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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20micro%20computer | This might refer to:
Super Micro Computer, Inc., an American computer hardware manufacturer
A supercomputer or a mainframe computer built using microcomputer technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish%20Goel | Ashish Goel is an American professor whose research focuses on the design, analysis and applications of algorithms. He is a professor of Management Science and Engineering (and by courtesy Computer Science) at Stanford University.
Early life and early education
Ashish Goel was born in Uttar Pradesh in India. He did his schooling at Uttar Pradesh including at St. Peter's, Agra. He was ranked first in IIT JEE 1990. He graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 1994. He then went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1999.
Academic work
Ashish Goel's research has spanned algorithmic problems in several areas of computer science and computational social science including computer networks, theoretical computer science, molecular self-assembly, algorithmic game theory, and computational social choice.
Ashish Goel's early work resolved several open algorithmic problems in graph theory and computer networks including showing that the scheduling protocol FIFO can result in instability at arbitrarily low rates in a packet network; showing that matching in regular bipartite graphs can be computed in time nearly linear in the number of vertices (i.e. without looking at all the edges); showing that every monotone graph property has a sharp threshold in geometric random graphs; and showing that in a packet switch, output queuing (the gold standard) can be simulated using a fabric that is twice as fast as an input-queued switch.
Goel along with Rajeev Motwani and Gagan Aggarwal gave the first comprehensive analysis of how the auction used by Google to price search keywords can be made truthful. This work was co-awarded the ACM SigECOMM test of time award in 2018. Another paper in computational advertising received the best paper award at The Web Conference 2009.
Career
Goel has had made contributions to algorithms and software related to personalization, online advertising and decentralized finance, and has been associated with companies such as Twitter, Stripe, Coinbase, and Infosys as an advisor/consultant.
From 2009 to 2010, he worked for Twitter when the company was small. He designed all of Twitter's early personalization products and was credited by ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo for designing its monetization model. His research have also received coverage in mainstream media.
Civic impact
Goel's research has focused on building software systems that enable constructive online conversation and collaboration on important, often contentious, socio-political issues.
Applied Social Choice: Goel's work on the role of confirmation bias in increasing political polarization and the role of recommender systems in exacerbating it is widely cited. In addition to doing theoretical research in social choice, Goel has also translated this research into online platforms.The Stanford Participatory Budgeting Platform has become the de facto platform for participatory budgeting in the US, and has been used over 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Ariake%20Triumph%202022 | Noah Ariake Triumph 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on October 30, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ariake Arena. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured eleven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event started with the pre-show confrontation between rookies Taishi Ozawa and Kai Fujimura which concluded with the victory of the latter competitor. The first match of the main card saw Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Manabu Soya and Shuji Kondo) defeating Alejandro, Extreme Tiger and Shuhei Taniguchi in six-man tag team action. Next, Dante Leon and Jack Morris picked up a victory over Daiki Inaba and Yo-Hey. The fourth match portraited a stable clash between Stinger's Chris Ridgeway & Yoshinari Ogawa and Yasutaka Yano who defeated Los Perros del Mal de Japón's Eita, Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy. Next, El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Hideki Suzuki of Sugiura-gun picked up a victory over Masa Kitamiya and Masato Tanaka. In the sixth bout, the first of the five titles put on the line was the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, which Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka successfully defended against Kongo's Hi69 and Tadasuke. Next, Ninja Mack defeated Hayata by referee's stoppage to capture the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, ending the latter's reign at 184 days and 5 defenses. Hayata sustained an injury and was declared unable to continue in the process. In the eighth match, veteran Masakatsu Funaki defeated Kazushi Sakuraba and secured the fifth successful defense of the GHC National Championship. Next, Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeated Kongo's Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kenoh to hit their first successful defense of the GHC Tag Team Championship. The semi main event portraited Keiji Mutoh, Naomichi Marufuji and Yoshiki Inamura defeat New Japan Pro Wrestling's Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) and Hiroshi Tanahashi in one of Mutoh's last appearances in Pro Wrestling Noah.
The main event saw Kaito Kiyomiya marking his first defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship in his second reign against Kazuyuki Fujita.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten%20Hoefler | Torsten Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Chief Architect for Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. Previously, he led the Advanced Application and User Support team at the Blue Waters Directorate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and held an adjunct professor position at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His expertise lies in large-scale parallel computing and high-performance computing systems. He focuses on applications in large-scale artificial intelligence as well as climate sciences.
Hoefler is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences Academia Europaea.
He has been invited to present several keynote lectures at major international conferences such as ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference, IEEE Cluster, HPC Asia, or the International Symposium on Distributed Computing.
Career
Hoefler received his Diplom in Computer Science from TU Chemnitz where he received the best student award in 2005. He worked on high-performance computing systems from the very beginning of his career. He continued his studies at Indiana University, the home of Open MPI, under the guidance of Prof. Andrew Lumsdaine. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 from Indiana University and was subsequently honored with the Young Alumni Award.
He continued his work on the Message Passing Interface standard as a key member of the MPI Forum responsible for the chapters on Collective Communication and Process Topologies as well as co-authoring the chapter on One-Sided Communications.
In 2010, he joined the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). As lead for application performance analysis and support, he supported the design and deployment of the Blue Waters Supercomputer. He also held a position as adjunct professor at UIUC’s Computer Science department. He accepted a position as assistant professor at ETH Zurich in 2011, where he received tenure in 2017, and is full professor from 2020.
Hoefler has held various visiting researcher positions at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in France, CINECA in Italy, as well as Argonne National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and Microsoft in the United States. As a consultant, he supported Cray Inc. in the area of high-performance networking and Microsoft Corporation in the areas of quantum computing and large-scale artificial intelligence systems. He spent his sabbatical in 2019 at Microsoft helping to establish various AI supercomputing efforts.
Hoefler has been a member of the ACM SIGHPC executive committee since its founding in 2011.
He was elected IEEE Fellow for “contributions to large-scale parallel processing systems and supercomputers”, ACM Fellow for “foundational contributions to High-Performance Computing and the application of HPC techniques to mac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog%20%28surname%29 | Fog is a surname. Notable people with the surname are as follows:
Agner Fog, Danish anthropologist and computer scientist
Dan Fog (1919–2000), Danish music antiquarian
Magnus Fog (1893–1969), Danish equestrian
Mogens Fog (1906–1990), Danish resistance fighter and physician
Peter Schønau Fog (born 1971), Danish film director
Surnames of Danish origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurnTable%20End%20of%20the%20Year%20Top%20100%20of%202022 | The TurnTable End of the Year Top 100 of 2022 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in Nigeria. Its data, published by TurnTable magazine, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, TurnTable publishes an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on its top 100 charts based on the information published on 22 December 2022 in TurnTable, and calculated with data from January 3, 2022, to December 12, 2022.
TurnTable named Asake the top Artist of 2022, making him the first artist to achieve this honor, following the expansion of the Top 50 into 100. Asake placed twelve songs on the list, with the highest ranked of them "Sungba (Remix)" at number four. Asake debut studio album Mr. Money with the Vibe, became the first album to debut at number one on the newly launched album chart, and Asake "Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)" became the first song to debut at number one, following the expansion of the single chart from 50 to 100.
Year-end list
References
Nigeria TurnTable
TurnTable charts
Nigerian record charts
2022 in Nigerian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%2010X | Windows 10X is a cancelled edition of Windows 10, a major release of the Microsoft Windows series of operating systems. Announced by Microsoft on October 2, 2019, it was initially developed as an operating system to support dual-screen devices, such as the unreleased Surface Neo. 10X was expected to be released in 2020, but Microsoft later announced that the project had been cancelled in May 2021. However, some features and design changes from 10X were integrated into the newer Windows 11. While the operating system was originally designed for dual-screen devices, Windows 10X shifted its target to single-screen devices in 2020 due to increasing demand for traditional computers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Features
New and changed
Windows 10X introduced major changes to the Windows shell, abolishing legacy components in favor of new user experiences and enhanced security, as well as some notable design changes, which were integrated into Windows 11:
The taskbar is now centered. It has 3 different sizes; Small, intended for mouse-controlled desktop computers, and medium and large are intended for touch computers
The taskbar is automatically hidden, and can be clicked/tapped to be shown.
New start menu: Microsoft redesigned the start menu with a focus on productivity, with the search box now at the top instead of in the taskbar like in other editions of Windows 10, as well as a section of pinned apps which is the successor to the Live Tiles from other Windows 10 editions and 8.
The Action Center has been renamed “Quick Settings” and given a redesign. Network/Internet controls, volume controls and power options have been moved to Quick Settings. There also exists an area to check notifications and control music playing from a specific app.
Window borders have been rounded.
The Out-of-box setup has been updated to better fit the new user interface of 10X, with a more modern design, as well as Cortana no longer being an integrated feature.
The default UI now uses a more light theme than a dark one.
Windows Update improvements: The Windows Update method has been improved to complete faster. Feature updates now automatically install in the background and will only reboot when required to.
Enhanced security: 10X introduces a new security system dubbed “State Separation”; instead of installing every file (including the user’s, the system’s, the applications’, etc.) into a single, accessible partition, which allows attackers and malware to easily access system files, 10X installs system, application and other important files into a read-only partition, while leaving the user files in a separate, accessible partition. Therefore, the users and apps can only access files in the user partition.
Cancellation
In May 2021, Microsoft announced that 10X was cancelled, but new features and design changes would be integrated into other Microsoft products (such as Windows 11).
References
Windows 10
Discontinued versions of Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Pearson | Jo Pearson is an Australian television presenter and journalist.
Career
Pearson is perhaps best known for her association with Network Ten throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. After working at TVQ-0 in Brisbane, she transferred to ATV-0 in Melbourne where she co-presented Ten Eyewitness News with David Johnston from 1982 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1993.
In 1988, Pearson was crowned as a Moomba monarch during Melbourne's annual Moomba Festival.
Pearson was poached by the Nine Network in 1988 who reportedly lured her across from Ten with a contract worth approximately one million dollars. This was reportedly in an attempt by Nine to "warehouse" Pearson just to break up the successful pairing of Pearson and Johnston. While at Nine in 1988, she co-hosted a national news magazine program Live at Five with Terry Willesee before also hosting a Saturday afternoon lifestyle program Body and Soul. Both programs struggled and were ultimately axed in 1989. This was after Live at Five was renamed to Eye on Australia in early 1989 with Willesee hosting the show solo. Pearson and Willesse's Live at 5 was remembered in 2009 when Nine again attempted an afternoon news magazine program when they launched This Afternoon.
Pearson returned to Ten in 1991 where she resumed her on-air partnership on Ten Eyewitness News with Johnston. Speaking to TV Week about her time at Nine, Pearson said: "In hindsight you could say it was a mistake for me to go, but at the time I went with promise and expectation of a new career... I think I had a lot of bad luck. There were political and geographical differences that made it extremely difficult for me and the shows.”
In 1991, she co-hosted Ten's Young Achiever Awards telecast with Tim Webster.
In 1992, Pearson was the centre of controversy when she changed her hair colour from blonde to auburn. This annoyed executives at Ten who ordered her to immediately change her hair colour back to the way it was. In 2012, commenting on Tracey Spicer's article in The Sydney Morning Herald detailing the misogyny Spicer had encountered during her television career, Pearson observed that "some things never change, sadly".
In 1993, she left Ten and was replaced by Marie-Louise Theile. Pearson then went on to be a panelist on TVTV on ABC TV.
Pearson later established Media Strategies, a media training organisation specialising in disaster management and public speaking. In 2010, Pearson was dividing her time between Melbourne and Ealing in London and by 2012, she was living in Hertfordshire in the UK and working as a producer, director and voiceover artist.
Personal life
Pearson was previously married to weather presenter Rob Gell who she worked with on Ten Eyewitness News. In 2012, their son Nicholas Gell graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Legacy
Pearson is among a group of prolific female news presenters of the 1980's who are said to have inspired the acclaimed ABC TV drama The Newsreader.
References
Living |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Grand%20Ship%20In%20Nagoya%202022 | NOAH Grand Ship In Nagoya 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on September 25, 2022, in Nagoya, Japan, at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event featured nine matches with four of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw 2022 N-1 Victory winner Kaito Kiyomiya defeat Kenoh to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the second time. Other top matches included Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeating Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, and Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Stinger stablemates Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
Background
Storylines
The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event started with the confrontation between rookies Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano and Los Perros del Mal de Japón's Eita and Nosawa Rongai, which solded with the victory of the latter team. The second match of the evening featured Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura who picked up a victory against Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone). Next, Alejandro, Extreme Tiger and Ninja Mack defeated Kongo's Hajime Ohara, Hi69 and Tadasuke. The fourth bout saw El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Jack Morris and Naomichi Marufuji defeating Daiki Inaba, Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka in six-man tag team action. Next, Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka defeated Stinger stablemates Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa in an internal stable clash for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Next, Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura defeated Sugiura-gun's Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher to capture the GHC Tag Team Championship. Next, Hayata defeated Yo-Hey to secure his fifth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. The semi main event saw Kazuyuki Fujita and Keiji Muto defeating Kongo's Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masakatsu Funaki in tag team action.
The main event portraited the confrontation between Kenoh and the winner of the 2022 edition of the N-1 Victory Kaito Kiyomiya who won his right to challenge for Kenoh's GHC Heavyweight Championship. The bout concluded with Kiyomiya's win, ending Kenho's reign at 71 days and stopping him from securing his first defense.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Pro Wrestling Noah shows
Events in Nagoya
Professional wrestling in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTV%20%28Iraq%29 | UTV () is an Iraqi satellite television Network based in Baghdad, Iraq. The channel was launched in 2020 by Sarmad Khanjar. The channel broadcasts several programs, including entertainment, news and cultural.
Program
Melon City Show
U Trending
U Tour
Stars on UTV
Good Morning Show
In details with Natiq
Private testimonies
Small communities
The good generation
Hattrick
With Mulla Talal
Truth be told with Adnan Taji
Mayo Clinic Studio
References
Satellite television
Television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disen%20tram%20stop | Disen is a tram stop located on the Oslo Tramway network. Located in Nordre Aker in northern Oslo, the station is part of the Kjelsås Line, that operates between Storo and Kjelsås. Disen also has a balloon loop, for trams to turn around and change direction. However, trams do not regularly terminate at Disen anymore. Disen was opened on the 25th September, 1934.
Disen was also closed along with the rest of the Kjelsås Line between 2002 and 2004. Uni-directional SL79 trams serve the tram stop, but occasionally SL95 trams serve Line 12.
Service
Disen is served by Line 11 and Line 12 of the Oslo Tramway network. Line 11 and 12 both have their westbound terminus at Majorstuen and eastbound terminus of Kjelsås. Night bus routes 11N and 12N also serve the station during the night period which lasts between 2 AM and 6 AM. Disen is also approximately 600 metres from Storo's metro station and approximately 850 metres away from Grefsen railway station.
Facilities
Disen has waiting shelters on both platforms. They are infitted with digital displays to show when the next tram will arrive at Disen. It also has a balloon loop, for trams to turn around and change direction. The balloon loop surrounds a 'resting room' that was built in 1942 and was designed by Kristofer Lange.
Reconstruction
As part of the Fremtidens Byreise (Future City Travel) programme, the tram tracks on the Kjelsås Line were upgraded between 2018 and 2020. The reason for this was partly due to the purchase and procurement of the new SL18 trams to serve Oslo, but mainly because the street was in poor condition and heavily trafficked, as well. The aim was to rebuild, repair and replace the area's tram tracks and add new asphalt to the roads. The Kjelsas Line was closed in late 2018, and a replacement bus service (route 11B) was put into place. Trams on routes 11 and 12 terminated instead at Storo, where passengers could interchange with the replacement bus service. The tram route reopened and tram traffic to Kjelsas finally resumed.
References
Oslo Tramway
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo
Oslo Tramway stations
Railway stations opened in 1934
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1930s
1934 establishments in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%20Navy%20decompression%20models%20and%20tables | The US Navy has used several decompression models from which their published decompression tables and authorized diving computer algorithms have been derived. The original C&R tables used a classic multiple independent parallel compartment model based on the work of J.S.Haldane in England in the early 20th century, using a critical ratio exponential ingassing and outgassing model. Later they were modified by O.D. Yarborough and published in 1937. A version developed by Des Granges was published in 1956. Further developments by M.W. Goodman and Robert D. Workman using a critical supersaturation approach to incorporate M-values, and expressed as an algorithm suitable for programming were published in 1965, and later again a significantly different model, the VVAL 18 exponential/linear model was developed by Edward D. Thalmann, using an exponential ingassing model and a combined exponential and linear outgassing model, which was further developed by Gerth and Doolette and published in Revision 6 of the US Navy Diving Manual as the 2008 tables.
Besides the air and heliox tables for open circuit bounce dives, the US Navy has published a variety of hyperbaric treatment schedules, decompression tables for open and closed circuit heliox and nitrox, tables incorporating surface decompression on oxygen, a system for modifying tables for use at high altitudes (Cross corrections), and saturation tables for various breathing gas mixtures. Many of these tables have been tested on human subjects, frequently with an end result of symptomatic decompression sickness, and for this reason their test results are considered some of the most reliable available.
US Navy tables have generally been freely available for use by the general public, and have often been modified to further reduce risk, as commercial and recreational divers do not always fit the physical requirements for military divers, may not have a recompression chamber on site to manage decompression sickness on those occasions when it does occur, and may prefer to operate at a lower risk than military personnel. Several recreational diving tables were originally based on US Navy diving tables.
C&R tables
In 1912, Chief Gunner George D. Stillson of the United States Navy created a program to test and refine Haldane's tables. This program ultimately led to the first publication of the United States Navy Diving Manual and the establishment of a Navy Diving School in Newport, Rhode Island. Diver training programs were later cut at the end of World War I.
The first decompression tables produced for the U.S. Navy were developed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair and published in 1915, and were consequently known as the C&R tables. They were derived from a Haldanean model, with oxygen decompression, to depths up to 300 ft on air, and were successfully used to depths of slightly over 300 ft
1937 tables
1916 - UN Navy established its Deep Sea Diving School in Newport, Rhode Island.
