed. She later released a 40-minute feature documentary on Vimeo about her experiences with the disease called Inside/Out: My Battle with IBD.
Rebecca married Matthew Yoakum (professional name: Matt Slays) on the 17th of May 2014.
In February 2021, the couple announced that Zamolo had suffered a chemical pregnancy and later a miscarriage after beginning IVF treatment. They chose to pursue IVF treatment due to her on going health battles as well as her previous colon surgery added complications to any pregnancy she will have.
On February 23, 2022, Zamolo gave birth to a daughter, named Zadie Hope Yoakum.
Awards and nominations
Books
Notes
References
1982 births
Living people
American YouTubers
American TikTokers
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American women
American bloggers
Music YouTubers
YouTube vloggers
DIY YouTubers
People from Martinez, California
People from Los Angeles
YouTubers from California
YouTube channels launched in 2011
Comedy YouTubers
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni |
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