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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Dunne | Jennifer Dunne is an American ecologist whose research focuses on the network structure of food webs.
One of 14 scientists who led critical advances in food web research over the last century, according to the journal Food Webs, Dunne uses ecological network research to compare the varying ways humans interact with other species through space and time, providing a quantitative perspective on sustainability of socio-ecological systems.
Education
Dunne attended Harvard University, where she earned an A.B. Cum Laude degree in philosophy, and received an M.A. in ecology and systematic biology from San Francisco State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow in biological informatics.
Research and career
Dunne is recognized as a leader in ecological network research, having made significant contributions toward understanding the dynamics and function of ecological networks through modeling and analysis. Ecological networks capture the complex interactions among species that provide structure to biodiversity.
She is the author of more than 70 scientific publications. In 1998, with co-author Neo Martinez, she published her first work on the roles of time, space, and other scales (e.g., species richness) in food web research. In 2002, she published highly cited articles on the network structure of food webs and on the robustness of trophic networks (food webs) in the face of biodiversity loss through extinction. Dunne and her co-authors have also published influential papers on the dynamics of adaptive feeding in ecological networks, cascading extinctions, paleo-ecological networks reconstructed from a 48-million-year old deposit of Messel shale, and networks reconstructed from the Chengjiang and Burgess Shale assemblages -- work which indicates that prehistoric food webs are very similar to modern webs in their network structures.
In 2016, her team published the first highly-detailed food web that included humans (the Sanak Island Aleut) in a complex food web with other species. It suggested that the role Sanak Islanders played in their food web, as supergeneralists, had a stabilizing effect on the ecosystem.
Her current and ongoing research extends the analysis of pre-industrial humans roles in their ecosystems beyond food webs, to include other interactions such as using other species for tools and clothing. It was presented during a Scientific Session at the 2019 annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dunne conducts her research at the Santa Fe Institute, where she is a resident professor and also serves as Vice President for Science. She was named Fellow of The Ecological Society of America in 2017 for deep and central contributions to the theory of food web analyses, including its extension to paleo food webs, and in 2020, was named Fellow of the Network Science Soci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20%28blockchain%29 | Terra is a blockchain protocol and payment platform used for algorithmic stablecoins. The project was created in 2018 by Terraform Labs, a startup co-founded by Do Kwon and Daniel Shin. It is most known for its Terra stablecoin and the associated Luna reserve asset cryptocurrency.
In May 2022, the Terra blockchain was temporarily halted after the collapse of the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and Luna, in an event that wiped out almost $45billion in market capitalisation within a week.
Design
Terra is a blockchain that leverages fiat-pegged stablecoins to power a payment system. For consensus the Terra blockchain uses a proof-of-stake codesign. Several stablecoins are built atop the Terra protocol, including TerraUSD, which was the third largest stablecoin by market capitalisation before its collapse in May 2022. The Terra blockchain has a fully-functional ecosystem of decentralized applications (or DApps), such as Anchor, Mirror, and Pylon, which utilised the stable-coin infrastructure of Terra.
Terra is a group of algorithmic stablecoins, named according to the currencies to which the were pegged—for example, TerraUSD (UST) was pegged to the U.S. dollar. Luna served as the primary backing asset for Terra, also used as a governance token for users to vote on Terra community proposals. UST stablecoins were not backed by U.S. dollars; instead, they were designed to maintain their peg through a complex model called "burn and mint equilibrium". This method uses a two-token system in which one token is supposed to remain stable (UST) while the other (LUNA) is meant to absorb volatility.
The Anchor Protocol was a lending and borrowing protocol built on the Terra chain. Investors who deposited UST in the Anchor Protocol were receiving a 19.45% yield paid out from Terra's reserves. Due to such a high yield, some critics raised concerns that Kwon's stablecoin model could function like a "ginormous Ponzi scheme". Mirror Protocol was another Terra chain project, which designed and offered financial derivatives designed to "mirror" traditional listed stocks.
History
In 2018, Do Kwon and Daniel Shin (also known as Shin Hyun-sung) co-founded Terraform Labs in Seoul, South Korea. In 2019, Terraform Labs launched its first cryptocurrency token. Terraform Labs raised more than $200 million from investment firms such as Arrington Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
In January 2022, the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) was established as a non-profit based in Singapore, with Do Kwon as director. Terraform Labs allocated a portion of the profit from UST sales to Luna Foundation Guard, to be used as reserves to stabilise the price of UST. As of 7 May, just before UST broke its peg, LFG held reserves of 80,394bitcoin worth approximately $2.4billion. Bitcoin was the largest portion of the reserve, though LFG also held various other stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.
In February 2022, Terra and the Washington Nationals Major Leagu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StaDyn%20%28programming%20language%29 | StaDyn is an object-oriented general-purpose programming language for the .NET platform that supports both static and dynamic typing in the same programming language.
The StaDyn compiler gathers type information for the dynamically typed code. That type information is used to detect type errors at compilation time and to perform significant optimizations. For that purpose, it provides type reconstruction (inference), flow-sensitive types, union and intersection types, constraint-based typing, alias analysis and method specialization.
Its first prototype appeared in 2007, as a modification of C# 3.0. Type inference was supported by including var as a new type, unlike C#, which only offers var to define initialized local variables. Flow-sensitive types of var references are inferred by the compiler, providing type-safe duck typing. When a more lenient approach is required by the programmer, the dynamictype could be used instead of var. Although type inference is still performed, dynamic references behave closer to those in dynamic languages.
StaDyn is designed by Francisco Ortin from the University of Oviedo. The language has been implemented by different members of the Computational Reflection research group, including Miguel Garcia, Jose Baltasar García Perez-Schofield and Jose Quiroga, besides Francisco Ortin.
The name StaDyn is a portmanteau of static and dynamic, denoting its aim to provide the benefits of both static and dynamic typing.
Code samples
Variables with different types
Just like dynamic languages, variables may hold different types in the same scope:
using System;
class Program {
public static void Main() {
Console.Write("Number: ");
var age = Console.In.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Digits: " + age.Length);
age = Convert.ToInt32(age);
age++;
Console.WriteLine("Happy birthday, you are " + age +
" years old now.");
int length = age.Length; // * Compiler error
}
}
The age variable is first inferred as string, so it is safe to get its Length property. Then, it holds an integer, so age++ is a valid expression. The compiler detects an error in the last line, since Length is no longer provided by age.
The generated code does not use a single Object variable to represent age, but two different variables whose types are string and int. This is achieved with a modification of the algorithm to compute the SSA form. This makes the generated code to be more efficient, since runtime type conversions are not required.
Flow-sensitive types
var and dynamic variables can hold flow-sensitive types:
using System;
class Program {
public static void Main(String[] args) {
var exception;
if (args.Length > 0)
exception = new ApplicationException("An application exception.");
else
exception = new SystemException("A system exception.");
Console.WriteLine(exception.Message);
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing%20Complex%20C | is a Japanese anime television miniseries that aired in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in October 2022.
Plot
Kimi Shirokado is an eccentric little girl who lives at a low-cost housing complex called Housing Complex C in the fictional seaside town of Kurosaki. During the summer, she befriends city girl Yuri Koshide when her family moves in from Tokyo along with Middle Eastern fishing interns. A series of strange events soon occurs from dead animals appearing on the property to tenants mysteriously disappearing with moss growing inside their apartments.
Characters
Kimi Shirokado
A happy-go-lucky 9-year-old girl who resides within the complex who the elderly residents dote on as her "mother" is never seen outside of her apartment. She hints to know more about the strange events than she lets on.
Yuri Koshide
A 10-year-old girl from Tokyo who moves into the complex with her parents and befriends Kimi, acting like a big sister figure to her.
Seichi Koshide
Yuri's father who works as a supervisor and consultant for the foreign workers who have arrived in Kurosaki to work at the fisheries. He and his family have ulterior motives for coming to the complex.
Keiko Koshide
Yuri's mother and Seichi's wife who moves into the complex with his foreigner workers.
Takashi Takamura
An elderly professor and resident of the complex whose investigation into the strange occurrences at the complex leads to his eventual death once he pieced it all together at the cost of his sanity, leaving behind his journal with a detail of his findings, which Kimi gives to Kobayashi.
Kisou Kobayashi
An elderly inhabitant of the complex and a friend of Takashi. He is a handyman by trade.
Kentaro Yoshii
An elderly inhabitant of the complex. He is a retired security guard and military soldier who is a friend of Takashi and Kisou.
Mitsuko Momochi
A middle-age inhabitant of the complex who is the mother of Hideo.
Hideo Momochi
The son of Mitsuko who is a hikikomori.
Toshi Wada
A cantankerous elderly woman at the complex who serves as the building manager and has prejudiced views towards the Middle Eastern interns due to them disrespecting the housing complex.
Kanchan Mia
One of the Middle Eastern interns under Mr. Koshide. He is a brutish man who seems protective of Kimi and Yuri and is the largest of the interns who is said to be easily manipulated.
Rubel Hossen
One of the Middle Eastern interns under Mr. Koshide, representing the group as he translates for them. He later left the complex as tensions between his group and the residents worsen as well as discovering a link to an ancient god.
Production and release
The series was directed by Yūji Nara, with script and original concept by amphibian, and animated by Akatsuki. The series was produced by Williams Street with Jason DeMarco serving as executive producer; the English dub was produced by Production I.G USA. The series aired on Adult Swim's To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloop | A bootloop (also named boot loop or boot-loop) is a problem that occurs on computing devices which are unable to complete the regular booting sequence and reboot before it is finished.
Examples
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows Server
Windows 10
The Nexus 5X
Android 10: when setting a specific image as wallpaper, the luminance value exceeded the maximum of 255 which happened due to a rounding error during conversion from sRGB to RGB. This then crashed the SystemUI component on every boot.
Google Nest hub
See also
LG smartphone bootloop issues
Bootloader
Blue screen of death
References
Technological failures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Quest%20%282022%20TV%20series%29 | The Quest is an American fantasy-based reality television series that streams on the network Disney+, that premiered on May 11, 2022. A reboot of the 2014 fantasy-based reality competition series of the same name, The Quest features a group of players brought to a castle in the fictional world of Everealm on a fantasy quest to save the realm from an evil force, and reveal the One True Hero among them who will defeat the evil. Compared to the 2014 version, this version has a similar type of narrative/reality game structure, but focuses more heavily on the scripted narrative, differing from the previous iteration. Unlike the 2014 series, in which the contestants were all adults, the players in this series are all teenagers.
Disney announced in January 2020 that a new version of The Quest would be produced for its Disney+ streaming service, with van Munster and Doganieri returning as executive producers. van Munster had pitched the revival to Disney after they had announced plans for the streaming service. On April 2, 2022, a trailer was released, announcing a May 11, 2022 premiere date. The series was removed from Disney+ on May 26, 2023.
Format
A group of teenagers participate in an immersive scripted adventure in a high fantasy setting, the kingdom of Everealm. The adventure is structured around various challenges tied to the fantasy storyline. While the ongoing storyline is scripted and the contestants are interacting with actors throughout the competition, the actual challenges are genuine, with competitive outcomes determined by the contestants' abilities and decisions. Unlike the 2014 series, the reboot is presented almost entirely in the mode of a traditional scripted drama, with minimal use of reality television devices such as confessionals or eliminations that would disrupt the immersion of the players in the adventure scenario.
Plot
The dark sorceress Tavora and her Dark Legion seek to conquer the magical world of Everealm. As he falls in battle, King Magnus of Sanctum entrusts the mythical Divine Crown with his footsoldier Mila to bring to his three children—Emmett, Adaline, and Cedric—heirs to the throne of Sanctum. Mila arrives in Oraa to deliver the Crown, where the heirs are in hiding under the protection of King Magnus's brother King Silas—along with Magnus's advisor, Dravus, a palace mage. At the same time, eight American teenagers are summoned to Oraa by the Fate Talmuh to restore the Divine Crown and redeem the bond between Everealm and the three Fates. Designated "Paladins," the eight teenagers must reclaim the Divine Crown's four Gems of Virtue. Through these and other challenges along the way, the Paladins demonstrate the virtues of a hero. For each challenge, and outstanding Paladin is awarded a talisman. The accumulation of talismans is used in determining the Paladins who may seek to claim the Divine Crown's fifth gem, the Kingstone, revealing themself as the "One True Hero" with the power to save Everealm.
Paladins
D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axoni | Axoni is an American technology company that develops blockchain software for financial institutions. The company caters to trading firms, infrastructure providers, and technology companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company operates Veris, a distributed ledger system used by large financial companies.
History
Axoni was established in 2013 to build and deploy institutional blockchain and distributed ledger technology similar to the one that powers bitcoin.
This system was developed with other tech companies, namely R3 and IBM. The permissioned distributed ledger network for derivatives is governed by DTCC and also uses Axcore.
Axoni is also a partner of Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), one of the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. This platform assists BATS, Cboe, Nasdaq and the NYSE.
Veris
In 2020, Axoni launched Veris, a distributed ledger network that manages equity swap transactions. This system is designed for matching and reconciling post-trade data on stock swaps. Companies using this network includes BlackRock Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Citigroup, Inc. The infrastructure functions as an equity swaps platform, where participating institutions can maintain continual reconciliation of equity swaps until they reach maturity.
Trading is synchronized for a transaction throughout its lifecycle and participants are able to relay changes in real-time. Its first recorded swap involved transactions by Citi and Goldman Sachs. It is also based on the Axcore technology, adding to a suite of enterprise software that provides data management, automation, and development kits (e.g. for distributed application).
References
Financial services companies established in 2013
American companies established in 2013
Technology companies based in New York City
Financial technology companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Network%20for%20Digital%20Commerce | Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), is a private non-profit Section 8 company established by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) of Government of India to develop open e-commerce. It was incorporated on 31 December 2022 with initial investment from Quality Council of India and Protean eGov Technologies Limited (formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited).
History
ONDC is not an application, an intermediary, or software, but a set of specifications designed to foster open interchange and connections between shoppers, technology platforms, and retailers. ONDC was incorporated with the mission and vision of creating an inclusive ecosystem of e-commerce.
On 5 July 2021, a nine-member Advisory Council was constituted by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The Quality Council of India (QCI) was tasked with incubating the ONDC based on open source methodologies using open specifications and network protocols. It incorporates inventory, logistics, dispute resolution and is planning to cover 25% of domestic digital commerce within two years of launch. ONDC will unbundle delivery services so that customers can choose their own logistics provider. Till 26 October 2021, QCI established a team of experts and on-boarded some small and medium size industries as volunteers for project execution while DPIIT approved ₹10 crore as initial investment.
From November 2021 to March 2022, various public and private sector entities picked up stakes in ONDC by investing seed money to become early promoters. This includes Punjab National Bank (9.5% for ₹25 crore). State Bank of India (7.84% for ₹10 crore). Axis Bank (7.84%). Kotak Mahindra Bank (7.84%). BSE Investments (5.88%). Central Depository Services (6.78%). ICICI Bank (5.97% for ₹10 crore). Small Industries Development Bank of India (7.84% for ₹10 crore). On 23 March 2022, Common Service Centres (CSC) under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced that it will promote ONDC for ecommerce and logictics in rural areas through 3 Lakh Grameen e-Stores. National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) and National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) committed funding for ONDC as promoters. On 31 August 2022, Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cleared NPCI to acquire 10% stake at ONDC by investing ₹10 crore. Bank of India acquired 5.56% stake by investing ₹10 crore.
As of July 2022, more than 20 organisations have committed investment into the project such as UCO Bank, HDFC Bank. Bank of Baroda etc. HDFC Bank acquired 7.84% stake of ONDC. In April, ONDC had received ₹157.5 crore for first stage of the project from 17 banks and financial institutions. For the pilot project, eSamudaay will help in dealing with consumer facing interface, Gofrugal Technologies supplied enterprise resource planning software, GrowthFalcons for digital marketing and SellerApp will help sellers with automation and provide digital insi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandni%20Chowk%20%28Kolkata%29 | Chandni Chowk is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is famous for its old and cheap market of computer software products and hardwares, and had been listed as a notorious market in 2009 and 2010 by the USTR for selling counterfeit software, media and goods.
History
Chandni Chowk which is an economical hub and marketplace in North Kolkata, existed as early as 1784. A. Upjohn's map of 1784 of Calcutta describes it as "Chandney Choke Bazar", "Chandney Bazaar ka rastah", "Chandnee Choke" or "Goreeamar Lane". Kolkata Municipal Corporation records show that before 1937, that one of the lanes were called Guriama Lane in local. In February 1937, the name was officially changed to Chandney Approach. In 1938, again it was renamed aas Chandni Chowk Street. It was speculated the name was given after Delhi’s Chandni Chowk as a symbol of acknowledgement for the Mughals whose capital was at Delhi at that time.
W.H. Carey speculates that the name came from the canopies or the semi-permanent roofs (chadna, in Bengali) above shops that had sprung up over the years. The market existed in 19th century. R.J. Minney's "Round about Calcutta" (1922) says that Chandni Chowk contained garment markets, cycle shops, camera shops, pigeon stalls for cigarettes and sherbet. Hawkers and shopkeepers with semi-permanent structures continue to occupy every square inch of the space. In 1907, KMC bought land to widen Chandney Chowk Streets, but that did not help passersby.
In October 1994, Chandni Chowk came under metro corridor as the stretch from Esplanade to Chandni Chowk was authorised for construction.
Market
Chandni Chowk is known for it being the oldest and biggest software and hardware market in West Bengal. Multiple technology companies had their main offices and service centres in Chandni Chowk due to its cheap and nearest facilities.
Transport
Central Ave, which is one the main road connectors between South and North Calcutta, passes through Chandni Chowk. Also Lenin Sarani of Kolkata road passes through Chandni Chowk which connects it directly to Sealdah. Chandni Chowk metro station and Esplanade metro station are nearest metro stations of the North South metro corridor. Esplanade serves also as metro station of the East West metro corridor of Kolkata.
See also
Bidhan Sarani
Boubazar
College Street
Dharmatala
References
Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
Notorious markets
High-technology business districts in India
Information technology places
Information technology in India
Electronics districts
Electronics industry in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undo%20%28company%29 | Undo is a software debugging company based in Cambridge, UK. The company was founded in 2005 by Greg Law and Julian Smith. Undo’s technology is used by software engineering teams to debug software programs.
History
Undo was initially bootstrapped in 2005 by Greg Law and Julian Smith out of Law’s garden shed in Cambridge. Law and Smith developed the core technology that would eventually become UDB (formerly UndoDB), a reversible debugger for Linux software.
LiveRecorder was then developed based on UndoDB to enable development teams to record and replay the execution of software programs.
In 2012, Undo secured its initial seed funding. It closed a $3.3 million Series A funding round in 2016, and a $14 million Series B in 2018.
References
Companies based in Cambridge
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Software companies established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Botswana | Botswana has a network of roads, of varied quality and capacity, totaling about . Other these, are paved (this is including of motorways. The reminder worth are unpaved. Road distances are shown in kilometers and Botswana speed limits are indicated in kilometers per hour (kph) or by the use of the national speed limit (NSL) symbol. Some vehicle categories have various lower maximum limits enforced by speed limits, for example trucks.
Classification
Administration
Responsibility for the road network differs between trunk and non-trunk routes. Trunk roads, which are the most important roads, are administered by the Ministry of Transport. The classifications of A and B roads are independent of their width and quality. Some B roads are wide enough to accommodate bidirectional traffic, while others are narrower with various passing locations. B roads follow the same numbering scheme as A roads, but almost always have 3- and 4- digit designation.
A roads
A roads are highways and other major roads.
B roads
B roads are distributor roads, which see less traffic than A roads.
Motorways
Motorways in Botswana have a set of restrictions, which prohibit certain traffic from using the road. The following classes of traffic are not allowed on Botswana motorways:
Learner drivers
Slow vehicles (i.e., not capable of reaching 60km/h on a level road).
Invalid carriages (lightweight three-wheeled vehicles)
Pedestrians
Pedal-cycles (bicycles, etc.)