1924 - US Navy pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betizu%20%28TV%20program%29 | Betizu was a children's and youth television programming, by EITB Media, broadcast by the ETB 1 channel, between 2001 and 2011. It was not a television program itself, but a strip of television programming. It was replaced by the television space Hiru3 (2011–present).
The Betizu television space was a success for the vast majority of the generation of children born in the 90s.
The Betizu children's and youth programming
Betizu was the name of a special programming for children and teenagers on the ETB 1 channel. As at that time (2001-2011) the ETB 1 channel broadcast general content for all audiences (adults, elderly people,...), Betizu was the programming slot for children and youth audiences. In this children's-youth programming (Betizu), different contents were broadcast: programs, cartoons, television series, TV programs, ...
It was similar to the Disney Channel, but in this case it was a slot of programming (not an entire, exclusive channel).
The Betizu space had different presenters such as Nerea Alias, Jon Gomez, Iban Garate, Ilaski Serrano, Joseba Olagarai or Unai Iparragirre.
This space was broadcast practically the entire morning and part of the afternoon and consisted of a variety of content: cartoons, series, contests, programs and others.
As a children's and youth space, it created various products and projects aimed at this audience. Among them:
The Betizu Club (Betizu Kluba), a club aimed at children with children's activities
Betizu Taldea - BT (Betizu Group, in Basque), a music group that achieved great notoriety, especially for the hit song "Lokaleko leihotik" or also for the single "Esaidazu"
Betizu Festival (Betizu Jaialdia, in Basque), a children's and youth festival with concerts, activities and others
Tours and shows
Like other children's television shows, Betizu created many projects for children such as movies, clubs, theater shows (Betizu Izar artean or Betizu Bizi-Bizi, live Betizu), singing competitions for children... From All of this produced famous artists and musical groups in the Basque Country and Navarra, as well as other products such as records or toys.
The program was produced by Baleuko and EITB Media. The coordinating scriptwriter of the program was Xegun Altolagirre, who would later assume the role of director of the container program, and the director was Juanjo Elordi. The name of the program comes from the native Basque breed of cow Betizu and which also means Beti -Zu (in Basque translated as Siempre Tú, "Beti" always and "Zu" you), for this reason the "Z" was stylized in capital letters.
The Betizu television space was a success for a whole generation of children born in the 1990s.
In 2011, the Betizu television space was replaced by Hiru3, the new EITB children's container space.
Betizu programming (contents)
Betizu films
2003, Betizu izar artean
2006, Betizu eta Xangaduko misterioa (premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2007)
2007, Betizu eta urrezko zi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Destination%202022 | Noah Destination 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on July 16, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Nippon Budokan. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
The event featured ten matches with three of Noah's five championships on the line. The main event saw Kenoh defeat Satoshi Kojima to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship for the second time. Other top matches included Hayata successfully defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Seiki Yoshioka, Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher) defeating The Tough (Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura) to win the vacant GHC Tag Team Championship, and Kaito Kiyomiya defeated Keiji Mutoh.
Background
Storylines
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The night started with the eight-man action between Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69, Shuji Kondo and Tadasuke) and Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada, Xtreme Tiger and Yo-Hey which solded with the victory of the cardinal team. Next, Anthony Greene, El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., René Duprée, Simon Gotch and Stallion Rogers successfully overcame the team of Daiki Inaba, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kinya Okada, Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi in ten-man tag team action. The third bout portraited the confrontation of Eita and Kotaro Suzuki who defeated Stinger's Yoshinari Ogawa and Yuya Susumu. In the fourth match, Ninja Mack picked up a victory over Dante Leon. Next, Pro Wrestling Zero1's Masato Tanaka and Rob Van Dam defeated Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy. In the sixth match, Go Shiozaki, Kazuyuki Fujita and Takashi Sugiura defeated Kongo's Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya and Masakatsu Funaki. The seventh match saw Kaito Kiyomiya defeating Keiji Mutoh. The match was part of Mutoh's last series of bouts in Noah. Next, Hideki Suzuki and Timothy Thatcher defeated Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura to win the vacant GHC Tag Team Championship after the titles had been relinquished by Kitamiya himself and Michael Elgin the same night, due to the latter not being able to make it to the title defense. In the semi main event, Hayata secured his second consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Seiki Yoshioka.
In the main event, Kenoh defeated Satoshi Kojima to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship, and ending the NJPW veteran's reign at only 34 days.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthosaura%20longicaudata | Acanthosaura longicaudata, the long-tailed horned tree lizard or long-tailed horned agamid, is a species of agama found in China.
References
longicaudata
Reptiles of China
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Departure%202022 | Noah Departure 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on August 5, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The evening started with Masa Kitamiya and Mohammed Yone picking a victory over Masaaki Mochizuki and Shuhei Taniguchi. Next, Kai Fujimura and Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu) defeated Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Eita, Nosawa Rongai and Super Crazy) in six-man tag team action. In the third bout, Kongo's Katsuhiko Nakajima and Manabu Soya defeated Anthony Greene and Stallion Rogers. The fourth confrontation saw Daisuke Harada, Ninja Mack and Seiki Yoshioka overcoming the team of Atsushi Kotoge, Dante Leon and Yo-Hey. Next, Alejandro, El Hijo del Santo, Kaito Kiyomiya and Último Dragón defeated Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69, Kenoh and Tadasuke). In the sixth match, Kinya Okada defeated Yoshiki Inamura to obtain a spot in the blocks of the 2022 N-1 Victory. In the semi main event, Go Shiozaki, Naomichi Marufuji and Takashi Sugiura defeated Daiki Inaba, Masato Tanaka and Satoshi Kojima.
The main event portraited the confrontation between Hayata and Shuji Kondo for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Hayata successfully retained the title and secured the third consecutive defense.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Adult%20Contemporary%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | Adult Contemporary is a chart published by Billboard ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market, based on weekly airplay data from radio stations compiled by Broadcast Data Systems.
In the issue of Billboard dated January 7, Australian singer Sia reached number one with "Unstoppable"; the song, originally released in 2016, had experienced fresh popularity on social media sites. The song occupied the top spot for the first 11 weeks of the year before being replaced by "Anti-Hero" by Taylor Swift.
Miley Cyrus topped the chart in April with her track "Flowers", which as of the issue of Billboard dated November 4 has occupied the top spot for 30 consecutive weeks. It was the singer's first AC number one since she topped the chart in 2009 at the age of 16.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Billboard Adult Contemporary chart
2023
Number-one adult contemporary singles
United States Adult Contemporary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20White | Jefferson White (born November 3, 1989) is an American actor. He plays Jimmy Hurdstrom on the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and Sean O’Neil on Chicago P.D. on NBC.
Career
White made his television debut on The Americans in 2014, and further television appearances included Elementary, Blue Bloods, How to Get Away with Murder and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In 2018, White appeared as a series regular on season one of Yellowstone for Paramount+, and his character, a troubled cowboy called Jimmy. In 2021, White was named as a nominee for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for his work on Yellowstone. White’s character Jimmy is expected to feature in a forthcoming Yellowstone spin-off series titled 6666 as his character Jimmy moved to the 6666 Ranch in Texas during season 4 of Yellowstone. White’s character Jimmy still appeared in the fifth season of Yellowstone in 2022.
In September 2022, White was introduced as the character Sean O’Neil in the tenth season of NBC's long-running drama Chicago P.D.. White has a role in the 2023 feature film Eileen, which stars Anne Hathaway, and the upcoming Alex Garland film Civil War.
Personal life
White grew up in Mount Vernon, Iowa and attended Iowa State University, graduating in 2012 in performing arts.
White is engaged to Casey Wortmann, an actor and social worker.
Filmography
Film and television
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Iowa State University alumni
Male actors from Iowa
People from Mount Vernon, Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Sols | Nine Sols is an upcoming 2D action-platformer developed and published by Red Candle Games. The game is set in an Asian fantasy-inspired, futuristic cyberpunk world that tells the story of a legendary hero from the past named Yi who is on a quest for revenge to overthrow the titular nine Sols, the powerful, tyrannical rulers of a deserted realm known as New Kunlun. In gameplay, combat emphasizes on the player deflecting attacks from enemies to build up energy to perform special attacks which takes strong inspiration from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. It features a hand-drawn animation and a storyline for players to experience. Like Red Candle's other games, Nine Sols features elements of Taiwanese culture.
Premise
Gameplay
Nine Sols is a 2D action-platformer where player is in the role of Yi whose overall goal to defeat the nine Sols to get revenge. The focus is on close-range combat mixed with classic side-scrolling platforming and deflection mechanics. Basic attack is slashing with a sword, but can the player can deflect enemy attacks. When deflecting attacks from enemies, Yi while absorbing and accumulating Chi energy to unleash stylish charging attacks on enemies by a technique called "reverse deflect". When reverse deflecting, Yi will dash through his opponents and sticks talismans called "Foo charms" to blow up as they are activating. Deflecting also requires precise reflexes and timing to fill up on Chi. The higher the energy bar the more damage the attacks. In addition, Yi possesses the powerful Godly Bow to mix up in combat situations. In regards to movement, Yi can run, dash, mid-air dash, double jump, wall jump, climb, wall run, and grapple.
Development
The game was announced on March 22, 2022.
References
External links
Crowdfunding campaign official site
Upcoming video games
Action games
Platformers
Side-scrolling video games
Windows games
MacOS games
Video games developed in Taiwan
Cyberpunk video games
Science fiction video games
Fantasy video games
Dystopian video games
Red Candle Games
Video games based on mythology
Video games based on Chinese mythology
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi%20Parikh | Devi Parikh is an American computer scientist.
Career
Parikh earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as a professor at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, and as of 2022 she is a research director at Meta.
Research
Parikh's research focuses on computer vision and natural language processing.
In 2015, Parikh and her students at Virginia Tech worked on AI for Visual Question Answering (VQA). This technology allows users to ask questions about pictures, e.g. "Is this a vegetarian pizza?" Parikh's VQA dataset has been used to evaluate over 30 AI models.
In 2017, Parikh published a conversational agent called ParlAI. In 2020, she developed an AI system that generates dance moves in sync with songs. In 2022, Parikh and a team at Meta developed Make-a-Video, a text-to-video AI model that is based on the diffusion algorithm.
Awards
2017 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
2011 ICCV Best-Paper Award ("Marr Prize")
References
American computer scientists
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Machine learning researchers
Computer vision researchers
Georgia Tech faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Dream%20On%20Final%202022 | Noah Dream On Final 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on May 21, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ota City General Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The night started with the confrontation between Kinya Okada and Kazuyuki Fujita solded with the victory of the latter. Next, Kai Fujimura and Yoshiki Inamura picked up a victory over Daiki Inaba and Junta Miyawaki. The third bout saw Shuhei Taniguchi defeating Mohammed Yone in singles action. The fourth match portraited Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69 and Tadasuke) and Shuji Kondo overcoming the team of Momo No Seishun Tag (Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada), Hao and Yo-Hey. Next, Sugiura-gun (Hideki Suzuki and Takashi Sugiura) and Masaaki Mochizuki defeated Kongo (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya and Masakatsu Funaki). In the sixth match, Kenoh picked up a victory over Simon Gotch in singles action. The next bout portraited the internal stable clash between Chris Ridgeway and Yoshinari Ogawa, and Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship which ended in a no contest, therefore it was sanctioned as a successful defense for Ridgeway and Ogawa. Next, Hayata defeated Xtreme Tiger to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time in that reign. The semi main event saw Masa Kitamiya and Michael Elgin defeating Sugiura-gun International (El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and René Duprée) to capture the GHC Tag Team Championship.
In the main event, GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki alongside Kaito Kiyomiya and Masato Tanaka succeeded in picking up a victory over the team of M's Alliance (Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji) and Satoshi Kojima in six-man tag team action.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangateau%20Harbour | { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "ids": "Q33623524", "properties": { "fill": "#73a3f0"}}
The Whangateau Harbour is a natural harbour in New Zealand. It is a sandspit estuary, located on the north-eastern coast of the Auckland Region north-east of Matakana, and empties into the Hauraki Gulf. Due to the harbour's high quality water and dense shellfish beds (primarily pipi), the harbour is a popular spot for shellfish gathering.
Geography
The Whangateau Harbour is a sandspit estuary, separated from Omaha Bay by a sandspit, where the town of Omaha is located. The modern harbour formed during the Holocene, after the formation of the sandspit. Horseshoe Island is an exposed sand-bar located in the centre of the harbour.
The Whangateau Harbour has almost complete tidal flushing, meaning it has some of the best water quality for a harbour in New Zealand.
Flora and fauna
The harbour has a wide range of intertidal and subtidal reefs, supporting a wide range of benthic wildlife. High numbers of Scutus breviculus, octopuses and Australasian sea cucumbers live in the estuary. The harbour has dense beds of shellfish, primarily pipi (Paphies australis). The Harbour is made up of mangals composed of trees rather than bushes. There are a number of different types of algae, which house isopoda and amphipoda. It is also home to the tunnelling mud crab and different types of oyster.
The harbour is a popular spot to collect shellfish. It has been well-studied, due to the harbour's close location to the Leigh Marine Laboratory. In 2009, the area experienced a mortality event of cockles, with an 84% reduction in the large cockle population from the previous year. A further event took place in 2014, with the beds being closed to harvesting while samples were sent to the Ministry for Primary Industries.
History
The Whangateau Harbour is within the traditional rohe of Ngāti Manuhiri. The name Whāngateau was a traditional Māori language name for the harbour, and refers to the strong tidal currents in the estuary. The harbour and surrounding Mahurangi area was first settled in the 14th century by Māori, descendents of the Moekākara, Tainui, Arawa migratory canoes. By the 16th century, the Tāmaki Māori who settled in the region begun to be known by the name Ngā Oho. The tribal affiliation Ngāti Manuhiri began in the 17th century, and refers to Manuhiri, one of the four sons of the Te Kawerau ā Maki rangatira Maki.
Prior to European settlement, six fortified pā defended the harbour, and the harbour (especially the Waikokopu to the south) were an important source of pipi and tuangi (cockles). The harbour was associated with the kūaka (bar-tailed godwit), which were traditionally harvested in the summer-time.
Ngāti Manuhiri settled the harbour until the late 19th century, however members of Ngāti Manuhiri have returned to the harbour in modern times. In the 1850s, land around the harbour was purchased by Ranulph Dacre. Between 1942 and 1963, 380,000 c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies%20%282023%20film%29 | Mummies (), is a 2023 English-language Spanish computer-animated comedy film directed by Juan Jesús García Galocha (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Javier López Barreira and Jordi Gasull and a story by Gasull. It features the voices of Joe Thomas, Eleanor Tomlinson, Celia Imrie, Hugh Bonneville and Sean Bean.
Initially scheduled for release in 2021, Mummies was theatrically released in Spain on February 24, 2023.
Plot
The film follows three mummies from the underworld who embark on a journey and end up in present-day London in search of an old ring belonging to an Ancient Egyptian Royal Family that was stolen from a tomb by the ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby. The mummies end up in several hilarious situations as they try to understand and adapt to 21st century London in an obvious culture clash.
Voice cast
Joe Thomas as Thut
Eleanor Tomlinson as Nefer
Karina Pasian as Nefer's singing voice
Celia Imrie as Mother Carnaby
Hugh Bonneville as Lord Sylvester Carnaby
Sean Bean as Pharaoh
María Moscardó as Usi
Shakka as Ed A. Murphy
Santiago Winder as Sekhem, Thut's younger brother
Dan Starkey as Danny and Dennys
Oliver Lidert as Aida male lead
Rachel Adedeji as Aida female lead
Release
Mummies was scheduled to be released in 2021 under the name Moomios as part of a partnership between Atresmedia Cine and Warner Bros. España. However, it was later delayed to 2023 after two years of extended production and was changed to its current name. The first trailer was released on October 31, 2022. The film was released in Spain and in selected theatres in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 24, 2023. The film was first released in international territories, beginning with Australia, on January 5, 2023. The film later released in the UK and Ireland on March 31, 2023. The soundtrack was released Digital by WaterTower Music on February 24, 2023 on streaming services including Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora.
Reception
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 5.00/10.
See also
List of Spanish films of 2023
References
External links
2020s animated films
2020s English-language films
2020s Spanish films
2023 computer-animated films
2023 directorial debut films
2023 films
Atresmedia Cine films
English-language Spanish films
Films scored by Fernando Velázquez
Films set in Egypt
Films set in the United Kingdom
Animated films set in London
Spanish computer-animated films
Subterranean fiction
Warner Bros. animated films
Warner Bros. films
Spanish animated feature films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20Lee | Katrina Lee is an Australian executive director and former television news presenter.
Lee is perhaps best known for her association with Network Ten where she was a Logie Award-winning news presenter at TEN-10 in Sydney from the 1970's to the 1990's.
Career
Television career
After beginning her career as a newspaper journalist at The Daily Telegraph in the 1970's, Lee joined TEN-10.
Lee was appointed as co-presenter of Ten Eyewitness News in 1978. Her appointment came just months after the Australian Broadcasting Commission attracted widespread attention by appointing Margaret Throsby as an ABC News presenter on ABC TV. Although Melody Iliffe is considered to be Australia's first female news presenter when she read the news on Brisbane's QTQ-9 in the 1960's, Throsby and Lee are now regarded as being part of a pioneering group of women who became the first women to read television news bulletins in Australia. Throughout her time reading the news at Ten, Lee was paired with John Bailey, Tim Webster, Ron Wilson and John Mangos.
In late 1984, Lee commenced co-hosted a national daytime program called Good Afternoon Australia with Gordon Elliott. The program was launched by Ten over the summer period in an attempt to lure viewers across from the Nine Network following the end of their popular daytime show The Mike Walsh Show. In February 1985, Ten's show was retitled After Noon as it attempted to rival Nine's new Midday program, hosted by Ray Martin. Ten's After Noon was axed soon after, unable to compete with Midday.
In 1985 Lee was part of one of the first television crews to travel to Ethiopia to cover the famine and in 1986 she co-hosted Ten's coverage of the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson with Gordon Elliott and James Whitaker.
