How Do I Transfer My IBAN Number?
What can I use instead of IBAN?
Banks in the United States don't use IBAN codes to identify specific banks or account numbers.
We instead use SWIFT codes and routing numbers..
Is Iban enough for transfer?
How many digits is an Iban?
What is my IBAN account number?
You can find your International Bank Account Number (IBAN) and Bank Identifier Code (BIC or SWIFT) on your paper statement or by logging in to Online Banking. To find your IBAN or BIC number online: Log in to Online Banking at
Is it safe to give IBAN number?
Giving out IBAN (and BIC) is completely safe, and it is done routinely in at least the EU whenever transferring money to e.g. buy stuff from strangers. People can deposit money there without your approval, but they can never withdraw anything.
How do I transfer an IBAN number?
the recipient's full name and address. the recipient's IBAN (International Bank Account Number) or account number. the name and address of the recipient's bank – including the BIC* (Banking Identifier Code) / SWIFT code / clearing code. the amount you want to transfer.
Can I use swift code instead of IBAN?
International Bank Account Number (IBAN) vs. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Code: An Overview. … A SWIFT code is used to identify a specific bank during an international transaction, whereas an IBAN is used to identify an individual account involved in the international transaction.
What is an IBAN number for wire transfers?
IBAN stands for International Bank Account Number. It's an internationally-agreed code made up of up to 34 letters and numbers that helps banks to process transfers around the world. Each set of characters represents a different detail for your bank account.
Can swift payments reversed?
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An IBAN, or international bank account number, is a standard international numbering system developed to identify an overseas bank account. … However, an IBAN does not replace a bank's own account number, as it's only meant to provide additional information that helps in identifying overseas payments.
Which countries use IBAN?
Is IBAN the same as Clabe?
An Internationa Bank Account Number (IBAN) is a series of alphanumeric characters that uniquely identifies an account held predominantly by banks in Eurozone countries. Clave Bancaria Esandarizada (CLABE) is a standard 18-digit number for bank accounts in Mexico.
How do I get an IBAN number?
What happens if you use the wrong IBAN number?
Do all accounts have an IBAN number?
IBANs are written using a standard format across all of the countries that use them. They contain all of the information needed to locate one specific bank account from the millions of accounts held throughout Europe. Have a look at this IBAN example to see how your own international bank account number is constructed.
What will happens if swift code is wrong?
What is an IBAN code for a bank?
International Bank Account NumberIBAN stands for International Bank Account Number, which you can use when making or receiving international payments. Your IBAN doesn't replace your sort code & account number ─ it's an additional number with extra information to help overseas banks identify your account for payments.


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Call for innovative technologies that address global health concerns
Screening and selection
Step 1: WHO screened all applications. The ones which were incomplete would, in principle, not be processed further. An identifier code was assigned to the application and all information about the applicant was removed to maintain confidentiality.
Step 2: Application (without identification data) was sent to selected WHO collaborating institutions for a second screening with respect to conformity to the scope of the call for innovative technologies. Those applications which did not fall within the scope of the call were not be sent to the selection committee (Advisory Group on Innovative Technologies).
Step 3: Proposals were evaluated and selected by the Advisory Group on Innovative Technologies, which is composed of experts in the field of health technologies. A confidentiality agreement was signed by the members of such advisory group. Any expert reviewer with a declared conflict of interest was not authorized to participate in the review.
The following considerations were be taken into account in the selection of the applications:
- Level of safety for the user, patient and the environment;
- How effectively the technology addresses the health concern in question;
- How well the technology is adapted to local infrastructures in resource-limited settings;
- Ease of use and maintenance;
- Total cost of ownership, cost-effectiveness and affordability; and
- Cultural and social acceptability of the technology.
Each applicant will be notified in writing (by e-mail) whether or not it has been selected in June 2010. A list of the selected innovative technologies will then be posted on the WHO web site.
Governments, donors and other stakeholders will be informed about which technologies have been selected with a view to fostering the development, availability of and access to innovative technologies, particularly in lowand middle-income countries.

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Posted: Jun 26, 1996 7:48 PM
In article <_EMAIL_> Tim Helton writes:
>I wish someone would explain in real world terms (that I can visualize)
>why a sphere's area is exactly equal to 4 circles of the same radius.
>I'm losing alot of sleep trying to do it myself :)
This is actually a fascinating question. Even though it's easy enough to
prove this using calculus, that method doesn't provide much insight into WHY
(*) area(sphere) = 4 * area(disk)
where the radii of the sphere and disk are equal.
* * *
Here is a bogus but amusing "proof" which may just possibly be justifiable.
(But probably not.)
Consider the disk D(2r) of radius 2r. Since area magnifies by the square of a
linear magnification, we have
area(D(2r)) = 4 * area(D(r)).
Now notice that if C is the center of D(2r) and P is any point of its boundary
circle, there is just one semicircle (of radius r) whose endpoints are C and P,
and which bulges in the clockwise direction. Let's call this semicircle S(P).
Clearly D(2r) is the union of all the S(P)'s, which are disjoint except for all
sharing the same endpoint C.
If we think of D(2r) as lying in the xy-plane of 3-space, we may now rearrange
all the semicircles so they constitute the latitude lines of a sphere of
radius r. Each one has endpoints = the north and south poles of the sphere of
radius r, and they are otherwise disjoint.
(It may be relevant that this rearrangement can be accomplished without moving
any points on the circle of radius r in the xy-plane.)
IF we could justify that this disassembly and reassembly should preserve
area -- THEN this would be a genuine proof of (*).
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This post has been written in response to a query from our correspondent. An answer would have taken up the entire space of my next "gleanings," and I decided not to wait a whole month.
Although we speak about telephone booths, in Modern English, booth more often refers to a temporary structure, and so it has always been. The word came to English from Scandinavia. In its northern shape it is most familiar to those who have read Icelandic sagas. Medieval Iceland was settled by colonists from Norway (mainly) and had no royalty. To settle legislative issues, free farmers from the entire country met at the general assembly ("parliament") called Alþingi (þ = th); there also were local "things." People naturally traveled on horseback, and, to reach the field where the assembly was held, some participants needed many days. There they set up "booths." The annual meeting lasted two weeks, so that booths remained empty for most of the year. They could be called temporary only because they were not occupied the whole time. Sentences like: "So-and-so arrived at the Alþingi and set up a booth" should probably be understood as meaning that the owner furnished the abode anew. Such abodes varied greatly, depending on the farmer's wealth and pretensions. In any case, they were certainly not mere tents, for a common scene describes guests entering a booth and being entertained there.