Vehicles under 50cc (e.g., mopeds)
Tractors
Animals
Rules for driving on motorways include the following:
The keep-left rule applies unless overtaking
No stopping at any time
No reversing
No hitchhiking
Only vehicles that travel faster than 80km/h may use the outside lane
No driving on the hard-shoulder
The general motorway speed limit is 120km/h.
Signage
Signage on the Botswana network conforms broadly to Southern Africa norms, though a number of signs omit Southern Africa route numbers. All length distances are shown in kilometers, speed is in kilometers per hour whilst height and width restrictions are required to be shown in feet and inches (though the metric measurements may optionally also appear).
Traditionally, road signs in Botswana used blue backgrounds rather than the yellow, white, or orange that the rest of the world uses on traffic warning signs. In the early 2010s, officials announced plans to begin phasing out the distinctive blue signs in favor of more typical signs in order to be more in line with the neighboring Southern African Development Community member states.
See also
Botswana
Transport in Botswana
References
External links
UN Map of Botswana
Air Botswana UK - The national airline of Botswana
Botswana
Transport in Botswana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Venables%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Phil Venables is a computer scientist who has been the chief information security officer (CISO) at Google Cloud since 2020. He specializes in information and cyber security, as well as enterprise risk and technology risk. Previous to Venable's position at Google, he held a number of roles at Goldman Sachs and served on the Board of Goldman Sachs Bank. Since 2021, he has also been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Early life and education
Venables was born in Britain, and attended the University of York in the United Kingdom, where he received a B.S. with honors in computer science in 1989. In 1990, he graduated with an M.S. in Computation and Cryptography from Oxford.
Career
Venables began his career in 1992 as an Information Security Manager at Barclays Bank in the United Kingdom, where he left in 1995 to take on the position as global head of technology risk management at the Standard Chartered Bank. In 1996, Venables became a member of the Highlands Group (DARPA-Office of Net Assessment), an advisory firm for the Department of Defense. From 1997 to 2000, he was CISO at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2000, he began at Goldman Sachs, first as partner and CISO until 2017, when he was partner and Chief Operational Risk Officer until 2018, then director until 2020. He is the co-founder and leader of various corporate and industrial cyber security initiatives.
Since 2015, Venables has been a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In 2016, he was a part of Barack Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.
He has been CISO at Google Cloud since 2020, and since 2021, he has been director at HackerOne, supply chain technology company Interos, and NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Over the years, Venables has served on multiple non-profit boards, including New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and New York University Stern School of Business' Business Volatility and Risk Institute, as well as co-chairing the board of consumer financial information protection organization Sheltered Harbor, and also co-founded and directed various initiatives of the U.S. Financial Services Sector. In 2000, he co-founded the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and served on its board from 2014 until 2020.
In September 2022, Venables was named to the BallisticX cybersecurity advisory board for San Francisco-based Ballistic Ventures, an early-stage cybersecurity investment firm.
Venables serves on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, under President Biden. He also holds several information security-related patents, including designing a virtual wallet with cryptographic currency for securities settlement, and creating a method for assessing how vulnerable a network is to cyberthreats.
Awards
In 1995, Venables was awarded the designation of Chartered Engineer, in 2002 that of Chartered Scientists, and in 2005 he was elected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9%20Gun%20Director | The M9 Gun Director was an electronic director developed by Bell Labs during World War II. This computer continuously calculated trigonometric firing solutions for anti-aircraft weapons against enemy aircraft. When cued by the SCR-584 centimetric gun-laying radar and used in concert with anti-aircraft guns firing shells with proximity fuzes, it helped form the most effective anti-aircraft weapon system utilized by the Allies during the war.
Background
During the late 1930s the United States Army's Signal Corps attempted to utilize the newly developed SCR-268 radar to provide fire control quality data to the Sperry Corporation's M4 mechanical gun director. The SCR-268's longwave did not provide accurate enough data for the pairing to be an effective anti-aircraft weapon. In 1940, Vannevar Bush formed the National Defense Research Committee and its section D-2 was tasked with examining issues related to fire control headed by Warren Weaver.
Development
In May 1940, an engineer at Bell named David Parkinson had a dream about being in an anti-aircraft revetment where he also spotted a potentiometer. He spent the next couple of weeks working with his boss to draft up specifications for an analog computer that provided firing solutions for anti-aircraft guns. Later that year, Bell Labs, at the time led by Harvey Fletcher and Mervin Kelly, submitted a proposal to the National Defense Research Committee. Their proposed director would calculate course and speed of incoming aircraft, shell's velocity and fuse timing, powder temperatures, shell drift, and air density and wind speed to provide a predicted firing solution for the associated gun battery. The project was approved in December 1940 and the initial work on the project was completed by Drs. David B. Parkinson and Clarence A. Lovell under the direction of Dr. Edward Wente. A prototype, designated T-10, was delivered to the Army only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and a few hundred sets were ordered immediately. As the SCR-584's development continued it was paired with the M9
On November 9, 1943, a demonstration was held for senior Army leadership at the Bell Lab facility in Mullica Hill, New Jersey. Once operational testing was complete, the M9 was mass-produced at the Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois.
Operational Use
90mm anti-aircraft guns were normally operated in groups of four, utilizing the SCR-584 microwave computer and being controlled by the M9 Director. The SCR-584 was accurate to about 0.06 degrees (1 mil) and also provided automatic tracking. Direction and range information was sent directly to the M3 Gun Data Computer, and M9 Director, which directed and laid the guns automatically. All the crews had to do was load the guns.
SCR-584s with the associated M9 Gun Directors were rushed to the Anzio beachhead in February 1944 to assist with engaging the German/Italian Air Force that was jamming the SCR-268s and bombing the beachhead and harbor at night. On the eve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20McCann | Julie Ann McCann is a British computer scientist who is a professor at Imperial College London. She is the leader of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018.
Early life and education
As a teenager, McCann became interested in electronic music, particularly listening to Kraftwerk and Karlheinz Stockhausen. She lived close to the Armagh Planetarium in Armagh. She joined Ulster University for her academic studies, working toward a bachelor's and doctorate in computer science. She completed her doctorate in 1992.
Research and career
McCann develops spatial computing and wireless communications, which combine information from their environments with their digital components. Her group investigate convergence and anarchical spatial computing systems. To better understand this, she uses established understanding from systems beyond computing infrastructure (e.g. economics, biology, physics). She combines decentralised algorithms and protocols using low-powered sensing devices. These devices are very small and communicate with one another via radio signals.
McCann joined Imperial College London in 2002 from City, University of London. She works on Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. Her interests lie in harnessing the various interactions between the cyber and physical to improve performance, resilience and to make secure. She oversees the Alan Turing Institute Resilient and Robust Infrastructure challenge.
McCann leads the National Research Foundation Singapore Eco Cities initiative. McCann also serves as deputy director of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence.
Awards and honours
2018 Suffrage Science award
2022 Turing Talk
Selected publications
Her publications include:
References
British computer scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academics of Imperial College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Ulster University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Bus%20%28video%20game%29 | Crazy Bus is an unlicensed 2004 Venezuelan bus driving video game for Sega Genesis. It was originally started as a programming experiment and eventually was included in ROM collection tools, after which its popularity increased. Its gameplay consists in driving a bus forward and backward to accumulate points, allowing to choose between five buses of Brazilian, Venezuelan and Spanish brands. Crazy Bus has been critically panned for its music, described as being "chaotic".
References
External links
CrazyBus (Sega Genesis) Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) -YouTube
2004 video games
Bus simulation video games
Homebrew software
Sega Genesis games
Video games developed in Venezuela
Unauthorized video games
Single-player video games
Sega Genesis-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Joe%20Blow%20Show | The Joe Blow Show is a Canadian television comedy special, which aired on The Comedy Network in July 2003. It starred Rebecca Northan, Paul O'Sullivan, Debra McGrath, Lisa Merchant and Peter Oldring as the members of the Grass Roots Theate Collective, an amateur theatre troupe preparing to stage a musical based on the lives of a couple they had discovered shopping at Honest Ed's.
The special had been conceived as a potential pilot for a television series, although it was not picked up. It was created by O'Sullivan and his wife, Linda Kash, although she did not appear in the special as an actor.
Vinay Menon of the Toronto Star reviewed the special positively, writing that "It's perplexing to note The Joe Blow Show is only a one-time special. The Comedy Network could still green-light a series, mind you; it's waiting to gauge reaction to the first effort. This may be fiscally responsible, especially in these times, but it also reflects a skittish, almost cowardly quality that plagues the industry. (A TV network really should know when it has something good. It shouldn't wait to be told.)" Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Region Record was more dismissive, writing that "it's like watching a karaoke version of the film Waiting for Guffman (about, interestingly, the exact same thing), with elements of Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap thrown in for good measure. With no artistic muse of its own, and a bad case of hero worship, Joe Blow is to mockumentaries what Ben Mulroney is to TV hosts: earnest, committed -- and so bland even its edges seem phony."
The cast received a Gemini Award nomination for Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004.
References
External links
Canadian television specials
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
2003 in Canadian television
2003 television specials
Television pilots not picked up as a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023-24%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28morning%29 | The 2023–24 morning network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend Morning hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2022–23 season. The daytime schedules for the five major networks that offer morning programming are expected to remain consistent with the prior television season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Fox doesn't provide network programming on weekday mornings, therefore are not included in the schedule, The CW however doesn't provide network programming on weekday and Sunday mornings, therefore are not included in the schedule. On Saturday mornings, all of the networks lease the time to outside producers to produce programming to fulfill E/I programming obligations as mandated by the FCC.
Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
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Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (select shows) scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots and The CW which airs its programming block at the same time in all time zones, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Pacific (for selected shows), Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local programming by affiliates in western time zones after game completion.
Weekdays
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28afternoon%29 | The 2023–24 afternoon network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2022–23 season. The daytime schedules for the four major networks that offer afternoon programming are expected to remain consistent with the prior television season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV as the programming service does not offer daytime programs of any kind and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Fox and The CW is not included on the weekday schedule as it only airs afternoon programming (in the form of sports content) during weekends.
Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local programming by affiliates in western time zones after game completion.
Weekdays
Notes:
ABC stations have the option of airing General Hospital at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
Depending on their choice of feed, CBS stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern (airtime adjusted by time zone), and/or The Young and the Restless at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time (in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones).
NBC News Daily airs live every hour from noon until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and NBC stations have the option to choose which hour they carry.
Saturday
Notes:
To comply with FCC educational programming regulations, stations may defer certain programs featured in their respective network's E/I program block |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | The 2023–24 network late night television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2022–23 television season.
PBS is not included at all, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. (PBS does offer its member stations packages of Amanpour & Company and BBC World News to air in late night timeslots Monday–Friday, and optional overnight access to its satellite feed, which rebroadcasts prime time programs shown either the previous evening or earlier in the week.) Ion Television is not included since the network's late-night schedule consists of syndicated drama reruns and paid programming, nor are MyNetworkTV and The CW as neither programming service offer late night programs of any kind.
Fox is not included in the weekday schedule, as it only airs late night network programming on Saturdays, and ABC and CBS are not included in the weekend schedule as both networks only air late night network programming on weekdays (except overruns of primetime programming due to sports). NBC is not included on Sundays as it does not offer any network late night programming on Sundays year-round (outside of overruns of its prime time Sunday Night Football game telecasts into the late night time period during Fall).
Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
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Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs, and fill timeslots not allocated to network programs with local, syndicated, or paid programming at their discretion. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any overrunning major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in correspondence to U.S. Eastern Time with local and/or network late night programming after game completion.
Weeknights
Note:
ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local scheduling in selecting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS%20Enhancements | CMS Enhancements Inc. (originally Complete Management Systems) was an American computer company headquartered in Irvine, California. Founded in 1983, the company's main product lines in the 1980s were internal and external hard drives and tape drives. The company's hard drives were chiefly sourced from Seagate and reconfigured in bespoke configurations for certain computing platforms, such as the Macintosh (under the MacLite name), the IBM PC, and the Compaq Deskpro, among others.
The company encountered financial difficulty in the early 1990s following two failed attempts at selling its own personal computers, and it reorganized into AmeriQuest Technologies in 1993.
History
1983–1990
CMS Enhancements was founded in Irvine, California, as Complete Management Systems in July 1983, by Jamshed "Jim" Farooquee, Mason Tarkeshian, and Tom Ong. Farooquee, the principal founder, had moved to the United States after graduating from a technical college in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1976. He funded CMS's start-up period with $12,000 of his personal funds. In 1986, the company went public. Early in the next year CMS achieved a $36 share price, its peak.
Fueled by growth in 1987 leading to $133 million in sales, CMS expanded rapidly in 1988. The company by 1989 had more than 300 distinct mass storage products—now including tape drives—and had introduced graphic cards, memory expansion boards, and uninterruptible power supplies under the CMS brand. While most of these were rebadged or re-engineered products from OEMs (such as Seagate for their hard drives), the tape drive products were of CMS' manufacture, the result of the purchase of North Atlantic Industries' Data Storage Products division in April 1988. Based in Long Island, New York, North Atlantic's DSP division had manufactured a wide variety of tape drives for personal and enterprise computers. Along with the acquisition of its intellectual property, inventory, and tooling came a 10,000-square-foot facility in Singapore and a 5,000-square-foot plant in Long Island. The purchase of the North Atlantic DSP allowed CMS to manufacture its own products for the first time. CMS's first product to come from these factories was the LiteTape, a 40-MB portable tape drive for PC-compatible laptops like the Toshiba T1200 and Zenith SupersPort, introduced in 1989.
Back in Tustin, the company operated a 73,000-square-foot facility; in 1988, the company purchased another 50,000-square-foot building in the city. In August 1988 they opened up a branch office in the Netherlands. Right before the end of 1988, Tarkeshian and Ong left the company, the latter retiring at the age of 60. By June 1989, CMS reached sales of $200 million, a 32 percent increase from the previous year, while net income reached to $4.8 million, a 92 percent increase from 1988.
1990–1997
CMS began to flounder in the early 1990s. The first of its difficulties were faulty hard drive units delivered to CMS by Seagate in late 1988, which led to numerous |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaista%20Gohir%2C%20Baroness%20Gohir | Shaista Gohir, Baroness Gohir (born 27 February 1969) is a British women's rights campaigner. She leads the national charity, Muslim Women's Network UK (MWNUK). Her nomination by the House of Lords Appointments Commission as a Crossbench life peer was announced on 17 May 2022.
Personal life
Gohir's parents immigrated to England in the early 1960s and are originally from Daultala, Pakistan. Gohir is a mother to three children and lives in Hall Green.
Awards and honours
She was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Muslim People and to Community Relations and Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to Gender Equality and Women's Rights.
References
1969 births
Living people
British Muslim activists
British women activists
Crossbench life peers
People's peers
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II
English people of Pakistani descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna%20Pirker | Johanna Pirker (born June 26, 1988) is an Austrian computer scientist, educator, and game designer at Graz University of Technology with a focus on games research, virtual reality and data science. Pirker was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in the category Science & Healthcare (2018) for her efforts in improving digital education with virtual reality environments and games. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her dissertation was supervised by the Austrian e-learning expert Christian Gütl and MIT professor of physics John Winston Belcher. She is involved in various efforts to educate about the potential of video games. This also includes efforts to advocate the background and cultural aspect of video games. In 2020 she received the Käthe-Leichter Prize for her efforts for her initiatives in the field of diversity in engineering and in the games industry. In 2021 she received the Hedy Lamarr Prize.
Awards and prizes
Pirker received multiple awards including a listing on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list for her research and development efforts in the field of virtual reality for learning applications.
Forbes 30 under 30 Europe, Science & Healthcare (2018)
IGDA Women in Games Ambassador, GDC (2017)
Women in Tech Award by Futurezone (2019)
Käthe-Leichter-Prize (2020)
Hedy Lamarr Prize (2021)
References
External links
Personal Homepage
Austrian women computer scientists
1988 births
Living people
Data scientists
Women data scientists
Austrian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%2000s | Heart 00s is a national digital radio station owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment as a spin-off from the Heart radio network. The station broadcasts from studios at Leicester Square in London and was launched on 20 May 2022. Heart 00s has its own dedicated breakfast show, presented by Mike Panteli. Ashley Roberts of the Pussycat Dolls is also a presenter, with a programme airing on Saturday evenings. At other times, the station is mostly an automated service. The station is available on the Digital One multiplex while Global migrated Capital Xtra Reloaded to being available via DAB+ in London only to make way for the launch of Heart 00s.
Current presenters
Current presenters include:
Ashley Roberts
Kelly Brook
Rachel Stevens
Mike Panteli
See also
Heart 70s
Heart 80s
Heart 90s
Heart Dance
References
External links
1990s
Global Radio
Radio stations established in 2022
2000s-themed radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea%20Finn | Chelsea Finn is an American computer scientist and assistant professor at Stanford University. Her research investigates intelligence through the interactions of robots, with the hope to create robotic systems that can learn how to learn. She is part of the Google Brain group.
Early life and education
Finn was an undergraduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2018 under Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine. Her work in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab (BAIR) focused on gradient based algorithms . Such algorithms allow machines to 'learn to learn', more akin to human learning than traditional machine learning systems. These “meta-learning” techniques train machines to quickly adapt, such that when they encounter new scenarios they can learn quickly. As a doctoral student she worked as an intern at Google Brain, where she worked on robot learning algorithms from deep predictive models. She delivered a massive open online course on deep reinforcement learning. She was the first woman to win the C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award.
Research and career
Finn investigates the capabilities of robots to develop intelligence through learning and interaction. She has made use of deep learning algorithms to simultaneously learn visual perception and control robotic skills.
She developed meta-learning approaches to train neural networks to take in student code and output useful feedback. She showed that the system could quickly adapt without too much input from the instructor. She trialled the programme on Code in Place, a 12,000 student course delivered by Stanford University every year. She found that 97.9% of the time the students agreed with the feedback being given.
Awards and honors
2016 C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award
2017 Electrical engineering and computer science rising star
2018 MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35
2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
2020 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology AI Researcher of the Year
2020 Intel Rising Star Faculty Award
2021 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award
Select publications
References
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University faculty
American computer scientists
American women scientists
Machine learning researchers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virological.org | Virological.org is a discussion forum for the pre-publication sharing and discussion of pathogenic virus sequence data. The forum was launched in November 2014 by Andrew Rambaut. Scientists have often used the forum to publicly share the first available outbreak sequences, e.g. during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak, and the Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea.
Overview
Virological.org is used for rapid pre-publication dissemination of public health related information by a community of virologists, phylogeneticists and epidemiologists.
See also
Bioinformatics
GISAID
Virology
Online databases
COVID-19 pandemic
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Crystalized | Crystalized is the fifteenth season of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired in two parts: the first in May 2022, and the other from September to October 2022. Following the passing of Kirby Morrow, the season is the first and only in the series to feature Andrew Francis as the new voice actor of Cole.
The storyline of the fifteenth season directly follows on from the preceding season, Seabound, which involved the ninja character Nya becoming one with the sea and being lost to the ninja team. The first part of Crystalized focuses on the ninja attempting to save Nya by restoring her to her human form, breaking the law and becoming wanted fugitives in the process. The rest of the season centers around the return of the ninja's greatest enemy, the Overlord, under a new alias called the Crystal King, as he assembles some of the greatest adversaries from the ninja's past to defeat them once and for all and conquer Ninjago.
A sequel series to support the continuation of the Lego Ninjago brand titled Ninjago: Dragons Rising premiered in June 2023 exclusively on Netflix.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire and Nya's brother.
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja, Elemental Master of Lightning and Nya's yang/boyfriend
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Andrew Francis as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water, Kai's sister and Jay's yin/girlfriend
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid, and Zane's love interest.