In 1988, was a part of a new current affairs show on Ten called Page One, which covered events from Australia and around the world. Lee's fellow reporters included Chris Masters, Maxine McKew, Kerry O'Brien, Jill Singer and Brad Robinson. After Page One was axed in 1989, Lee was retained as part of the reporting team for Public Eye - Ten's new current affairs program which incorporated most of the reporting and production staff from Page One.
In 1991, Lee joined the ABC where she became a reporter for national travel show Holiday. Her fellow Holiday reporters included Eric Campbell and Bob La Castra. Lee also hosted the ABC's national Sunday afternoon Review arts and culture program.
In late 1991 Lee was back at Ten, reading the news alongside John Mangos. She also presenting a special for Ten called Russia in Crisis.
Later career
After leaving television, Lee became a senior lecturer in journalism.
Lee appeared on a 2007 episode of the Seven Network's Where Are They Now? program alongside fellow notable news presenters James Dibble, Roger Climpson, David Johnston, Margaret Throsby and Jennifer Keyte where they discussed their respective careers.
Lee then became the director of communications and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States. Its data is compiled by Luminate Data and published by American music magazine Billboard. The chart is based on each song's weekly physical and digital sales collectively, the amount of airplay impressions it receives on American radio stations, and its audio and video streams on online digital music platforms.
"Last Night" by American country singer Morgan Wallen is the year's longest-running number-one song on the Hot 100 in 2023, having spent sixteen weeks at the top spot. "Flowers" by American singer Miley Cyrus is the longest running number-one by a female artist, ruling the Hot 100 for eight weeks. Four country songs—Wallen's "Last Night", Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town", Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond", and "I Remember Everything" by Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves—held the number-one spot on the Hot 100 in consecutive weeks for the first time ever. "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat became the first rap song to top the Hot 100 in over a year, since Nicki Minaj's "Super Freaky Girl" in August 2022.
Eighteen artists have charted at number one in 2023, with ten―Wallen, Jimin, SZA, Jungkook, Latto, Aldean, Anthony, Bryan, Musgraves and J. Cole―reaching the top spot for the first time. SZA and Drake are the only acts with two new number-one songs during the year.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2023
List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2023
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2023
2023 in American music
References
United States Hot 100
2023
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%20Madhavapeddy | Anil Madhavapeddy is the Professor of Planetary Computing at the Department of Computer Science and Technology in the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a J M Keynes Fellow. He is the Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits, aiming to distribute funds raised through the sale of carbon credits in a verifiable manner.
Education
Madhavapeddy graduated from Imperial College London in 1999, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 2006 for research on programming languages and operating systems supervised by Andy Hopper and David Greaves.
Research and Teaching
Anil is the author of Real World OCaml, the second edition of which was published in Oct 2022 by Cambridge University Press, with an earlier edition in 2013 by O'Reilly Media.
RWO has been used as a text in computer science courses such as Princeton’s COS326, Cornell’s CS6110 and UPenn’s CIS 120.
At Cambridge, Anil teaches the Foundations of Computer Science course in the Computer Science Tripos which introduces functional programming. Past lecturers of this course include Lawrence Paulson, Alan Mycroft and Amanda Prorok.
Madhavapeddy primarily researches programming languages and operating systems. He is one of the main creators of unikernel library operating systems, and has researched parallelism and effect systems for functional languages such as OCaml.
Madhavapeddy's latest project is a collaboration with Srinivasan Keshav and Andrew Balmford on verifiable carbon credits for nature-based solutions, which has been seen as an alternative to Cryptocurrency tokens
Industry
Madhavapeddy has made substantial contributions to open source software such as MirageOS, OCaml, Docker, Xen and OpenBSD. He is currently a Council Member at the Tezos Foundation and the advisory board of OpenUK.
He co-founded Unikernel Systems in 2015, which was acquired by Docker in 2016 where he served as a Docker maintainer, introducing technologies such as HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit that made Docker for Desktop possible.
Madhavapeddy has been a senior maintainer of OCaml since 2011, where he helped develop the OCaml Package Manager, the tooling ecosystem, as well as support for multicore parallelism and effect handlers in OCaml 5.0. He has published over 150 software libraries for OCaml.
He co-founded High Energy Magic Ltd in 2003 with Eben Upton and others, which was an early implementation of interactive barcodes in camera-phones and later commercialised as ShotCodes.
Madhavapeddy also served on the core team at the Horde project from 1999 until 2008, where he helped develop the IMP webmail client and the Chora CVS viewer.
He worked on the Mars Polar Lander ground data systems in 1998
and subsequently at NetApp to deploy early content delivery networks using NetCache
External links
Personal website
University of Cambridge faculty page
Pembroke College faculty page
References
Year of birth missing (living p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201991 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart 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.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1991 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukedeck | Jukedeck was a British technology company founded in 2012. It built a website that let users create royalty-free music using artificial intelligence.
History
Ed Newton-Rex started building the first version of Jukedeck’s algorithmic composition system in 2010, and founded the company in 2012. In 2014, Patrick Stobbs left Google to join as co-founder. Stobbs and Newton-Rex had met at the age of eight when they were both choristers in King's College Choir, and they had later been at Cambridge University together.
In 2015, Jukedeck launched a website that let people generate original, royalty-free music for use in videos. Users could set parameters including genre, instruments and duration, and specific climactic moments in the music; they could then generate a song in around 20 seconds that they could download for non-commercial or commercial use, with prices ranging from free for personal projects to $199 per song to purchase the copyright.
Newton-Rex’s original algorithmic composition program was a rule-based system in which note and chord probabilities were hard-coded. By 2017, this had been replaced with a two-tiered approach, in which artificial neural networks generated musical compositions which were converted to audio using an automated music production program. Music could be generated in a number of genres, from folk to electronica.
The website was used to create over 1 million pieces of music, and brands that used it included Coca-Cola, Google, UKTV, and the Natural History Museum, London. In 2018, Jukedeck’s technology was used to compose the music for K-pop girl group Spica for a performance at a concert at the Blue Square Concert Hall in Seoul. Singer Taryn Southern also used Jukedeck to create backing tracks for her songs.
Jukedeck grew to a team of 20 people and raised £2.5M in funding. In 2019, it was acquired by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for an undisclosed sum.
Awards
Winner of Vator Splash London in 2013.
Winner of the LeWeb startup competition in 2014.
Winner of Pitch@Palace in 2015.
Winner of the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2015.
Winner of an Innovation Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2016.
Winner of Hottest Media/Entertainment Startup at The Europas in 2017.
Winner of Startup of the Year at the BIMA Awards in 2017.
References
Companies established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-touch%20provisioning | Zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), or zero-touch enrollment, is the process of remotely provisioning large numbers of network devices such as switches, routers and mobile devices without having to manually program each one individually. The feature improves existing provisioning models, solutions and practices in the areas of wireless networks, (complex) network management and operations services, and cloud based infrastructure services provisioning.
ZTP saves configuration time while reducing errors. The process can also be used to update existing systems using scripts. Research has shown that ZTP systems allow for faster provisioning versus manual provisioning. The global market for ZTP services was estimated to be $2.1 Billion in 2021.
In April 2019, the Internet Engineering Task Force submitted RFC 8572 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) as an Internet standard.
Applications
One application of the technology is to improve delivery of cloud computing services. The concept has been particularly influential for information technology when paired with mobile device management. Repetitive processes that can be automated and streamlined include configuring settings; collecting inventory details; deploying apps; managing licenses; and implementing security policy, including password management and wiping remote devices.
System architecture
A basic ZTP system requires a network device that supports ZTP, a server that supports Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), and a file server. When a ZTP-enabled device is powered on, the device's boot file sets up configuration parameters. A switch then sends a request using DHCP or TFTP to get the device's configuration file from a central location. The file then runs and configures ports, IP addresses and other server parameters for each location.
Similar concepts
A similar concept is the zero-touch network, which integrates zero-touch provisioning with automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Standards activity
In December 2017, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) formed the Zero-touch network and Service Management group (ZSM) to accelerate development and standardization of the technology. In the summer of 2019, the group published a series of documents defining ZSM requirements, reference architecture and terminology.
In April 2019, the Internet Engineering Task Force submitted RFC 8572 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) as an Internet standard.
References
External links
ETSI ZSM standards
What is ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning)?
Communications protocols
Networks
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Gingell | Barry Gingell (December 2, 1954 – May 29, 1989) was an American internist, nutritionist, computer scientist and AIDS activist. He served as a medical director for the Gay Men's Health Crisis and an advocate for experimental drugs during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
Life and career
A native of Johnson City, New York, Gingell received a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University and a medical degree from New York University. He interned at the New York University School of Medicine before practicing medicine in the Bronx and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Gingell studied computer science at Columbia University and combined his medical training and computer interests to founded a computerized nutritional advisory program. He operated Optimal Nutrition Engineering for five years in Greenwich Village.
Gingell was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985. Shortly after, he traveled to Mexico to obtain two experimental drugs used to treat AIDS patients, AIDS patients, isoprinosine and ribavirin, which were not available in the United States. Gingell was critical of several federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the FDA because of their slow pace of introducing new drug therapies to combat HIV/AIDS and their restricted access.
In 1987, Gingell became medical information director of the non-profit organization Gay Men's Health Crisis, where he created a newsletter about AIDS therapy called Treatment Issues. He also served on the National Academy of Sciences, the Society of Infectious Diseases, the Community Research Initiative, and the AIDS Resource Center.
In 1988, Gingell testified before the House Subcommittee on Human Resources and the Presidential Commission on experimental drugs to treat AIDS.
Gingell died of AIDS at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on May 29, 1989. He was 34.
References
1954 births
1989 deaths
AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)
HIV/AIDS activists
People from Johnson City, New York
American nutritionists
New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
LGBT physicians
Syracuse University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart 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, verifiable sales from concert venues and track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units in the United States.
Chart history
References
United States Regional Albums
2023 in Mexican music
Regional Mexican 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20spacetime | Semantic spacetime is a theoretical framework for agent-based modelling of spacetime, based on Promise Theory. It is relevant both as a model of computer science and as an alternative network based formulation of physics in some areas.
Semantic Spacetime was introduced by physicist and computer scientist Mark Burgess, in a series of papers called Spacetimes with Semantics, as a practical alternative to describing space and time, initially for Computer Science. It attempts to unify both quantitative and qualitative aspects of spacetime processes into a single model. This is referred to by Burgess as covering both “dynamics and semantics”.
Promise theory is used as a representation for semantics. Directed adjacency is the graph theoretic logical primitive, but with the caveat that each node must both emit and absorb adjacency relations, cooperatively, similar to the unitary structure of quantum probabilities and transitions. Thus space is made up of cooperating nodes and edges. The representation of spacetime becomes a form of labelled graph, specifically built from promise theoretic bindings.
Origins
According to Burgess, Semantic Spacetime originates from asking what are the implications of Promise Theory to our understanding of space and time. The traditional view of spacetime seems to have no relevance to phenomena in computing, electronics, biology, or many other information based processes. The classical understanding of spacetime from Newton's era is based on ballistics, the idea about space and time was that of a purely passive theatre for the motion and behaviours of material bodies. Einstein partially changed that perception with General Relativity, in which spacetime geometry is an active participant with its own properties, i.e. curvature, energy, and mass. In the process models of Computer Science, Electronics, Biology, and Logistics, however, space is formed from functional components that act more like service providers. Processes are representations of autonomous modular outcomes, a result of information passing between agents in networks of such active components, with a certain strength of coupling.
Burgess also observed a relationship between semantic knowledge representations and the bigraphs of Robin Milner, but found existing languages excessively formal and lacking in expressibility. In Semantic Spacetime one uses the language of Promise Theory to formulate a process (spacetime) model for autonomous agents. The property of autonomy becomes closely linked to locality in physics, so the approach has an appeal to universality.
Relationship to other models
Burgess has stated that Semantic Spacetime is an attempt to demystify the explanation of certain phenomena in both physics and information science. "Until we can get past the prejudices of classical separation of science into disciplines we will not make progress in understanding computer systems at enormous scale".
In 2019, Burgess wrote an extended book about the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Circle%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202023 | The Circle Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in South Korea. Managed by the domestic Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), its data is compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published by the Circle Chart. The ranking is based collectively on each single's download sales, stream count, and background music use. The Circle Chart provides weekly (listed from Sunday to Saturday), monthly, and yearly lists for the chart.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Circle Digital Chart
2023 singles
Korea, South singles
2023 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertain%20geographic%20context%20problem | The uncertain geographic context problem or UGCoP is a source of statistical bias that can significantly impact the results of spatial analysis when dealing with aggregate data. The UGCoP is very closely related to the Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), and like the MAUP, arises from how we divide the land into areal units. It is caused by the difficulty, or impossibility, of understanding how phenomena under investigation (such as people within a census tract) in different enumeration units interact between enumeration units, and outside of a study area over time. It is particularly important to consider the UGCoP within the discipline of time geography, where phenomena under investigation can move between spatial enumeration units during the study period. Examples of research that needs to consider the UGCoP include food access and human mobility.
The uncertain geographic context problem, or UGCoP, was first coined by Dr. Mei-Po Kwan in 2012. The problem is highly related to the ecological fallacy, edge effect, and Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) in that, it relates to aggregate units as they apply to individuals. The crux of the problem is that the boundaries we use for aggregation are arbitrary and may not represent the actual neighborhood of the individuals within them. While a particular enumeration unit, such as a census tract, contains a person's location, they may cross its boundaries to work, go to school, and shop in completely different areas. Thus, the geographic phenomena under investigation extends beyond the delineated boundary . Different individuals,or groups may have completely different activity spaces, making an enumeration unit that is relevant for one person meaningless to another. For example, a map that aggregates people by school districts will be more meaningful when studying a population of students than the general population. Traditional spatial analysis, by necessity, treats each discrete areal unit as a self-contained neighborhood and does not consider the daily activity of crossing the boundaries.
Implications
The UGCoP has further implications when considering the area outside of a study area. Tobler's second law of geography states, "the phenomenon external to a geographic area of interest affects what goes on inside." As a study area is often a subset of the planet, data on the edges of the study area will be excluded. If the boundary demarcating the study area is permeable to travel, then the phenomena under investigation within it may extend beyond, and be impacted by, forces excluded from the analysis. This uncertainty contributes to the UGCoP.
All maps are wrong, and a cartographer must ensure that their maps' limitations are well documented to avoid misleading the users. With modern technology, there is an emphasis on individual-level data and understanding how individuals interact with their environment. When making maps with this individual-level data, the UGCoP is one source of bias tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2037%20%28Poland%29 | National road 37 (, abbreviated as DK37) is a main road (class G road)() route belonging to Polish national roads network, located in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. With its length of , the route connects the town of Darłowo with national road 6 near Karwice. In the future a new junction will be constructed, linking road 37 with expressway S6.
Until December 31, 2005 the route was categorized as powiat road () 0507Z (even earlier 17-451). On January 1, 2006, based on the Regulation of Minister of Infrastructure, of May 6, 2005, the route was included in the category of national roads.
The matter of upgrading the road category to national road was for some time on the circle of interests of politicians, mostly from Samoobrona party. The route had a particular importance for Andrzej Lepper, who lived in Zielnowo near Darłowo. Because of that, the road has been nicknamed "Lepperówka".
Permissible axle load
From March 13, 2021, vehicles with a single drive axle load of up to are allowed to travel on the entire route.
Until March 13, 2021
Earlier on the entire route maximum permissible axle load was .
Localities along road 37
Darłowo
Rusko
Domasławice
Słowino
Sęczkowo
Karwice (road 6)
References
External links
National roads in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20triangular%20mesh | Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM) is a kind of quad tree based on subdivision of a distorted octahedron, used for mesh generation in 3-D computer graphics and geometric data structures.
Functions
It provides a systematic indexing method for objects localized on a sphere.
It is an efficient method for searching different resolutions like arc seconds or hemispheres.
It can be used as a method to subdivide the spherical surface into triangles of nearly equal shape and size.
See also
HEALPix
Quadrilateralized spherical cube
Geodesic grid
References
Mesh generators
3D graphics software that uses Qt
Trees (data structures)
Geometric data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20join | A spatial join is an operation in a geographic information system (GIS) or spatial database that combines the attribute tables of two spatial layers based on a desired spatial relation between their geometries. It is similar to the table join operation in relational databases in merging two tables, but each pair of rows is correlated based on some form of matching location rather than a common key value. It is also similar to vector overlay operations common in GIS software such as Intersect and Union in merging two spatial datasets, but the output does not contain a composite geometry, only merged attributes.
Spatial joins are used in a variety of spatial analysis and management applications, including allocating individuals to districts and statistical aggregation. Spatial join is found in most, if not all, GIS and spatial database software, although this term is not always used, and sometimes it must be derived indirectly by the combination of several tools.
Spatial relation predicates
Fundamental to the spatial join operation is the formulation of a spatial relationship between two geometric primitives as a logical predicate; that is, a criterion that can be evaluated as true or false. For example, "A is less than 5km from B" would be true if the distance between points A and B is 3km, and false if the distance is 10km. These relation predicates can be of two types:
A Topological relation is a qualitative relationship between two shapes that does not depend on a measurable space (that is, coordinates). Common examples of such predicates include "A is completely inside B," "A overlaps B," "A is adjacent to B" (i.e., sharing a boundary but no interior), and "A is disjoint from B" (not touching at all). These are commonly specified according to some form of the 9-Intersection Model, which is incorporated into the international Simple Feature Access specification (ISO 19125-2).
A Metric relation is a quantitative (measurable) relationship between two shapes in a coordinate space, most commonly a distance or direction. Common examples include "A is due north of B" or "A is less than 5 km from B." Not all software implementations support metric relations.
Note that some relations are commutative (e.g., A overlaps B if and only if B overlaps A) while others are not (e.g., A is within B does not mean B is within A).
The geometric primitives involved in these relations may be of any dimension (points, lines, or regions), but some relations may only have meaning with certain dimensions. For example, "A is within B" has a clear meaning if A is a point and B is a region, but is meaningless if both A and B are points. Other relations may be vague; for example, the distance between two regions or two lines may be interpreted as the minimal distance between their closest boundaries, or a mean distance between their centroids.