The word first surfaced in English in the thirteenth century in a poem called Ormulum, about which something was said in the post of 9 December 2015 (it dealt with the adjective blunt, another item of the English vocabulary that surfaced first in that work). The author of the poem, Orm or Ormin, spoke a dialect that was full of northern words. The origin of the noun booth poses no questions. Its root is bū-, as in the Old Icelandic verb búa "to live," while –th is a suffix, as in Engl. death, birth, dearth, and others, in which it is no longer felt to be an independent element. Originally, the word must have meant "dwelling," the most neutral name for a human habitat imaginable. The same root can be seen in the English verb build, from Old Engl. byldan "to construct a house" (its modern spelling was discussed on May 2, 2008, in one of my oldest contributions to the series "The Oddest English Spellings"). Old English had bold "dwelling, house"; its cognates—Old Frisian bōdel, Old Saxon bodl, and Old Icelandic ból—meant the same. In principle, the Icelandic word had to be bóþ, but it took over its vowel from the verb búa.
Also Engl. bower, from būr, has the same root. Like its Germanic cognates, it once meant simply "dwelling." This word is a delight of the students of Old High German, for it occurs in the famous poem (song) about the hero Hildebrand, who went into exile with his lord and left his wife and small son in such a būr (in modern editions, vowel length in Old High German words is usually designated by the circumflex: ū = û). This būr corresponds to Engl. bower "a lady's boudoir." It is as though some words are destined to move up or down. English būr has narrowed and ameliorated its meaning (not just a dwelling but a lady's apartment), while its German cognate Bauer deteriorated and fell from "dwelling" to "birdcage." (And here is a small excursus on gender studies. Old High German būr was masculine, while Old Engl. būr was neuter. English has providentially lost gender distinctions, contrary to German, which still has the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter, so that Engl. bower is just bower. But German Bauer is now predominantly neuter, as was its Old English cognate! The neuter must have been chosen to distinguish Bauer "cage" from Bauer "farmer.")
Yes, Bauer "farmer," a word rather well-known outside the German-speaking area, is historically just "a settler." It once had a prefix and had the form gibūr but lost it; hence the later homonymy with Bauer "birdcage." English speakers are well aware of the Dutch/Low German cognate of Bauer, namely boor, and, of course, many people still remember that the military history of the bloody twentieth century began with the Anglo-Boer War, by 1900 already in full swing. Engl. boor and boorish have strong negative connotations, which is not surprising. In the usage of feudal Europe, the source of gentility was towns (compare urban and urbane), while coarseness was associated with rough and uncultivated peasants (compare village and villain, both from French, and rustic, ultimately from Latin rūs "village"). Modern Dutch distinguishes boer "peasant, farmer," bouwer "builder," and buur "neighbor." It is buur that interests us most, because Engl. neighbor, from nēah-ge-būr, meant someone who lives near, literally, "nigh." We have seen Old High German gi-būr and recognize its analog in the Old English form.
And now we should return to our booths. English had no cognate of Old Icelandic búþ, for booth, as noted, is a loan from Scandinavian. But German Bude "hut" is a regular congener of the Scandinavian noun. Although it surfaced late, it seems to be old. Those who have read my post on the etymology of house (21 January 2015; it was followed by a post on the unrelated home) will remember that this Germanic word made its way into Old Slavic. Once upon a time, hūs seems to have meant "shed" or "hut." The most general word designating a human dwelling has a lower chance of being borrowed than the name of a special structure: shieling, booth, shanty, shack, hovel, and their likes. Words pertaining to shepherds' culture are especially prone to migrate; see also below. German Bude (or its earlier form buode) has penetrated all Slavic languages. Russian has budka; k is a diminutive suffix. Elsewhere in Slavic the forms are also buda, budka, bouda (note this Czech word), and so forth. The senses differ little: "hut," "stall (at a fair)," and often "a little house made of tree branches." In Old Russian, buda occurred once and meant something like "a plaited coffin." One can ask how we know that the word was borrowed by Slavic from German and not the other way around. The answer is obvious: buda is opaque and has no Slavic etymology, while Germanic booth is transparent. By the way, Engl. abode has nothing to do with this story. It is related to the verb abide, from which we have bide and which meant "to wait," as in bide one's time. An original abode was a place for waiting rather than living.
Curiously, in German we also find the word Baude "a shepherd's mountain hut," which turned up in texts only in 1725. If it were a regular continuation of buode, it would have had a different phonetic shape. That is why there is a consensus (a rare thing in etymological studies) that Baude is a borrowing from Czech—a curious but not too rare case of a word moving back and forth from language to language. Students of English know how very often Old Romance borrowed words from Old Germanic (the intermediaries were usually the Franks), and how much later the French reflexes of those words resurfaced in Middle English and thus returned to their Germanic, even if not quite their original, home.
Certain quotations have been trodden to dust, and no author with a grain of self-respect should use them. One of them is habent sua fata libelli "books have their fates." Never mind books. My point is that words also have their fates (habent sua fata verba). They are born, flourish, fight, disappear, and travel from land to land. They did not have to wait for the term globalization to cross tribal and national borders.
Image credits: (1) Iceland, Thingvellir by jemue, Public Domain via Pixabay. (2) Anglo-Boer War by Skeoch Cumming W, Public Domain via Wikipedia (3) "Lone shieling" by Tim Bryson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Featured image: Rustic Cabin by Unsplash, Public Domain via Pixabay

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Common Chickweed
Did You Know?
A few facts:
 - Can be used as a salad green or an herb
 - Has several medicinal purposes
 - Grows most actively in the late winter
How to get rid of Common Chickweed:
 - Remove easily by hand-weeding or hoeing
 - Treat with herbicides
A Hated Weed, Yet Delicious Wild Vegetable
Common chickweed (Stellaria media) is typically considered to be a winter annual that is prevalent in most temperate regions, but it sometimes grows as a biennial or short-lived perennial and has adapted to other regions of the world. The seeds usually germinate in fall, followed by smaller extents of germination in spring and summer, and can remain viable in the soil up to 30 years. Common chickweed usually prefers moist and fertile soils with near neutral pH values, but it can grow under a wide range of environmental conditions. It is a member of the Caryophyllaceae (pink) family.
Common Chickweed Identification
A single plant of common chickweed can produce up to 30,000 seeds that are stored in capsules. Chickweed likely got its name because it was a preferred feed for chickens and other birds.
Common chickweed usually has a low growing habit and tends to spread making them appear like mats or patches. That mat-like growth habit helps keep soil covered especially during winter months to reduce erosion. It has a slender stem and leaves that are both smooth and shiny, unlike those of mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium fontanum), a related species, which are characterized by fine hairs on both surfaces. Both chickweed species produce tiny star-shaped white flowers with five petals. The petals of common chickweed are deeply lobed, giving them the appearance of 10 petals, while those of mouse-ear chickweed have shallower lobes.
As a weed, common chickweed can outcompete or interfere with lawns and gardens and could be a serious pest in certain small grains, such as wheat and barley. In pastures or hayfields, it can form mats, shading out the desirable species from establishing early. It also can serve as a host plant for certain insect pests, such as the Western tarnished plant bug, and for diseases, such as Tomato spotted wilt virus.