Mark Oliver as Garmadon
Supporting
Erin Mathews as Miss Demeanor
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Michael Dobson as Pythor P. Chumsworth
Heather Doerksen as Skylor
Paul Dobson as Warden Noble
Adrian Petriw as Fugi-Dove
Michael Antonakos as The Mechanic
Brian Drummond as Twitchy Tim
Deven Mack as King Vangelis
Britt McKillip as Harumi
Lee Tockar as Cyrus Borg
David Raynolds as Nelson
Shannon Chan Kent as Racer Seven
Gavin Langelo as Vinny
Sharon Alexander as Ultra Violet
Nicholas Holmes as Jake
Tabitha St. Germain as Sammy
Brynna Drummond as Antonia
Brian Dobson as Ronin
Casting
The season features the return of the main cast, who have voiced the ninja characters across the series, excluding Kirby Morrow as the character Cole. Crystalized was the first season to feature Andrew Francis as the character's voice actor. Francis was cast in the role following the loss of Morrow, who had previously voiced the character since the beginning of the series. Series co-creator Tommy Andreasen released an open letter to fans explaining the decision to recast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kan | David Chih-Hsing Kan (2 July 1959 – May 19, 2022) was a Taiwanese-born CEO and founder of Mustek, one of the largest assemblers and distributors of personal computers and complementary ICT products in South Africa. Mustek is the operational business division of the Mustek Limited Group, which also includes Rectron.
Early life and education
Born in Tapei, Taiwan, on 2 July 1959, Kan did a series of odd jobs growing up, including working as a dishwasher at the age of 15. He was also a waiter, truck driver, and removal company worker.
On completion of the Taiwanese equivalent of matric at Ta-Hwa Junior College in Hsinchu in 1980, he left for the US to study mechanical engineering at Pittsburg State University in Kansas.
After graduating in 1986, he relocated to South Africa, where his father was working as an economic counsellor for the Republic of China. Kan was working in a cutlery manufacturing facility when in 1987 he attended the first personal computer (PC) exhibition hosted by the Taiwanese government in Johannesburg. It was here that Kan met the then managing director of the Taiwanese company Mustek Corporation, Owen Chen, who was interested in setting up a warehouse in South Africa. Kan made a partnership proposal with Chen and visited Mustek Corporation in Taiwan to receive training.
Career
Kan set up Mustek in South Africa in 1987, importing and distributing components and assembling PCs for other brands, and then becoming manufacturer of the Mecer brand of computers. Considered a pioneer in the tech space in South Africa, he led the development of the country’s first PC assembly plant.
To get the business started, he borrowed $50,000 from both Chen and his father. That was the only capital investment the company would ever need.
Kan attributed the company’s early success “with being at the right place at the right time”, as the demand for PCs began to grow in the 1980s, and import tariffs gave Mustek a competitive advantage in establishing its dominance in the South African market.
In 1995, Rectron was established as part of the Mustek Group to focus on the distribution of PC components.
Mustek also comprises Mecer Inter-Ed, a controlling shareholding in Palladium, shareholdings in Sizwe Africa IT Group and Khauleza IT Solutions, and a substantial shareholding in Yangtze Optics Africa Cable. Mustek operates in South Africa, with anchor operations in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria.
The IT company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1997. This made it the first Taiwanese company to be listed on a South African stock exchange. In 2003, it did a dual listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange through issuing Taiwan Depositary Receipts (TDRs). In 2005, the company was responsible for about 25% of the computers sold in South Africa, and its ME-CER computer brand ranked first in personal computer sales in the country.
Mustek reported an after-tax profit for the six months between 1 July and 31 December 2021 of R152 million, and an i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking%20of%20Meta%20Platforms%20in%20Russia | The blocking of Meta Platforms in Russia is the process of blocking access and subsequent banning of Meta Platforms' social networks in Russia due to allowing Facebook and Instagram users to wish the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as well as to call for violence against Russian servicemen participating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The essence of the conflict
On March 11, 2022, Andy Stone, a representative of Meta company, which owns the social networks Facebook and Instagram, stated on his Twitter account that the company temporarily allowed the death wish of the Presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko, as well as calls for violence against the Russian military taking part in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Chronology of events
On March 11, 2022, the British edition of Reuters, citing its sources, reported that Meta would temporarily allow the leaders of Russia and Belarus to wish death on their social networks, as well as to call for violence against the Russian military, which is directly related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Some time after the appearance of these data, Roskomnadzor demanded that the company confirm or deny the information.
On the same day, the official representative of Meta Andy Stone on his Twitter account confirmed the data that appeared in the media. Now it was possible to wish death only to the Russian and Belarusian leaders and in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This has become allowed in a number of countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia).
After a short time, the press service of Roskomnadzor announced the beginning of blocking access to Meta's social networks at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. After that, Roskomnadzor clarified that full access to Instagram will be blocked at midnight, March 14, since, according to representatives, active users need time to transfer their materials to other social networks.
On March 14, 2022, Meta Vice President Nick Clegg announced the return of the ban on death wishes to presidents and stated that the company opposes Russophobia. However, despite the change in position in the Meta's management, in the Russian regions, and then in Moscow, at midnight local time, access to Instagram disappeared. The social network was blocked anyway. Also on March 14, Roskomnadzor added Instagram to the register of banned sites.
Prohibition of activities in the country
On March 21, 2022, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, supported by Roskomnadzor and the FSB, and recognized Meta as an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. Judge Olga Solopova said that this decision does not apply to WhatsApp, since it is a messenger, not a social network.
At the court hearing, the prosecutor stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja%20Kamui | Ninja Kamui is an upcoming Japanese anime television series that is set to premiere in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in 2024.
Plot
After escaping his clan and going into hiding in rural America, former ninja Joe Higan is ambushed by assassins who exact bloody retribution on him and his family for their betrayal. After the attack, Joe returns to being known as Ninja Kamui to avenge his family and friends and sets his sights on taking down the very clan that made him.
Characters
Joe Higan
A former ninja who goes on a journey to avenge his family.
Production and release
The series was announced by Adult Swim on May 18, 2022, and will be directed by Sunghoo Park. Takashi Okazaki is designing the characters. The series will be produced by E&H Production and Sola Entertainment. On July 22, 2023, at San Diego Comic-Con, Adult Swim unveiled a teaser trailer for the series and announced that it would premiere sometime in 2024.
References
External links
2024 anime television series debuts
Adult Swim original programming
Anime and manga about revenge
Anime with original screenplays
Ninja in anime and manga
Toonami
Upcoming anime television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia premiered on the Nine Network on 22 May 2022. British business magnate and The Apprentice UK host, Lord Alan Sugar leads the series as CEO, with Janine Allis returning as a boardroom advisor and Nick Bell as new advisor. Natasha Young returns as glamorous executive assistant Miss Moneypenny.
Production
In September 2021, the series was renewed for a sixth season with Lord Alan Sugar returning as CEO, and revealing Turia Pitt and Will & Woody as some of the competing celebrities. On 17 October 2021, Nine announced the full list of celebrities competing in the season.
Candidates
Beck was originally fired in task 1, but was brought back into the competition during task 5.
Eloni was originally fired in task 2, but was brought back into the competition during task 5.
Episode results
The candidate won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
The candidate won their place back in the competition in a Redemption task.
The candidate did not participate in the task.
Tasks
Task 1
Airdate: 22 May 2022
Task 2
Airdate: 23 May 2022
Task 3
Airdate: 24 May 2022
Task 4
Airdate: 25 May 2022
Task 5
Airdate: 29 May 2022
Task 6
Airdate: 30 May 2022
Task 7
Airdate: 31 May 2022
Task 8
Airdate: 1 Jun 2022
Task 9
Airdate: 5 Jun 2022
Task 10
Airdate: 6 Jun 2022
Task 11
Airdate: 7 Jun 2022
Task 12
Airdate: 13 Jun 2022
Task 13
Airdate: 14 Jun 2022
Task 14
Airdate: 15 Jun 2022
Task 15
Airdate: 20 Jun 2022
Task 16
Airdate: 21 Jun 2022
Ratings
References
Australia 6
2022 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo%20Fortino | Giancarlo Fortino is an Italian computer scientist who is currently a full professor of computer engineering at the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria.
Education
Giancarlo Fortino was born in Italy in 1971. He graduated from University of Calabria in 1995 with a laurea (5-year master's degree) in computer engineering. In 2000, he received a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Calabria.
Career
Giancarlo Fortino is currently a full-time professor of computer engineering at the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria, where he is the director of the SPEME (Smart, Pervasive and Mobile systems Engineering) lab. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 15 doctoral students.
In 1997 and 1999, he was a research scholar at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, US. In 2009, he was a visiting professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. In 2001–2006, he was an assistant professor and in 2006–2018 he was an associate professor at the University of Calabria. In 2012, he was nominated Guest Professor of Computer Engineering at the Wuhan University of Technology. In 2015, he was nominated adjunct full professor of computer engineering in the framework of High-End Foreign Experts in China. Since 2015, he has been an adjunct senior research fellow at the Institute of High-Performance Computing and Networks of the National Research Council (Italy). In 2017, he was nominated high-end expert at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. In 2019, he served as a visiting scientist at Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology after being awarded a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI). In the same year, he was also nominated distinguished professor at Huazhong Agricultural University, China.
Editorial Activities
Giancarlo Fortino is the founding editor of the IEEE Press Book Series on "Human-Machine Systems". He is the founding editor-in-chief of Springer Book Series on “Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing”. He currently serves in the editorial board of several IEEE journals, including IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE Access. He has edited several books, including one published by Wiley-IEEE Press and entitled "Wearable Computing: From Modeling to Implementation of Wearable Systems based on Body Sensor Networks".
Publications
He has published more than 500 articles in international conferences, journals, and book chapters. He is listed among the Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited researchers in the field of Computer Science. He is the only Italian highly cited researcher in the computer science area.
Honors and awards
He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow. He is also a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.
He has been the recipient of thre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoskinson | Hoskinson may refer to:
Charles Hoskinson, American entrepreneur, founder of the Cardano blockchain platform
Jim Hoskinson, television director
Linda Hoskinson, elementary school teacher in Ohio, subjected to unlawful sex discrimination when she became pregnant
Nadine Hoskinson (died 2010), popular British writer of over 40 romance novels under the pen-name Elizabeth Oldfield
See also
Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson (1976–1984), 8-year-old American girl who disappeared whilst riding her bicycle
Hoskin
Hoskins
Huskinson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy%20Tyrrell | Tammy Tyrrell (born 1 August 1970) is an Australian senator and a member of the Jacqui Lambie Network. She ran in the 2022 Australian federal election to represent Tasmania in the Senate, and was elected to fill the sixth vacancy. Her 6-year term started on 1 July 2022.
Career
Tyrrell was raised in Ulverstone, Tasmania, and did not go to university. She worked for 15 years in employment services. From 2014 to 2022, she worked as a staff member for Senator Jacqui Lambie. She was selected as the lead candidate on the Jacqui Lambie Network's Senate ticket for the 2022 federal election, and successfully won election, defeating incumbent senator Eric Abetz.
References
Living people
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania
Women members of the Australian Senate
21st-century Australian politicians
21st-century Australian women politicians
People from Ulverstone, Tasmania
1970 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwania%203 | Taiwania 3 (Traditional Chinese (Taiwan): 台灣杉三號) is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan, and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) and using CentOS as Operating System. It is an open access for public supercomputer. It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing. This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100Gbit/s high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS. It is launched into operation in November 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19. It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021 and number 80 on Green 500 list. It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.
Capability and specifications
This supercomputer's Rmax is 2297.6 TFLOPS, with Rpeak at 4354.6 TFLOPS and Nmax at 4,354,560, costing 563.85 kW. The housing is mainly designed and manufactured by ASUS Cloud, which has experiences on constructing supercomputer housing and storage device housing The hardware is provided by Quanta Computer, which mainly manufactures servers.
Software
Software details are listed below (all data are according to Top 500 and NCHC):
Operating system : CentOS x86_64 7.8
Workload manager : Slurm Workload Manager
Compiler : Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran and C++ Linux 2020 Update 4
Math library : Intel Math Kernel Library for Linux 2020 Update 4
MPI : Intel MPI Library for Linux 2019 Update 9
Hardware
Hardware details are listed below (all data are according to Top 500 and NCHC):
CPU : Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)
Main memory : 192GB/node (172800GB total)
Interconnection : NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR100
Hardware basically uses :QuantaPlex T42D-2U (4-Node) Dense Memory Multi-node Compute Servermanufactured by Quanta Computer.Operating temperature: 5 °C to 35 °C (41 °F to 95 °F), operating relative humidity: 20% to 85%RH. It has two processors per node.The Intel Xeon CPU and memory mentioned above is inside it.
Speed
Speed details are listed below.
Rpeak : 4354.6 TeraFLOPS
Rmax : 2297.6 TeraFLOPS
P.S. This machine relies on CPU to calculate.
Accessibility
Taiwania series have always been available for everybody access through iService and pay according to their requested time and CPUs and GPUs.
Films involved
Seqalu movie was filmed in collaboration with TWCC, a national ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon%20Kid%27s%20Corner | Canyon Kid's Corner was an American live children's television series, airing on KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa, from 1953 to 1985. The show was one of the two pioneers of children's programming in Iowa.
Format
Canyon Kid's Corner was hosted by Jim Henry, who worked on the show for 32 years; Henry once explained that the show was intended as both entertainment and instruction for children, teaching them to "get some sense of how to live right" through principles like respecting one's parents and kindness to one's friends. Anywhere from 15 to 20 children would be featured live on the show. During the show's first month, Henry wore a cowboy hat and a tie. Though he played a cowboy, Henry had a Brooklyn accent; he explained to the children that the accent came from "the canyons created by the tall buildings in New York City". Children in Sioux City often appeared on Canyon Kid's Corner for their birthday; sometimes they came on the show with friends or Scout troopmates, and each Tuesday would feature the pets of the show's guests. Canyon Kid's Corner held a drawing contest every Wednesday, and children would give performances every Thursday in dance, song, and music.
Production
Jim Henry was from Brooklyn; he moved to Sioux City after he was stationed there during World War II. Canyon Kid's Corner began airing as part of KVTV's original lineup, on March 29, 1953. The producers wanted a host for a children's television series. Henry wanted the show to be similar to a club for children that would normally be in someone's backyard. Henry auditioned for the role in cowboy-like clothing and he came up with the name Canyon Kid. Despite KVTV liking Henry's audition, the producers wanted a better name for the show, although the name was never changed for the entire 32-year run. Henry said,
Originally a daily afternoon show, it was moved to 7:30 a.m. when KVTV (by then known as KCAU-TV) sought to increase the audience of its early evening newscasts by airing The Mike Douglas Show. By 1978, it was airing weekly on Sundays at noon. Throughout the show's entire run, around 75,000 children appeared as guests; it was considered a pioneer of children's programming in Iowa alongside The Magic Window. The show helped launch the career of musician Tommy Bolin. In November 1985, KCAU-TV was sold to Citadel Communications; Canyon Kid's Corner was axed after Henry—who also doubled as the station's promotions manager—was fired, along with 21 other staffers, as part of a house-cleaning effort by the new ownership. Canyon Kid's recognized vest was hung at a Sioux City Applebee's restaurant, while Henry went on to become an insurance agent.
Following Henry's death in February 2014 at 89, the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City held a tribute to Henry on their marquee due to his role in shaping the show.
Note
References
External links
Canyon Kid | TV Iowans Grew Up On via YouTube
1953 American television series debuts
1985 American television series endings
American children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways%20of%20Being | Ways of Being is a 2022 book on artificial intelligence and the natural world by James Bridle.
A reviewer for The American Spectator said that the theme of the book was collaborative intelligence among humans, computers, and all of nature.
A reviewer for Geographical said that the book described situations where humans developed remarkable new technology by observing natural processes.
A reviewer for Kirkus Reviews described the book as scientifically precise but accessible to general audiences.
Musician Brian Eno discussed the book with the author to discuss creativity in nature.
References
External links
Author's website
2022 non-fiction books
Science and technology studies works
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Farrar, Straus and Giroux books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%27s%20Gone%20Wrong%20%28soundtrack%29 | Ron's Gone Wrong (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2021 computer-animated film Ron's Gone Wrong. It was released digitally on October 15, 2021 by Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records, followed by a physical edition being published on October 22, the same day as the film's theatrical release. The soundtrack album featured music composed by Henry Jackman, along with an original song titled "Sunshine" sung by Liam Payne, which was released as a part of the soundtrack on September 24.
Development
Henry Jackman composed the film score. Speaking about the score, Jackman said that "it has its own identity, similar to Wreck-It Ralph or Big Hero 6" having the "same musical landscape and color in this film", and also had enjoyed working in the film, calling the scoring sessions as "enormous fun". Jean-Philippe Vine and Sarah Smith, the directors of the film, expressed gratitude to Jackman on how his score, elevated the film. In an interview to The Illuminerdi, he stated about how the music become important, especially for an animation film as they need to "give a sensational moment for audience to experience it in theatres". Smith had said that "working with Henry was the biggest blast ever. He's absolutely nuts and completely brilliant. And, I think we pushed him and pushed him, constantly kind of raising the bar for what we wanted with thematics and emotion and so on. And it's like he gives your movie back to you. And I know he's really proud of the score, and I'm really proud that he's really proud because I think he did some of his best work." Smith wanted the score to have a "contemporary John Hughes feel to it" while also asking him for "a classic 'high school movie' vibe and the orchestral scale and emotion of E.T. on top".
The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios in London, England. Jackman composed most of the tracks, with two songs in collaboration with Dave Bayley of the indie-pop band Glass Animals. Liam Payne was reported to be composing and performing an original song in June 2021, On August 27, 2021, he released a music video for the film's soundtrack titled "Sunshine". Payne said that he wrote the song to impress his son Bear Payne, and he really "enjoyed working on the track".
Track listing
Release
The soundtrack was released on October 15, 2021 through digital formats by Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records, making this the first 20th Century Studios animated feature film to have the film's soundtrack album released through the two musical record labels. It also had a physical release on October 22, the same day as the film's theatrical release and also a vinyl edition is scheduled for release later. A single titled "Sunshine" performed by Liam Payne, was earlier released as a music video format on August 27, 2021, for promotional purposes. The video featured silhouettes from the film, and a vocal performance by Payne. It was released as an official audio format on Sept |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissin%27%20Kousins | Kissin' Kousins is an action game published in 1985 for the Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit family, and BBC Micro home computers by English Software.
Gameplay
The object of Kissin' Kousins is to guide a little boy from left to right through ten dangerous screens while avoiding many obstacles, both stationary and moving. On reaching the right edge, the background scrolls to the next screen. Obstacles are related to the background: in the city (the first few screens), the player must avoid brick walls, hydrants, and garbage cans. As the player delves deeper into the forest, the obstacles turn into bugs, worms and toadstools. The player also has a pistol, which can be used to shoot at short distances. To increase the difficulty level, a bomb-dropping plane flies overhead, and each screen must be completed in a strict time limit.
If the player hits an obstacle, is blown up by a bomb, or runs out of time, they lose a life and must start the game over from the last screen. The player starts with five lives, and when all are lost, the game is over.
Reception
Kissin' Kousins received mixed reviews. Bob Chappell, reviewer for Atari User magazine, found the game fair, but lacking variety and excitement. Computer and Video Games reviewer found the game amusing and "cheap at the price". Rog Frost writing for the Electron User liked the game and concluded: "The graphics and the animation are of a superb standard and the sound is adequate. [...] Recommended for arcade addicts of all ages".
References
External links
Kissin' Kousins at Atari Mania
Kissin' Kousins at Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
1985 video games
Action games
Atari 8-bit family games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
English Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20augmented%20algorithm | A learning augmented algorithm is an algorithm that can make use of a prediction to improve its performance.
Whereas in regular algorithms just the problem instance is inputted, learning augmented algorithms accept an extra parameter.
This extra parameter often is a prediction of some property of the solution.
This prediction is then used by the algorithm to improve its running time or the quality of its output.
Description
A learning augmented algorithm typically takes an input . Here is a problem instance and is the advice: a prediction about a certain property of the optimal solution. The type of the problem instance and the prediction depend on the algorithm. Learning augmented algorithms usually satisfy the following two properties:
Consistency. A learning augmented algorithm is said to be consistent if the algorithm can be proven to have a good performance when it is provided with an accurate prediction. Usually, this is quantified by giving a bound on the performance that depends on the error in the prediction.