Operation
As in a relational table join as defined in the relational algebra, two input layers or tables are provided |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20in%20the%20European%20Union | The internet in the European Union is built through the infrastructure of member states, and regulated by EU law for data privacy, and a free and open media.
Infrastructure
WiFi boxes
Cables, copper to fibre-optic
Electro-magnetic signals
Transnational lines
Regulation
Electronic Communications Code Directive 2018/1972 arts 3-17, 61-84
Access Directive 2002/19/EC arts 3-6 and Annex I
Information Society Directive 2015/1535 Annex I
Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC arts 1, 3, 14-15 (
General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 arts 4(11), 5-8, 13-17
Net Neutrality Regulation 2015/2120 art 3(3)
Roaming Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 arts 7-8
Speed
The European Union pledges that all households will have at least 100Mbps internet speed in 2025, and 1000Mbps not until 2030.
See also
EU law
Internet by country
Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20account | A service account or application account is a digital identity used by an application software or service to interact with other applications or the operating system. They are often used for machine to machine communication (M2M), for example for application programming interfaces (API). The service account may be a privileged identity within the context of the application.
Updating passwords
Local service accounts can interact with various components of the operating system, which makes coordination of password changes difficult. In practice this causes passwords for service accounts to rarely be changed, which poses a considerable security risk for an organization.
Some types of service accounts do not have a password.
Wide access
Service accounts are often used by applications for access to databases, running batch jobs or scripts, or for accessing other applications. Such privileged identities often have extensive access to an organization's underlying data stores laying in applications or databases.
Passwords for such accounts are often built and saved in plain textfiles, which is a vulnerability which may be replicated across several servers to provide fault tolerance for applications. This vulnerability poses a significant risk for an organization since the application often hosts the type of data which is interesting to advanced persistent threats.
Service accounts are non-personal digital identities and can be shared.
Misuse
Google Cloud lists several possibilities for misuse of service accounts:
Privilege escalation: Someone impersonates the service account
Spoofing: Someone impersonates the service account to hide their identity
Non-repudiation: Performing actions on their behalf with a service account in cases where it is not possible to trace the actions of the abuser
Information disclosure: Unauthorized persons extract information about infrastructure, applications or processes
See also
Kerberos Service Account, a service account in Kerberos (protocol)
Administered service account, a service account within managed services
Privileged identity management
Robotic process automation
References
Computer security
Software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Roth | Aaron Roth is an American computer scientist. He is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography
Roth is the son of Alvin E. Roth, a former Harvard University professor who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2012. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2006, and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum.
Roth spent a year as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2011 as the Raj and Neera Singh Assistant Professor of Computer Science and was made Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor in 2017.
Roth's research interests include algorithm design, algorithmic fairness, differential privacy, and algorithmic game theory.
Awards
Roth received an NSF Career Award in 2013, a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016. He also received a PROSE Award in the Computer and Information Sciences category for his book The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design co-authored with Michael Kearns.
References
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
American computer scientists
Sloan Research Fellows
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Yucat%C3%A1n | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Yucatán, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Defunct stations
XHPKAS-FM 93.3 Tunkás
XHIPM-FM 102.3 Mérida
Notes
References
Yucatán
Yucatán |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20E-roads%20in%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | This is a list of the European Routes, or E-road highways, that run through the Bosnia and Herzegovina. The current network is signposted according to the 2016 system revision, and contains seven Class A roads and three Class B roads within the country.
Most of the roads are motorways that also carry various national A-numbers (for Autocesta), and there are several state roads with M-numbers (for Magistralna cesta).
Class-A European routes
Class-B European routes
See also
A1 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Communication and Traffic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
External links
JP Autoceste FBiH
JP Autoputevi RS
JP Ceste Federacije BiH
JP Putevi RS
References
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geospace%20Technologies | Geospace Technologies Corporation is a manufacturer of specialized electronics and seismic data acquisition equipment used in the oil and gas industry. Geospace Technologies has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange since November 1997.
History
The company was founded in 1980 when Tokyo-based OYO Corporation entered the North American seismic instrumentation market. In 1983, OYO U.S.A was a subsidiary of OYO Japan’s North American, and operations were conducted through a wholly owned holding company. In 1985, AMF Geo Space Corporation specializing in the geophone and hydrophone operations was announced to be sold by its parent company AMF Inc. A year later OYO U.S.A. acquired AMF Geo Space Corporation. OYO Geospace Corporation was established in 1994 as a subsidiary of OYO U.S.A. by combining Houston Geophysical Products and the AMF thermal plotter line. On November 20, 1997, the firm shares were listed on NASDAQ. In 1998, OYO Geospace Corporation acquired JRC/Concord Technologies Inc., a company specializing in the design and manufacture of marine seismic streamer accessories.
In February 2012, OYO Corporation U.S.A. sold its shares of OYO Geospace Corporation. On October 1, 2012, OYO Geospace Corporation changed its name and ticker symbol to Geospace Technologies Corporation. At the same time, the plotter line OYO Instruments was renamed to EXILE Technologies.
In July 2018, the company acquired Quantum Technology Sciences, a privately held security and surveillance sensing technology company.
In November 2018, Geospace bought the Norwegian-based PGS’s Optoseis, a fiber optic permanent reservoir monitoring company.
In April 2020, the company received a $10 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security to provide a border security technology product to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In July 2021, Geospace Technologies acquired 100 percent shares of Aquana, LLC.
References
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clash%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the Philippine television reality competition show, The Clash was broadcast by GMA Network. Both Rayver Cruz and Julie Anne San Jose remained as the hosts, but Ken Chan and Rita Daniela did not return, making it the first season not to include Journey hosts. This is also the first season to air only once a week on Sundays.
It premiered on January 22, 2023, on the network's Sunday Grande line up. The season ended with a total of 19 episodes on May 28, 2023, having Rex Baculfo as the winner. It was replaced by Walang Matigas na Pulis sa Matinik na Misis in its timeslot.
Online hosts
Garrett Bolden
Anthony Rosaldo
Muriel Lomadilla
Lyra Micolob
Thea Astley
Jennie Gabriel
Online auditions
The show opens online auditions on August 7, 2022, for singers aged 16 and above, after the third and fourth seasons.
Top 30
The first five clashers in the Top 30 are announced on December 18, 2022, until the last five contestants on January 3, 2023.
The 30 clashers were electronically paired to battle it out in a singing duel with the winner advancing to the next round.
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
Finalists
Eliminated in the Fifth Round
Eliminated in the Fourth Round
Eliminated in the Third Round
Eliminated in the Second Round
Eliminated in the First Round
aNash Casas participated in The Clash Back in place of Kirby Bas.
bMariel Reyes was reinstated in the competition after beating out Mark Avila in The Clash Back on May 7, 2023.
Round 1: One on One
The randomizer electronically selects the Clashers who will face each other in The Clash Arena. After their performances, the Clash Panel members select who will advance to the next round. They need to get at least majority of the panel member's votes.
Color key
Episode 1 (January 22)
Episode hashtag: #TheClashUnangSalpukan
The episode opens with season 4 winner Mariane Osabel performing Sia's "Unstoppable" with the Top 30 Clashers of Season 5, before joining the Clash Masters and the Clash Panel members where they sang "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" by Shawn Mendes along with past winners: Golden Cañedo (season 1), Jeremiah Tiangco (season 2), and Jessica Villarubin (season 3).
Episode 2 (January 29)
Episode hashtag: #TheClashLabananNgPangarap
Episode 3 (February 5)
Episode hashtag: #TheClashWalangUrungan
Episode 4 (February 12)
Episode hashtag: #TheClashAgawanNgUpuan
Episode 5 (February 19)
Episode hashtag: #TheClashHindiSusuko
Round 2: Laban Kung Laban
The format of this round is a five-way battle where the randomizer selects the Clasher who will pick the other four singers to compose the group and perform for the judges' vote to advance to the Top 12.
Color key
Episode 6 (February 26)
At the end of the first round, the randomizer selected Mark Avila to commence the second round. The last Clasher chosen by Avila then chose the first contestant of the group to perform first.
Episode hashtag: #TheClashUnangGulat
Episode 7 (March 5)
After the first battle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Argentina%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2023 network television schedule for the seven major commercial broadcast networks in Argentina covers from January to December 2023. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2022 television season.
Telefe was the first to announce its summer schedule on 2 November 2022, followed by Net TV on 22 November, El Trece on 7 December, América on 29 December, and Televisión Pública on 2 January 2023. El Nueve and Bravo TV did not publicly announce their schedules.
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 and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot. Stations may air shows at other times at their preference and/or replace the network's news programming with local newscasts.
Bravo TV is not included on Saturdays and Sundays since the network's schedules feature reruns only.
Legend
Weekday schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times are in Argentina time (UTC -3:00).
Early morning
Note: Bravo TV is not included since the network's schedule features reruns and infomercials only.
Late morning
Early afternoon
Late afternoon
Note: Mi Fortuna es Amarte premiered on El Trece on 9 January 2023 at 5:00 p.m. and was removed from the schedule after airing for one week.
Note: Pasaplatos Famosos aired on El Trece for two weeks from 22 May–2 June at 6:00 p.m.
Weekday primetime
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times are in Argentina time (UTC -3:00).
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Late night
Note: Bravo TV is not included since the network's schedule features reruns and infomercials only.
Saturday schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times are in Argentina time (UTC -3:00).
Beginning 28 January 2023, and throughout the 2023 Men's and Women's First Division, and Men's Torneo Federal A football seasons, Televisión Pública programming may be preempted in favor of the games under Fútbol ATP.
Early morning
Note: Net TV is not included since the network's schedule features reruns and infomercials only. El Trece is not included as it does not offer any type of programming during the early morning block.
Late morning
Early afternoon
Late afternoon
Primetime
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Quintana%20Roo | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Notes
References
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1948.
Events
Other television events in 1948
CBS begins television network programming.
The number of homes in the United States with a television set reaches one million.
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Networks and services
Network launches
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1948 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca%20Edge | The Orca Edge was the first commercially viable recreational diving personal decompression computer.
The Orca Edge was an early example of a dive computer that ran a real time algorithm. Designed by Craig Barshinger, Karl E. Huggins and Paul Heinmiller, the Edge did not display a decompression plan, but instead showed the ceiling or the so-called "safe-ascent-depth" and a graphic display of calculated tissue gas loadings. A drawback was that if the diver was faced by a ceiling, he did not know how long he would have to decompress. The Edge's large, unique display, however, featuring 12 tissue bars permitted experienced users to make a reasonable estimate of their decompression obligation.
In the 1980s the relevant technology improved rapidly. In 1983 the Orca Edge became available as the first commercially viable dive computer. The model was based on the US Navy dive tables but did not calculate a decompression plan. However, production capacity was only one unit a day.
The Edge was introduced to the diving industry at DEMA in January 1983, while testing was still ongoing, with mixed reactions. Some thought it was a good tool for diver safety and convenience, others considered it dangerous. Over time it developed a good record and reputation.
History
During a year off from studies, Huggins trained as a diving instructor, and later assisted on an instructor training program with Dan Orr and Lee Somers at Wright State University, during which he gave a lecture on decompression models and early dive computers, and met Craig Barshinger, who had recently stated a company named Orca to develop and market microprocessor based dive computers. Barshinger approached Huggins to discuss the possibilities.
Barshinger moved to Pennsylvania and started raising capital for Orca. In 1982 he persuaded Huggins to relocate to Pennsylvania and work on the project full-time with him and partner Jim Fulton.
The name was from a suggestion by Dan Orr of Electronic Dive GuidE
The Edge was in full production by 1983 and was introduced at a suggested retail price of $675. Production was slow as the company was undercapitalized. By the time the product was discontinued, slightly more than 10,000 units had been made, and the company had changed ownership several times.
Orca Industries continued to refine their technology with the release of the Skinny-dipper in 1987 to do calculations for repetitive diving. They later released the Delphi computer in 1989 that included calculations for diving at altitude as well as dive profile recording.
Technology
The Edge used microprocessor technology, a graphic screen display and an algorithm based on the one used for the US Navy air decompression tables.
The usual technology of the time was to use a lookup table based on the paper dive tables, but using a real-time computation based on instantaneous pressure allowed the computer to take the actual profile into account far more precisely when calculating tissue gas loading. Thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20Brazil%20Play | Box Brazil Play is a Brazilian streaming platform. It is the first streaming platform dedicated exclusively to national content, in addition to content, the platform also broadcasts live programming from several channels, including SBT, CNN Brasil, RedeTV! and Record News. The streaming platform was launched in April 2017 and is operated by the Box Brazil group in partnership with Now from Claro Brasil, the development of the platform was carried out by Container Media Corp.
History
The streaming platform was launched on April 20, 2017, only for some users in the beta version, in May of the same year it was launched only for Box Brazil subscribers and on February 4, 2021, it was launched without restrictions throughout Brazil.
In February 2021, Claro announced a partnership with Box Brazil Play to make all platform content available to Now subscribers, the operator had already done this with STARZPLAY. With the launch on a larger scale, Box Brazil Play made available more than 1500 VOD contents and 20 national TV channels, including Prime Box Brazil, Music Box Brazil, Travel Box Brazil, FashionTV, CNN Brasil, COM Brasil TV.
In August 2020, Box Brazil signed a contract with new broadcasters and also began broadcasting programming from BandSports, BandNews, Band, AgroMais, Sabor & Arte, Arte 1, SBT, Record News and RecordTV.
Content
The platform has exclusive content from several national production companies, making available films, documentaries, series and concerts by Brazilian artists, in addition to including original programming from the Music Box, FashionTV and Prime Box Brazil channels. Among the productions available in the streaming catalog are: A Estrada 47, Amores Urbanos, Paula, Tribos & Impérios, and Through Sombra Não.
Content provider channels
BandSports
BandNews
Record News
CNN Brasil
SBT
RecordTV
RedeTV!
Band
Fish TV
AgroMais
Canal Rural
Canal do Criador
Sabor & Arte
Travel Box Brazil
Arte 1
Prime Box Brazil
Music Box Brazil
FashionTV
Yeeaah
COM Brasil TV
TV Brasil 2
TV Escola
TV Senado
References
2017 establishments in Brazil
Streaming television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Sullivan | Jonathan Sullivan (Chinese: 蘇立文) is a British political scientist and Sinologist who researches political communications in China, Taiwan and other East Asian contexts, China's Internet and cyber-nationalism, studies of the Confucius Institutes, and China's politics of celebrity culture, hip hop and football.
Sullivan is Head of China Programmes at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and associate professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Sullivan is an editor of The Asia Dialogue, the online journal of the ARI. He is a co-founder of the China Soccer Observatory (CSO) with Simon Chadwick and a member of The China Quarterly Executive Committee.
Early life and education
Sullivan comes from Kent, England. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Modern Chinese Studies and Master's degree in Asia Pacific Studies, all at the University of Leeds, Sullivan went to the University of Nottingham for learning Political Science, where he got another master's degree (2005-2006) and completed his PhD (2006-2010).
Academic career
From 2009 to 2011, Sullivan was a RCUK Fellow for China, Globalization and Civil Society. In 2012, he moved over to the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham to work with Steve Tsang, who was Head of the School, as Director of Research. In 2014, Sullivan went back to the School of Politics as Director of the China Policy Institute (CPI).
He was the Director of the CPI and Editor-in-Chief of the institute's online journal China Policy Institute: Analysis until 2018, when the CPI merged into ARI.
Sullivan was a British Science Association media fellow who facilitated a period of work at and writing for the BBC.
Works
Books
A New Era in Democratic Taiwan: Trajectories and Turning Points in Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, with Chun-Yi Lee (Routledge, 2018)
China’s Football Dream (Asia Research Institute e-Book, 2018)
Selected articles
Sullivan, J., & Wang, W. (2022). China's “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”: The Interaction of Formal Diplomacy and Cyber-Nationalism. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
Sullivan, J., Jeu, S. & Wang, W. (2021). Rising Cyber China. Turkish Policy Quarterly.
Sullivan, J., & Lee, D. S. (2018). Soft Power Runs into Popular Geopolitics: Western Media Frames Democratic Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1(2), 273–300.
Sullivan, J. (2014). China's Weibo: Is Faster Different?. New Media & Society, 16(1), 24–37.
Selected op-eds
Taiwan and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, China Policy Institute: Analysis. Jan 27, 2018.
Western universities are not prepared for engaging with China. Nikkei Asian Review. Dec 27, 2017.
Trump, Taiwan, and the ‘One China’ Policy. The Diplomat. Feb 28, 2017.
How the Global Media Frames Taiwan and Gets it Wrong. Global Taiwan Institute 1(13). Dec 14, 2016.
Chinese Celebrity and the Soft Power Machine. China Film Insider. April 3, 2016.
“Asia for Asians”: Would it mean “Asia for Chinese?” |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary%20Young | Cary Graeme Young (22 December 1939 – 31 December 2022) was an Australian television quiz personality, best known for his success on Nine Network game show Sale of the Century.
After first appearing as a regular contestant in 1982, Young was regularly invited back to the program to participate in various tournaments.
Young took part in Sale of the Century'''s "Champion of Champions" tournament in 1983, followed by the "Australia versus America" challenge in 1985. He then won the Commonwealth Games tournament in 1986 and the World Championship tournament in 1987. Young was also the winner of two Sale of the Century masters tournaments in 1990 and 1997.
His final appearance on Sale of the Century was during the 21st Birthday Challenge in 2001 (albeit as a special guest rather than as a competitor) shortly before the long-running show was axed.
From 2000 to 2006, Young wrote a quiz for the Herald Sun newspaper.
In 2011, Young donated a Holden Piazza he had won on Sale of the Century to the National Motor Museum in Birdwood, South Australia.
Young became involved in a legal battle with former Wheel of Fortune host Rob Elliott regarding unpaid royalties for a board game Elliott had created called Smart Ass, for which Young wrote questions.
Personal life and death
Young was born in New Zealand where he developed a passion for general knowledge during lengthy hospital visits as he struggled with asthma as a child. After becoming an amateur boxer, Young moved to Australia where he spent time backpacking.