Common Chickweed Uses
Although common chickweed is considered a pest in lawns and gardens, it is an edible plant. Its tender leaves can be readily used as a salad green or boiled as a potherb. It can be used as a famine food, especially during late winter months when it actively grows. However, if grazed in large quantities, it can cause problems related to nitrate toxicity to livestock.
Common chickweed is used as a medicinal herb due to its cooling and anti-inflammatory properties, and salves made from the stem or leaves are used to treat common skin ailments. Tinctures made from the plant were used to treat bladder, kidney and urinary tract ailments. Many other ailments are said to be cured by common chickweed due to the secondary metabolites, such as flavonoids, saponins, vitamin C and linolenic acids, present in it. Some herbalists even considered "chickweed water as an old wives' remedy for obesity!"
Controls for Common Chickweed
Common chickweed can be easily hand-weeded or hoed during the early stages of growth by taking advantage of their shallow root system before they become dense mats. In cool-season lawns, effective pre-emergent herbicides include isoxaben (Gallery), pendimethalin (Pendulum) or oxadiazon (Ronstar).
In established landscape plantings and ornamentals, apart from the above herbicides, those that contain indaziflam (Marengo), prodiamine (Barricade) or metolachlor (Pennant Magnum) are effective before it germinates. After germination, it is susceptible to selective herbicides, such as dicamba, triclopyr and mecoprop, during early stages in lawns. In landscapes or other plantings, careful directed application of glyphosate, glufosinate (Finale), diquat (Reward) or pelargonic acid (Scythe) is effective.
Author: Rakesh Chandran, WVU Extension Weed Science Specialist
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Montana Schools E-Learning Consortium
Senate Bill 170, signed into law by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer on March 30, 2005, changed the instruction requirements for homeschool students. Prior law required the homeschool to provide at least 180 days of pupil instruction, or the equivalent in hours, as required for public schools. The new law eliminates the days of instruction requirement and substitutes the "minimum aggregate hours" established for public schools. The revised law requires 720 hours of instruction per year for grades 1–3 and 1,080 hours for grades 4–12. Graduating seniors are only required to complete 1,050 aggregate hours in their final year of high school. Only 360 aggregate hours of pupil instruction must be conducted for a kindergarten program. The school fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30.
Parents are still required to maintain attendance records under the revised law. They also should log the number of hours of instruction in order to document compliance with the new requirements.


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– New solutions for discharged plastic waste
The project targets a cost-efficient holistic solution for plastic waste discharged into the environment, including tracking and identification, recovery and valorisation.
The main goal of the project is to prepare a complete solution for plastic waste released into the environment, which includes the entire value chain from the localization to the valorisation of collected plastic. This will be achieved through :
- Building global value chains and locally adapted business models.
- Analyzing financial concepts
- Demonstrating plastic recovery technology in a real environment (Indonesia)
- Evaluating the capacities of sensor solutions to locate and identify different plastic fractions in the environment
- Develop valorisation technology for the plastic waste
- Composite technologies for waste plastics
- Catalytic pyrolysis for the collected plastic fraction.


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This Proposal has been approved, and is now a Milestone Nomination
Is the achievement you are proposing more than 25 years old?
Did the achievement provide a meaningful benefit for humanity?
Was it of at least regional importance?
Has an IEEE Organizational Unit agreed to arrange the dedication ceremony?
Year or range of years in which the achievement occurred:
February 20, 1962
Title of the proposed milestone:
Mercury Spacecraft MA-6
Plaque citation summarizing the achievement and its significance:
In what IEEE section(s) does it reside?
St. Louis Section
IEEE Organizational Unit(s) arranging the dedication ceremony:
IEEE section(s) monitoring the plaque(s):
Milestone proposer(s):
Boeing Bldg 100, St. louis, MO
The milestone plaque will be mounted at or near the entrance of the James S. McDonnell Prologue Room: An Air and Space History Exhibit. The Prologue Room is located in The Boeing Company Building 100, headquarters for Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems business. This will provide public access to view the plaque. Inside the Prologue Room, there is an exact replica (mock-up engineering design fixture) of the Mercury Spacecraft MA-6 that Col. John Glenn piloted thru 3 earth orbits. The Mercury Spacecraft were designed, developed, and tested in nearby buildings less than 200 yards from where the plaque will reside.
Are the original buildings extant?
Details of the plaque mounting:
The Prologue room is open to the public during the summer months and is visited by more than 5,000 non-Boeing people every year. In addition, the Prologue Room is used by The Boeing Company to explain the vast history of the company to domestic and foreign dignitaries. In addition, middle school students are given tours of the Prologue Room. They learn the mechanics of flight and they are encouraged to consider careers in math, science, and engineering. There is a visitor's parking lot next to Bldg 100 where the public may park and walk to the site of the milestone plaque. The Prologue is a secure area and Boeing provides daily security patrols of the area. The Prologue Room (site of Mercury Capsule MA-6 ) is inside the secure area of Bldg 100
Who is the present owner of the site(s)?
Mercury Spacecraft MA-6, with Col John Glenn as pilot, was the first United States manned orbital flight. It occurred on February 20, 1962. He named his spaceship Friendship 7. This established the United States foundation for future spaceflight, eventually resulting in the landing on the moon of humans.
When the request for proposals was issued by NASA, there had not been a manned spaceflight by the United States. Amazingly, James S. McDonnell, founder of the McDonnell Aircraft Company, dedicated resources and personnel to design a spacecraft capable of putting humans into space and returning them safely to earth at least two years before the signing of the Project Mercury contract. Because space flight was different than conventional air flight electrical systems had new challenges. The electrical and electronics systems had to be able to operate in a new environment including but not limited to the vacuum of space, the weightlessness of orbital flight, and the rigors of launch and recovery. MAC electrical and electronics engineers took extra precautions because the spacecraft had to be
What features set this work apart from similar achievements?
Col Glenn's flight was the second manned orbital spaceflight. The first was USSR Yuri Gargarin's orbital spaceflight. However, Glenn's space flight was set apart by the electrical and electronic systems invented by the MAC engineers, some being members of IRE and then subsequently IEEE. Its systems epitomize the field of interest of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society. Project Mercury's electronics included Navigation and control instruments; auto pilot; rate stabilization and control, manual proportional control system and Fly-By-Wire (FBW)manual-electrical system. The FBW manual-electrical systems proved critical to Friendship 7's mission success because a yaw attitude control jet apparently clogged at the end of the first orbit, forcing astronaut Glenn to abandon the automatic control system for the manual-electrical fly-by-wire system. (ref


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Kathryn Anderson Wiki
Athryn Anderson, a developmental biologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for his work detailing the genetics of early embryogenesis, died on November 30
Throughout his scientific career, Anderson has used rigorous genetic screeing experiments to identify mutations suspected to impair cell division and differentiation in model systems. After identifying a gene of interest, he turned to a technique known as advanced genetics, creating model organisms such as fruit flies and mice with a particular phenotype to better understand their molecular basis. Using these tools, Anderson made a significant contribution to scientists' understanding of the various genetic pathways – most notably the Toll and Hedgehog pathways – essential for the proper development of these animals.