Robustnesss. An algorithm is called robust if its worst-case performance can be bounded even if the given prediction is inaccurate.
Learning augmented algorithms generally do not prescribe how the prediction should be done. For this purpose machine learning can be used.
Examples
Binary search
The binary search algorithm is an algorithm for finding elements of a sorted list . It needs steps to find an element with some known value in a list of length .
With a prediction for the position of , the following learning augmented algorithm can be used.
First, look at position in the list. If , the element has been found.
If , look at positions until an index with is found.
Now perform a binary search on .
If , do the same as in the previous case, but instead consider .
The error is defined to be , where is the real index of .
In the learning augmented algorithm, probing the positions takes steps.
Then a binary search is performed on a list of size at most , which takes steps. This makes the total running time of the algorithm .
So, when the error is small, the algorithm is faster than a normal binary search. This shows that the algorithm is consistent.
Even in the worst case, the error will be at most . Then the algorithm takes at most steps, so the algorithm is robust.
More examples
Learning augmented algorithms are known for:
The ski rental problem
The maximum weight matching problem
The weighted paging problem
See also
Machine learning
References
External links
An overview of publications about learning augmented algorithms
Algorithms
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Graham%20%28producer%29 | Will Graham is an American producer, director, and screenwriter. He is the showrunner of Mozart in the Jungle and was one of the founders of the Onion News Network. He is also the co-creator of the 2022 television series A League of Their Own.
Biography
Graham graduated from Columbia University, where he was director of the 107th Varsity Show. Among his castmates were Lang Fisher, who created Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling, and DGA Award-winning director Susanna Fogel, executive producer of The Flight Attendant.
He was one of the founders of the Onion News Network and showrunner of the spin-off Onion SportsDome for Comedy Central. Graham has long been associated with Amazon Studios, where he produced one of the studio's first pilots, The Onion Presents: The News, the pilot Salem Rogers and wrote for Alpha House. He became an executive producer of the series Mozart in the Jungle at the beginning of its third season. He was also the director the short film Homeschooled, starring Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, and was released as part of the film Movie 43.
In 2017, Graham formed Field Trip Productions and signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios.
In November 2019, he signed a new first-look deal with Amazon Studios as a showrunner of Daisy Jones & the Six and A League of Their Own.
He won a Peabody Award in 2009 for directing and executive producing Onion News Network. He was also nominated for a Webby Awards in 2011 as part of The Onion team.
Filmography
References
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
American directors
American television producers
American television writers
Peabody Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
LGBT producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Snapchat%20original%20programming | Beginning in 2016, Snapchat began to produce its own original content called Snap Originals.
Original programming
Comedy
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by Snapchat for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
References
External links
Snap Inc.
Snapchat
Snapchat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato%20%28DeepMind%29 | Gato is a deep neural network for a range of complex tasks that exhibits multimodality. It can perform tasks such as engaging in a dialogue, playing video games, controlling a robot arm to stack blocks, and more. It was created by researchers at London-based AI firm DeepMind. It is a transformer, like GPT-3. According to MIT Technology Review, the system "learns multiple different tasks at the same time, which means it can switch between them without having to forget one skill before learning another" whereas "[t]he AI systems of today are called “narrow,” meaning they can only do a specific, restricted set of tasks such as generate text", and according to The Independent, it is a "'generalist agent' that can carry out a huge range of complex tasks, from stacking blocks to writing poetry". It uses supervised learning with 1.2B parameters. The technology has been described as "general purpose" artificial intelligence and a "step toward" artificial general intelligence.
References
Sources
Further reading
2022 software
Deep learning software applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangio%20%28cycling%20team%29 | Fangio, later known as AD Renting and Tulip Computers, was a Belgian professional cycling team that existed from 1975 to 1992.
The team competed after 1979 through to the 1986 Vuelta a España, but did not have any wins. It was succeeded by the AD Renting team. AD Renting (All-Drie Renting), often simply called ADR, existed from 1987 to 1989.
Tulip Computers existed from 1990 to 1992. Its main sponsor was Dutch computer manufacturer Tulip Computers. This team should not be confused with the Spanish cycling team sponsored by Tulip Computers in 1990.
Tour de France
Despite its short history as AD Renting and lack of funds, the team was very successful in the Tour de France. Eddy Planckaert
won the points classification in 1988 to go with the victory he achieved in the highly regarded monument the Tour of Flanders earlier that year. In that same spring campaign, Dirk Demol won the Paris–Roubaix after a breakaway of 222 kilometers.
The biggest success however was when Greg LeMond, a new signing, won the 1989 Tour de France with the team, taking three stage victories in the process.
Sponsors
Koga Miyata was the team's 1991-1992 subsponsor. The bicycle manufacterer from Heerenveen had previously sponsored IJsboerke and Capri Sonne. They also sponsored an amateur team, which would be a good development team for the professionals.
Rosters
As Tulip Compters the team was led by Director Sportif José De Cauwer. It had riders like Johan van der Velde, Frank Hoste, Fons de Wolf, Olaf Jentsch, Adri van der Poel and Allan Peiper. Manager Ludo Voeten, who was also manager of artists like Peter Koelewijn, Danny de Munk and Grant & Forsyth, represented Tulip Computers as general manager of the team.
Major wins
1980
Overall Tour of Ireland, Dave Cuming
1981
Omloop Schelde-Durme, Rudy Matthijs
1982
Omloop van het Zuidwesten, Alain Van Hoornweder
De Kustpijl, Kurt Dockx
1983
Le Samyn, Jacques van Meer
Omloop van het Waasland, Alain Van Hoornweder
Tour Européen Lorraine-Alsace
Stage 1a, Michel Dernies
Stage 2, Léo Wellens
Stage 8b Tour de l'Avenir, Léo Wellens
1984
Grand Prix de Denain, Yves Godimus
Dwars door West-Vlaanderen, William Tackaert
Stage 1 Tour de Luxembourg, William Tackaert
1985
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, William Tackaert
Omloop van het Waasland, William Tackaert
Stage 1 Danmark Rundt, Eric Van Lancker
Stage 3 Tour de Luxembourg, Philippe Van Vooren
Stage 4 Herald Sun Tour, William Tackaert
Stage 1a Three Days of De Panne, William Tackaert
1986
Nokere Koerse, Luc Colijn
De Kustpijl, Patrick Versluys
Stage 5b Four Days of Dunkirk, Rigobert Matt
Stage 2 Danmark Rundt, Eddy Vanhaerens
1988
Paris–Roubaix, Dirk Demol
Tour of Flanders, Eddy Planckaert
Points Classification Tour de France, Eddy Planckaert
1989
E3-Prijs Vlaanderen, Eddy Planckaert
Vuelta a España, stage 1, Marnix Lameire
Vuelta a España, stage 5, Eddy Planckaert
Overall Tour de France, Greg LeMond
Stages 5, 19 & 21, Greg LeMond
Road race, UCI Road World Champio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20Fox%20Family | Major League Baseball (MLB) games aired on the predecessor networks for the American pay television channel Freeform. These began in 2000, when the channel was known as Fox Family Channel, co-owned by News Corporation and Haim Saban, as a replacement for Thursday night games that had aired on Fox Sports Net in prior seasons. The package also included some games in the postseason Division Series. After The Walt Disney Company bought the channel in 2001, renaming it to ABC Family, the games were moved to the Disney-owned ESPN channels, although the 2002 Division Series games that had been acquired as part of the purchase remained on ABC Family because of existing contractual obligations. Those games moved to ESPN the following year as well.
Background
In 1997, as part of its contract with Major League Baseball, Fox Sports began to show games on its national network of regional sports networks, Fox Sports Net (FSN), which was given rights to two Thursday night games per week, one for the Eastern and Central time zones and one for the Mountain and Pacific time zones, though these games were often preempted in markets where they conflicted with the FSN affiliate's coverage of a local team.
Fox Family's coverage
In 2000, the former FSN coverage passed to Fox Family Channel on an alternating basis with then-sister network FX and was reduced to one game per week.
Starting with the 2001 season, Fox Family also carried games from the Division Series that did not air on the Fox broadcast network. Among the games that aired on Fox Family included one between the San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros on October 4, 2001, in which Barry Bonds hit his 70th home run of the season, tying the all-time single season record that Mark McGwire had set only three years earlier.
Commentators
Play-by-play announcers for the FSN/Fox Family coverage included Kenny Albert, Thom Brennaman, Chip Caray, Josh Lewin, and Steve Physioc. Color analysts included Bob Brenly, Kevin Kennedy, Steve Lyons, and Jeff Torborg.
Other commentators included:
Rod Allen (analyst)
Bert Blyleven (analyst)
Dick Bremer (play-by-play)
Joe Buck (play-by-play)
George Frazier (analyst)
Kirk Gibson (analyst)
Keith Hernandez (analyst)
Rex Hudler (analyst)
Mike Krukow (analyst)
Duane Kuiper (play-by-play)
Tim McCarver (analyst)
Dan McLaughlin (field reporter)
Rick Monday (analyst)
Brianne O'Leary (field reporter)
Ross Porter (play-by-play)
Mel Proctor (play-by-play)
Matt Vasgersian (play-by-play)
Regular season schedule (2001)
NOTE: The Thursday night telecasts on Fox Family were subject to blackout in the local markets of participating teams.
Simulcasts
The following is a list of local television stations that simulcast Fox Family's postseason coverage in 2001.
ABC Family
After Disney bought Fox Family in 2001 and renamed it ABC Family, the Thursday games were folded into the ESPN Major League Baseball rights package (and subsequently shifted to weekday afternoon "DayGame" broad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Cyber/Metrix | Pacific Cyber/Metrix, Inc. (PC/M; originally PCM, Inc., later PCM Systems) was an American computer company based in California. The company was founded in 1975 in San Ramon, California.
A privately held company, PC/M was founded by Robert Nelson and several others, most of whom including Nelson came from the San Ramon facility of Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, a scientific research firm. Nelson was named president and general owner. For the next several years the company developed microcomputers based around the PDP-8–compatible Intersil 6100 as well as CMOS EPROM burners. The company earned profit from the cash flow generated by their products and received no outside venture capital. PC/M moved its headquarters in late 1979 to Dublin, California, where the company spent the remainder of its existence in a 6,000-square-foot facility. The company's workforce was relatively spartan throughout its lifespan, employing only "about 10" in 1979, later increasing to 15 by the early 2000s.
History
1970s
The company's first announced product was the PCM-12, a 12-bit minicomputer based on the Intersil IM6100 microprocessor, allowing it to be mostly software compatible with Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8/E. The PCM-12 supported up to 32 kilowords of memory 12 bits wide, and its 80-line bus accommodated 15 expansion cards. On release, the only expansion cards optioned were device-interfacing modules—including TTY and cassette—and memory boards; a direct memory access controller card and a hardware vectored interrupt handler card were provisional. Included with the stock PCM-12 was a 4-kiloword memory board. The minicomputer's front panel meanwhile provides virtually all of the PDP-8/E's switch-functions while also including binary bootstrap loader and decrement-address functions. On release in early 1976, the PCM-12 was only available in kit form for between US$400 and $600, depending on options. By mid-March that year, the price of the kit increased to $799. The kit in minimal form required assembling the computer from five printed circuit boards (including the CPU and 4-kiloword memory boards), the cabinet, the front panel, and the power supply. The computer was later offered completely assembled and tested in May 1976, for $1224. The PCM-12 was, by Byte magazine's estimation, the first mini- or microcomputer based on the IM6100. According to Modern Data, the computer was also the first to have its backplane and cards built into a metal card cage.
The PCM-12 received a facelift in the form of the PCM-12A in mid-1977. This revision "beefed-up" the original PCM-12's included literature and cabinetry, added a crystal oscillator to the CPU board to generate a timing signal for variable baud rates, an "absolute loader" that bootstraps binary from tape directly into any field of memory, and a floppy disk controller card—the latter allowing DEC's OS/8 operating system to be run on the PCM-12. The kit price remained $799, later decreased to $679 (a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorsten%20O.%20Zander | Thorsten O. Zander (born 1975 in Lüdenscheid, Germany) is a German scientist who introduced the concept of passive brain-computer interface.
He co-founded Zander Labs, a German-Dutch company in the field of passive brain computer interface (pBCI) and neuro-adaptive technology (NAT).
Education
Zander attended the University of Münster from 1998 to 2004 where he graduated in mathematics, with focus on mathematical logic.
During his studies, he worked for the university's office supporting visually impaired users and at the Fraunhofer Institute First in Berlin.
In 2011 he obtained his PhD from the chair of Human-Maschine Systems at Technical University of Berlin, supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Roetting and Dr. Scott Makeig (Director of the SCCN at UCSD).
Scientific career
During his studies at University of Münster Zander became interested in interdisciplinary sciences and started working on concepts related to human and artificial intelligence. His work in the Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) field started during his collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute First, where he was involved in research connected to applications meant to enable disabled people to communicate with the outside world.
He then went on to obtain his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin and started a workgroup called “Team PhyPA” (Physiological Parameters for Adaptation of Human‐Machine Systems), which is still functioning today. In 2008, together with this group, he developed the concept of passive brain-computer interfaces (pBCIs) that refers to the use of BCIs to improve human-computer interaction by assessing information about the user state.
This approach is different compared to traditional BCIs, as no explicit commands are involved and thus, no additional effort is expected from the user. Due to his work on passive BCIs, Zander gained international recognition within the scientific community and the media.
He founded the Community for Passive BCI Research group, that then transitioned into the Society for Neuroadaptive Technology that Zander co-leads with Prof. Dr. Stephen Fairclough. He organized a series of conferences about the topic of Neuroadaptive Technologies that received great international attention.
He collaborated in investigations outside of Germany, such as the partnership with the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience Department and the Cognitive Science Department in San Diego, USA. Also, together with the
Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media, from Tübingen, he conducted a research on the implications of passive BCI in education as an aiding tool meant to combat boredom through adaptive and personalized learning.
After cooperating with a robotics study with the Max Planck Institute, he joined Bernhard Schölkopf's postdoctoral workgroup, where he further focused on developing machine learning algorithms in the context of passive BCI. Here, he helped to improve and stabilize the initial methodology and became more d |
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Siegerland-Höhenring (Siegerland mountain ridge circular route) is an approximately 142-kilometre-long (88-mile-long) hiking trail in Germany that circles most parts of Siegerland in the districts of Siegen-Wittgenstein and Altenkirchen.
Course
At the borders of the towns of Freudenberg, Kreuztal and Hilchenbach to the district of Olpe - and thus between the Siegerland and the Sauerland - the hiking trail runs not far from the Ruhr-Sieg watershed at the same time along the Landhecke, and then, described clockwise, from about the historical toll station Helberhauser Schlag to be continued north of the Ferndorf river spring along the Rhine-Weser watershed in a southerly direction and to Würgendorf-Wasserscheide along the same route as the Rothaarsteig. From its northernmost point at Welschen Ennest to Dornbruch/Dollenbruch north of Dahlbruch, the Siegerland-Höhenring is congruent with the Siegerlandweg. North of Hilchenbach-Lützel, the hiking trail passes the Giller, which belongs to Grund, with the Giller Tower and the Ginsberg heather. Between Lützel and Hainchen, the path that runs here along the Eisenstraße ("Iron road") then changes to the Sieg-Lahn watershed, essentially following it to the southern district area. Benfe and Großenbach are intermediate stations in Wittgenstein, an area and former district close to Siegerland. South and south-east of the source of the Lahn, the Siegerland-Höhenring and the Rothaarsteig run about a kilometer along the E1 European long distance path. From Wilgersdorf past the Haiger industrial area Kalteiche near Haigerseelbach, where it crosses the federal highway B 54, the Siegerland-Höhenring runs a few kilometers through the Hessian Lahn-Dill district to Würgendorf-Wasserscheide.
From Würgendorf-Wasserscheide, the path between Holzhausen and the main village of Burbach leads into the Burbach municipality and turns behind Burbach-Lützeln towards the Siegerland Airport. At its southernmost point in Lippe, it reunites with the E1 European long distance path, this time in the E1's opposite direction of travel, in order to run together with it, with two short interruptions, to Freusburg in a north-westerly direction and leads from Lippe after a sharp bend to the north-west, initially further across the state border to Rhineland-Palatinate in the direction of Herdorf, from where it goes past the Druidenstein and down to Freusburg. There it crosses the Sieg at its lowest point at the Freusburger Mühle. The path continues northwards and up again to Niederfischbach, then past Oberasdorf and Plittershagen to Friesenhagen. It crosses the state border between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia twice in quick succession. Between Hünsborn and the Scheiderwald passage, the Wenden surrounding trail and the Siegerland-Höhenring mostly coincid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Quayle | Mac Quayle is an American composer for film, television and video games, best known for his work on the USA Network's Mr. Robot and for FX's American Horror Story.
Quayle was born in Suffolk, Virginia, but moved around the state, living in Richmond, Norfolk and Chesapeake. He attended Matthew Fontaine Maury High School, and graduated from Western Branch High School. Quayle first discovered music at age 6 when he was part of his church's choir, and would take piano and percussion lessons. During school, he served as a band member for two different bands: The Naros and The X-Raves.
Quayle moved to New York City to attend New York University, but departed when his internship at a studio allowed him to make a living working as a keyboard player and programmer. In 2004, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as an additional composer for the CBS crime drama Cold Case. He was introduced to film composer Cliff Martinez, and would work under him on films such as The Lincoln Lawyer, Drive and Contagion. His work was noticed by Ryan Murphy when Quayle and Martinez worked on his television film The Normal Heart, and invited him to audition to be the composer for the fourth season of American Horror Story. He was hired the day after his audition. Quayle would also compose the score for Murphy's programs Scream Queens, American Crime Story, Feud, 9-1-1, Pose, The Politician, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Ratched.
For his work on the first season of Mr. Robot, Quayle was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. He would also be nominated for his work on American Horror Story and Feud.
Filmography
Television
Film
Video games
References
External links
Mac Quayle at the Internet Movie Database
American composers
American television composers
Living people
Musicians from Norfolk, Virginia
People from Chesapeake, Virginia
Musicians from Richmond, Virginia
People from Suffolk, Virginia
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Brillo may refer to:
Brillo Pad, an American brand
"Brillo" (song), by J Balvin and Rosalía
Android Things, an operating system previously known as Project Brillo
Andrew Neil (b. 1949), Scottish journalist and broadcaster nicknamed Brillo
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Paramount%20channels | This is a list of Paramount Global channels.
Americas
United States
CBS Entertainment Group
CBS (HD)
CBS Sports Network (HD) (formerly College Sports Television and CBS College Sports Network)
Dabl Network (HD)
Fave TV (HD)
The CW (HD)
MTV (HD)
MTV2 (HD; formerly M2)
MTV Classic (formerly VH1 Classic)
MTV Tres (formerly MTV3)
MTVU (formerly College Television Network)
MTV Live (HD) (formerly MTV Music and Palladia)
CMT (HD)
CMT Music (formerly VH1 Country and CMT Pure Country)
Comedy Central (HD)
Logo TV (HD; formerly VH1 MegaHits)
Nickelodeon (HD)
Nick at Nite (HD)
Nick Jr. Channel (HD)
NickMusic (formerly MTV Hits)
Nicktoons (HD)
TeenNick (HD)
Paramount Network (HD; formerly The Nashville Network, The National Network (The New TNN), and Spike TV/Spike)
TV Land (HD)
VH1 (HD)
BET (HD)
BET Gospel
BET Her (formerly BET on Jazz, BET Jazz, BETJ, and Centric)
BET Hip-Hop
BET Soul (formerly VH1 Soul)
BET Jams (formerly MTV Jams)
Showtime (HD)
The Movie Channel (HD)
Flix (HD)
Pop (HD; formerly Prevue Guide/Channel, TV Guide Channel/Network and TVGN)
Smithsonian Channel (HD)
Former
Nick GAS (1999–2007, 2009 on Dish Network)
VH1 Uno (2000–2008)
MTVX (1999–2002)
Noggin (1999–2009); relaunched with the Noggin streaming app in March 2015
The N (Noggin block) (2002–2007), channel (2007-2009)
Showtime Beyond (1999–2020)
VH1 MegaHits (2002–2005)
Canada
All channels listed below are owned by Canadian broadcasters, with Paramount Global owning minor interests where indicated:
CMT (90% owned by Corus Entertainment; 10% owned by Paramount Global)
MTV (wholly owned by Bell Media)
MTV2 (wholly owned by Bell Media)
Nickelodeon (wholly owned by Corus)
Nick Jr. (Program block on Nickelodeon)
Note: Juicebox and Comedy Gold formerly existed as MTV2 Canada from 2001 to 2005 (later PunchMuch from 2005 to 2011) and TV Land Canada from 2001 to 2010, respectively.