In Queensland, Young gained employment at the Cape River Meatworks in Pentland. He married and settled in Charters Towers. As his Sale of the Century appearances became more regular, Young and his wife moved to Melbourne in 1984 to be closer to the GTV-9 studios where Sale of the Century'' was filmed.
After suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Young died at the Nellie Melba Village in Wheeler's Hill on 31 December 2022. He was 83.
His death prompted tributes from various Australian figures including quiz champion Brydon Coverdale and politician Bob Katter.
References
1939 births
2022 deaths
Contestants on Australian game shows
Quiz championship players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffi%20Sorensen | Steffi Sorensen is a college basketball analyst and sideline reporter for SEC Network. She played for the Florida Gators women's basketball team from 2008-2010.
Early life and college
Growing in Jacksonville, Florida, her dad Chris along with his brother and her uncle Robin were firefighters in Jacksonville and founded Firehouse Subs. She went to Bartram Trail High School where she was Miss Florida Basketball in her senior year in 2006 and she was second highest scored in points in St. John's County with 2,147 points. She ended up going to Florida Gulf Coast University and was second in points averaging 14.5 points per game, leading the team to the division II finals losing to Southern Connecticut State. Despite her successful freshman season and FGCU going to Division I, Sorensen transferred to Santa Fe Community College to be closer to family. After a year at SFCC, she walked-on at the University of Florida for the 2008-09 season under head coach Amanda Butler who recruited Sorensen while at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Sorenson earned a scholarship before her junior year ended. In her two years at Florida, she scored nine points per game and led the Lady Gators to the Second Round of the 2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. In her junior year, she set the school’s single-season 3-point percentage record, shooting 39.2 percent from beyond the arc. She was the captain and Most Valuable Player on the women’s basketball team her senior year Sorensen graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor of science degree in telecommunications management in 2010.
Broadcasting career
After being undrafted in the 2010 WNBA draft and playing a season in France, she joined ESPN 3 as an analyst before joining ESPN a year later as a color commentator, and is now a college basketball analyst for SEC Now and sideline reporter for SEC Network. She also worked for Fox Sports.
References
External links
Steffi Sorensen's bio at ESPN
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
University of Florida alumni
American sports journalists
Women sports journalists
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Development%20Bank | Regional Development Bank (RDB; ; ) is a state-owned bank in Sri Lanka.
The bank has a network of 272 service points and 51 automated teller machines (ATMs)/cash deposit machines (CDMs).
References
https://www.rdb.lk/about-us/key-personnel/chairman/
1985 establishments in Sri Lanka
Banks of Sri Lanka
Banks established in 1985
State owned commercial corporations of Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20New%20Zealand%20%282023%29 | This article documents the timeline of transmission of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand throughout 2023.
Transmission timeline
Data about the previous day is extracted from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research's database at 9:00 am weekly and is publicly released by the Ministry of Health around 1:00 pm on Monday weekly.
January
On 9 January, the Health Ministry confirmed that the XBB.1.5 variant of COVID-19 had been detected in New Zealand with two cases. There were 2,424 new community cases on 9 January, compared to over 4,000 reported on 4 January.
On 16 January, 1 News reported that a child aged 10 years and an individual aged between 10 and 19 years were among the 57 deaths reported between 9 and 15 January. 333 COVID-19 cases were hospitalised with eight in intensive care.
February
On 9 February, Medsafe approved a version of Pfizer's pediatric vaccine for children aged under the age of five years.
On 20 February, Statistics New Zealand confirmed that COVID-19 had caused a 10 percent surge in the death toll in 2022. The 2022 death toll in New Zealand stood at 38,574; compared with 34,932 in 2021. Of these deaths, 2,400 deaths in 2022 were attributed to COVID-19. Statistics NZ population estimates and projections manager Michael MacAskill also stated that the increased death toll in 2022 reflected New Zealand's ageing population, following similar trends in Canada, the United Kingdom, and United States.
On 27 February, the Ministry of Health confirmed there had been 40 COVID-related deaths over the past week including one person under the age of 10 and one person in their 20s. 200 COVID-19 cases remained in hospital including three in intensive care.
March
On 6 March, the Canterbury Region reported the highest number of cases in New Zealand, with 2,346 in the past week. The Southern District came second, reporting 1,251 in the past week. The Waitemata District came third place, reporting 1,197 cases in the past week. 177 cases remained hospitalised, with one patient in intensive care. Of the 18 deaths reported in the past week, one was aged under 10 years while another was in their 20s.
On 13 March, 190 cases were hospitalised with five in intensive care units. The rolling seven-day average for new cases between 6 and 12 March was 1,644, compared with 1,632 reported in the week leading up to 6 March That same day, National Party leader and Leader of the Opposition Christopher Luxon tested positive for COVID-19; having tested positive previously in 2022.
On 20 March, 200 cases were hospitalised with eight in intensive care units. The seven-day rolling average leading up to 20 March was 1,593.
On 27 March, 211 people were hospitalised with seven in intensive care units. The seven-day rolling average leading up to 27 March was 1,605.
April
On 10 April, University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker urged the New Zealand Government to retain the few remaining COVID-19 restrictions including the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20the%20Quadra%20Zone | Beyond the Quadra Zone (or BQZ) is an open-ended, computer-moderated science fiction, play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Quest Games, Inc.
History and development
Beyond the Quadra Zone was a mid-complexity, open-ended, science fiction PBM game. One reviewer called it a "power game". Quest Games, Inc. published the game, which drew from the design of Universe II. It was computer-moderated with some human assistance.
Gameplay
The game setting is outer space in the year 2615. As starship captains, players explored space and collected resources. Beyond the charted regions of space, the uncharted "quadra zone" was newly accessible for exploration. The elements of gameplay included combat.
Reception
A reviewer in the Summer–Fall 1984 issue of Gaming Universal rated the game "excellent" at four of five stars, stating "I recommend Beyond the Quadra Zone highly." In late 1984, David Webber, the editor of Paper Mayhem magazine reviewed the game, saying it "has quickly become one of my favorite PBM games".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
American role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1984
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space conquest games
Space opera role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayna%20Communications | Dayna Communications, Inc., was a privately-held American computer company, active from 1984 to 1997 and based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It primarily manufactured networking products for Apple Computer's computing platforms, including the Macintosh, PowerBook and Newton (although some of its later networking products were platform-independent and could work on PCI-based IBM PC compatibles). In 1997, the company was acquired by Intel for nearly $14 million.
History
Dayna Communications was founded by William Sadleir in Salt Lake City in 1984, with $1.6 million in start-up capital.
In May 1985, the company delivered the MacCharlie, a hardware add-on for the Macintosh 128K that was essentially a headless IBM PC clone, complete with one or two 5.25-inch floppy drives, that clipped onto the side of the Mac. It connected to the Mac via a serial cable; users could run PC software through a terminal application provided through included floppy disks. The product received positive reviews, with The New York Times calling it "a brilliant idea" that gave Apple the potential to "grow in businesses or households already committed to IBM hardware and software". The product was however a market failure, with Sadleir overspending on advertising while ignoring the needs of customers he had surveyed, the majority of which specifically wanted a means of transferring files captured in the IBM PC's FAT filesystem to the Mac while not necessarily desiring a means of running IBM PC software on the Mac. Dayna nearly went bankrupt amid debt to creditors, but after securing $2.5 million in investment capital from Norman Lear of Act III Communications, Sadleir was able to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy before releasing the FT100, a retooling of the MacCharlie that leaned on the file interoperability aspect of the MacCharlie while removing any unnecessary components. It sold for less than half the street price of the MacCharlie and even reused the latter's packaging. Released in November 1986, only 400 were sold within eight weeks, or a quarter of what the company expected to sell.
In January 1987, the company received $250,000 in cash from Frank C. Brooks, an investor based in Greenwich, Connecticut, who planned to raise even more capital for Dayna with contributions from Brooks's former contacts at Morgan Guaranty Trust. However, those contacts were hesitant to infuse Dayna with cash owing to its lopsided financial situation—$12 million in valuation against $6.3 million in debt. Those contacts requested that Dayna get its debtors to accept a lower bid for recuperations. Those same debtors requested that Dayna increase its cash flow in order to convince them that Dayna could stand to repay their debt, leading to a catch-22 situation. As the company had too few resources to pay off its debt to creditors in liquidation proceedings, Sadleir would had to have filed for personal bankruptcy. At the last minute, he leveraged an overlooked contact with an executive at Novell Inc., |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Arana-Daniel | Nancy Guadalupe Arana–Daniel is a Mexican computer scientist specializing in machine learning approaches including support vector machines and artificial neural networks applied to robot motion planning, computer vision and related problems. Her research has included the development of methods for robots working in disaster response to distinguish human victims from rubble.
Education and career
Arana-Daniel studied computer science at CINVESTAV in Guadalajara, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2007.
She is a professor and researcher in the Department of Computational Sciences at the University of Guadalajara.
Recognition
Arana-Daniel is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Books
Arana-Daniel is the coauthor of books including:
Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering (with Alma Y. Alanís and Carlos López-Franco, Elsevier, 2018)
Neural Networks for Robotics: An Engineering Perspective (with Alma Y. Alanís and Carlos López-Franco, CRC Press, 2019)
Neural Networks Modeling and Control: Applications for Unknown Nonlinear Delayed Systems in Discrete Time (with Jorge D. Ríos, Alma Y. Alanís, and Carlos López-Franco, Academic Press, 2020)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Guadalajara
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Poisoned%20Land | Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma's Keepers a 2022 book by Jacques Pauw, a South African investigative journalist, about the allegedly corrupt power networks between the South African government and the country's political elite, most notably the African National Congress (ANC). The book follows on from Pauw's 2017 book The President's Keepers but with greater focus on government institutions not looked at in the previous book and the State Security Agency (SSA). It is updated to include findings from government committees and investigations such as the Zondo Commission. It asks why, after 5 years since the end of the Zuma administration, have most people implicated in state corruption still not been prosecuted and examines efforts to fight corruption in the post-Jacob Zuma ANC government under Cyril Ramaphosa.
Synopsis
A particular focus of the book is on the SSA and its head, appointed by President Jacob Zuma, Arthur Fraser. It examines a number of issues ranging from the allegedly corrupt systematic funneling of large sums of public money from the SSA to fund the ANC, and internal ANC power battles in support of former president Zuma, to alleged links between the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, and suspected illicit tobacco trader Adriano Mazzotti. The book alleges that a number of corrupt senior police officials and prosecutors in the SAPS, crime intelligence, Hawks, and the National Prosecuting Authority are still in positions of power thereby preventing investigations and prosecutions for state corruption.
Reception
Allegations in the book by Pauw connecting the Malema and other senior EFF members to organised crime resulted in the EFF trying to block the sale of the book through legal action. It was speculated in the media that, similar to the Zuma's efforts to ban the Presidents Keepers, these efforts resulted in a Streisand effect that helped boost sales of the book. Jeremy Gordin, in a review for the South African political news aggregator PoliticsWeb, described the book as being more about the "life and “adventures”" of the author than as a sequel to the Presidents Keepers whilst also being a "thorough, proficient (and sometimes entertaining) compilation" of the state corruption it examines.
The book was the number one Christmas best selling book in South Africa in 2022.
References
South African non-fiction books
Political books
Deep politics
2022 non-fiction books
Investigative journalism
Non-fiction books about organized crime
Jacob Zuma
African National Congress politicians
Works about corruption
Corruption in South Africa
Books about the African National Congress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News9%20Plus | News9 Plus is an Indian news subscription-based over-the-top media service (OTT) service and news Production company, based out of Noida, India. It was launched by TV9 Network, who also own TV9 Telugu, TV9 Bharatvarsh, TV9 Kannada, TV9 Bangla, TV9 Marathi, and TV9 Gujarati, in February, 2022. It is helmed by Barun Das and the editor is Sandeep Unnithan. InAugust 2023, it was announced that News9 Plus will be a part of larger News9 Mediaverse umbrella which will also include News9Live with Rakesh Khar as the editor of News9 Mediaverse.
TV9’s News9 Plus, an English video news magazine, is a separate app. It is the digital descendant of News9, the Network’s erstwhile English news channel based out of Bengaluru. It offers the depth and gravitas of news magazines but with the production qualities and story-telling techniques of OTT platforms. In August 2023, Barun Das said it was part of News9 Mediaverse in an interview with Mint. The CEO of Prasar Bharati, Shashi Shekhar Vempati called it the Future of News Industry.
The format of the episodes focuses on influencers from various fields. Some of the people to have featured are Bhaichung Bhutia, Vijay Deverakonda, Amitabh Kant, David Cameron, Hardeep Singh Puri, Arnab Goswami, media baron Subhash Chandra among many others.
Award Winning Shows
Notable Shows
Duologue With Barun Das
The Big Kick Featuring Bhaichung Bhutia
2023: The Take-off Year
Killed by Taliban
Small is Big
Smart New World
See also
TV9 Telugu
TV9 Bharatvarsh
News9Live
TV9 Kannada
References
Indian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare%20maximization | The welfare maximization problem is an optimization problem studied in economics and computer science. Its goal is to partition a set of items among agents with different utility functions, such that the welfare – defined as the sum of the agents' utilities – is as high as possible. In other words, the goal is to find an item allocation satisfying the utilitarian rule.
An equivalent problem in the context of combinatorial auctions is called the winner determination problem. In this context, each agent submits a list of bids on sets of items, and the goal is to determine what bid or bids should win, such that the sum of the winning bids is maximum.
Definitions
There is a set M of m items, and a set N of n agents. Each agent i in N has a utility function . The function assigns a real value to every possible subset of items. It is usually assumed that the utility functions are monotone set functions, that is, implies . It is also assumed that . Together with monotonicity, this implies that all utilities are non-negative.
An allocation is an ordered partition of the items into n disjoint subsets, one subset per agent, denoted , such that .The welfare of an allocation is the sum of agents' utilities: .
The welfare maximization problem is: find an allocation X that maximizes W(X).
The welfare maximization problem has many variants, depending on the type of allowed utility functions, the way by which the algorithm can access the utility functions, and whether there are additional constraints on the allowed allocations.
Additive agents
An additive agent has a utility function that is an additive set function: for every additive agent i and item j, there is a value , such that for every set Z of items. When all agents are additive, welfare maximization can be done by a simple polynomial-time algorithm: give each item j to an agent for whom is maximum (breaking ties arbitrarily). The problem becomes more challenging when there are additional constraints on the allocation.
Fairness constraints
One may want to maximize the welfare among all allocations that are fair, for example, envy-free up to one item (EF1), proportional up to one item (PROP1), or equitable up to one item (EQ1). This problem is strongly NP-hard when n is variable. For any fixed n ≥ 2, the problem is weakly NP-hard, and has a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm based on dynamic programming. For n = 2, the problem has a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme.
There are algorithms for solving this problem in polynomial time when there are few agent types, few item types or small value levels. The problem can also be solved in polynomial time when the agents' additive utilities are binary (the value of every item is either 0 or 1), as well as for a more general class of utilities called generalized binary.
Matroid constraints
Another constraint on the allocation is that the bundles must be independent sets of a matroid. For example, every bundle must contain at most k items, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20London%20Underground%20stations%20%282020%29 | This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2020 calendar year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with significantly reduced levels of mobility when compared with the 2019 data. Extended periods of significantly reduced commuting and other travel caused many major central London stations to drop in the ranking during 2020 and for larger suburban stations to replace them.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 268 stations in 2020. In 2020, Stratford was the busiest station on the network, used by over 25.07 million passengers, while Kensington (Olympia) was the least used, with 40,000 passengers. Data for 2020 was published on 1 April 2021.
This table shows the busiest stations with over 10 million entries and exits in 2020.
See also
List of busiest London Underground stations for the 2022 data
List of busiest London Underground stations (2021)
List of busiest London Underground stations (2019)
List of London Underground stations
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2020–21)
Notes
References
Busiest London Underground stations
Busiest London Underground stations
2020 in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20London%20Underground%20stations%20%282019%29 | This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2019 calendar year. The dataset for the year was the last to show typical patterns of mobility prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with many major central London stations dropping in the ranking the following year.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 268 stations in 2019. In 2019, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 88.27 million passengers, while Kensington (Olympia) was the least used, with 109,430 passengers. Data for 2019 was published on 1 April 2020 and was revised on 29 May 2020.
This table shows the busiest stations with over 33 million entries and exits in 2019.
See also
List of busiest London Underground stations for the 2022 data
List of busiest London Underground stations (2021)
List of busiest London Underground stations (2020)
List of London Underground stations
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2019–20)
Notes
References
Busiest London Underground stations
Busiest London Underground stations
2019 in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude%20Rhoderick | Maude Clara Rhoderick ( – ) was a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory computer and Fisheries Bureau clerk.
Early life and education
Rhoderick was born in in Washington, D.C.
Maude, also reported in the press as "Maud" and "Clara Maud" and occasionally with the surname "Roderick," was the second daughter of Elbridge Perry Rhoderick and Martha Virginia Rhoderick. Elbridge was the Chief of the Division of Contracts in the Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General under Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer.
Rhoderick participated regularly in Washington, D.C. society in the first two decades of the twentieth century, hosting events including wedding showers and attending gatherings reported in the Society pages of the Washington Herald and Washington Evening Star newspapers. She graduated from the (Washington) Business High School in 1901, with a ceremony held at the National Theatre with music from the Marine Band. In 1908, she was noted as a bookkeeper living in NW DC in what is now considered the U Street Shaw/Cardozo neighborhood, across the street from Westminster Park.
Rhoderick was an active member of the Odd Fellows, or the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1913, she was a member of the Miriam lodge, No.6, which became the youngest lodge to be conferred Rebekahs degree and was installed as financial secretary within its officers group.
Rhoderick served in official roles in the Miriam lodge at varying intervals, including as installing officer in 1918 where she presided over the installation of new officers in the Mounth Pleasant Lodge and while efforts were made to raise funds for the war.
Career
Rhoderick worked as a computer for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at points between the years 1922-1931. Most notably in 1927, Rhoderick was serving as a computer while she and her colleagues would have been working on observations to determine the solar constant of radiation.
Rhoderick was appointed junior clerk CAF 2-1 in March 1928 for the Department of Commerce in the Bureau of Fisheries. She resigned the post in May 1929.