Kathryn Anderson Age
She Was 68 Year Old
Kathryn Anderson Biography & Career
Kathryn was fearless and very open-minded, "says Tatiana Omelchenko, senior research scientist who uses confocal microscopy to do live imaging of mouse embryos in Anderson's lab. "Each lab has its own environment and its own mood, and when you stepped into Kathryn's lab, you instantly felt very focused."
Born in La Jolla, California in 1952, Anderson became interested in science at a young age and returned to an article on LIFE containing a detailed image of a human fetus, according to an interview published shortly after his death. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry before going to Stanford University in 1973 for a master's degree in neurodevelopment.
Anderson dropped out of this program after just two years, earning a master's degree in neuroscience, and spent the next few years searching for his scientific niche. He briefly enrolled at the medical school at the University of California at San Diego, which made him realize his love for basic research. "The clinical study was not my cup of tea," Anderson shared in his 2005 biography. The lab was where I felt most at home.
Anderson eventually landed at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying the developmental genetics of Drosophila under the guidance of biologist Judith Lengyel. Anderson showed for her doctoral study that the development of Drosophila embryos within the first two hours after fertilization remained under maternal control, with maternal RNA and proteins that direct cell division and differentiation within the egg.
Wanting to further his work on fruit flies, Anderson later went to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany as a postdoctoral study with Drosophila geneticist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. In 1995, Nüsslein-Volhard would share a Nobel Prize for his work using batch scans to detect mutations that disrupt embryonic development, and Anderson would continue to work on a handful of genes identified on these early screens throughout his career.
It turns out that such a gene, known as Toll, plays an important role in dorsal-ventral (D-V) differentiation – dictating how a fly embryo "knows its back from the abdomen," as Anderson says in his biography. In addition to researching Toll's function, Anderson continued to build the wider Toll roadway after returning to the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1985 and then opening it in his own laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute. 1996 at Memorial Sloan Kettering. During this time, Anderson and his team identified roughly a dozen genes involved in cell differentiation along the D-V axis and used similar screening methods to better understand Toll's role in Drosophila's innate immunity. Their findings were noted by geneticists Jules Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler, whose work on Toll-like receptors in both fruit fly and mammalian immunity would later win them a Nobel Prize.
After his success in fruit flies, Anderson began to consider applying the same methods to studies on mice. He spent a year on leave in Rosa Beddington's laboratory at the National Institute of Medical Research in England, where he showed that Toll did not have a similar role in D-V differentiation of mammals. In an interview with Development in 2016, he showed that "there are things about early mammal development that you cannot understand by inferring from flies."
Back at the Sloan Kettering Institute, Anderson once again began using mass genetic screening, this time to identify mutations of interest in mice and then study them in detail. These were lengthy experiments that usually took years to produce results. "I think his biggest contribution is exploring the functions and roles of genes through this mutagenesis screen," says Omelchenko. This is amazing because... The mouse embryo model is quite complex, but it did the job. "
Anderson and his team screened over 12,000 mutations, selecting about 40 that caused significant phenotypic disruptions in mid-pregnancy. Working diligently for many years, Anderson has since identified previously unknown paths that have sparked new research directions in the field of developmental biology.
For example, Anderson detected, through scanning, a previously unknown relationship between cilia (microscopic, hair-like structures outside of some cells) and proper marking of the Hedgehog pathway that dictates cell differentiation in mammalian embryos. Further research showed that the components of this pathway were rich in cilia, with mice with specific mutations in the genes involved in the Hedgehog signal, and lack of cilia in a structure called the node that directs gastrulation in vertebrate embryos. "Actually, this was quite surprising: there are all these organelles required for the Hedgehog to send signals in vertebrates, but not in flies," Anderson Development said in an interview. "This is a geneticist's dream, but it raises the question of why he organized the genome this way: There are too many weak spots in the Hedgehog signal and the Hedgehog is very vital."
For his contributions to the field of developmental biology, Anderson was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and was selected as a member of the National Academies Medical Institute in 2008. In addition, Thomas Hunt was awarded the Morgan Medal. Lifetime contributions to genetics in 2012, the Federation of American Societies Award for Excellence in Science for Experimental Biology in 2014, and the Edwin G. Conklin Medal of the Association for Developmental Biology in 2016, among other honors.
Before his death, Anderson spoke about the possible expansion of his research into human genetics, as disruptions in hedgehog signaling have been linked to both birth defects and a number of diseases called ciliopathies. However, content with continuing his methodical study of mutations in mice was a line of inquiry he planned to leave to other scientists.
"A lot of scientists are very quiet people, but modern society requires you to be too loud for people to listen to you," says Omelchenko. "Kathryn is a great example of being quiet, being a very deep thinker and also a very successful and brilliant scientist. I think I will continue to learn from him even though he is dead. "


British, French and American paratroopers have given a powerful demonstration this weekend of how they can go side-by-side into battle by air.
Formation of RAF Puma from 33 Sqn at RAF Benson. British, French and American paratroopers have given a powerful demonstration of how they can go side-by-side into battle by air.
British troops disembark an RAF A400 on arrival at Keevil Airfield during Exercise Wessex Storm. Across three days of high tempo activity on both the ground and in the air, the 2 PARA Battlegroup has launched on the final mission of Exercise Wessex Storm. Fighting against a free-thinking enemy force on Salisbury Plain, the mission lets the paratroopers show their skills and readiness for short notice operations around the world.
47 Air Dispatch Squadron, 13 Air Assault Support Regiment drop stores onto Salisbury Plain in support of 2 Para Battlegroup during Exercise Wessex Storm.
Credit: Corporal Rob Kane, UK MOD
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When milliseconds are not enough - performance.now
So just to compare, here are the sorts of values you'd get back:
Date.now() // 1337376068250
performance.now() // 20303.427000007
You'll notice the two above values are many orders of magnitude different.
performance.now() is a measurement of floating point milliseconds since that particular page started to load (the
performance.timing.[navigationStart](_URL_ timeStamp to be specific). You could argue that it could have been the number of milliseconds since the unix epoch, but rarely does a web app need to know the distance between now and 1970. This number stays relative to the page because you'll be comparing two or more measurements against eachother.
Another added benefit here is that you can rely on the time being monotonic. Let's let WebKit engineer Tony Gentilcore explain this one:
Perhaps less often considered is that
Date, based on system time, isn't ideal for real user monitoring either. Most systems run a daemon which regularly synchronizes the time. It is common for the clock to be tweaked a few milliseconds every 15-20 minutes. At that rate about 1% of 10 second intervals measured would be inaccurate.
There are a few situations where you'd use this high resolution timer instead of grabbing a basic timestamp:
- game or animation runloop code
- calculating framerate with precision
- cueing actions or audio to occur at specific points in an animation or other time-based sequence
The high resolution timer is currently available in Chrome (Stable) as
window.performance.webkitNow(), and this value is generally equal to the new argument value passed into the requestAnimationFrame callback. Pretty soon, WebKit will drop its prefix and this will be available through
performance.now(). The WebPerfWG in particular, led by Jatinder Mann of Microsoft, has been very successful in unprefixing their features quite quickly.