Caribbean
Tr3s
Latin America
MTV (Closed)
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Paramount Network
Telefe
Chilevisión
Nick Jr.
TeenNick
Telefe Internacional
MTV Hits
MTV Live
MTV 00s
Brazil
MTV (replaced MTV Brasil on October 1, 2013)
Nickelodeon Brazil
Comedy Central
Paramount Network
Smithsonian Channel (owned by Grupo Bandeirantes; owned by Paramount)
Nick Jr.
Telefe Internacional
MTV Hits
MTV Live
MTV 00s
Europe
Continent Wide
MTV Europe (countries not served by a local MTV channel only)
Nickelodeon Europe (countries not served by a local Nickelodeon channel only)
MTV Hits Europe
MTV Live
Club MTV Europe
MTV 80s
MTV 90s
MTV 00s
Adria (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia & Slovenia)
MTV Europe (Replaced MTV Adria on January 1, 2018)
Nickelodeon Europe
Comedy Central Extra
MTV Hits Europe
MTV Live
Club MTV Europe
MTV 80s
MTV 90s
MTV 00s (Before VH1 Europe, replaced VH1 Adria on February 1, 2015)
Nick Jr.
Nicktoons Europe
Austria
MTV Germany (replaced MTV Austria on January 1, 2011)
MTV Austria
Nickelodeon Austria
Comed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Uncovered | Dubai Uncovered is the name of a leak detailing property ownership in Dubai. The data, originally from 2020, was revealed in 2022.
It revealed 274,000 owners of 800,000 properties located in Dubai. Of these, 191,000 were foreigners. The data was originally obtained by Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), before being shared with the Norwegian financial newspaper E24, who then lead the investigation. 20 international media outlets co-operated to investigate the leak.
Dubai has been described as "one of the most opaque financial hubs in the world", and one of the most popular destinations for illicit money. According to Brussels Times, the leak revealed "a huge black hole in international anti-money laundering efforts centered [sic] around the Dubai real estate market". The leak revealed that over 100 members of the Russian elite held properties in the city, including heavily-sanctioned individuals like Ruslan Baisarov and Ramzan Kadyrov. Additionally, internationally wanted criminals have been implicated, like Daniel Kinahan.
See also
Bahamas Leaks
Cyprus Papers
Panama Papers
Pandora Papers
Paradise Papers
References
External links
"Dubai Uncovered" - OCCRP
News leaks
Investigative journalism
Financial scandals
Whistleblowing
Finance fraud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20of%20Pritchard | In mathematics, the sieve of Pritchard is an algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a specified bound.
Like the ancient sieve of Eratosthenes, it has a simple conceptual basis in number theory.
It is especially suited to quick hand computation for small bounds.
Whereas the sieve of Eratosthenes marks off each non-prime for each of its prime factors, the sieve of Pritchard avoids considering almost all non-prime numbers by building progressively larger wheels, which represent the pattern of numbers not divisible by any of the primes processed thus far.
It thereby achieves a better asymptotic complexity, and was the first sieve with a running time sublinear in the specified bound.
Its asymptotic running-time has not been improved on, and it deletes fewer composites than any other known sieve.
It was created in 1979 by Paul Pritchard.
Since Pritchard has created a number of other sieve algorithms for finding prime numbers, the sieve of Pritchard is sometimes singled out by being called the wheel sieve (by Pritchard himself) or the dynamic wheel sieve.
Overview
A prime number is a natural number that has no natural number divisors other than the number and itself.
To find all the prime numbers less than or equal to a given integer , a sieve algorithm examines a set of candidates in the range ,
and eliminates those that are not prime, leaving the primes at the end.
The sieve of Eratosthenes examines all of the range, first removing all multiples of the first prime , then of the next prime , and so on.
The sieve of Pritchard instead examines a subset of the range consisting of numbers that occur on successive wheels,
which represent the pattern of numbers left after each successive prime is processed by the sieve of Eratosthenes.
For the 'th wheel represents this pattern.
It is the set of numbers between and the product of the first prime numbers that are not divisible by any of these prime numbers (and is said to have an associated length ).
This is because adding to a number doesn't change whether or not it is divisible by one of the first prime numbers,
since the remainder on division by any one of these primes is unchanged.
So with length represents the pattern of odd numbers;
with length represents the pattern of numbers not divisible by or ; etc.
Wheels are so-called because can be usefully visualized as a circle of circumference with its members marked at their corresponding distances from an origin.
Then rolling the wheel along the number line marks points corresponding to successive numbers not divisible by one of the first prime numbers.
The animation shows being rolled up to 30.
It's useful to define for to be the result of rolling up to .
Then the animation generates .
Note that up to , this consists only of and the primes between and .
The sieve of Pritchard is derived from the observation that this holds generally:
for all , the values in are and the primes between and .
It even holds for , where th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ath%C3%A9n%C3%A9e%20Adolphe%20Max | Athénée Adolphe Max is a secondary school in the City of Brussels which is part of the official education network. It is located to the east of the center of Brussels, near the Squares district.
History
A first building was designed in 1904 by the architect Edmond De Vigne. In 1909 two secular schools were created. A first Carter high school for girls, later named Carter in homage to the first director, and an athenaeum for boys, later named Athénée Adolphe Max after the famous mayor of Brussels Adolphe Max. In 1978, the two secondary schools merged into a single athénée and adopted the name Athénée Adolphe Max in 1990.
Description
The Adolphe Max Athenaeum is a school based on the promotion of effort in a respectful setting. The objective of the athénée is to transmit quality training to develop their intellectual and moral skills so that they have the level to approach higher education successfully.
The school has two courtyards:
the Carter courtyard made up of three floors in which the Athénée Adolphe Max for boys was once located.
the Max courtyard made up of three floors in which the Athénée Adolphe Max for boys was once located.
The establishment has a parents' association (APMAX) and a very active Amnesty school group.
Famous alumni
Pierre Deligne, mathematician
Plastic Bertrand, singer and television presenter
References
External links
Schools in Belgium
Buildings and structures completed in 1904
Buildings and structures in Brussels
1909 establishments in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naimi%E2%80%93Trehel%20algorithm | The Naimi–Trehel algorithm is an algorithm for achieving mutual exclusion in a distributed system.
Unlike Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm and its related version, this algorithm does not use logical clocks.
This method requires only O(log(number of processes in the network)) messages on average.
When a process invokes a critical section, it sends a request to a queue at a particular processor which is specified by a path built by the algorithm as it runs.
References
article at citeseerx.ist.psu.edu by Mohamed Naimi, Michel Trehel, André Arnold
Concurrency control algorithms
Distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geertrui%20Mieke%20De%20Ketelaere | Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere (born 14 December 1970) is a Belgian civil engineer and promoter of ethical, reliable, and sustainable artificial intelligence (AI). In her public presentations and books, she focuses on a simple explanation of the concept of AI and indicates which steps are required for a correct and ethical way of adopting this technology. She is an adjunct professor at Vlerick Business School and part-time AI Director at IMEC, and was appointed a Digital Mind by the Belgian federal government.. In 2018, she was nominated as Belgium's ICT Woman of the Year.
Biography
Early life and education
Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere was born as a second child in Belgium in 1970. After obtaining a Master of Science in Engineering focused on Electromechanics at the KIHO Campus of KULeuven, she started a Master of Science in Engineering specializing in Engineering cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart.
In 1995, she started a PhD in AI at the University of Auckland, investigating the use of AI in healthcare. A year later De Ketelaere decided to stop this research due to a misalignment between her academic beliefs and the medical world.
Career
De Ketelaere started her professional career in New Zealand as a business analyst at QED Software. In 1999, she returned to Europe to support Silicon Valley startups opening branches in Europe. After this, she joined CrossWorlds software, and when this was acquired by IBM in 2002 she returned to Belgium. She worked briefly at SAP, then at Microsoft for five years in different functions.
In 2007 she accepted an offer at SAS, and in 2010 she joined Selligent. In 2011 she returned to SAS. During this period, De Ketelaere also worked as a guest lecturer at different business schools, including Vlerick, ISDI, and Nyenrode Business University.
In 2018, De Ketelaere was nominated by Trends as ICT Woman of the Year. In 2019, De Ketelaere accepted a position as AI Director at IMEC.
Early in 2021 De Ketelaere published her first book, Mens versus Machine, in which she demystifies the AI hype and explains in simple words what AI means for our society. In the same year, she was appointed a Digital Mind by the Belgian federal government.
While continuing part-time as AI Director at IMEC, she started operating as an independent consultant, assisting various companies with AI topics and contributing to various media interviews and opinion pieces
In November 2021, she was appointed as an adjunct professor of AI at Vlerick Business School.
Publications
References
External links
Personal website
21st-century Belgian engineers
1970 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20golf | Business golf is the use of golf in business. Typically, the sport is used as a forum for networking and promotional activity.
References
Business
Golf
Golf culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amira%20Osman%20Hamed | Amira Osman Hamed is a Sudanese women’s rights activist and co-founder of No to Oppression against Women Initiative.
Born in 1976 in Sudan, Amira Osman Hamed studied computer engineering. Under President Omar al-Bashir, she was arrested twice in 2013 for refusing to wear a headscarf that covered her hair, and in 2002 for wearing pants. These cases recall the case of journalist Loubna al-Hussein in 2009. Amira Osman Sudanese and international organizations mobilized to support her and she was released.
In April 2019, Omar el-Bashir was overthrown. A transition began towards a democratic regime. But it was interrupted by a new military coup in October 2021, bringing Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to power. Again, this regime imprisoned its opponents. Amira Osman was arrested by a police raid on her home in January 2022. She was detained in Omdurman. A new mobilization of Sudanese and international organizations organized to obtain her release, which they obtained in early February 2022, after more than two weeks of incommunicado detention. She remained subject to prosecution. She then tried to lead the mobilization against the military, notably demonstrating in front of the Omdurman women's prison.
In 2022, she won the Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.
References
1976 births
Living people
Sudanese women's rights activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatMuse | StatMuse Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company founded in 2014. The company maintains its own eponymous website where it hosts a database of sports statistics.
History
Friends Adam Elmore and Eli Dawson founded the company in 2014. In email correspondence to the Springfield News-Leader, Elmore detailed that he and Dawson, fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA), were compelled to create StatMuse after they realized there was not a place online they could search "lebron james most points" [sic] and quickly get a result "showing his highest scoring games." As a startup, the company's goal was to utilize a type of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP) for sports.
In 2015, the company was part of the second group of startups accepted into the Disney Accelerator program. The company ultimately received the backing of The Walt Disney Company, Techstars, Allen & Company, the NFL Players Association, Greycroft and NBA Commissioner David Stern. As part of their partnership with Disney, StatMuse signed a content deal with ESPN (owned by Disney) to provide stats content on social media and television during the 2015–16 NBA season.
Initially, the company only had stats available for the NBA, but eventually expanded to provide stats for the other major North American sports leagues. The company's initial demographic was players of fantasy sports, but eventually expanded to target general sports fans as well. StatMuse offers responses to user queries in the voices of sports-related public figures. Dawson shared with VentureBeat that StatMuse brings people in and record them saying different words and phrases. These celebrity voices were made accessible through Google's Google Assistant service, Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant, and Amazon's Echo devices.
The company launched its phone app in September 2017. Through the app, users can query StatMuse's sports statistics database using their own natural language. Upon the launch of the phone app, Fitz Tepper of TechCrunch wrote that: "The technology isn't perfect – some of the pauses between words are a bit awkward – making it clear that some phrases is being stitched together on the fly. But this is the exception, and on the whole most responses sound pretty good." StatMuse plug-ins for Slack and Facebook Messenger were also made, providing text-based sports stats. In 2019, StatMuse received investment from the Google Assistant Investment program.
The service launched a premium option dubbed StatMuse+ in May 2023, offering options that had previously been included for free, such as unlimited searches and full results in data tables. The premium version also included early access to new features and a personalized searched history, as well as not having ads. It was met with mixed feedback.
References
2014 establishments in California
American companies established in 2014
American sport websites
Analytics companies
Chatbots
Companies based in San Fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20Queen | Algorithm Queen is a 2022 painting of Queen Elizabeth II by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot credited with being the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist. Ai-Da painted the Queen in celebration of her Platinum Jubilee.
Description
Algorithm Queen was layered and scaled to produce the final multi-dimensional portrait of the monarch. The portrait will be exhibited publicly in London later in 2022.
Ai-Da said, "I'd like to thank Her Majesty the Queen for her dedication, and for the service she gives to so many people. She is an outstanding, courageous woman who is utterly committed to public service. I think she's an amazing human being, and I wish The Queen a very happy Platinum Jubilee".
Aidan Meller, the robot's creator, said the first portrait of the Queen by a robot provided an opportunity to think about "all that has changed during the Queen's life”. He said, "We are excited Ai-Da Robot has made history just in time for the Queen's Jubilee".
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian's art critic, said the painting showed the Queen's eyes with "a vacant, not quite human look. The mixture of leaden accuracy and, at the same time, complete lack of emphasis, feeling or conviction in Ai-Da's depiction of Her Maj is a telling glimpse of the limits of the AI 'art' genre. The machine records, but does not see. Because it has no conscious mind, let alone emotions".
References
Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II
21st-century portraits
Cultural depictions of Elizabeth II
Portraits of the British Royal Family
Portraits of women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyCV | PhyCV is the first computer vision library which utilizes algorithms directly derived from the equations of physics governing physical phenomena. The algorithms appearing in the first release emulate the propagation of light through a physical medium with natural and engineered diffractive properties followed by coherent detection. Unlike traditional algorithms that are a sequence of hand-crafted empirical rules, physics-inspired algorithms leverage physical laws of nature as blueprints. In addition, these algorithms can, in principle, be implemented in real physical devices for fast and efficient computation in the form of analog computing. Currently PhyCV has three algorithms, Phase-Stretch Transform (PST) and Phase-Stretch Adaptive Gradient-Field Extractor (PAGE), and Vision Enhancement via Virtual diffraction and coherent Detection (VEViD). All algorithms have CPU and GPU versions. PhyCV is now available on GitHub and can be installed from pip.
History
Algorithms in PhyCV are inspired by the physics of the photonic time stretch (a hardware technique for ultrafast and single-shot data acquisition). PST is an edge detection algorithm that was open-sourced in 2016 and has 800+ stars and 200+ forks on GitHub. PAGE is a directional edge detection algorithm that was open-sourced in February, 2022. PhyCV was originally developed and open-sourced by Jalali-Lab @ UCLA in May 2022. In the initial release of PhyCV, the original open-sourced code of PST and PAGE is significantly refactored and improved to be modular, more efficient, GPU-accelerated and object-oriented. VEViD is a low-light and color enhancement algorithm that was added to PhyCV in November 2022.
Background
Phase-Stretch Transform (PST)
Phase-Stretch Transform (PST) is a computationally efficient edge and texture detection algorithm with exceptional performance in visually impaired images. The algorithm transforms the image by emulating propagation of light through a device with engineered diffractive property followed by coherent detection. It has been applied in improving the resolution of MRI image, extracting blood vessels in retina images, dolphin identification, and waste water treatment, single molecule biological imaging, and classification of UAV using micro Doppler imaging.
Phase-Stretch Adaptive Gradient-Field Extractor (PAGE)
Phase-Stretch Adaptive Gradient-Field Extractor (PAGE) is a physics-inspired algorithm for detecting edges and their orientations in digital images at various scales. The algorithm is based on the diffraction equations of optics. Metaphorically speaking, PAGE emulates the physics of birefringent (orientation-dependent) diffractive propagation through a physical device with a specific diffractive structure. The propagation converts a real-valued image into a complex function. Related information is contained in the real and imaginary components of the output. The output represents the phase of the complex function.
Vision Enhancement via Virtual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor%20polylepis | Tor polylepis is a species of cyprinid of the genus Tor. It inhabits China's Yunnan province. Its maximum length is . It is considered harmless to humans, and has been assessed as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cyprinidae
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of China
Fish described in 1996
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor%20yingjiangensis | Tor yingjiangensis is a species of cyprinid of the genus Tor. It inhabits China's Yunnan province. Considered harmless to humans, it has a maximum length of . It is considered "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List.
References
Cyprinidae
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Fish described in 2004
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%3A%20Young%20Jedi%20Adventures | Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is an American animated television series created for the streaming service Disney+ and the television network Disney Junior. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and follows a group of younglings as they learn to become Jedi Knights during the High Republic era, centuries before the main Star Wars films. The series is produced by Lucasfilm Animation and Wild Canary Animation, with Michael Olson as showrunner and Elliot Bour as supervising director. It is the first full-length animated Star Wars series targeted at young audiences.
The series stars Jamaal Avery Jr., Emma Berman, Juliet Donenfeld, Dee Bradley Baker, Jonathan Lipow, and Piotr Michael. It was announced in May 2022, with Olson and Bour already attached to the project. Casting was revealed in February 2023. Six shorts were released on YouTube ahead of the series premiere, before also becoming available on Disney+.
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures premiered on May 4, 2023 and was positively received, with critics praising the show for being an engaging first Star Wars experience for young viewers.
Premise
Set during the High Republic era, centuries before the events of the main Star Wars films, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures follows a group of younglings as they learn the ways of the Force, including compassion, self-discipline, teamwork and patience, to become Jedi Knights.
Cast and characters
Jamaal Avery Jr. as Kai Brightstar: a Jedi youngling who hopes to follow in the footsteps of Jedi Master Yoda and become a Jedi Knight
Emma Berman as Nash Durango: a pilot who is friends with Kai and the other younglings, and teams up with them to go on adventures
Juliet Donenfeld as Lys Solay, a Pantoran Jedi youngling who is Kai's best friend
Dee Bradley Baker as Nubs, a Pooba Jedi youngling who is Kai's other best friend
Jonathan Lipow as RJ-83, a droid friend of the younglings
Piotr Michael as Yoda, a Jedi master
Nasim Pedrad as Zia Zanna, a human female Jedi master who serves as a teacher to the Jedi younglings studying on planet Tenoo.
Trey Diaz Murphy as Taborr Val Dorn, a pirate
Episodes
Shorts (2023)
Season 1 (2023)
Production
Development
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, the first full-length animated Star Wars series targeted at young audiences and their families, was announced at Star Wars Celebration in May 2022. It is set during the High Republic era, centuries before the events of the main Star Wars films, which was already being explored through a series of books and comics at the time. The series was announced by executive producer James Waugh, executive producer and showrunner Michael Olson, supervising director Elliot Bour, and consulting producer Lamont Magee. Lucasfilm's Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes are also executive producers. Waugh said the creative team were aware that the series could be the first introduction to Star Wars for some children. Though they wanted the "characters, tone, and the life lessons" in each epis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Evans%20%28YouTuber%29 | Austin Evans (born August 22, 1992) is an American YouTuber and tech blogger who creates videos on various modern technologies, such as video games, smartphones and personal computers. , his YouTube channel has over 5.4 million subscribers and 1.348 billion views. Videos of his have been featured on technology sites such as The Verge, Eurogamer, Video Games Chronicle and Engadget.