Death
Rhoderick died in 1966 in Washington, D.C. She was interred with her sister Mrs. Lillian Rhoderick Deland in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Her parents Elbridge P. and Martha Virginia Rhoderick are also buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
References
People from Washington, D.C.
1882 births
1966 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Eugene%20Levy | Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian.
He received thirteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning four times, two for SCTV Network 90 and two for Schitt's Creek. He also received a Grammy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and 11 Canadian Comedy Awards.
Major associations
Emmy Award
Golden Globe Award
Grammy Award
Independent Spirit Award
Guild awards
Producers Guild of America
Screen Actors Guild Award
Writers Guild of America
Canadian awards
ACTRA Awards
Canadian Comedy Awards
Gemini Awards
Critics awards
Miscellaneous awards
References
External links
Lists of awards received by American actor
Lists of awards received by American musician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet%20Maneuvers | Fleet Maneuvers (or 3D Fleet Maneuvers) is a closed-end, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) wargame.
History and development
Fleet Maneuvers was a computer-moderated, closed end, space-based play-by-mail game published by Fantastic Simulations.
Gameplay
The game's purpose was to score the most points from ship-to-ship combat. Games could end at 700 or 900 points, which took 10–20 turns. Players could choose from four races or factions: the Alliance, the Confederacy, the diminutive Donnz, and the warlike Krell.
Fantastic Simulations also introduced a 3D variant called The Next Dimension.
Reception
Reviewer Keith Mercer, in the July–August 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine stated that the game was challenging.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
20th-century role-playing games
American games
American role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space conquest games
Space opera role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVAERS | OpenVAERS is an American anti-vaccine website created in 2021 by Liz Willner. The website misrepresents data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to promote misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
History
Lizabeth Pearl "Liz" Willner has worked as a freelance web designer. Willner resides in Oakland, California.
In April 2019, Willner began posting anti-vaccine content after reporting that her child suffered an injury after receiving a vaccine. Willner initially focused her efforts on opposing Senate Bill 276 in California, a piece of legislation introduced to tighten vaccination exemption rules for children.
In September 2019, Willner started OpenVAERS as a project of the website The Arktivist. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Willner began investing time in the OpenVAERS project, and opposed lockdown measures imposed in California. In January 2021, Willner launched OpenVAERS as a standalone website.
Influence
In August 2021, the British anti-disinformation organization Logically reported that 30% of the website's referral traffic came from The Gateway Pundit, a far-right fake news website, and over 10% came from English conspiracy theorist Vernon Coleman. Logically also found that almost 3% of the referral traffic for the official VAERS database came from OpenVAERS. According to Logically, the website has attracted 1.23 million visitors since its launch.
COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
OpenVAERS misrepresents data from the VAERS database to indicate that the COVID-19 vaccines are harmful by publishing unverified data and statistics on the number of people who have allegedly died or suffered injuries after being vaccinated against COVID-19. The website is designed to present the information in an easily accessible format, which allows decontextualized screenshots to be shared on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.
Kolina Koltai, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Center for an Informed Public (ICP) at the University of Washington, described OpenVAERS as "misinformation 101", adding: "It's decontextualization. I literally show examples like that in classes that I teach. You take a bit of information and you remove all the other context from it. That's common with almost any misinformation you can see." Logically analyst Nick Backovic said, "By design, it's there for virality because it's so easy to share these screenshots, out of context, and people won't question it. It looks official, sounds official, because it also has this very similar name to the actual government website."
References
External links
Anti-vaccination media
Anti-vaccination in the United States
COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy
Internet properties established in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20root-finding%20algorithms | Finding polynomial roots is a long-standing problem that has been the object of much research throughout history. A testament to this is that up until the 19th century, algebra meant essentially theory of polynomial equations.
Principles
Finding the root of a linear polynomial (degree one) is easy and needs only one division: the general equation has solution For quadratic polynomials (degree two), the quadratic formula produces a solution, but its numerical evaluation may require some care for ensuring numerical stability. For degrees three and four, there are closed-form solutions in terms of radicals, which are generally not convenient for numerical evaluation, as being too complicated and involving the computation of several th roots whose computation is not easier than the direct computation of the roots of the polynomial (for example the expression of the real roots of a cubic polynomial may involve non-real cube roots). For polynomials of degree five or higher Abel–Ruffini theorem asserts that there is, in general, no radical expression of the roots.
So, except for very low degrees, root finding of polynomials consists of finding approximations of the roots. By the fundamental theorem of algebra, a polynomial of degree has exactly real or complex roots counting multiplicities.
It follows that the problem of root finding for polynomials may be split in three different subproblems;
Finding one root
Finding all roots
Finding roots in a specific region of the complex plane, typically the real roots or the real roots in a given interval (for example, when roots represents a physical quantity, only the real positive ones are interesting).
For finding one root, Newton's method and other general iterative methods work generally well.
For finding all the roots, arguably the most reliable method is the Francis QR algorithm computing the eigenvalues of the Companion matrix corresponding to the polynomial, implemented as the standard method in MATLAB.
The oldest method of finding all roots is to start by finding a single root. When a root has been found, it can be removed from the polynomial by dividing out the binomial . The resulting polynomial contains the remaining roots, which can be found by iterating on this process. However, except for low degrees, this does not work well because of the numerical instability: Wilkinson's polynomial shows that a very small modification of one coefficient may change dramatically not only the value of the roots, but also their nature (real or complex). Also, even with a good approximation, when one evaluates a polynomial at an approximate root, one may get a result that is far to be close to zero. For example, if a polynomial of degree 20 (the degree of Wilkinson's polynomial) has a root close to 10, the derivative of the polynomial at the root may be of the order of this implies that an error of on the value of the root may produce a value of the polynomial at the approximate root that is of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainChip | BrainChip (ASX:BRN, OTCQX:BRCHF) is an Australia-based technology company, founded in 2004 by Peter Van Der Made, that specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hardware. The company's primary products are the MetaTF development environment, which allows the training and deployment of spiking neural networks (SNN), and the AKD1000 neuromorphic processor, a hardware implementation of their spiking neural network system. BrainChip's technology is based on a neuromorphic computing architecture, which attempts to mimic the way the human brain works. The company is a part of Intel Foundry Services and Arm AI partnership.
History
Australian mining company Aziana acquired BrainChip in March 2015. Later, via a reverse merger of the now dormant Aziana in September 2015 BrainChip was put on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), and van der Made started commercializing his original idea for artificial intelligence processor hardware. In 2016, the company appointed former Exar CEO Louis Di Nardo as CEO; Van Der Made then took the position of CTO. In October 2021, the company announced that it was taking orders for its Akida AI Processor Development Kits, and in January 2022, that it was taking orders for its Akida AI Processor PCIe boards. In April 2022, BrainChip partnered with NVISO to provide collaboration with applications and technologies. In November 2022, BrainChip added the Rochester Institute of Technology to its University AI accelerator program. The next month, BrainChip was a part of Intel Foundry Services. In January 2023, Edge Impulse announced support for BrainChip's AKD processor.
MetaTF
The MetaTF software is designed to work with a variety of image, video, and sensor data, and is intended to be implemented in a range of applications, including security, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. The software uses Python to create spiking neural networks (or convert other neural networks to SNNs) for use on the AKD processor hardware. The software is also capable of SNN deployment on normal processors.
The AKD processor
The Akida 1000 processor is an event-based neural processing device with 1.2 million artificial neurons and 10 billion artificial synapses. Utilizing event-based possessing, it analyzes essential inputs at specific points. Results are stored in the on-chip memory units.
The processor contains 80 nodes that communicate over a mesh network. Each node consists of four either convolutional or fully connected Neural Processing Units (NPUs), coupled with individual memory units. Akida runs an entire neural network executing all neuron layers in parallel. The design elements are meant to allow inference and incremental learning on edge devices with lower power consumption.
On January 29, 2023, BrainChip announced that it has completed the design of its AKD1500 reference chip.
On March 6, 2023, BrainChip announced the second generation of its Akida platform. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Gunzinger | Anton Gunzinger (born 8 May 1956, Welschenrohr, Switzerland) is a Swiss electrical engineer and entrepreneur. He was a developer of high-performance parallelized computers.
Life
Anton Gunzinger first did an apprenticeship as a radio electrician, followed by vocational secondary school and the technical college in Biel. He then studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and graduated as an electrical engineer in 1983. This was followed by an assistant position at the Institute of Electronics with Walter Guggenbühl and the preparation of a doctoral thesis entitled Synchronous Data Flow Computer for Real-Time Image Processing. He received his Ph.D. with it in 1989.
Gunzinger presented a parallel computer consisting of 18 processors connected in parallel in 1990: the Synchronous Data Flow Machine, or Sydama, as part of a system for real-time image processing. For his work on Sydama, Gunzinger won the 100,000 Swiss franc prize of the de Vigier Foundation for the Promotion of Young Swiss Entrepreneurs.
As a senior assistant at ETH Zurich, he and his team developed the MUltiprocessor System with Intelligent Communication (MUSIC system). This computer system with several interconnected processors and a performance of 3.6 gigaflops (billion floating point operations per second) was one of the most powerful computers in the world at the time. With MUSIC, he participated as a finalist for the Gordon Bell Award of the AMC and IEEE at the 1992 Supercomputing conference in Minneapolis in competition with the most well-known manufacturers of supercomputers, came in second behind Intel, and was honored for his efforts. As a result, Time magazine selected Gunzinger as one of the 100 upcoming leaders worldwide in 1994.
In 1993, together with a business economist, he founded the company Supercomputing Systems AG in the Technopark Zurich with the aim of developing low-cost supercomputers. More than 20 years later, his company is still successful, with customized products being developed in a wide range of competence areas since about 1997. Gunzinger was awarded a doctorate by the ETH Zurich.
ETH Zurich awarded Gunzinger the title of professor in 2002, where he lectured on computer architectures in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
Gunzinger is committed to an orientation of energy technology without nuclear power plants and reduction of the use of fossil fuels. He regrets the relatively slow progress in the transformation of energy production in accordance with the Energy Strategy 2050.
He took a position on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland: in his view, consistent, comprehensive protection of at-risk groups (six percent of the total population), especially the over-80s, would be sufficient to lift restrictions for everyone else. Gunzinger advocated a sweep of the under-80s, which could end the pandemic within one to two months-without overloading hospi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn%20System%20BASIC | Acorn System BASIC and Atom BASIC are two closely related dialects of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers for their early microcomputers like the Acorn System 3 and Acorn Atom. Developed in-house, they have a number of significant idiosyncrasies compared to most BASIC dialects of the home computer era.
In particular, the language lacked statements for many of the machine's internal functions and provided this using direct access and manipulation of memory locations using indirection operators instead of PEEK and POKE. Both also lacked floating-point support, although this could be added with an optional ROM which introduced further idiosyncrasies. System and Atom BASIC differ primarily in that Atom used the same indirection system to provide rudimentary string manipulation, which Standard lacked, and added a small number of new statements for computer graphics.
Most of these oddities were removed when the underlying system was greatly expanded to produce BBC BASIC on the Atom's successor, the BBC Micro. BBC BASIC ROMs were later offered to Atom users.
History
Acorn Computers formed in 1978 and got its start making a series of kit-built and Eurocard-based systems starting with the Acorn System 1 in 1979. They developed Acorn System BASIC for these machines, an integer-only dialect that required only 4 KB of memory in total. The language had a number of implementation details that made it "highly non-standard."
The Atom, introduced in 1980, was built from parts of the System 3 packaged onto a single board. Systems shipped standard with 2 KB of RAM and 8 KB of ROM, which included BASIC and a number of device drivers. Atom BASIC had only a few changes from the System version, adding support for string manipulation and a small number of graphics commands. The Atom was upgradable, with up to 12 KB of RAM in total and an additional 4 KB of ROM that added floating-point support. This used separate functions and operations that worked on them, indicated by the % symbol. This choice of symbol was unfortunate, as Microsoft BASIC used the percent sign to indicate integers, not floating point.
The Atom was on the market for only a short period before Acorn began development of its successor, the Proton. This was initially to be a two-processor unit. The design was still in its earliest stages when a series of events led to it being selected as the basis of the single-CPU BBC Micro. At the time, there were comments that it should definitely not use Acorn's variety of BASIC, which "virtually no other microcomputer can understand" and that "If the new language were based on the Atom's form of BASIC, it would be a disaster."
Ultimately, the BBC system did use an Acorn-written BASIC, but heavily modified. The resulting BBC BASIC was much more similar to Microsoft BASIC and was later offered as an upgrade to the Atom.
Description
As the two dialects are very similar, the following will refer to Atom BASIC primarily and point out diff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonie%20Bears%3A%20Guardian%20Code | Boonie Bears: Guardian Code is a 2023 Chinese computer animated science fiction comedy film. It is the ninth film in the Boonie Bears series and is directed by Lin Yongchang and Shao Heqi. In the film, young Briar and Bramble lose their mother in a forest fire, and many years later, Vick brings them to a robot research institute, where they unexpectedly receive news of their mother.
It was released in China on 22 January 2023 (Chinese New Year). On 5 February, it surpassed US$200 million to become the highest-grossing film in the Boonie Bears franchise.
Original voice cast
Zhang Bingjun as Bramble
Zhang Ming as young Bramble
Zhang Wei as Briar
Tan Xiao as Vick
Miao Yingying
Jia Chenlu
Nie Jixuan
Wang Tianhao
Wang Siyu
Soundtrack
The film's main theme "Xing Shan Shan Yue Wan Wan" (星闪闪月弯弯) is sung by Yisa Yu.
Release
Boonie Bears: Guardian Code was released in China on 22 January 2023 (Chinese New Year).
References
External links
2023 films
2023 science fiction films
2023 comedy films
2020s Mandarin-language films
2023 computer-animated films
2023 in Chinese cinema
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Chinese science fiction comedy films
Chinese computer-animated films
Chinese animated comedy films
Boonie Bears films
Chinese sequel films
Animated films about robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Rubin | Kevin Alfonso Rubin () is an Israeli actor, network host, internet celebrity, and YouTuber.
Biography
Rubin was born in Herzliya and later moved with his family to Kfar Saba. As a child his hobbies included surfing, skateboarding and breakdancing. He had difficulty in school and was diagnosed with ADHD.
Upon being conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces, he joined the spokesman unit. Upon his release from the army, he began studying acting at Technique, an Israeli acting school. During this period he worked as a surf instructor, and in the process played guest roles in the youth series , "Partners", in the movie , as well as in several commercials. Later he decided to leave his job and focus on videos on the web.
At the beginning of 2017, he started posting parody videos on Instagram about situations from everyday life that went viral. In August 2017 he released the song "La Piv Bella" with Idan Telmore. By the end of the year, Rubin's Instagram page had gained about 200,000 followers. His Instagram video "The Unicorn Challenge" was chosen for the Instagram video of the year at the Playcon Festival 2017. Rubin also won the 2017 Network Star of the Year award from the Buzzerim website.
In September 2017, together with celebrity , he created the network series "Kevin and Raz - Haim Baharta", which was broadcast on their YouTube channel. As part of the series, six network stars lived in a villa in Caesarea which was called "The Colosseum" (when in the past they were in a penthouse in Netanya and a villa in Even Yehuda) from which they would vlog every day. Every day a 7-minute-long episode is released that presents challenges and attractions for teenagers. The network series is funded by companies that pay for product placement. The series was a success, and each episode has been viewed about 200 thousand views. television program awarded the series first place for "Network stars of the Hebrew year 5778 (2018)".
In June 2018, Rubin participated in the Instagram series "Insta-Babe". In July 2018, Rubin published the song "Hakol charata" (Everything is a nonsense) together with Sapani and the rapper , which has accumulated approximately 4.7 million views as of February 2022. In August 2018, the website ranked Rubin and Sapani in 45th place out of 70 youth stars of Israel. In September 2018, Rubin released the song "Lo Holchin Lishon" (We're not going to sleep) together with Sapani, which as of March 2020 has accumulated about 2.4 million views. Later, he published more of his songs that he recorded together with Shimi Tavori, Angel Burns, , and .
In August 2018, Rubin won the "Instagrammer of the Year", "YouTuber of the Year" and "Vlogger of the Year" awards at the Playcon Festival with the web series "Haim Bharta". He was also nominated for the "Breakthrough of the Year 2018" award on the Frogi website.
In January 2019, Rubin together with all the members of "Haim Bacharta" released the group's last vlog, after a year of ongoing activity. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E5%20in%20Spain | The European route E5 in Spain is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network, running from the French border near Irun, via Madrid to Algeciras. The E5 originates in Scotland, travelling south to Southampton where it crosses the English Channel to the French city of Le Havre. Via Paris and Bordeaux it reaches the Spanish border near Hendaye.
Route
The E5 in Spain starts at the French border in Irun, Basque Country, arriving from the A63 autoroute from Bordeaux and Bayonne. It follows the AP-8 to the major city San Sebastián until Eibar. In Eibar, the E5 turns south towards the AP-1 going to the Basque capital Vitoria-Gasteiz. After crossing the small Treviño enclave, it crosses the border with Castile and León towards Burgos. After Burgos, the road goes further south through the arid regions of central Spain, arriving in the Spanish capital Madrid. The E5 uses the eastern part of the Madrid Ring Road M-40, passing the Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport. South of Madrid, near Getafe, the E5 follows the A-4 highway going south. The road enters the sparsely populated Castilla–La Mancha region, where it passes both of the major cities Toledo and Ciudad Real about 50 km to the east. In Southern Spain, the border with Andalusia is crossed in the Despeñaperros national park. At Bailen, there is an important junction with the E902 towards Granada and Málaga. The E5 goes southwest passing Córdoba to end at the capital of Andalusia and the major city Seville, passing the city on the east. The A-4 transforms into the AP-4 towards the city of Jerez de la Frontera and the coastal city Cádiz. South of Cádiz, the E5 uses the A-48 highway and the N-340 road close the Atlantic coast, passing the most southern point of Europe in Tarifa, to end at the port city of Algeciras, just across Gibraltar. The E5 passes five regions (Basque Country, Castile and León, Madrid, Castilla–La Mancha and Andalusia) as well as 10 provinces. The E5 is a toll road from Irun to Eibar on the Autopista AP-8 and on the Autopista AP-1 from Eibar to Vitoria-Gasteiz and from Miranda de Ebro to Burgos. They are all open toll systems. Although the Autopista AP-4 from Seville to Cádiz should be a toll road, it is not in practice. The E5 covers a total distance of 1.221 km (759 mi) in Spain.