- a double with microseconds in the fractional
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Getting Started with MLflow in Azure Databricks
Organizations and data science developers that are seeking to leverage the power of Machine Learning (ML) and AI algorithms spend a significant amount of time building ML models. They are seeking a method for streamlining their machine learning development lifecycle to track experiments, package code into reproducible runs, as well as share and deploy ML models while building machine learning models. What options are available to help with streamlining the end to end ML development lifecycle software development while building these ML models in Azure Databricks?
MLflow is an open source platform for managing the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle. MLflow Projects focus on four primary functions:
- Tracks experiments to compare and record parameters and results,
- Packages ML code to share with other Data Scientists or transfer to production,
- Manage and deploy ML models using a variety of available libraries, and
- Register models for easy model management and serve models to host them as REST endpoints.
In this article, we will go over how to get started with MLflow using Azure Databricks as the machine learning platform.
Create and MLflow Experiment
Let's being by creating an MLflow Experiment in Azure Databricks. This can be done by navigating to the Home menu and selecting 'New MLflow Experiment'.
This will open a new 'Create MLflow Experiment' UI where we can populate the Name of the experiment and then create it.
Once the experiment is created, it will have an Experiment ID associated with it that will be need when we configure our notebook containing the ML model code.
Notice the experiment UI contains options to compare multiple models, filter by model status, search by criteria, and download csv details.
Install the MLflow Library
Now that we have created an MLflow Experiment, lets create a new cluster and install the mlflow PyPI library to it.
If you are running Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning, MLflow is already installed and no setup is required. If you are running Databricks Runtime, follow these steps to install the MLflow library.
Once installed successfully, we will be able to see a status of Installed on the Cluster's library.
Create a Notebook
Now that we have an experiment, a cluster, and the mlflow library installed, lets create a new notebook that we can use to build the ML model and then associate it with the MLflow experiment.
Note that Databricks automatically creates a notebook experiment if there is no active experiment when you start a run using: mlflow.start_run(). Since we do have an experiment ID, we will use mlflow.start_run(experiment_id=1027351307587712).
Alternatively, we can define the experiment name as follows:
experiment_name = "/Demo/MLFlowDemo/" mlflow.set_experiment(experiment_name)
From a logging perspective, we have the option to auto log model-specific metrics, parameters, and model artifacts. Alternatively, we can define these metrics, parameters, or models by adding the following commands to the notebook code as desired:
- Numerical Metrics:
- Training Parameters:
- Other artifacts(files):
The following code imports a dataset from scikit-learn and creates the training and test datasets. Let's add this to a code block in the Databricks Notebook.
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.datasets import load_diabetes db = load_diabetes() X = db.data y = db.target X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y)
Next, we will import mlflow and sklearn, start the experiment and log details in another code block in the Databricks Notebook.
import mlflow import mlflow.sklearn from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error # In this run, neither the experiment_id nor the experiment_name parameter is provided. MLflow automatically creates a notebook experiment and logs runs to it. # Access these runs using the Experiment sidebar. Click Experiment at the upper right of this screen. with mlflow.start_run(experiment_id=1027351307587712): n_estimators = 100 max_depth = 6 max_features = 3 # Create and train model rf = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators = n_estimators, max_depth = max_depth, max_features = max_features) rf.fit(X_train, y_train) # Make predictions predictions = rf.predict(X_test) # Log parameters mlflow.log_param("num_trees", n_estimators) mlflow.log_param("maxdepth", max_depth) mlflow.log_param("max_feat", max_features) # Log model mlflow.sklearn.log_model(rf, "random-forest-model") # Create metrics mse = mean_squared_error(y_test, predictions) # Log metrics mlflow.log_metric("mse", mse)
Notice that we are defining the parameters, metrics and model that needs to be logged.
By clicking on the following icon, we would be able to see the experiment run details. Additionally, we can click the Experiment UI on the bottom to open the UI. This is particularly useful if there is no experiment created and a new random experiment will be created for you.
Since we already have an MLflow experiment that we created earlier, let's open it.
As we can see, I ran the experiment twice and can see the parameters and metrics associated with it. Additionally, I now have the option to compare the two runs.
By clicking compare, I can see all the associated details between the two runs.
Additionally, I can visualize the comparisons through either a scatter, contour, or parallel coordinates plot.
Now that we have tested the defined logging option, lets also test auto logging with the following variation of the code, which basically replaces all of the defined metrics, parameters etc. with mlflow.sklearn.autolog().
import mlflow import mlflow.sklearn from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error mlflow.sklearn.autolog() # In this run, neither the experiment_id nor the experiment_name parameter is provided. MLflow automatically creates a notebook experiment and logs runs to it. # Access these runs using the Experiment sidebar. Click Experiment at the upper right of this screen. with mlflow.start_run(): n_estimators = 100 max_depth = 6 max_features = 3 # Create and train model rf = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators = n_estimators, max_depth = max_depth, max_features = max_features) rf.fit(X_train, y_train) # Make predictions predictions = rf.predict(X_test)
After I ran this new model twice and navigated back to the MLflow experiment, we can see the new runs logged in the Experiment UI and this time there are a few differences in the metrics captured, as expected.
Register a Model
Now that we have created, logged, and compared models, we may be at the point where we are interested in registering the model. We can do this by clicking on the desired logged model and scrolling down to the artifacts in the run details.
Select the model and click Register Model.
Within the Register Model UI, create a new model, name it, and register the model as a portion of the workflow.
Once registered, the details tab will contain all details related to the versions, registered timestamps, who created the model and the stages.
Stages can be transitioned from staging to production to archived.
Next, let's explore the Serving tab, which is a new feature and currently in Public Preview.
MLflow Model Serving allows hosting registered ML models as REST endpoints that are updated automatically based on the availability of model versions and their stages.
When model serving is enabled, Databricks automatically creates a unique single-node cluster for the model and deploys all non-archived versions of the model on that cluster.
A sample Serving page may look as follows.
Finally, when a model has been registered, it can be found by navigating to the Models tab in the Databricks UI.
- For more detail on model serving which is currently in public preview, see MLflow Model Serving on Databricks.
- Read more about MLflow and Python open source projects from PyPi.org.
- Read more about MLflow from Microsoft's Documentation on Azure Databricks MLFlow.
- For more details on the ML Library offerings for MLflow, see MLflow.org.
- Read more about Databricks Managed MLflow.
- Read more about MLflow documentation from Databricks.
- Read more about Hyperparameter Tuning with MLflow, Apache Spark MLlib and Hyperopt.
- Read more about Apache Spark MLlib and automated MLflow tracking.
- For more detail on MLflow experiment permissions see, MLflow Experiment Permissions.
- Learn more about Building dashboards with the MLflow Search API.