Early and personal life
Austin Evans was born on August 22, 1992, and is a Missouri native. Homeschooled throughout his childhood, Evans' interest towards video games and technology developed at an early age from his father buying the Sony PlayStation 1 for him and his family, along with discovering the Nintendo Game Boy. His interest in technology also extended towards personal computers, where he would browse for YouTube videos and write stories. In a Business Insider interview, Evans stated that "one of my earliest memories, when I was younger, was looking at an old PC at Goodwill and asking my mom to let me buy it just to tear it apart."
On January 29, 2014, Evans' apartment was burned down with many of his personal possessions, including his video equipment and custom-made PCs destroyed in the process. Tech YouTubers such as Jonathan Morrison, Lewis Hilsenteger and Marques Brownlee rallied together to surprise Evans with a new PC, recording his reaction in a vlog.
Career
Evans created his YouTube channel in 2009, initially uploading reviews on numerous iPod Touch applications. He soon shifted to videos about computer components he would use in hypothetical PC setups, mainly discussing ideal builds rather than assembling them often. Evans credited his growth in popularity to a tutorial video on building a $500 PC that received hundreds of views; as he continued uploading videos, he invested more on PC components and soon created monthly videos on building PCs. Buying the majority of the equipment himself, Evans constructed affordable budget-based PCs with cheap parts. His content eventually evolved to include reviews of different tech along with other tech review series.
Evans' content primarily consists of technology reviews, both of the latest technology and of comparisons between old and new tech. Evans introduces the audience with the greeting "Hey guys, this is Austin," a catchphrase his fans have echoed in the comment section of his videos. His style of tech reviews has been compared to mockumentaries, also noted for its awkward yet lighthearted atmosphere and the banter amongst his crew members. Evans also emphasizes the importance of cinematography as a way to make effective videos. In 2016 he made a tutorial explaining his video process, including the manner in which he captures shots, the effects of equipment in crafting a video style, and cohesive editing tips as well.
Numerous tech reviews and videos of Evans' have been featured in various technology websites. In 2016, he created a video of him acquiring a $20 Android budget phone for comparison bet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Gaming%20Service | Network Gaming Service may directly refer to:
The Network Gaming Service website related to Central Station (online service)
Otherwise Network Gaming Service may refer to:
Network Gaming Services
PC Services
Steam (service)
Origin (service)
Epic Games Store
PlayOnline
Console Services
Xbox network
PlayStation Network
Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo Network
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (Defunct)
Game Streaming Services
Google Stadia
Amazon Luna
OnLive (Defunct) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terara%20Network | Terara Network is an Ethiopian media company based in Addis Ababa. The company's main journalist who is the owner of the company is Tamerat Negera. The company was established on 26 September 2020, by Tamerat Negera through the charity funds raised by his friend Tariku Geleta.
Troubles
The company's most senior member Temerat Negera who serves both as editor in chief and CEO of the company has had trouble with law enforcement in the past where the government has arrested him for over 4 months without any charges laid against him. Two other Terare Network journalists were also arrested by Ethiopian police forces.
Release
The company's chief editor and founder Tamerat Negera was able to be released by bail by the order of the Supreme Court of Oromia after over 3 months of arrest without charge.
References
2020 establishments in Ethiopia
Mass media in Ethiopia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20White%20%28writer%29 | Molly White (born 1993) is an American software engineer, Wikipedia editor, and crypto skeptic. A critic of the decentralized blockchain (Web3) and cryptocurrency industries, she runs the website Web3 Is Going Just Great, which documents malfeasance in that technology space. She has appeared in Web3-related news, consulted on federal legislation for regulating the crypto industry, and successfully proposed that the Wikimedia Foundation cease to collect crypto donations. White additionally volunteers as a Wikipedia editor and is among the site's most active women. She has edited a range of articles on right-wing extremism.
Wikipedia editing
White began editing Wikipedia at the age of 13, and became a site administrator while still in high school. Initially, White wrote articles about her favorite emo bands and women scientists, but she came to write about right-wing extremismsuch as Gamergate, the Boogaloo movement, Gab, Parler, and Jacob Wohlduring the Donald Trump administration. She received mainstream news coverage for her work editing the article about the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Under the username "GorillaWarfare", she had made over 100,000 edits by early 2022. This work, she said, fulfills her interest in validating information online and her belief that spreading information produces societal change. She served six years on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, which adjudicates editor disputes.
As one of Wikipedia's most active female editors, White has been a regular target of online harassment, threats of violence, doxxing, and hounding both on Wikipedia and off-site. Her experience was the subject of a 2016 speech on editor harassment by Wikimedia Foundation CEO Katherine Maher. White had previously been targeted after her photograph was featured in a Foundation fundraising campaign. The harassment escalated in 2018 after she began editing Wikipedia articles on incels and other contentious topics.
Cryptocurrency criticism
In late 2021, White noticed a public tone shift around cryptocurrencies with a push to take crypto mainstream as a default technology. This grew her concerns for the suitability of cryptocurrency in general, based on the performance of past projects. In her research, she started with the Wikipedia article on Web3, an idea for a Web based on decentralized blockchains. Despite the concept's hype on social media with sizable venture capital investment, she found the term to be ill-defined and associated with numerous scams, frauds, and "rug pulls" affecting consumer investors. She created a website, Web3 Is Going Just Great, in December 2021 to document these cases. The website provides a timeline of Web3 and cryptocurrency projects and the losses to their investors. Many of its stories are not covered in the mainstream press, and unlike press coverage of Web3, its headlines are unsensational. The Verge described her writing as "dryly funny, almost clinical" in its documentation. A running |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliergonella%20cuspidata | Calliergonella cuspidata is a species of moss belonging to the family Pylaisiaceae. It is widely distributed around the world.
In a study of the effect of the herbicide Asulam on moss growth, Calliergonella cuspidata was shown to have intermediate sensitivity to Asulam exposure.
References
Hypnales
Plants described in 1911 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part%20IV%20%28Obi-Wan%20Kenobi%29 | "Part IV" is the fourth episode of the American streaming television series Obi-Wan Kenobi. It follows Obi-Wan Kenobi as he collaborates with the Path network to rescue Princess Leia from the Fortress Inquisitorius. It is set in the Star Wars universe, occurring ten years after the film Revenge of the Sith (2005). The episode was written by Joby Harold & Hannah Friedman, and directed by Deborah Chow.
The episode stars Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who reprises his role from the Star Wars prequel trilogy, alongside co-stars Indira Varma, Vivien Lyra Blair, Moses Ingram, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Maya Erskine, Sung Kang, Rya Kihlstedt, and Hayden Christensen. Chow was hired in September 2019, and following rewrites of the script, Harold became the head writer and showrunner. Both executive produce alongside McGregor, Michelle Rejwan, and Kathleen Kennedy, while the episode is produced by Thomas Hayslip and Katterli Frauenfelder.
"Part IV" was released on the streaming service Disney+ on June 8, 2022. It received mixed reviews; critics praised the visuals, action sequences, and performances, but some criticized its plot elements and writing.
Plot
Having escaped Darth Vader, Obi-Wan and Tala infiltrate the Inquisitors' stronghold on the ocean moon of Nur in the Mustafar system to rescue a captured Leia, who is being interrogated by the Third Sister. During the infiltration, Obi-Wan discovers a vault full of preserved, dead Jedi that the Empire had captured. While they are successful in freeing Leia, Tala's cover is blown and they have to fight their way out, escaping with the help of Roken and his guerilla troops. An enraged Vader threatens to kill the Third Sister for her failure, but spares her when she reveals she has put a tracker on the group. Back on the ship, the tracker is revealed to be placed in Leia's companion droid, Lola.
Production
Development
By August 2017, Lucasfilm was developing a spin-off film focusing Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi from the prequel trilogy. However, following the project's cancellation due to the financial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), McGregor entered negotiations to star in a six-episode Disney+ limited series centered around Kenobi. The series was officially announced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy at the 2019 D23 event. Deborah Chow was hired to direct all episodes for the series by September 2019, while Joby Harold became the head writer and showrunner in April 2020 following Kennedy's disapproval with the scripts and subsequent rewrites. The series is executive produced by Harold, Chow, McGregor, Kennedy, and Michelle Rejwan. Chow and Harold wanted the series to be a character study for Kenobi, and worked to connect elements from the prequel trilogy and original trilogy. Harold wanted to further explore Kenobi's character following the events of Order 66 and wanted him to deal with issues from his past. Chow also took inspirations from "gritty, poetic westerns" including The Assass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%20Go%202 | The Surface Laptop Go 2 is an upgrade to the Surface Laptop Go. It is a mid-range portable computer with adequate capabilities for everyday PC use that is part of the company's Surface line of personal computing devices. The newer 11th-gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor and slightly enhanced 128 GB basic storage will be the laptop's key highlights. Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Go 2 in a new Sage color on June 1, 2022.
Configuration
Features
11th Generation Intel® Core™ 1135G7 Processor
Intel Iris Xe GPU.
Preinstalled Operating system: Windows 11 Home
12.4-inch PixelSense 1536 x 1024 (148 ppi) display with a 3:2 aspect ratio
Up to 13.5 hours battery life
Metal finish
Full size keyboard, with 1.3 mm of travel
Fingerprint Power Button with One Touch sign-in through Windows Hello (select models only)
New Sage color option
Hardware
The Surface Laptop Go 2 is an update to the Surface Laptop Go. Made with an aluminum top and a polycarbonate composite resin system with glass fiber and 30% postconsumer recycled content base. Claimed to have an improved battery life of up to 13.5 hours. A new Sage color is added to the device in addition to Platinum, Ice Blue and Sandstone colors.
It still has a 12.4-inch "PixelSense" Display at 1536 × 1024 using a 3:2 aspect ratio with 10-point touch but without Surface Pen support.
The Surface Laptop Go 2 uses an eleventh-generation Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Iris Xe Graphics. The base model of the device will now have a 4 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage, up from 64 GB of the previous model.
The device has 1 USB-C and 1 USB-A port, alongside a headphone jack and a Surface Connect port for charging. The laptop also has Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.
Select models have a fingerprint power button with Windows Hello.
Software
Surface Laptop Go models ship with a pre-installed 64-bit version of Windows 11 Home and a 30-day trial of Microsoft Office 365. Business models come pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro.
Timeline
References
External links
Go
Computer-related introductions in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note%20G | Note G was a computer algorithm written by Ada Lovelace, and was designed to calculate Bernoulli numbers using the hypothetical analytical engine. Note G is generally agreed to be the first algorithm specifically for a computer, and Lovelace is considered as the first computer programmer as a result. The algorithm was the last note in a series labelled A to G, which she employed as visual aids to accompany her English translation of Luigi Menabrea's 1842 French transcription of Charles Babbage's lecture on the analytical engine at the University of Turin, "Notions sur la machine analytique de Charles Babbage" ("Elements of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Machine"). Lovelace's Note G was never tested, as the engine was never built. Her notes, along with her translation, were published in 1843.
In the modern era, thanks to more readily available computing equipment and programming resources, Lovelace's algorithm has since been tested, after being "translated" into modern programming languages. These tests have independently concluded that there was a bug in the script, due to a minor typographical error, rendering the algorithm in its original state unusable.
Origin
In 1840, Charles Babbage was invited to give a seminar in Turin on his analytical engine, the only public explanation he ever gave on the engine. During Babbage's lecture, mathematician Luigi Menabrea wrote an account of the engine in French. A friend of Babbage's, Charles Wheatstone, suggested that in order to contribute, Lovelace should translate Menabrea's account. Babbage suggested that she augment the account with appendices, which she compiled at the end of her translation as a series of seven "notes" labelled A-G. Her translation was published in August 1843, in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, wherein Lovelace's name was signed "A.A.L". In these notes, Lovelace described the capabilities of Babbage's analytical engine if it were to be used for computing, laying out a more ambitious plan for the engine than even Babbage himself had.
Lovelace's notes for the article were three times longer than the article itself. In the first notes, she explores beyond the numerical ambitions that Babbage had for the machine, and suggests the machine could take advantage of computation in order to deal with the realms of music, graphics, and language.
She explains to readers how the analytical engine was separate from Babbage's earlier difference engine, and likens its function to the Jacquard machine, in that it used binary punch cards to denote machine language. In note C, this point is furthered by the fact that simultaneous and iterated actions can be made by the machine, ensuring that any card or collection of cards can be used several times in the solution of a single problem, essentially anticipating modern methods of control flow and looping. These ideas were brought to a head in the final note, G, where Lovelace sought to demonstrate an example of computation.
Note G only made use of onl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei | Fei-Fei, Feifei, or Fei Fei may refer to the following people:
Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), an American computer scientist
Fei Fei Sun (born 1989), a Chinese model based in New York City
Feifei Sun (born 1981), a Chinese actress
Feifei Sui (born 1979), a Chinese basketball player
Feifei Fan (born 1989), a Chinese goalball player
Lydia Shum (1945–2008), aka "Fei-Fei", a Hong Kong comedian, MC, actress, & singer
Fei Fei, a fictional character in the 2020 computer-animated film Over the Moon voiced by Cathy Ang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysbench | In computing, sysbench is an open-source software tool. Specifically, it is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmarking tool designed for Linux systems. It is a C binary and uses LuaJIT scripts to execute benchmarks. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, for example MySQL, but can also be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a database server. However, it is a multi-purpose benchmark that features tests for CPU, memory, I/O, and database performance testing. It is a basic command line utility that offers a direct and uncomplicated way to test your system. It now comes packaged in most major Linux distribution repositories such as Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and Arch Linux.
History
Sysbench was originally created by Peter Zaitsev in 2004. Soon after, Alexy Kopytov took over its development.
Design
Sysbench tests the load by running multiple threads at the same time. The number of threads is specified by the user. Depending on the testing mode, Sysbench can test the total number of requests or the amount of time required to run the complete benchmark, or both.
Usage
Sysbench can be run benchmark test specified in a linux shell or in shell script, or there are several other commands such as prepare or cleanup. The type of test to run is specified in the command options and would be one of:
cpu: CPU performance test
fileio: File I/O test
memory: Memory speed test
mutex: Mutex performance test
threads: Threads subsystem performance test
Sample Command Usage
A commonly used variation of Sysbench may look like the following: sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --threads=32 run.
References
Linux software
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Pilette | Vincent Pilette is an American businessman who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Gen Digital, a Fortune 500 company specializing in consumer cyber safety with a family of brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Pilette previously served in a number of executive management roles at Logitech, Electronics for Imaging, and HP.
Early life and education
Pilette was born in 1972 in Belgium.
Pilette holds a M.S. in engineering and business from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Career
In 2019, Pilette was appointed CEO of LifeLock, later renamed GenDigital after the 2022 acquisition of Avast. As CEO, Pilette led the separation of the consumer assets of Symentec and their transformation into NortonLifelock. Pilette directed and implemented the strategy that led to the acquisition of Avast. As a result of its expansion strategy, GenDigital covers 500 million users in 150 countries.
Pilette brought to GenDigital over 20 years of operating experience in the technology sector, with positions at Logitech, Electronics for Imaging and Hewlett-Packard.
Pilette serves on the board of directors of SonicWall, a privately held company in the software space.
Personal life
Pilette is married with two children.
External links
Official website
References
American businesspeople
1972 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Storage%20Materials | Energy Storage Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal by Elsevier BV.
Abstracting and indexing
Energy Storage Materials is abstracted and indexed the following bibliographic databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus
INSPEC
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 17.789.
References
External links
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Support%20Diagnostic%20Tool | The Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) is a legacy service in Microsoft Windows that allows Microsoft technical support agents to analyze diagnostic data remotely for troubleshooting purposes. In April 2022 it was observed to have a security vulnerability that allowed remote code execution which was being exploited to attack computers in Russia and Belarus, and later against the Tibetan government in exile. Microsoft advised a temporary workaround of disabling the MSDT by editing the Windows registry.
Use
When contacting support the user is told to run MSDT and given a unique "passkey" which they enter. They are also given an "incident number" to uniquely identify their case. The MSDT can also be run offline which will generate a .CAB file which can be uploaded from a computer with an internet connection.
Security Vulnerabilities
Follina
Follina is the name given to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, a type of arbitrary code execution (ACE) exploit, in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) which was first widely publicized on May 27, 2022, by a security research group called Nao Sec. This exploit allows a remote attacker to use a Microsoft Office document template to execute code via MSDT. This works by exploiting the ability of Microsoft Office document templates to download additional content from a remote server. If the size of the downloaded content is large enough it causes a buffer overflow allowing a payload of Powershell code to be executed without explicit notification to the user. On May 30 Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 with guidance that users should disable MSDT. Malicious actors have been observed exploiting the bug to attack computers in Russia and Belarus since April, and it is believed Chinese state actors had been exploiting it to attack the Tibetan government in exile based in India. Microsoft patched this vulnerability in its June 2022 patches.
DogWalk
The DogWalk vulnerability is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). It was first reported in January 2020, but Microsoft initially did not consider it to be a security issue. However, the vulnerability was later exploited in the wild, and Microsoft released a patch for it in August 2022.
The vulnerability is caused by a path traversal vulnerability in the sdiageng.dll library. This vulnerability allows an attacker to trick a victim into opening a malicious diagcab file, which is a type of Windows cabinet file that is used to store support files. When the diagcab file is opened, it triggers the MSDT tool, which then executes the malicious code.
Originally discovered by Mitja Kolsek, the DogWalk vulnerability is caused by a path traversal vulnerability in the sdiageng.dll library. This vulnerability allows an attacker to trick a victim into opening a malicious diagcab file, which is a type of Windows cabinet file that is used to store support files. When the diagcab file is opened, it triggers t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuchi%20Grover | Shuchi Grover is an American learning scientist and computer science education researcher. Her research investigates computational thinking and how to design effective educational courses for children.
Early life and education
Grover was an undergraduate student at Harvard University, where she studied physics and computer science. She earned a master's degree in computer sciences at Harvard, and developed software for music students. As part of this project, she used digital repositories to store score sheets. It was her first introduction to the potential of technology to accelerate student learning. She completed a degree in Technology, Innovation and Education at Harvard, before moving to California. Grover focused on learning sciences at Stanford University for her doctoral research, which investigated advanced computational thinking for deep learning in middle school students and was supervised by Roy Pea. She developed a 6-week Stanford OpenEdX course to introduce middle school students to computer sciences.
Research and career
In 2010, Grover was awarded an Amir Lopatin Fellowship to study computational thinking in K-12 students. She is particularly interested in how computational learning could be a social driver. As part of the fellowship, Grover studied middle school students in Bangalore. Her research investigated the various dimensions of computational thinking and how children choose what to value and engage with. In 2014, she argued that to increase the number of women in technology, computer science should be taught in US schools, and computer scientists should act to diminish the "nerd" stereotype.
Selected publications
References
Harvard College alumni
Stanford University alumni
American women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2022–23 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2022 through August 2023. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2021–22 television season, for Canadian, American, and other series. CBC was first to announce its fall schedule on June 1, 2022, followed by Citytv on June 7, 2022, Global on June 8, 2022, and CTV and CTV 2 on June 9, 2022. CBC was first to announce its Winter schedule on November 30, 2022, Global on December 8, 2022, Citytv on December 14, 2022 and CTV on December 16, 2022. Global was first to announce its Summer schedule on May 1, 2023. Yes TV (including ) and Omni Television are not included as member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules. CTV 2 is not included on Saturday as it normally only schedules encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
Legend
Grey indicates encore programming.
Blue-grey indicates news programming.
Light green indicates sporting events/coverage.
Light purple indicates movies.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series to Canadian television are highlighted in bold.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time). Subtract one hour for Central time for most programs (excluding CBC). Airtimes may vary in the Atlantic and Mountain times and do not necessarily align with U.S. stations in the Mountain time zone. Add one half-hour to Atlantic Time schedule for Newfoundland time. (See also: Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting)
Dates (e.g., (9/13)) indicate the first month and day of a program in its regular timeslot, not necessarily the premiere date.
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
CBC
Returning series:
22 Minutes
Diggstown
Dragon's Den
Family Feud Canada
The Fifth Estate
The Great Canadian Baking Show
Heartland
Marketplace
Moonshine
Murdoch Mysteries
The National
The Nature of Things
The New Wave of Standup
The Passionate Eye
Pretty Hard Cases
Race Against the Tide
Run the Burbs
Son of a Critch
Sort Of
Still Standing
Strays
Travel Man: 48 Hours In...