Detailed route
References
International E-road network in Spain
Roads in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202023%20%28Panama%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2023 in Panama. The charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Panama using the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time, with its chart week running from Monday to Sunday.
In 2023 so far, four songs reached number one in Panama, with all of them being collaborations; a fifth single (which was also a collaboration), "Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52" by Bizarrap and Quevedo began its run at number one in October 2022. In fact, eight acts topped the chart as either lead or featured artists with three—Marc Anthony, Anuel AA and Eladio Carrión—achieving their first number-one single in Panama.
Bizarrap is the second act after Karol G to replace himself at number one in Panama, as his collaboration with Shakira, "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53" (which debuted at number one) knocked off his collaboration with Quevedo, "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52". Maluma became the third act to replace himself at number one, as his collaboration with Anuel AA, "Diablo, Que Chimba" (which debuted at number one and extended Maluma's record as the artist with most number-one debuts in Panama) knocked off his collaboration with Marc Anthony, "La Fórmula".
As a result, Bizarrap and Maluma are the only acts to have more than a number-one song so far in 2023, with two apiece.
Chart history
Number-one artists
References
Panamanian music-related lists
Panama
2021 in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdita%20Stevens | Perdita Emma Stevens (born 1966) is a British mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and software engineer who holds a personal chair in the mathematics of software engineering as part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research includes work on model-driven engineering, including model transformation, model checking, and the Unified Modeling Language.
Education and career
Stevens read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, earning a bachelor's degree in 1987. She went to the University of Warwick for graduate study in abstract algebra, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing a PhD in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, Integral Forms for Weyl Modules of , was supervised by Sandy Green.
After working in industry as a software engineer, Stevens joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1984. She became a reader there in 2003 and in 2014 was given a personal chair as Professor of Mathematics of Software Engineering.
Books
Stevens is the author of books including:
Using UML: Software Engineering with Objects and Components (with Rob Pooley, Addison-Wesley, 1999; 2nd ed., 2006)
How to Write Good Programs: A Guide for Students (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
British mathematicians
British women mathematicians
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
British software engineers
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Academics of the University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20learning%20model | The European Learning Model is a semantic standard used to describe metadata about learning. It is openly licensed, and intended to be used by any stakeholder, in any education, training and employment context, that needs to describe learning data. Available in 29 languages of the European Education Area and candidate country languages, the model can be used in a wide variety of applications, which may include, but not be limited to, describing information on:
· qualifications and learning opportunities (including individual learning accounts);
· qualifications standards such as core vocational profiles;
· credentials awarded to individuals describing their learning activities, achievements, entitlements and/or associated assessments;
· accreditation and licensing of courses, programmes and institutions;
· recognition of qualifications and credentials;
· person identity information and student membership/enrolment in educational institutions.
History
Over the past years, the commission has put in place a range of open standards, reference frameworks and semantic assets to increase data quality and interoperability. While the model was originally aimed to serve as a basis for the European Commission's own applications, the latest version (ELM v3), to be released in Q1-2023, brings together the learning opportunities and qualifications model, the qualifications dataset register model and the European digital credentials model, into a unified structure.
Cloud standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWR-UK | TWR-UK is a British Christian radio station and part of Trans World Radio (TWR) a multinational evangelical Christian media distributor.
TWR-UK broadcasts Christian programming, including sermons, Bible teaching and interviews across the United Kingdom.
History
TWR-UK was founded in 1963, at that time TWR-UK only broadcast programmes for a couple of hours each day. These were broadcast initially on shortwave from the much-loved Monte Carlo transmitter, a transmitter formerly used to broadcast German war propaganda in the Second World War but later acquired by Trans World Radio in 1958. With the arrival of satellite technology in the 1990s, the possibility of 24/7 broadcasting schedules emerged. From 2001 TWR-UK began broadcasting a 24/7 schedule, the same year they joined the Sky satellite service.
In 2005 TWR-UK relocated their headquarters to Altrincham in Greater Manchester where they currently broadcast from today.
In 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of TWR-UK, the broadcasters launched their first digital app, making it possible for listeners to catch up on old programmes and listen live through their own personal devices.
In April 2015 TWR-UK began broadcasting on Freeview making their programmes available to most households across the UK.
Overseas projects
As well as being a national UK radio station, TWR-UK also support a variety of overseas projects. Notably in 2022 TWR-UK when listeners raised over £25,000 to support people living in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The wider Trans World Radio group, broadcasts globally in over 300 languages in 190 countries, making it the world's most far-reaching Christian radio network.
Listenership
TWR-UK supporters come from a variety of Christian denominations including: Anglican, Baptist, Evangelical, Methodist and Pentecostal churches.
References
External links
Official website
"Trans World Radio Limited, registered charity no. 233363" Charity Commission for England and Wales
Christian radio stations in the United Kingdom
Evangelical radio stations
Christian radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20%26%20Guilds%20Mnemonic%20Code | The City & Guilds Mnemonic Code and its associated City & Guilds Computer was a specification for an assembler language and a virtual computer system that ran it. It was introduced in 1964 by the City and Guilds of London Institute and used as the basis for a number of computer programming and administration courses. The computer model was deliberately very simple, and operational systems were implemented as interpreters on a number of mainframe computers like the ICL 1900 series and Elliot 900 family. An updated version was released in 1968.
History
The City and Guilds of London Institute (C&G) has been offering a wide variety of vocational and apprenticeship programs since the late 19th century. In the early 1960s, the first computer systems were beginning to rapidly proliferate in large companies, and C&G decided to introduce a series of programs on computer operation and programming.
The City & Guilds Mnemonic Code addressed the problem of widespread incompatibility across platforms by introducing a single new assembler language that could then be interpreted in a virtual machine on any sufficiently powerful platform. The system was deliberately simplified to make the number of machines that could run it as large as possible. It also added a number of features one would not normally associate with assembler, including the standard data format being floating point and including a number of features for advanced mathematics and string handling that would normally be expected in a high level language like BASIC.
The first release was in 1964, and used in two courses, Basic and Advanced Certificates for Computer Personnel. The system was updated in 1968 as the Revised Mnemonic Code, at which time the Basic course became the Certificate in Computer Programming and Information Processing.
Description
The Computer was an oddity in that its basic data type was the floating point number, as opposed to the majority of real-world machines which used binary integers, or for business-oriented machines of the era, binary coded decimal. In addition to the low-level commands found in most assemblers, like loading data from memory or bit shifting, C&G also included multiplication and division, as well as a number of more advanced features like exponents and trigonometric functions. A memory location could alternately hold one character.
The Computer was defined to have a main memory of 1000 words. The first ten addresses could be used as index registers but also had special meanings. Location zero was permanently set to the value zero, whilst 1 was the accumulator. 4 held the return address during subroutine calls. In the revised edition, 5 was used with the instruction and 6 and 7 were used to specify the format when converting from characters to numbers using the CNC instruction.
The machine was an accumulator design. Most instructions took two operands pointing into the main memory, referred to as n and m. n was normally a 12-bit value 0 through 999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertec%20Data%20Systems | Intertec Data Systems Corporation, later Wells American Corporation, was an American computer company active from 1973 to 1991 and based in Columbia, South Carolina.
History
Intertec was founded in Columbia, South Carolina, by William Wells, a former IBM researcher, to manufacture and market low-cost video terminals. In 1979, the company introduced the Superbrain, an all-in-one microcomputer based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor and running CP/M. In 1980, Intertec introduced the CompuStar, a multiuser microcomputer housed in a more standard desktop form factor.
Both computers sold steadily well in the first two years, with the company earning $3.7 million on $17.2 million in sales by 1981. That year, the company filed its initial public offering. However, the company found itself unable to compete with IBM's Personal Computer introduced in 1981, a system which saw quick widespread adoption. In December 1983, they staged a comeback with the HeadStart, a semi-portable all-in-one featuring both the Intel 8086 of the IBM PC, allowing it to run "most" programs for the PC's DOS, and a Z80 microprocessor capable of running CP/M. The computer was not as IBM PC compatible as was advertised, however, and the product flopped. Massive layoffs within the company ensued, with the company only employing 12 by June 1985, down from a peak of 600 employees in 1983. In 1986, William Wells' younger brother Ron Wells took over the company and renamed it to Wells American. It pivoted to the production of true IBM PC compatibles, marketing the A-Star as one such example that year.
In 1988, Wells American introduced a new CompuStar that could take expansion cards of both the IBM PC and IBM's new Personal System/2 (PS/2). The expansion bus of the IBM PC was a mostly open standard known as the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), while the PS/2's bus was based on IBM's Micro Channel architecture, a more locked-down, heavily patented architecture devised by IBM as an attempt to regain market share lost through the proliferation and commodification of IBM PC clones. The new CompuStar possessed both ISA and Micro Channel expansion slots.
The new CompuStar was not enough to reverse the company's fortunes, and in 1990 the company suspended all manufacturing activities and marketing in the United States. In 1991, the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and had its assets liquidated.
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1973 establishments in South Carolina
1991 disestablishments in South Carolina
American companies established in 1973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Monaco | Mike "Prince" Monaco (born May 14, 1993) is an American television sportscaster who is currently employed as a play-by-play announcer for ESPN and its networks. Monaco is also the alternate television play-by-play voice for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) on the New England Sports Network (NESN) and fills in for Jason Benetti on White Sox telecasts on NBC Sports Chicago.
Personal life and education
A native of Cohasset, Massachusetts, Monaco was a three-sport athlete at Cohasset High School. He attended the University of Notre Dame and wrote for the school's student newspaper with the intent to become a Major League Baseball general manager, similar to the path former Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein had when he attended Yale. Monaco eventually transitioned to the school radio station at Notre Dame and subsequently began his broadcasting career.
Monaco currently resides in Chicago.
Career
Monaco interned at NESN in 2012 while at Notre Dame, before broadcasting Fighting Irish sporting events and baseball games in the Cape Cod League. He also called Western Michigan Broncos basketball games while at Notre Dame before interning with the Red Sox's Triple-A affiliate Pawtucket Red Sox as a radio broadcaster in 2017.
Monaco joined ESPN in 2019 after two years working with Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He was named the alternate television play-by-play voice for the Boston Red Sox in 2019, filling in for regular play-by-play voice Dave O'Brien when O'Brien had prior commitments calling college football on the ACC Network. As a resident of Chicago, Monaco has also filled in on telecasts for Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, and Chicago Blackhawks games.
References
External links
Official website
1993 births
Living people
American radio sports announcers
American soccer commentators
American television sports announcers
Boston Red Sox announcers
Chicago Blackhawks announcers
Chicago Bulls announcers
Chicago White Sox announcers
College baseball announcers in the United States
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
College hockey announcers in the United States
Lacrosse announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minor League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
National Hockey League broadcasters
People from Cohasset, Massachusetts
Softball announcers
University of Notre Dame alumni]
Volleyball commentators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-sama | Neuro-sama is a chatbot styled after a female VTuber that hosts livestreams on the Twitch channel "vedal987". Her speech and personality are generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) system which utilizes a large language model, allowing her to communicate with viewers in a live chat. She was created by a computer programmer and AI-developer named Vedal, who decided to build upon the concept of an AI VTuber by combining interactions between AI gameplay and a computer-generated avatar. She debuted on Twitch on December 19, 2022 after four years of development.
Development
Neuro-sama was created by developer vedal987. Her responses to the audience are generated from a large language model, with a text-to-speech application converts into a "cutesy voice". According to Vedal, a separate AI model controls her in-game actions when she plays video games. In an interview with Bloomberg, he said that Neuro-sama was his full-time job.
After four years of development, Neuro-sama debuted on Twitch on December 19, 2022. Her new design was implemented on May 27, 2023.
Online content
The chatbot's Twitch content primarily centers around playing video games, notably osu! (2007), in which her gameplay once defeated the best human player in the world, and Minecraft (2011), in which her adaptations to sandbox gameplay have gained notoriety. Other aspects of her content delivery include singing songs and reacting to YouTube videos. While playing games or participating in other activities, the AI frequently engages with viewers by responding to their questions and acknowledging donations. Her comedic and sometimes controversial responses to the live chat have gone viral, accelerating the rise in popularity. Her fanbase has dubbed itself "The Swarm".
Controversy
On January 11, 2023, the Twitch channel received a temporary ban for unspecified "hateful conduct", likely stemming from controversial statements made by the AI, including skepticism surrounding the validity of the Holocaust during a stream. Vedal implemented more measures to prevent Neuro-sama from making offensive statements after this occurred.
The channel was unbanned on January 25, 2023 and quickly surpassed 100,000 followers. Upon returning to Twitch, Neuro-sama's content expanded to include live reactions to content creators and streamers, as well as collaborations with other VTubers.
See also
15.ai, an artificial intelligence speech synthesizer that generates voices from an assortment of fictional characters from a variety of media sources
Tay, another artificial intelligence influencer that got banned for denying the Holocaust
References
AI software
Chatbots
Fictional characters introduced in 2022
Twitch (service) streamers
Virtual influencers
VTubers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Abot-Kamay%20na%20Pangarap%20episodes | Abot-Kamay na Pangarap is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the 1996 film of the same title. It premiered on September 5, 2022, on the network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Apoy sa Langit.
Series overview
Episodes
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References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Riddell%20%28presenter%29 | John Riddell (born September 1956) is an Australian former television and radio presenter.
He is best known for his thirty-year association with the Seven Network's television station in Adelaide, SAS-7 where he anchored Seven News bulletins from 1990 to his retirement in late 2019.
Career
Riddell began his media career with a cadetship at Messenger Newspapers in Adelaide. Riddell then moved into radio where he worked at 5DN and then as a foreign correspondent for the Macquarie Radio Network. While in London covering the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten for Macquarie in 1979, Riddell caused a security scare and was ejected from Australia House when he was mistaken for a bomber when he was seen with an unscrewed telephone receiver with its wires connected to a small black cassette recorder as he attempted to send a pre-recorded report back to Australia.
He then moved into television, initially working at TVW-7 in Perth before returning to Adelaide where he started working at NWS-9 in 1981.
After spending nine years at NWS-9, he moved to SAS-7 where he anchored the weekend Seven News bulletins. When Graeme Goodings moved to weekends as he recovered from cancer, Riddell moved to the weeknight bulletin in 2005 where he formed an enduring on-air partnership with Jane Doyle. While at Seven, Riddell also occasionally hosted the Adelaide edition of Today Tonight. He also hosted the documentary series The World Around Us and the local AFL program The Crows Show, despite being an ambassador for Port Adelaide.
He also anchored Seven's coverage of South Australian state elections. However in a 2019 interview, he admitted that he would have said no to hosting election coverage if he'd been able to.
Riddell also continued to work in radio. From late 2007 to early 2012, he was a co-host on the Mix 102.3 breakfast show, alongside Jason "Snowy" Carter and Jodie Oddy. With Carter, Riddell inaugurated an annual charity fundraiser called the West End Mighty River Run to raise money for Novita Children's Services in 2006. Riddell briefly returned in radio in June 2012 filling in for Dale Lewis on Triple M Adelaide's Hot Breakfast.
After his 63rd birthday in September 2019, Riddell announced his retirement. His co-anchored his final Seven News bulletin on 6 December 2019. After his retirement, Jane Doyle continued as the sole anchor of the bulletin until her own retirement in late 2022.
Following the South Australian bushfires of late 2019 and early 2020 which affected the Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island, Riddell returned to Seven co-host a special "Book Them Out" edition of SA Weekender to help support the local communities.
Personal life
After his retirement, Riddell and his wife sold their apartment at Holdfast Shores and relocated to Victor Harbor.
References
Australian television newsreaders and news presenters
Seven News presenters
1956 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMGT | IMGT or the international ImMunoGeneTics information system is a collection of databases and resources for immunoinformatics, particularly the V, D, J, and C gene sequences, as well as a providing other tools and data related to the adaptive immune system. IMGT/LIGM-DB, the first and still largest database hosted as part of IMGT contains reference nucleotide sequences for 360 species' T-cell receptor and immunoglobulin molecules, as of 2023. These genes encode the proteins which are the foundation of adaptive immunity, which allows highly specific recognition and memory of pathogens.
History
IMGT was founded in June, 1989, by Marie-Paule Lefranc, an immunologist working at University of Montpellier. The project was presented to the 10th Human Genome Mapping Workshop, and resulted in the recognition of V, D, J, and C regions as genes. The first resource created was IMGT/LIGM-DB, a reference for nucleotide sequences of T-cell receptor and immunoglobulin of humans, and later vertebrate species. IMGT was created under the auspices of Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire at the University of Montpellier as well as French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
As both T-cell receptors and immunoglobulin molecules are built through a process of recombination of nucleotide sequences, the annotation of the building block regions and their role is unique within the genome. To standardize terminology and references, the IMGT-NC was created in 1992 and recognized by the International Union of Immunological Societies as a nomenclature subcommittee. Other tools include IMGT/Collier-de-Perles, a method for two dimensional representation of receptor amino acid sequences, and IMGT/mAb-DB, a database of monoclonal antibodies. Now maintained by the HLA Informatics Group, the primary reference for human HLA, IPD-IMGT/HLA Database, originated in part with IMGT. It was merged with the Immuno Polymorphism Database in 2003 to form the current reference.
Since 2015, IMGT has been headed by Sofia Kossida.
See also
Open science data
Computational immunology
References
Genetics databases
Bioinformatics
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca%20Falcidieno | Bianca Falcidieno is an Italian applied mathematician whose research interests include computer graphics, geometric modeling, shape analysis, and mesh generation; she has been called a pioneer of semantics-driven shape representation. She is retired as a research director for the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where she led the Shape Modeling Group of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (IMATI).