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with the corresponding MIDA boronates, considering both the benchtop stability and efficiency in the cross-coupling. The study revealed that many boronic acids decompose significantly via various methods, including protodeboronation, oxidation, and polymerization (after just 15 days benchtop storage under air-Table 2). On the other hand, the corresponding MIDA boronates were remarkably stable, with >95% of each MIDA remaining after ≥60 days benchtop storage under air. In addition to complications related to the storage of various classes of boronic acids, efficiency of the Suzuki reaction is also impacted by the nature of the boron-unit since boronic acids decompose in situ faster than the cross-coupling can occur. Further complicating this scenario is that decomposition is accelerated in the presence of reagents and conditions common to many Suzuki reactions. Consistent with this analysis, the yields observed when even freshly-prepared boronic acids are employed in cross-coupling reactions are generally low to moderate. In stark contrast, when the MIDA boronates were subjected to the same reaction conditions, conversion to the cross-coupled product was achieved with excellent efficiency (Table 2).
Table 2.Comparison of Benchtop Stability and Coupling Efficiency of Boronic Acids and MIDA Boronates
The scope of this new phenomenon was further investigated utilizing various MIDA boronates of which the corresponding boronic acids have historically exhibited challenges with respect to either storage or usage. Table 3 shows a range of MIDA boronates that are highly effective in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions with unactivated (and in many cases either electronically or sterically deactivated) aryl and heteroaryl chlorides. In addition to 2-substituted heteroaryl MIDA boronates, vinyl MIDA boronate as well as cyclopropyl MIDA boronate were utilized under slow-release conditions to effect difficult couplings with deactivated heteroaryl chlorides. The unprotected boronic acids are generally known to be poor substrates for cross-coupling, but when generated from the corresponding MIDA boronates under slow-release conditions, they become viable synthetic candidates, providing the cross-coupled product in excellent yields.
Table 3.Slow Release Cross-Coupling of MIDA boronates
The development of an air-stable and effective surrogate for the notoriously unstable 2-pyridyl boronic acid has been a long-standing challenge in the field of cross-coupling. This motif is ubiquitous in drug-like small molecules, which makes this problem particularly important. While 2-pyridyl boronic acid surrogates exist, their use is complicated by their airand moisture-sensitivity as well as their somewhat variable and impure composition. In contrast, Burke and coworkers found that the 2-pyridyl MIDA boronate is isolable, benchtop stable under air, and chromatography stable. While conditions that promoted the slow release cross-coupling noted above were not generally effective for 2-pyridyl MIDA boronate, the utilization of isopropanol instead of water as co-solvent and a sub-stoichiometric amount of Cu(OAc)2 as co-catalyst (copper salts have been shown previously to promote challenging Suzuki-Miyaura couplings) proved to be successful. In addition to the unprecedented benchtop stability of the 2-pyridyl MIDA boronate (X-ray structure obtained), the slow-release of the active boron species allows for successful coupling with a variety of aryl and heteroaryl chlorides (Table 4).
Table 4.Slow Release Cross-Coupling of 2-pyridyl MIDA boronate
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A 900 horse-power (671 kW) Direct Current (DC) drive system powers the centrifuge through a right-angle gearbox with a 6.4 to 1 gear reduction. The centrifuge is capable of accelerating a payload to a maximum of 200g in about 14 minutes. Four large pneumatically actuated disk brakes are used to stop the centrifuge in emergency situations. Other prominent features of the centrifuge include a cooling system along the centrifuge chamber wall, an active in flight balancing system, and a dedicated real-time control and monitoring system.
The data aquisition system for the 400 g-ton centrifuge includes a NI PXI data acquisition system combined with a 12-slot SCXI chassis, with modules suitable for signal conditioning for LVDTs, strain-gauge-type sensors, accelerometers, capacitance-type differential pressure transducers, high speed cameras. Motor control capabilities are also possible to operate brushed electric servomotors, solenoids, and electronic flow valves. Camera acquisition software can be used to track deformation of points or planes. The 400 g-ton centrifuge includes 3 hydraulic rotary union lines which can be used to supply pressurized fluid to the centrifuge platform.


Figure 7: Phylogenetic tree of vertebrate CEL with human and mouse CES1, CES2, CES3, CES4, and CES5 amino acid sequences. The tree is labeled with the gene name and the name of the vertebrate. Note the major cluster for the vertebrate CEL sequences and the separation of these sequences from human and mouse CES1, CES2, CES3, CES4, and CES5 sequences. The tree is "rooted" with the CES sequence (T27C12) from a nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans). See Table 1 for details of sequences and gene locations. A genetic distance scale is shown (% amino acid substitutions). The number of times a clade (sequences common to a node or branch) occurred in the bootstrap replicates are shown. Only replicate values of 90 or more which are highly significant are shown with 100 bootstrap replicates performed in each case.


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INFLUENCE OF DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS ON PREFERENTIAL FLOW PATHWAYS IN A GLACIAL AQUIFER SYSTEM
MODPATH was used to track the pathways of 100 particles released as line sources at five depth intervals with documented 1,4-dioxane concentrations along the boundary of the contaminant source area. Pathways for 100 realizations of each ensemble were combined to produce cross sections showing the frequency of particles passing through individual model cells along transects spaced at 1 km intervals downgradient of the line source and adjacent to the hypothesized groundwater discharge location along the Huron River approximately 8 km from the line source. Results revealed dispersion of preferential flow pathways related to stochastic K variability proximal to the line source, followed by increasing channelization into preferential flow pathways related to the deterministic hydrostratigraphic framework farther downgradient. Differences in the spatial distribution of particle pathways observed between the ensembles of SIS and SGS ensembles increased with increasing travel distances. These results suggest that the relative influence of deterministic versus stochastic components of hybrid models depends upon the scale of the flow and transport problem under investigation.


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Find out about the differences between IR and hot-air dryers and discover which features might be most useful to your operation.
Garment screen printers are used to two types of dryers on the production floor: infrared and hot air. Both dryers use a conveyor to transport garments through the curing chamber and use heat to set the inks on the garments (up to 330°F for plastisols). These are the only similarities between these two dryers. The dryers are otherwise very different in design, capacity, versatility, running cost, and level of investment. For starters, infrared dryers work with direct heat radiated from infrared panels to heat up the ink to a specific drying/curing temperature. Hot-air dryers use heated air blown over the garments to transfer the heat. Let's look into the factors that set these two dryer designs apart and discuss the advantages, versatility, and possible limitations of each.
The infrared dryer
The Infrared, or IR, dryer uses electrically heated infrared panels mounted above the conveyor belt in a heat-insulated cover. As the printed garment passes under the IR panels, the radiated heat is absorbed by the ink and heated up to curing temperature. The drying temperature is regulated by the electric power to the element and/or by adjusting the height of the IR panels above the conveyor. The conveyor speed is also adjustable to set the correct drying time. The IR dryer is, by its nature, compact and simple in its design with few moving parts and is consequently a relatively inexpensive investment.