War of the Worlds
Workin' Moms
New series:
Bones of Crows
Bollywed
Canada's Ultimate Challenge
Comedy Night with Rick Mercer
Essex County
Fakes
The Legacy Awards
Lido TV
The North Water
Plan B
Ridley Road
SkyMed
Stay Tooned
Stuff the British Stole
Summit '72
Not returning from 2021–22:
A Suitable Boy
Coroner
Hot Docs at Home
TallBoyz
Victoria
Citytv
Returning series
America's Got Talent
American Auto
American Idol
The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
Bachelor in Paradise
Bachelor in Paradise Canada
Canada's Got Talent
Capital One College Bowl
Celebrity Family Feud
Chicag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museomics | Museomics is the study of genomic data obtained from ancient DNA (aDNA) and historic DNA (hDNA) specimens in museum collections.
Early research in this area focused on short sequences of DNA from mitochondrial genes, but sequencing of whole genomes has become possible.
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) and high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods can be applied to the analysis of genetic datasets extracted from collections materials. Such techniques have been described as a "third revolution in sequencing technology". Like radiocarbon dating, the techniques of museomics are a transformative technology. Results are revising and sometimes overturning previously accepted theories about a wide variety of topics such as the domestication of the horse.
Museum collections contain unique resources such as natural history specimens, which can be used for genome-scale examinations of species, their evolution, and their responses to environmental change. Ancient DNA provides a unique window into genetic change over time. It enables scientists to directly study evolutionary and ecological processes, comparing ancient and modern populations, identifying distinct populations, and revealing patterns of change such as extinctions and migrations. Research may be used to identify isolated populations and inform conservation priorities.
However, museum specimens can be poorly preserved and are subject to degradation and contamination. Genomic analyses face considerable challenges as a result of the highly degraded DNA typical of museum specimens. DNA from such samples is often subject to post-mortem nucleotide damage such as the hydrolytic deamination of cytosine (C) to uracil (U) residues. PCR amplification of damaged templates can further substitute uracils with thymine (T), completing a C to T substitution path. Such errors tend to occur towards the ends of molecules, accumulate with time, and can be significant in specimens a century-old or later. Robust genomic and statistical techniques are needed to rigorously detect and avoid errors and genotyping uncertainties when carrying out analyses based on museum collections. Optimal methods for working with hDNA and aDNA can differ as a result of differences in their DNA degradation history.
Museomics also involves destructive sampling, irreversibly removing parts of sometimes rare specimens to obtain DNA. This can be contentious for curators and collection staff, involving a variety of ethical issues around the handling and destruction of objects, colonial acquisition and repatriation practices, and present-day social and political implications of research. Museums, universities and journals are increasingly developing ethics statements, best practices and guidelines for such work.
See also
Genomics
Proteomics
List of omics topics in biology
References
Museology
DNA
Genetics
Genetic genealogy
Methods in archaeology
Ancient DNA (human)
Analytical chemistry
Omics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Real%20TV%20Awards | The 4th Critics' Choice Real TV Awards, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association and NPACT, which recognizes excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms, were held on June 12, 2022, at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, making it the first in-person ceremony since the 1st in 2019. Nominations were announced on May 16, 2022. Of the nominated programs, Top Chef received the most nominations, with five. Top Chef also won the most awards, with three wins.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Programs
Most major nominations
Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work and per network:
Most major wins
References
2022 television awards
2022 in American television
004
June 2022 events in the United States
2022 in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takayuki%20Ito | is a Japanese computer scientist who specialized in the fields of artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. He worked as assistant professor in the computer science department of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from 2001 until 2003, served as associate professor in the computer science department of Nagoya Institute of Technology (2006–2014), worked as full professor in the computer science department of Nagoya Institute of Technology (2014–2020). He also served as chair of the department (2016–2018)and also director the NITech Artificial Intelligence Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology.
From October 2020, he is working as full Professor of Computer Science at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University; he is also working as Chief Technology Officer at AgreeBit Inc., Japan.
Education
Takayuki Ito gained his Bachelor of Engineering (1995) and Master of Engineering (1997) and Doctor of Engineering (2000) in computer science from Nagoya Institute of Technology.
Career and previous positions
From 1999 to 2001, he was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting researcher at University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute). From April 2001 to March 2003, he was an associate professor of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). From April 2004 to March 2013, he was an associate professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology. From April 2014 to September 2020, he was a professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology. From 2005 to 2006, he was a visiting researcher at Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University and a visiting researcher at the Center for Coordination Science, MIT Sloan School of Management. From 2008 to 2010, he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management. From 2017 to 2018, he was an invited researcher of Artificial Intelligence Center of AIST, JAPAN.
From March 5, 2019, he is the CTO of AgreeBit, inc. as an entrepreneur.
From October 2020, he is a professor of Kyoto University.
Fellowships and awards
Ito is a board member of IFAAMAS, Executive Committee Member of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, the PC-chair of AAMAS2013, PRIMA2009, General-Chair of PRIMA2014, and was a SPC/PC member in many top-level conferences (IJCAI, AAMAS, ECAI, AAAI, etc.). He received the JSPS Prize, 2014, the Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category), The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, 2013, the Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, 2007, the Nagao Special Research Award of the Information Processing Society of Japan, 2007, the Best Paper Award of AAMAS2006, the 2005 Best Paper Award from Japan Society for S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALL/360%3ABASIC | CALL/360:BASIC was an IBM dialect of the BASIC programming language for the System/360 and later platforms. It was based on mid-1960s versions of Dartmouth BASIC but added a number of extensions. Most of these were related to file handling, which, at that time, Dartmouth lacked. It also added support for the mathematical symbols found on some IBM terminals, so that could be entered directly as . Differences are otherwise minor.
History
CALL/360:BASIC was announced in 1968, along with several other languages for the system including APL and FORTRAN and the Datatext markup language based text editor. Early advertizing for the system boasted that one could "Start learning CALL / 360 : BASIC after breakfast and you can share our computer before lunch".
The CALL/360 suite was developed within IBM's Information Marketing department. Initially, the products were considered proprietary and could only be accessed via the online service. Customer demand forced them to offer these products to other System/360 users, which they did by releasing it on an "as is" basis with no support. Later the same year, IBM transferred this department, along with the rest of its timesharing services, to the Service Bureau Corporation (SBC), including the CALL/360 operating system and CALL/360:BASIC. Manuals after that date refer to the language as an SBC product.
In 1973, SBC was itself transferred to Control Data Corporation as part of a long running anti-trust lawsuit.
Description
CALL/360:BASIC is almost identical to Dartmouth BASIC the Fourth, including support for the advanced rix math features. It differs primarily in its support of file handling.
Basics
The language included the commands LET, PRINT, END, FOR...NEXT with an optional , GOTO, GOSUB...RETURN, IF...THEN, IF...GOTO, DEF, READ, DATA, RESTORE DIM, and REM. To this list, it added computed GOTO of the form . Note that the in an statement can only be followed by a line number, the idea of allowing arbitrary statements after did not appear until later. arks are always shown with a colon in the manual, or , but it is not clear if these were required. The , and commands could also be followed by a comment string, where a colon was not required.
was expanded with followed by a line number. The line referred to started with a colon and then a series of formatting strings. This series of strings was known as an "image". Items to be printed could be separated by commas or semicolons, with commas having "print zones" 18-characters wide. A new command, , stopped the program with a statement and then waited for the user to enter text, which was ignored. The end-of-line character caused the program to continue. It could also be followed by a comment in the source.
It also included the same basic set of math instructions as Dartmouth, , , and , as well as the up-arrow for exponents and adding the two-asterisk form, . Logical operators included the standard set of , , , , and , as well as the special ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherief%20Reda | Sherief Reda is a computer scientist and engineer. He is currently a professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science Department, Brown University, and a principal research scientist at Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology team. He has been elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to energy-efficient and approximate computing.
Education & career
Reda received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2006. Prior to that, he received his BSc (Distinction with Honors) and MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer and Systems from Ain Shams University in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He has been a faculty at Brown University since 2006 and an IEEE Fellow since 2022. Reda has served as an organizer and technical committee member for many conferences, including serving as the general co-chair of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics Design in 2021. He served as an associate editor for ElSevier Integration and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. Besides his academic work, Reda has served as an expert witness for patent litigation cases, and he has been a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon since 2021
Research
Reda is known for his research in energy-efficient computing, electronic design automation, embedded systems, and molecular computing. He has broad interests in the use of combinatorial optimization and machine learning for applications in both circuit design and supply chain systems. He has over 130 scientific articles in leading journals and conferences (Google scholar ), and he authored / edited two books. Reda’s research laboratory, SCALE lab, is a major contributor to open-source EDA and embedded system tools, and he co-founded the WOSET workshop for open-source EDA technology in 2018. He has been a PI or co-PI on more than $21M of funded projects from federal agencies such as National Science Foundation, DARPA and Department of Defense, and many industry corporations, such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Facebook, AMD, and Intel. In 2017, Reda was named one of 11 trailblazers to follow by The Providence Journal. His research was featured in the news including Science Daily and American Association for Advancement of Science.
Books
Awards
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Test in Europe (DATE), 2002.
National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design Best Paper Award in 2010.
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) US-Arab Frontiers Fellowship, 2016.
IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference in 2018.
In addition, his publications have been nominated for best papers awards in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2005, IEEE Asian South-Pacific Design Automation Conference 2008, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2015, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference 2020, and VLSI SoC Symposium 2020.
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20Awards | The Sammy Awards were an Australian television and film awards held annually between 1976 and 1981, initially supported by the TV Times and the Seven Network.
1976
Held at the Sydney Opera House on Friday 8 October 1976.
Gold Sammy: Helen Morse, Gary McDonald
Best drama series: Power Without Glory
Best lead actor in a television series: John Waters for Rush
Best lead actress in a television series: Penny Hackforth-Jones for Tandarra
Best actor in a single television performance: Hugh Keays-Byrne for Rush (ep: 'A shilling A Day')
Best actress in a single television performance: Maggie Millar for Homicide (ep: 'The Life and Time of Tina Kennedy')
Best new talent: Mark Holden
Best comedy series: The Norman Gunston Show
Best comedy television series writer: Bull Harding
Best variety performer: Don Lane
Best current affairs series: Four Corners
Best daytime series: The Mike Walsh Show
Best documentary series: A Big Country
Best light entertainment series: This Is Your Life
Best musical series: Countdown
Best film: Picnic At Hanging Rock
Best film actor: Peter Cummins for The Removalists
Best film actress: Helen Morse
Best film supporting actor: Reg Lye for Sunday Too Far Away
Best film supporting actress: Jacki Weaver for Caddie
Best juvenile film performance: Robert Bettles
1977
Gold Sammy: Harry Butler, Caroline Jones
Best actor in a television series: Martin Vaughan for Power Without Glory
Best actress in a television series: Lorraine Bayly for The Sullivans
Best supporting actor in a television series: Andrew McFarlane for The Sullivans
Best documentary series: In the Wild
Best current affairs series: Four Corners
Best film: The Devil's Playground
Best film actor: Nick Tate for The Devil's Playground
Best film actress: Ruth Cracknell for The Singer and the Dancer
1978
Gold: Mike Walsh, June Salter
Chips Rafferty Memorial Award: Ken G Hall
Best Actor in a Single TV Performance: Tony Bonner for End of Summer
Best Actress in a Single TV Performance: Davina Whitehouse for The Night Nurse
Best Actor in a TV Series: George Mallaby for Cop Shop
Best Actress in a TV Series: Lorraine Bayly for The Sullivans
Best Variety Performer: Julie Anthony
Best Variety Program: Julie Anthony's First Special
Best Comedy Program: The Norman Gunston Show
Best Drama Series: The Sullivans
Best TV Play: End of Summer
Best News Coverage: Brisbane shoot-out (QTQ9)
Best Documentary: A Big Country
Best Current Affairs Program: Four Corners 'Utah' report
Best Children's Series: Wombat (BTQ7)
Best Sports Coverage: Australian Open Golf 1977
Best Light Entertainment Program: The Mike Walsh Show
Best Writer TV Series: Tony Morphett for The Sullivans
Best Writer TV Play: Cliff Green for End of Summer
1979
Held in Sydney at the Seymour Centre on 17 October 1979.
Gold Sammy: Marcia Hines, Mike Walsh
Chips Rafferty Memorial Award: Stanley Hawes
Best drama series: Against the Wind
Best TV play: The Plumber
Best actor in a single TV performance: John Hargreaves for A Good Thing G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20alumni%20from%20Manipal%20Academy%20of%20Higher%20Education%20alumni | Manipal Academy of Higher Education has produced many alumni from engineering to science to literature.
Academics
Ravi Bapna, American Data Scientist and Educator
Annapoorna Kini, American cardiologist and a professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Art And Music
Sandeep Mukherjee,LA Based Artist
Amardeep Singh,researcher and photographer
Arun Shenoy, Grammy Award-nominated musician
Business
Rajeev Suri, former CEO and chairman of Nokia CEO of Inmarsat
Satya Nadella, CEO and Chairman of Microsoft
M. G. George Muthoot, billionaire businessman and chairman of The Muthoot Group.
Pankaj Oswal, billionaire, chairman and sole founder of Burrup Holdings Limited.
Anant J Talaulicar, president and CEO, Cummins India Ltd.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, multimillionaire entrepreneur and politician
Devi Shetty, billionaire, cardiologist and founder of Narayana Health
Mahesh Shahdadpuri, founder and CEO of TASC Outsourcing
Mirza Faizan, CEO and founder of Avembsys Technologies
Faizal Kottikollon, entrepreneur and chairman of KEF Holdings
Shamsheer Vayalil, an Indian radiologist and billionaire businessman. He is the founder, chairman and managing director of VPS Healthcare Group
Dale Vaz, former CTO of food delivery app Swiggy
Anuj Sharma , CMO Of Xiaomi India
Film
Amit V. Masurkar, (dropped out)
Indian film director and screenwriter
Esha Gupta, Bollywood actress
Nithya Menen, Indian actress.
Nag Ashwin, an Indian film director
Parvati Nair, an Indian film actor
Unnimaya Prasad, Indian actress and producer
Arvind Sastry, film director and screenwriter
Shubhashish Jha, Indian actor
Amit Sarin, Indian Actor
Policts
I. M. Jayarama Shetty, Indian politician
C. N. Ashwath Narayan, former Dy.CM of Karnataka
Others
Vinod K Jose:, Journalist and Editor of The Caravan.
Vikas Khanna, Michelin Guide Star Chef
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian orthopedic surgeon and the first Malaysian astronaut.
Disha Oberoi, popularly known as R J Disha, is a Radio Jockey from Bangalore, India.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Wainer | Gabriel A. Wainer (Gabriel Wainer) is a Canadian/Argentinian computer scientist known for his work in modeling and simulation. He is a Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
He is the head of the Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab, located at Carleton University's Centre for advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim). He is known for his research in discrete-event simulation, in the Cell-DEVS specification, a variant of Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS).
Education and Career
Wainer graduated in 1993 as a Licenciado in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires. He completed his Ph.D. in software engineering in 1998 at Aix-Marseille University/University of Buenos Aires.
In July 2000, he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He held visiting positions at the University of Arizona, LSIS (CNRS), Université Paul Cézanne, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, University of Bordeaux, University of Buenos Aires, and others.
Around 1993 he built the first Real-time version of an open-source Operating System, namely (RT-Minix). The kernel was extended to include Real-Time scheduling, schedulability analysis for predictability, semaphores with priority inversion mechanisms, real-time task fault-tolerant models, majority voting and a new OS API. This idea was followed by other researchers, leading to the development of the first versions of RTLinux at a time when Linux was still in its infancy.
He contributed to the field of modeling and simulation (M&S), introducing Cell-DEVS, a formalism to build discrete-event cellular models. The formalism and tools were used to define numerous models in different areas: environmental sciences, biomedical, pedestrian flow, systems engineering, architecture and construction, etc.
He is the inventor of the DEVStone synthetic benchmark, which is a de facto standard to evaluate DEVS simulators and compare their performance.
Service
Prof. Wainer is a co-founder of Modeling and simulation conferences: SIMUTools, ANNSIM (SCS/IEEE/ACM), the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (SCS/ACM/IEEE), and Symposium on Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design - SimAUD (SCS/ACM/IEEE). He was Vice-President Conferences and Vice-President Publications of SCS, Society for Modeling and Simulation International (2010-2016).
Prof. Wainer is Editor in Chief of Simulation (journal), member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Simulation, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Wireless Networks (Elsevier), Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (SCS).
Books
Dr. Wainer is the author or co-author of books including:
“Real-Time Systems: concepts and applications” (in Spanish), G. Wainer. Nueva Librería, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1997.
“Methodologies and tools for discrete-event simulation” (in Spanish). G. Wainer. Nueva Librería, Buenos Aires, Arg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202017 | Regional Mexican Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number-one albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2017 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Hassan | Scott Hassan is a computer programmer and entrepreneur who was the main programmer of the original Google Search engine, then known as BackRub. He was research assistant at Stanford University at the time. Hassan left before Google was officially founded as a company.
In 1997 Hassan founded FindMail, later renamed to eGroups.com, an email list management web site. He owned 5.7% of eGroups in March 2000 when the company filed a Form S-1. eGroups was later bought by Yahoo! for $432m in August 2000 in a stock deal and became Yahoo! Groups.
In 2006 Hassan started Willow Garage, a robotics research lab and technology incubator. The organization created the open source robotics software suite ROS (Robot Operating System). Willow Garage shut down in early 2014.
Personal life
Hassan married consultant and web developer Allison Huynh in 2001. She had emigrated to the United States from Vietnam after the Vietnam War. They met through mutual friends at Stanford and had three children. In 2014, Hassan informed Allison of his intention to divorce her. Disagreements over the division of their assets were taken to trial in 2021. Before the trial, Hassan admitted to having started a website in Huynh's name containing "embarrassing information from her past".
References
American computer businesspeople
American technology company founders
Businesspeople in information technology
Businesspeople in software
Google employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou%205 | Ou 5, also known as IPHASXJ211420.0+434136, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by the IPHAS project in data taken on August 1, 2010, and independently by the French amateur astronomer Nicolas Outters in September 2012. Located two degrees east of the North American Nebula, it is an unusual planetary nebula because its central star is a short period eclipsing binary.
Ou 5 showed signs of variability during the three occasions when IPHAS observed it. Because of that, members of the IPHAS team made follow-up photometric observations of the nebula during October and November 2013, using the 80 cm IAC80 telescope at the Teide Observatory. The derived light curve showed that the central star was an eclipsing binary, and the short orbital period (8.7 hours) implies that during the red giant phase which preceded the formation of the planetary nebula, the stars must have formed a common envelope binary. Passing through a common envelope stage is often invoked as an explanation for the bipolar shape seen in many planetary nebulae, and Ou 5 does have bipolar features. The structure of the barrel-shaped nebula suggests that there may have been multiple mass ejection events during the common envelope phase.
The eclipses of the compact primary star in Ou 5 allow spectra of the fainter secondary star to be obtained. They indicate that the secondary star is a late K or early M-type star. The masses of the hot primary and cool secondary stars are estimated to be , and respectively.
References
External links
Image of Ou 5 (object on the left)
Planetary nebulae
Cygnus (constellation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2016 | iOS 16 is the sixteenth major release of Apple's iOS mobile operating system for the iPhone. It is the successor of iOS 15, and was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, 2022 alongside iPadOS 16, and released on September 12, 2022. It was succeeded by iOS 17 on September 18, 2023.
It is the first iOS release to be exclusive to iPhones since the first version release of iPhone OS 1, as it drops support for the last iPod Touch. It is also the last iOS release to support iPhone models with 5.5-inch display, especially the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus and the iPhone X. Its successor, iOS 17 was released on September 18, 2023.