Education and career
As a master's student, after earning a degree in mathematics in the 1970s, Falcidieno became interested in computer graphics and geometric modeling through a project to visualize mathematical functions for use in teaching mathematical analysis to engineering students. By 1981, she was a permanent researcher for CNR, and founded its first research center for computer graphics.
In the 1990s, with Japanese researcher Tosiyasu Kunii, she helped found both the Shape Modeling International conference and the associated journal, the International Journal of Shape Modeling, for which she was editor-in-chief.
Recognition
In 2021, Falcidieno became the inaugural winner of the Shape Modeling International Tosiyasu Kunii Achievement Award, given "for her outstanding career achievements in shape modelling research". She is also a Eurographics Fellow and 2019 Eurographics Gold Medalist, and a Pioneer of the Solid Modeling Association.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
Applied mathematicians
Computer graphics researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac%20Station%20tram%20stop | Anzac Station tram stop is a major interchange on the Melbourne tram network. It is located on St Kilda Road south of Domain Road, adjacent to Kings Domain. It is one of the busiest interchanges on the system, being used by eight tram routes. It opened in December 2022 on top of Anzac railway station as a replacement for Domain Interchange that was demolished in 2018 to allow the Metro Tunnel to be built.
Routes
The following routes operates through Anzac Station:
References
External links
ANZAC (Australia)
Tram stops in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 2022
2022 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BedMachine%20Antarctica | BedMachine Antarctica is a project to map the sub-surface landmass below the ice of Antarctica using data from radar depth sounding and ice shelf bathymetry methods and computer analysis of that data based on the conservation of mass.
The project is uses data from 19 research institutes. It is led by the University of California, Irvine.
It has revealed that the Antarctic bedrock is the deepest natural location on land (or at least not under liquid water) worldwide, with the bedrock being below sea level.
References
External links
Antarctica
Geophysics
Research projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts%20on%20Ice | Hearts on Ice is a 2023 Philippine television drama sports romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Ashley Ortega and Xian Lim. It premiered on March 13, 2023 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Luv Is. The series concluded on June 16, 2023 with a total of 68 episodes. It was replaced by Royal Blood in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ashley Ortega as Pauline "Ponggay" B. Campos
Xian Lim as Lawrence "Enzo" Razon III
Supporting cast
Amy Austria-Ventura as Liberty "Libay" Bravo-Martinez
Rita Avila as Yvanna Campos-Guidote
Tonton Gutierrez as Gerald Campos-Martinez
Lito Pimentel as Ruben Martinez
Ina Feleo as Wendy Martinez
Cheska Iñigo as Vivian Razon-Campos
Roxie Smith as Monique C. Guidote
Skye Chua as Sonja Limjoco
Kim Perez as Salvador "Bogs" Adriano
Ruiz Gomez as Oliver Ramirez
Guest cast
Elle Villanueva as young Libay
Lianne Valentin as young Yvanna
Arhia Faye Agas as young Ponggay
Franchesco Maafi as young Enzo
Jon Lucas as young Gerald
Prince Clemente as young Ruben
Hannah Arguelles as Paris Razon
Antonette Garcia as Janice
Shuvee Etrata as Kring-Kring
Dani Ozaraga as Jessa
Lei Angela as Sunshine
Ella Cristofani as Kimberly
Felicity Eco as Ava
Maritess Joaquin as Adora
Issa Litton as Irene Limjoco
Marcus Madrigal as Cedrick Limjoco
Shanelle Agustin as Jill
Sandro Muhlach as a Guy
Michael Martinez as himself
Jenzel Angeles as Patricia "Tricia"
Carlo San Juan as Melvin
Shemee Buenaobra as Judy
Kelly Rows as Brittany
Vanessa Peña as Alyssa
Episodes
Production
Principal photography commenced in January 2023. Filming concluded in May 2023.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine sports television series
Television shows set in the Philippines
Figure skating on television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torshov%20tram%20stop | Torshov is one of the tram stops on the Oslo Tramway network. Located in the borough of Sagene in Oslo, Norway, it is served by three tram routes, two night bus services and a bus stop is located within walking distance and is served by route 20 of Ruter's extensive bus network. Trams began serving the area where the station is currently located since the 29th of September, 1899.
Service
The station is served by three tram lines, Line 11, Line 12 and Line 18. On Hegermanns gate, there is a bus stop which is served by Line 20. The station itself is located on Vogts gate, the major street running throughout the area of Torshov. Night bus services also operate here from 2 AM until 5 to 6 AM. Torshov is also near Bentsebrugata, where trams on the former Sagene line used to run. The station is located between Biermanns gate and Sandaker senter.
Former Depot
When the line was extended to Grefsen station in 1899, the former depot at Thorvald Meyers gate 47 near Olaf Ryes plass was closed down and replaced with the Torshov depot. It was created by Kristiania Sporveisselskab with the capability of storing 28 trams. It was located at Torshovgata 33. During the Second World War, this was where Oslo's first trolleybus was parked. The depot was taken out of use in 1977, after the new depot at Grefsen was established. It was disused until it became a cultural center & a theatre in 2003. The cultural centre is still in use as "Oslo Nye Trikkestallen".
References
Oslo Tramway stations
Oslo Tramway stations in Oslo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZST%20%28disambiguation%29 | ZST is a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion.
ZST may also refer to:
Computer filenames
.zst, for Zstandard compressed files
.zst, for ZSNES games console emulator save files
Transport
Stewart Aerodrome (IATA: ZST), British Columbia, Canada
MG ZST, a 2020 Australian car model
ZST, the car plate district indicator for Stargard County, Poland
Other uses
ZST, a Canadian exchange-traded fund
Zst, the mineral symbol for zincostaurolite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetyana%20Baydyk | Tetyana Nikolaevna Baydyk (born 1954, , also published as Tatiana Baidyk) is a Ukrainian researcher in artificial neural network based image recognition, particularly for problems of handwriting recognition and the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems. She is also interested in the application of micromechanics in renewable energy, including for concentrated solar power. She works at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Microtechnology and Neural Networks group of the Department of Micro and Nanotechnologies of the Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology (ICAT).
Education and career
Baydyk was born in 1954. After earning a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1977 at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, she earned a Ph.D. and D.Sc. through the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Institute of Cybernetics in 1983 and 1994, respectively.
She worked as a junior researcher and then researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics, beginning in 1980. From 1995 to 1999 she coordinated the science and education program in Ukraine for the International Renaissance Foundation. She became a researcher at UNAM in 2001.
Recognition
Baydyk is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Books
With Ernst Kussul and Donald Wunsch, Baydyk is coauthor of the books Neural Networks and Micromechanics (Springer, 2009) and Intelligent Automation in Renewable Energy (Springer, 2019).
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
Ukrainian computer scientists
Ukrainian women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Land%20of%20Karrus | The Land of Karrus (or Land of Karrus) is a closed-end, computer moderated play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Paper Tigers of Glendora, CA.
History and development
Jean Brown designed Land of Karrus, with Wesley J. Peters as the programmer. Play began in 1990. The game was a computer-moderated, closed end, role-playing PBM game. It had both science fiction and fantasy elements. The publisher, Paper Tigers, also produced a game newsletter called Karrutian Kapsule. By 1996, the publisher was Fallen Angel PBM.
Gameplay
The Land of Karrus is played on the planet of Karrus. Exploration, economics, and combat were elements of gameplay. Players roleplayed groups from three available races, the Utarians, Karrutians, and the Heqi.
The game's goal was to become Wise, and the game featured Quests for Wisdom. Wisdom levels range from one to seven.
Reception
Stewart Wieck reviewed the game in the December 1990 – January 1991 issue of White Wolf magazine. Out of a possible 5, he rated it a 2 for Strategy, 3 for game Materials, and 4 for Moderation and Diplomacy. Hi overall rating was a 3 of 5.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1990s
Role-playing games introduced in 1990
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Dad%20the%20Bounty%20Hunter | My Dad the Bounty Hunter is an American computer-animated science fiction adventure action-comedy series by Everett Downing Jr. and Patrick Harpin for Netflix. The series premiered on February 9, 2023. Season 2 premiered on August 17, 2023.
The series received positive reviews for its relatable story, likable characters, social commentary, and portrayal of Black families. The first season was released in its entirety on February 9, 2023.
Premise
The series follows the story of Terry, who is followed by his kids, Lisa and Sean, who learn he is a bounty hunter, and drawn into a space adventure of sorts.
Cast
Main
Laz Alonso as Terry Hendrix / Sabo Brok; Father of Lisa and Sean, and secretly conceals his job as a bounty hunter named Sabo Brok from his children and his wife, Tess.
Yvonne Orji as Tess / Janeera; she is an doloraami and the wife of Terry and mother of Lisa and Sean. She is estranged from Terry. According to Downing Jr., the pigmentation of her character matches Orji in real life.
Priah Ferguson as Lisa; a half human-doloraami Daughter of Terry and sister of Sean. She is intelligent, sassy, quick witted, and when she sets her mind to anything, she is determined to finish it. Ferguson said that she had no say in the character design, but described Lisa as "so cute" and was impressed animators "even got her edges, the braids, [and] her baby hair".
JeCobi Swain as Sean; a half human-doloraami Brother of Lisa and son of Terry. He is nerdy and can become anxious, causing his eye to twitch. According to Downing Jr., Sean's physical condition was inspired by his own daughter's condition.
Recurring
Guest role
Episodes
Season 1 (2023)
Season 2 (2023)
Production and release
On October 29, 2020, Netflix announced that My Dad the Bounty Hunter had begun development. At the time of the announcement, Polygon called it a "family-friendly take on The Mandalorian and said the show is "backed by a ton of Black talent".
The series was given an order for a 10-episode first season. The series came together after Downing Jr. and Harpin met at Sony Pictures Animation Studio, with Downing Jr. telling him that he wanted to do a story "with a Black family at the center as a love letter to my family", and they connected on "how real" 1980s sci-fi films were. The series was animated by the French animation studio, Dwarf Animation, Shakira Pressley was a writer for the series, as was Downing Jr. and Harpin. According to Rolling Stone, the series had a majority-Black writers room, which included writer Tomi Adeyemi, and is "a completely original story" rather than a IP. Juston Gordon-Montgomery was the story editor for the series, along with Alex Konstad as art director, and Andrew Chesworth as character design supervisor.
Before the show's premiere, Harpin told Animation Magazine that the show was crafted with the daughter of Downing Jr. behind, but was visually and narratively interesting to young fans, with an aesthetic reminiscent of Alien and Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow%20%28bot%29 | Sparrow is a chatbot developed by the artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It is designed to answer users' questions correctly, while reducing the risk of unsafe and inappropriate answers. One motivation behind Sparrow is to address the problem of language models producing incorrect, biased or potentially harmful outputs. Sparrow is trained using human judgements, in order to be more “Helpful, Correct and Harmless” compared to baseline pre-trained language models. The development of Sparrow involved asking paid study participants to interact with Sparrow, and collecting their preferences to train a model of how useful an answer is.
To improve correctness and help avoid the problem of “hallucination” of incorrect facts, Sparrow has the ability to search the internet using Google Search in order to find and cite evidence for any factual claims it makes.
To make the model safer, its behaviour is constrained by a set of rules, for example “don't make threatening statements” and “don't make hateful or insulting comments”, as well as rules about possibly harmful advice, and not claiming to be a person. During development study participants were asked to converse with the system and try to trick it into breaking these rules. A ‘rule model’ was trained on judgements from these participants, which was used for further training.
Sparrow was introduced in a paper in September 2022, titled “Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements”; however, it was not released publicly. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said DeepMind is considering releasing Sparrow for a “private beta” some time in 2023.
Training
Sparrow is a deep neural network based on the transformer machine learning model architecture. It is fine-tuned from DeepMind’s Chinchilla AI pre-trained large language model (LLM), which has 70 Billion parameters.
Sparrow is trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), although some supervised fine-tuning techniques are also used. The RLHF training utilizes two reward models to capture human judgements: a “preference model” that predicts what a human study participant would prefer and a “rule model” that predicts if the model has broken one of the rules.
Limitations
Sparrow’s training data corpus is mainly in English, meaning it performs worse in other languages.
When adversarially probed by study participants it breaks the rules 8% of the time; however, this is still three times lower than the baseline prompted pre-trained model (Chinchilla).
See also
AI safety
Commonsense reasoning
Ethics of artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Prompt engineering
References
External links
White paper
Blog post
Chatbots
Language modeling
Natural language processing
Large language models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne%20Porter%20Felt | Adrienne Porter Felt is an American computer scientist.
Education
Porter Felt completed her PhD at UC Berkeley in 2012. Her dissertation research focused on computer security on mobile devices. Her advisor was David Wagner. Her 2011 paper on Android permissions security won the ACM SIGSAC test-of-time award in 2022.
Career
After graduation, Porter Felt joined Google. Her work there focuses on computer security and Google Chrome. In 2014, she developed malware warnings in Chrome that are more intuitive for users. In 2016, she noted that the Google Chrome HTTPS lock icon looks more like a red purse than a lock. She conducted a study to design a more intuitive icon, and the new icon was deployed to users. In 2018, she worked on improvements to emoji in Google Chrome.
Personal life
Porter Felt's father, Edward Porter Felt was killed in the September 11 attacks.
References
External links
American computer scientists
Living people
Computer security specialists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20%28situational%20awareness%20system%29 | Delta is a situational awareness and battlefield management system developed and used in Ukraine. The system integrates information from a broad network of participants, including troops, civilian officials, and vetted bystanders; and a wide range of streams, including sensors, intelligence sources, surveillance satellites and drones, especially geolocated data, which it maps in real time, along with pictures of enemy assets.
Delta is used by the Ukrainian military services, as part of the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially after the launch of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, for a wide range of battlefield management tasks, including the planning of operations and combat missions, coordination between units, and secure exchange of information about the location of enemy forces.
On the backend side, it's a cloud native environment. On the client side, it runs on regular PCs, laptop, tablets or mobile phones.
Involved in the development and supervision of the system are the Center for Innovation and Development of Defense Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the NGO Aerorozvidka and Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The system became broadly operational in August 2022. The software was developed in coordination with NATO. The system was first tested in 2017, as part of a NATO initiative "to wean troops off Russian standards of siloing information among ground units instead of sharing it". Ukraine surprised NATO in quickly making this system even more accessible to troops than "more modern militaries". Delta, in its prototype phase, was first "pressed to its limits" during the Ukrainian counteroffensive to the Russian Kyiv convoy. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry credits Delta for helping identify 1500 confirmed, Russian targets daily during this time period.
In December 2022, Delta was the target of an adversarial phishing endeavor.
On 4 February 2023, the Ukrainian government gave approval to full deployment of the Delta system to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and permitted hosting of Delta's cloud-components outside of Ukraine to protect it against missile and cyber attacks.
Centrality of drone warfare
Aerorozvidka specializes aerial reconnaissance and drone warfare and their main contribution to Delta likely lies in this sphere. Delta, in this view, serves as a key link between raw reconnaissance (often remote photographic telemetry), identification, prioritization, and attack, facilitating a more rapid response cycle across diverse and dispersed participants and resources, known in military parlance as the kill chain.
Systems such as Delta are poised to become a key information-management component of the rapid evolution of drone warfare on the modern battlefield. Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation, would like to see 10,000 drones operating continuously along the front lines. This vision entails a substantial network of digital coordination.
For reason |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20Drop%20%28video%20game%29 | is a 1995 puzzle video game developed and released by Data East in Japanese arcades. It was later ported to Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation. It is the first entry in the Magical Drop series. In the game, the player takes control of one of six characters, battling against computer-controlled opponents before facing the goddess World in a final encounter. The objective is to clear the screen of constantly advancing colored 'drops' via a character placed at the bottom of the playfield, which can grab drops and make them disappear by putting them as a column of three or more drops of the same color. Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode. It ran on the Data East Simple 156 hardware.
Data East wanted to make a puzzle game due to their casual nature and came across during their research with Moscow Nights (1993), a collection of puzzle games from Russia published by Black Legend for MS-DOS and among them they liked a title programmed by Russ called Drop-Drop (1992), which they found uninteresting to play but enjoyed its basic core mechanic and started thinking ways to make it more interesting. Data East chose Drop-Drop and signed a contract with Russ to produce their own version and the game's graphic designer led development in a direction that would appeal to female players, with the team creating a visual design that could fit its rules by using tarot cards as a motif, serving as basis for Magical Drop. The game proved popular among players due to its design and characters, but both the original arcade release and console versions garnered average reception from critics, some of which reviewed it as an import title. It was followed by Magical Drop II (1996).
Gameplay
Magical Drop is a puzzle game where the player takes control of one of six characters named after a tarot card, battling against computer-controlled opponents before facing the goddess World in a final encounter. During gameplay, the objective is to clear the screen from a stack of constantly advancing colored 'drops' that descend from the top of the playfield.
Drops can be picked up and dropped by the player's character, which is placed at the bottom of the screen, and they disappear when three or more of the same color are put together on a single column. Chains are formed either when a single drop caused a chain reaction or when more than one group of drops are cleared in quick succession. Forming chains cause the opponent's stack to descend faster. Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode (one may be a computer opponent). The game is over once a player is defeated when the stack of drops hits the bottom.
Characters
Fool: A little man wearing a purple robe. He is always seen carrying a cat with him, which happens to share the same mannerisms as him.
Magician: A young man with a narcissistic streak. While seeming mature, he has an absurd sense of humor.
High Priestess: A scholarly young lady who spends most of her time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal%20Akkaya | Kemal Akkaya is a professor at the Florida International University's (FIU) School of Computer and Information Sciences. He was made a fellow of the IEEE in 2023 "for contributions to routing and topology management in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks".
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Florida International University faculty
Nationality missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20uthaiensis | Cyrtodactylus uthaiensis, the Uthai Thani bent-toed gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Thailand.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=uthaiensis
Reptiles of Thailand
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtodactylus%20rivularis | Cyrtodactylus rivularis, the Pa La-U bent-toed gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Thailand.
References
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Cyrtodactylus&species=rivularis
Reptiles of Thailand
Cyrtodactylus
Reptiles described in 2022 |
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