Ink considerations Water-based inks typically do not work well in an IR dryer because the dryer lacks airflow needed to drive out the water from the ink for a proper cure. Some infrared dryers use special IR panels with a small air-circulation fan that creates a moderate airflow to assist in drying. The drying capacity is reduced because water-based inks have a 50-100% longer drying time. The water must be driven out of the garment first before the ink can be heated to the final curing temperature.
Variations in drying temperature Due to the direct heat radiation, the drying temperature can be difficult to control and, therefore, may vary depending of what type of garment is used and the thickness of the print. Always test various dryer settings for best results each time you use any new type of garment or ink for the first time. This will minimize the risk of scorching the garment or under/over curing the ink.
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- Dial _PHONE_
- When prompted for "access code," enter 431256#
- At the tone, say your first name.
There will be no bill or charges, but you will have normal long distance charges.
Conference call etiquette
- Be somewhere quiet. Background noises can be very distracting to the whole group.
- Know how to use the mute button on your phone in case there are background noises or if you want to have an offiline conversation.
- Cell phones and speakerphones are not ideal because they often pickup a lot of background noise. If you use one of these options please have the mute button ready.
- When you join the call please say your name.
- Others will hear a "bling" sound as new people join, and should pause their speech long enough for the newcomer to identify.
- Each time you speak, say your name so we know who is speaking. A lot of voices sound alike so it can be tough to determine who's talking.
- If you must interrupt, quickly say your name, and wait for the facilitator to recognize you.
- The facilitator may ask the group to go "round-robin" or "talking stick" style, thus hearing from everyone.
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Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor market, and that these changes had an important gender dimension. Specifically, an increase in the proportion of Costa Rican households headed by single mothers led to an increase in the number of women with children entering the labor force. Many of these mothers, new entrants to the labor force, were unable or unwilling to find full-time work in the high-paying formal sector, and ended up unemployed or working part-time as self-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially those households headed by single mothers.
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O wild and sacred Ibis,
Long beaked bird of the Nile,
Now home on the marsh of Macquarie
0 bird with such elegant style.
Black, white and straw-necked,
Gathering where the waters drain;
Probing the teeming, living mud,
Cheek by jowl with the night crane.
O glorious morning in Australia free,
Warm and dry and a pale blue sky,
Cotton wool clouds in white pattern
Lives Ibis the bird of winged fraternity.
Far from the land of the Pharaohs,
Yet sharing the gypsy life-style,
Land of Australia, land that is free
Is home to the Ibis, bird of the Nile


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Drow exile of the queen
Monk?, Cleric?
Drow (full blooded after a year of play), transformed into Drider
Zacharaia (Zach for short) was born and raised in Noir of the Underdark. Though he was a Drow in appearance, he had none of their species qualities. He escaped to the world above, finding that while his body showed signs of the Drow, it was more akin to a common Elf. He eventually came across Marcus Longbottoms in Backwater, who realized he wasn't vile like the rest of the Drow, yet needed assistance in getting credentials as such.
During an adventure into Corellon's Sword, Zach was polymorphed into a snake by Astos, who promptly escaped afterward. When Zach's mind was about to fade into that of a snake the next day, Lloth assited him, claiming he was hers forever, after which Zach eventually came under convulsions and sickness, requiring the party to carry him back to Corellon's Shield to assist Elan Gwaren.
Zach's Drow blood emerged during the coup of Vulcan Silver, and he had the strengths of both races, yet none of the weaknesses. Upon returning to Corneria, Randall Thay was called upon to examine him, and it was discovered he was always a Drow, yet magic (which was recently shrugged off) kept him bound in another form.
He was eventually underwent another transformation during an attack into the sewers, and was turned into a Drider. For his choice and actions in the sewers, Johnathan Multanious offered solace at the church of Heironeous.


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Imagine you sell those metallic digits used to number houses, locker doors, hotel rooms, etc. You need to find how many of each digit to ship when your customer needs to number doors/houses:
- 1 to 100
- 51 to 300
- 1 to 2,000 with zeros to the left
The obvious solution is to do a loop from the first to the last number, convert the counter to a string with or without zeros to the left, extract each digit and use it as an index to increment an array of 10 integers.
I wonder if there is a better way to solve this, without having to loop through the entire integers range.
Solutions in any language or pseudocode are welcome.
John at CashCommons and Wayne Conrad comment that my current approach is good and fast enough. Let me use a silly analogy: If you were given the task of counting the squares in a chess board in less than 1 minute, you could finish the task by counting the squares one by one, but a better solution is to count the sides and do a multiplication, because you later may be asked to count the tiles in a building.
Alex Reisner points to a very interesting mathematical law that, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be relevant to this problem.
Andres suggests the same algorithm I'm using, but extracting digits with %10 operations instead of substrings.
John at CashCommons and phord propose pre-calculating the digits required and storing them in a lookup table or, for raw speed, an array. This could be a good solution if we had an absolute, unmovable, set in stone, maximum integer value. I've never seen one of those.
High-Performance Mark and strainer computed the needed digits for various ranges. The result for one millon seems to indicate there is a proportion, but the results for other number show different proportions.
strainer found some formulas that may be used to count digit for number which are a power of ten. Robert Harvey had a very interesting experience posting the question at MathOverflow. One of the math guys wrote a solution using mathematical notation.
Aaronaught developed and tested a solution using mathematics. After posting it he reviewed the formulas originated from Math Overflow and found a flaw in it (point to Stackoverflow :).
noahlavine developed an algorithm and presented it in pseudocode.
A new solution
After reading all the answers, and doing some experiments, I found that for a range of integer from 1 to 10n-1:
- For digits 1 to 9, n*10(n-1) pieces are needed
- For digit 0, if not using leading zeros, n*10n-1 - ((10n-1) / 9) are needed
- For digit 0, if using leading zeros, n*10n-1 - n are needed
The first formula was found by strainer (and probably by others), and I found the other two by trial and error (but they may be included in other answers).
For example, if n = 6, range is 1 to 999,999:
- For digits 1 to 9 we need 6*105 = 600,000 of each one
- For digit 0, without leading zeros, we need 6*105 – (106-1)/9 = 600,000 - 111,111 = 488,889
- For digit 0, with leading zeros, we need 6*105 – 6 = 599,994
These numbers can be checked using High-Performance Mark results.