System features
Freeform
Freeform is a whiteboard app that lets users collaborate together in real time. The whiteboard is an "Infinite" space where users can draw, import files, facetime, message, all fluently in sync.
AirDrop
In iOS 16.2, the default setting is "Contacts Only,” and the "Everyone" setting was changed to "Everyone for 10 Minutes,” which reverts to "Contacts Only" after 10 minutes "to prevent unwanted requests to receive content.” This was enabled in iOS 16.1.1 for iPhones in China.
Lock screen
The lock screen's appearance is customizable and it can host Widgets. The font and text color for the date and time can be customized to 8 presets and color effects can be applied to the entire lock screen. The date is now above the time and a small widget can be added next to the date. Other widgets can be added and arranged horizontally on the third row, below the time.
Multiple lock screens can be set up.
The live wallpapers have been removed because of the new tap and hold gesture that would allow users to customize their lockscreen.
The lock screen also supports landscape mode, arranging elements horizontally instead of vertically when the phone orientation is horizontal.
When listening to podcasts and music, tapping the album cover will cause the cover to appear full-sized in the center of the lock screen with a color-matched background.
Title change
For the first time in Chinese interface, iOS 16 rewrites the title of the user from "您" and "您的" to the less formal "你" and "你的", and some third-party applications still keep the title "您" and "您的". When using the system for the first time, in the agreement dialogue on the same screen, two different appellations of "您" and "你" can be seen to address the user at the same time. There is no information to explain the reason for the change of title.
Improved focus mode
Different lock screens can be set up based on the active focus.
Focus filters allow apps to show different content based on active focus. For example, Safari will only show work-related tabs if the user enabled 'Work focus'. Likewise, the Mail app will only show email messages from an allowed list of work contacts.
The user can create lists of apps and contacts to be silenced and lists of those to be allowed.
Notifications
Notifications roll up from below the lock scree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Thornton | Shannon Thornton (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress best known for her role as Keyshawn on the Starz series P-Valley (2020–present). She won a Gracie Allen Award and a Women's Image Network Award for her performance.
Career
Thornton's first television acting role was on Blue Bloods in 2010. She also had recurring roles on Rise, Dynasty, and Power. In 2020, she gained wider prominence as a lead cast member on the STARZ drama series P-Valley, on which she portrays Keyshawn, a stripper in an abusive relationship. In 2022, she appeared in Future's music video "Love You Better."
Thornton was born and raised in Connecticut. She has modeled for Creme of Nature and other Black hair care products.
Awards and nominations
For P-Valley
2021 – Winner, Gracie Allen Award, Actress in a Supporting Role - Drama
2022 – Winner, Women's Image Network Award for Best Actress, Drama Series (for "White Knight")
References
External links
Official Instagram
Living people
African-American actresses
21st-century African-American women
Actresses from Connecticut
1987 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten10 | Ten10 or TEN10 may refer to:
Ten10 cricket, a cricket format
TEN (TV station), Sydney, Australia, operated by Network 10
Ten10 (album), a 2018 album by British rapper Chip
See also
October 10
1010 (disambiguation)
10x10 (disambiguation)
10 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Edge%2030 | Motorola Edge 30 is a series of Android smartphones developed by Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo.
References
External links
Mobile phones introduced in 2022
Android (operating system) devices
Motorola smartphones
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS%20Ventura | macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers. The successor to macOS Monterey, it was announced at WWDC 2022 on June 6, 2022, and launched on October 24, 2022. macOS Ventura is succeeded by macOS Sonoma, which was released on September 26, 2023.
It is named after Ventura County and is the tenth macOS release to bear a name from the company's home state of California. The macOS 13 Ventura logo, official graphics and default wallpaper resemble an abstract California poppy.
macOS Ventura is the last version of macOS supporting Macs without Retina display, especially the 21.5-inch 2017 iMac and the 12-inch MacBook, as its successor, macOS Sonoma, drops support for those models.
History
New features
macOS Ventura includes changes, many related to productivity, and adds two apps from iOS and iPadOS: Weather and Clock. Freeform was added in an update to all three operating systems.
New system features
Stage Manager, which provides an alternative interface for multitasking, in addition to the previous Mission Control.
New apps
Weather: shows detailed weather forecasts. Clicking on the Weather widget now opens this app, not The Weather Channel's website.
Clock: displays world time and manages alarms, stopwatches, and timers. Clicking on the Clock widget now opens this app, not the Date & Time section of System Preferences.
Freeform, a whiteboard app that supports real-time collaboration (added in version 13.1).
Changes
Mail adds "send later" and "undo send" options and includes improvements to search, email organization, and formatting.
Spotlight produces richer search results; with Live Text, it can return pictures that contain the queried text.
Safari adds Shared Tab Groups and Passkeys, uses WebAuthn for password-less account management, gets a redesigned sidebar, and gains AVIF support.
Messages now allows the user to edit and unsend recent iMessages, similar to iOS and iPadOS 16.
FaceTime gets Handoff, the ability to transfer a call between multiple Apple devices.
Continuity Camera, a feature that allows a user's iPhone to wirelessly serve as a front-facing camera, with support for Desk View on some iPhones.
System Preferences is renamed to System Settings and gets a brand new tabbed interface and re-organized panes based on the iOS/iPadOS Settings app.
Because of this, the app-specific "Preferences..." menu bar item has been renamed "Settings..." for all apps.
Photos app: iCloud Shared Photo Library allows multiple members of iCloud Family Sharing to add, edit, and delete photos in the same photo library.
The Game Center dashboard is redesigned.
Font Book gets a new visual design.
Maps adds support for routes with multiple stops.
Siri gets redesigned to match its appearance since iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
Apple Music adds the ability for the user to mark artists as "favorites" and receive new music notifications from those artists.
Print dialogs have be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS%2016 | iPadOS 16 is the fourth major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers. The successor to iPadOS 15, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, 2022, along with iOS 16, macOS Ventura, watchOS 9, and tvOS 16. It received numerous new features, improving multitasking and many other aspects of the operating system, most notably on iPads with Apple's M1 SoC and later.
The public beta of iPadOS 16 was released on July 11, 2022. The public version of iPadOS 16 was released on October 24, 2022 as iPadOS 16.1.
iPadOS 16 is the final version of iPadOS that supports the first-generation iPad Pro and iPads without Apple Pencil compatibility, especially the fifth-generation iPad, as its successor, iPadOS 17, drops support for those models.
Features
Freeform
Freeform is a whiteboard app that lets users collaborate together in real time. It was released with iPadOS 16.2.
Weather
For the first time, Apple's Weather app is available on iPad. It was originally only available on iPhone and iPod Touch.
Lock screen
The Lock Screen has a new font and displays the date above the time to match iOS 16, but lacks the new customization features, which were later added in iPadOS 17.
Passkeys
iPads will now be able to sign into websites that implement WebAuthn using just the user’s passcode or biometrics.
Stage Manager
On iPads with Apple A12X Bionic, Apple A12Z Bionic, Apple M1 and Apple M2 processors, Stage Manager displays up to four apps at a time in adjustable windows. In addition, on iPads with Apple M1 and later, external displays are now driven using Stage Manager instead of screen mirroring, enabling display scaling on external displays.
Display scaling mode
On iPads with Apple M1 processors and later, and iPad Pro 11-inch with Apple A12X Bionic and A12Z Bionic processors, Display scaling mode allows more view space in apps by increasing the pixel density of the display.
Reference Mode
On the iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation) and (6th generation) with Liquid Retina XDR display, the iPad can be used in "Reference Mode" for color-graded work. This extends to Sidecar, as long as the Mac being connected to has Apple Silicon.
Spoken Content
As with iOS 16, some already supported languages have received additional voices (including "Novelty" voices for English), and voices and support have been added for the following languages:
Bangla
Basque
Bhojpuri
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Galician
Kannada
Malay
Marathi
Persian
Shanghainese
Slovenian
Tamil
Telugu
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Notes
More text indentation features are added, as well as the ability to create column tables.
Files
Allows the changing of file extensions and showing all file extensions.
Photos
Touch ID, Face ID or passcode is now required to view the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums, unless the user turns this off in Settings.
Photos can now detect duplicate photos or videos. The user can choose to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2017 | iOS 17 is the seventeenth and current major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone and the successor to iOS 16. It was announced on June 5, 2023, at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, and released publicly on September 18, 2023.
Development
According to Mark Gurman, iOS 17's internal codename was Dawn. Apple leaders initially intended iOS 17 as a "tuneup release" similar to Mac OS X Snow Leopard in 2009, allowing them to focus on their new mixed reality headset. Despite this, several major features were added later in the development cycle.
Features
User interface and system features
Interactive widgets
The widgets are now interactive, on the Home and Lock screens. For example, users can turn on the lights or shutters of the house by pressing the corresponding button of the Home widget; or mark a task complete by pressing directly on a reminder in the widget, etc.
Wallpaper improvements
The brightness of the wallpaper image changes depending on the dark or light mode. Resized photos are automatically extended to the top with a gradient that fills the missing space. Live Photos are now also supported. The font weight for the text on the lock screen can be adjusted more freely.
StandBy mode
StandBy mode is automatically enabled when the phone is charging while horizontally oriented. It displays information via widgets in intelligent stacks and Live activities also the clock
. The appearance of this information changes according to the ambient light, so at night they appear with less flashy and less bright colors.
Autocorrect and text prediction improvements
The keyboard's autocorrection and dictation are powered by a new on-device transformer model, which Apple says is more accurate and personalized to users' writing styles. Unlike previous versions of iOS, it can learn not to autocorrect swear words. Autocorrected words are underlined, and can be reverted with a tap. Word predictions are shown inline, and added when the spacebar is tapped.
AirDrop improvements
AirDrop file transfers continue over the Internet if devices become out of reach. This feature is not yet available, but Apple says it will be available later this year in a software update.
NameDrop: by tapping an iPhone or Apple Watch against another iPhone, users can start a file transfer, a shared activity with SharePlay, or exchange a customizable contact card.
Spotlight improvements
The global search now allows users to change system settings directly from the search results. For example, if the user searches for "wifi" from the Home Screen, the switch to turn the Wi-Fi off or on appears directly in the search results.
Focus mode improvements
Silence Notifications: a new option for notifications in focus mode that allows users to choose to mute notifications Always or When locked.
Visual Lookup improvements
Visual Lookup is now able to recognize in photos the symbols of the various lights in the car, the symbols in the labels of cloth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Patrol%3A%20Live | On Patrol: Live is an American reality television and docuseries that airs on the cable and satellite television network Reelz. It follows camera crews going on ride-alongs with law enforcement agencies in the United States.
The series is produced by the same company that produced Live PD for A&E. It premiered on July 22, 2022. On Patrol: Live is hosted by Dan Abrams and retired Tulsa Police Department Sergeant Sean "Sticks" Larkin, who both returned from Live PD, along with newcomer Curtis Wilson, a deputy with the Richland County Sheriff's Department.
A&E later filed a lawsuit against the series, network, and production companies claiming copyright infringement. The series performed strongly in viewing numbers and frequently won its targeted age demographic. The Albuquerque Journals editorial board was critical of the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office for partnering with the show.
A companion series containing a preview of each night's show, called On Patrol: First Shift, airs an hour before On Patrol: Live; it premiered on August 12, 2022. An additional 90-episodes of On Patrol: Live was ordered in February 2023.
Overview
On Patrol: Live initially followed eight law enforcement agencies live in Marion County, Florida; Volusia County, Florida; Beech Grove, Indiana; Nye County, Nevada; Paterson, New Jersey; Bernalillo County, New Mexico; Richland County, South Carolina; and Berkeley County, South Carolina. In October 2022 an additional department in Daytona Beach, Florida, signed a one-year deal to appear on the series. A police department in Toledo, Ohio, joined the series the same month. In December 2022, the department in Toledo was replaced by the Sheriff's Office in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
The live broadcasts are supplemented by additional footage recorded by camera crews throughout the preceding week. Commentary is provided by host Dan Abrams alongside analysts Sean "Sticks" Larkin and Curtis Wilson. Captain Danny Brown and Master Deputy Addy Perez, both with Richland County, co-hosted separate episodes of the series with Abrams, Larkin, and Wilson. Brown's appearance coincided with the first "Citizen Ride Along" while Perez appeared after her resignation from the department. Additional segments in each episode include "Missing", for which the series partners with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Black and Missing Foundation, "Crime of the Night", originally titled "Crime of the Week", and "Wanted".
In January 2023 Corporal Carli Drayton and Deputy Dylan Lee from Berkley County filled in during an absence of Larkin's. The same month, a police department in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania began appearing. The Toledo Police Department joined the series once more, replacing its successor, Spotsylvania County; Brookford, North Carolina's police department bridged a one-week gap during the transition in February. Dan Abrams was absent from the March 31 and April 1, 2023, episodes of the series, during which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Ostrava | The Ostrava tramway network is the third largest tram network in the Czech Republic. The network is operated by Dopravní podnik Ostrava, a company wholly owned by the city of Ostrava that also runs the city's bus and trolleybus network. As of 2022, DPO runs 17 lines with a total route length of on of track. The network is a part of ODIS, the integrated public transport system of the Moravian-Silesian Region.
Most of the network is double-track and runs within the boundaries of the city. The only exception to both is Line 5 between Poruba and Budišovice, which runs on a single-track section with two sidings and is one out of two remaining single-track tram lines in the Czech Republic that is in regular operation, the other being the interurban line between Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou.
History
The first tram engine line that ran between Přívoz and Vítkovice was opened on 18 August 1894 by Brünner Local-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BLEG, ). The network was first extended two years later, when a branch leading to the Reichsbrücke (, modern day Miloš Sýkora Bridge) opened. Eventually, a new line to Hulváky opened in 1899. At this point, trams were running every 20 minutes and the network was used for over a million trips. Neglected maintenance and increased operating costs of tram engines led BLEG to reduce its rolling stock from 16 to 9 engines and to adjust the interval to 30 minutes.
The network was electrified at the turn of the 20th century and regular electric tram service started on 5 April 1901, although tram engines continued to be used for freight until 1922. The network further expanded in the following years, adding two new lines in 1907: Hulváky-Svinov and Mariánské Hory-Vítkovice. A second rail was also added to busier sections of existing lines. In 1920, BLEG changed name to Společnost moravských místních drah (SMMD) and moved its headquarters to Moravská Ostrava.
Post-World War II
Post-World War II, with the industry of the city growing, authorities also developed the public transportation, which included tramways. The main extensions of the system were from the city centre to industrial and residential areas in the south. In 1950s and 60s, the city started operating the larger Tatra T2 and Tatra T3 trams. Around the same time, it was decided that trams should be the main public transport in the city, as the system was open to be modernised later and could carry a lot of passengers. In the early 1960s, tramlines were added to new urban areas in the south, as they weren't connected to railway. Further expansions were aimed at improving connections between new urban areas and industrial areas rather than the city centre. Trams were used to connect Poruba, which had only one route and thus was prone traffic congestion, to the rest of the city.
21st century
The nine Inekon 01 Trio cars date from 2002 to 2004. Since 2005, low-floor new-builds of T3 trams VarioLF have also been in operation, which are being used for the renewal of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProbLog | ProbLog is a probabilistic logic programming that extends Prolog with probabilities. It minimally extends Prolog by adding the notion of a probabilistic fact, which combines the idea of logic atoms and random variables. Similarly to Prolog, ProbLog can query an atom. While Prolog returns the truth value of the queried atom, ProbLog returns the probability of it being true.
Semantics
A probabilistic fact is a pair with an atom and the probability of being true. A rule is defined by an atom , called the head, and a finite set of literals , called the body.
ProbLog programs consist of a set of probabilistic facts and a set of rules . Using the distribution semantics, a probability distribution is defined over the two-valued well-founded models of the atoms in the program. The probability of a model is defined as where the product runs over all the literals in the model . For a query atom the distribution semantics defines a probability for the query
in which the sum runs over all the models where is true.
ProbLog supports multiple tasks:
Probabilistic inference: calculate
Most probable explanation: calculate the most probable model probability
Sampling: generate samples of
Learning from interpretations: learn the probabilities of ProbLog programs from data
Example
ProbLog can for example be used to calculate the probability of getting wet given the probabilities for rain and the probabilities that someone brings an umbrella as follows:
0.4 :: rain(weekday).
0.9 :: rain(weekend).
0.8 :: umbrella_if_rainy(Day).
0.2 :: umbrella_if_dry(Day).
umbrella(Day) :- rain(Day), umbrella_if_rainy(Day).
umbrella(Day) :- \+rain(Day), umbrella_if_dry(Day).
wet(Day) :- rain(Day), \+umbrella(Day).
query(\+wet(weekend)).
The last rule before the query states that someone gets wet if it rains and no umbrella was brought. When ProbLog is asked to solve the "probabilistic inference" task, the query asks for the probability to stay dry on a weekend day. When solving the "most probable explanation" task, ProbLog will return the most likely reason for staying dry, i.e. because it is not raining or because the person has an umbrella.
Implementations
The ProbLog language has been implemented as a YAP Prolog library (ProbLog 1). and as a stand-alone Python framework (ProbLog 2)
The source code of ProbLog 2 is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0 and available on GitHub.
ProbLog variants
ProbLog has been extended or used as inspiration for several different variants, including:
DeepProbLog extends ProbLog by allowing the probability to be parametrized by a neural network.
DTProblog extends ProbLog with decision theory. The utility of a strategy is defined as the expected reward for its execution in the presence of probabilistic effects.
DC-ProbLog extends ProbLog with distributional facts, meaning that instead of probabilities, a logic atom has a corresponding continuous probability distribution instead.
aProbLog extends ProbLog by allowing a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Plze%C5%88 | The Plzeň tram network () is a tram network serving Plzeň, the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic.
The network is 21.7 km long with tramcars running on a standard-gauge railway. The system is operated by Plzeňské městské dopravní podniky (PMDP). Using just three lines, Plzeň trams still account for about 45% of the total volume of public transport in the city, forming the backbone of the city's transport system.
History
Early days
In the 19th century Plzeň, thanks to new industrial enterprises, the town was growing so fast that it needed an acute solution to the difficult traffic situation, as horse-drawn carriages could no longer provide reliable transport. František Křižík drew up the plans for an electric tramway; his company then carried out the construction of the line partly with Škoda. Construction began in 1896 and was finished three years later.
The first section was inaugurated on 29 June 1899. The entire network consisted of three single-track lines (Bory–Lochotín, Skvrňany–Nepomucka třída, Náměstí–Plynárna), with the tram depot established at Cukrovarská Street.
Early 20th century
In 1910 and 1929 the line to Plynárna was extended. Line numbering was introduced in 1925. The section to Nepomucka Avenue was double-tracked at the end of the 1920s. A few years later, the lines in Skvrňany and Slovany (to today's loop) were also extended. In 1937, end loops at Bory and Slovany were built. The fleet of trams was also expanding, with new trams appearing bought from Prague Electric Works.
Late 20th century
After World War II, the section to Skvrňany was double-tracked and in 1949 the entire tram line Lochotín–Doudlevce was cancelled and replaced by trolleybuses. Tracks have been expanded along Rokycanská Avenue.
At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, new housing estates began to be built that required transport connections, which pushed the authorities for the further development of the network. The tram line to Světovar was opened in 1962, and the Skvrňany housing estate was connected to the tram network in 1973. Košutka and Bolevec, in the north of the city, have had a tram line to replace the inadequate trolleybus service since the 1980s; not long after a large housing estate was built there. However, the Bolevec line was not completed in its entirety at this time, but only halfway; it has only been serving the public in its present form (including the northern section) since 1990.
After the war, Plzeň purchased a few more monorails and a few older trams from Prague. In the 1950s, the first modern four-axle cars of the PCC concept – Tatra T1 – were delivered. In the early 1960s, they were followed by Tatra T2 trams and a little later by the legendary "the three", which became the basis of the Plzeň tram fleet. Plzeň was also the last city in the world to see the arrival of T1 cars, in April 1987. Two years later, 12 Tatra KT8D5 three-cell cars were also delivered.
Post-communism
After the coup in 1989, there were no maj |
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