Using these formulas, I improved the original algorithm. It still loops from the first to the last number in the range of integers, but, if it finds a number which is a power of ten, it uses the formulas to add to the digits count the quantity for a full range of 1 to 9 or 1 to 99 or 1 to 999 etc. Here's the algorithm in pseudocode:
integer First,Last //First and last number in the range integer Number //Current number in the loop integer Power //Power is the n in 10^n in the formulas integer Nines //Nines is the resut of 10^n - 1, 10^5 - 1 = 99999 integer Prefix //First digits in a number. For 14,200, prefix is 142 array 0..9 Digits //Will hold the count for all the digits FOR Number = First TO Last CALL TallyDigitsForOneNumber WITH Number,1 //Tally the count of each digit //in the number, increment by 1 //Start of optimization. Comments are for Number = 1,000 and Last = 8,000. Power = Zeros at the end of number //For 1,000, Power = 3 IF Power > 0 //The number ends in 0 00 000 etc Nines = 10^Power-1 //Nines = 10^3 - 1 = 1000 - 1 = 999 IF Number+Nines <= Last //If 1,000+999 < 8,000, add a full set Digits[0-9] += Power*10^(Power-1) //Add 3*10^(3-1) = 300 to digits 0 to 9 Digits -= -Power //Adjust digit 0 (leading zeros formula) Prefix = First digits of Number //For 1000, prefix is 1 CALL TallyDigitsForOneNumber WITH Prefix,Nines //Tally the count of each //digit in prefix, //increment by 999 Number += Nines //Increment the loop counter 999 cycles ENDIF ENDIF //End of optimization ENDFOR SUBROUTINE TallyDigitsForOneNumber PARAMS Number,Count REPEAT Digits [ Number % 10 ] += Count Number = Number / 10 UNTIL Number = 0
For example, for range 786 to 3,021, the counter will be incremented:
- By 1 from 786 to 790 (5 cycles)
- By 9 from 790 to 799 (1 cycle)
- By 1 from 799 to 800
- By 99 from 800 to 899
- By 1 from 899 to 900
- By 99 from 900 to 999
- By 1 from 999 to 1000
- By 999 from 1000 to 1999
- By 1 from 1999 to 2000
- By 999 from 2000 to 2999
- By 1 from 2999 to 3000
- By 1 from 3000 to 3010 (10 cycles)
- By 9 from 3010 to 3019 (1 cycle)
- By 1 from 3019 to 3021 (2 cycles)
Total: 28 cycles Without optimization: 2,235 cycles
Note that this algorithm solves the problem without leading zeros. To use it with leading zeros, I used a hack:
If range 700 to 1,000 with leading zeros is needed, use the algorithm for 10,700 to 11,000 and then substract 1,000 - 700 = 300 from the count of digit 1.
Benchmark and Source code
I tested the original approach, the same approach using %10 and the new solution for some large ranges, with these results:
Original 104.78 seconds With %10 83.66 With Powers of Ten 0.07
A screenshot of the benchmark application:
If you would like to see the full source code or run the benchmark, use these links:
- Complete Source code (in Clarion): _URL_
- Compilable project and win32 exe: _URL_
noahlavine solution may be correct, but l just couldn't follow the pseudo code, I think there are some details missing or not completely explained.
Aaronaught solution seems to be correct, but the code is just too complex for my taste.
I accepted strainer's answer, because his line of thought guided me to develop this new solution.


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In the provided videos the interpolation of the input happens over 2 seconds, so that you can observe the transition easily. But in my actual implementation, that time is reduced to 0.25 seconds. In other words, within this 0.25 seconds the player gets total control of the BB8, back in their hands.
As we discussed, the input interpolation gives the control back to the player in short time. But there is one scenario where the player gets the control immediately back. It happens when the player releases the left-stick. Player might do that if they get confused. In that case, the red dot would land into the green region, which represents center of the debug circle.
Check out following video to see both of these techniques work in realtime.
( Camera Reorientation - Realtime Debug View )
Look Ahead
The purpose of the Look Ahead feature is to complement the player movement. As the name suggests, the camera tries to look ahead according to where the player is headed. You can see in the video below that if the BB8 is moving forward, the camera moves a little more towards the forward direction. If the BB8 is moving in the right direction, the camera tries to show what's ahead in the right direction.
( Look Ahead feature showcase )
I implemented a Camera Motion Controller which is responsible for moving the camera and handling this characteristic. Look into the System Architecture section to know more about the Camera Motion Controller.
The motion controller knows the player's current velocity, and it also knows the current position of the camera and its goal position. So, by adding some offset to the goal position according to the player velocity, the look ahead characteristics can be achieved. In following debug video, the white cross-point showcases the added offset relative to the player's position.
( Debug view showcasing Look Ahead offset )
In my initial attempts, I ended up directly adding the player velocity to the camera position, which works well only if the acceleration of BB8 is low. But as I increased the acceleration to higher values for better feeling player movement, the change in offset became too abrupt such that it can easily make the player feel motion sick. Thus, I decided to smoothly interpolate towards the new position as an alternative.
( Comparison video showcasing smoother Look Ahead )
System Architecture
Before I dive into the architecture, let me talk about two fundamental concepts that forms the basis of communication between camera system's other components: Camera Context and Camera State.
As the name suggests, the Camera Context has all the contextual information about the camera which can be essential to the camera system:
 - Anchor game object: a pointer to the character (here BB8) which the camera is following
 - Raycast callback: a pointer to the raycast method, implemented on the game side
 - Camera collision radius: the radius of the camera's collider
 - Sphere collision callback: pointer to the collision check method, implemented on the game side
 - Camera state last frame: camera's state on the previous frame
Camera State contains essentially every properties which can be tweaked by the camera system. The system can smoothly interpolate between two camera states if needed too. Take a look at the class diagram given below.
Class Diagram - Camera System Context.PN
( Class diagram showcasing contextual classes of the camera system )
The purpose of the Camera State History is to keep a record of previous camera states, and the camera manager uses it. By getting an average of these camera states the Input Interpolation feature works.
Let's talk about the Camera Manager,
( Class diagram showcasing basic structure the camera system )
A Camera Behavior defines how the camera will behave in the most ideal conditions. These are some behaviors I scripted:
 - A Follow camera is good at following a third-person character.
 - A Shoulder View camera is good at showing what's ahead when there isn't enough room for the camera around the character. Another common use case of shoulder view camera is as an aim camera in third-person combat.
 - A Freelook camera lets an observer roam freely around the map. My debug camera is a Freelook.
Camera Constraints are a set of rules which can be applied on a camera state returned by the active camera behavior. If the current state does not satisfy a given constraint, the constraint will update the state such that it is acceptable. All constraints are applied according to the painter's algorithm: from lowest to highest priority.
Each camera behavior has tags indicating names of the constraints it has to satisfy. As an example, the Freelook behavior doesn't need to satisfy any constraints, but the Follow behavior has to satisfy all of the constraints given below:
After all the constraints are executed, we end up with a camera state which is considered as the goal state. Here the Camera Motion Controller comes in the picture, which is in charge of moving the camera to this goal state. A motion controller could be as simple as snapping the camera's position to the goal, which is the default motion controller provided by my system. But a designer can code any type of complex motion controllers that fits the game.
An example of such a custom motion controller is the Modified Proportional Controller (MPC) which works based on player and camera's velocities. The Look Ahead feature is implemented based on MPC.
Thus, the camera gets moved after going through all three components of the system: Camera Behavior, Camera Constraints, and Camera Motion Controller. Here is the code of Update( ) method of class Camera Manager:
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( Camera Manager's update method )
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