Alp 02 is part of a series of seven pictures (01 to 07). They are all related to the to the oil on canvas Garmisch, 1981, by artist Gerhard Richter, but also to the 'Paramount Picture' logo.
Sanne Peper (b. 1963) lives and works in Amsterdam. She majored in Fine Arts at ArtEZ in Arnhem and in Photography at the AKI in Enschede. Next to her independent work, she has been working for many years as theatre photographer for several companies such as Dood Paard, Oostpool, mightysociety, and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. She also does assignments for cultural clients such as Mediafonds (Amsterdam), Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (The Hague), ArtEZ Fashion Masters (Arnhem), OMA (Rotterdam), Maison Martin Margiela (Paris). She is a guest tutor at the Academy of Architecture (Amsterdam). The work of Sanne Peper was featured in the Foam Pop-In in 2011. Foam Editions made a selection of seven autonomous works of Sanne Peper.


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Q: Tomcat crashes while using unixDomainSocket as a connector I was excited to see Tomcat 9 finally get support for Unix domain sockets, but it appears my setup is bad or incomplete.
Unfortunately I can't seem to find a working example of a server.xml anywhere on the internet. What seems to be happening is that a unix domain socket doesn't have a remote IP, and Tomcat uses that in several places of it's stack.
When I kick off a curl request to the socket, the second request crashes and freezes the server up.
sudo curl  -kv -H "Connection: close" -H "x-forwarded-for: 127.0.0.1" http://localhost/hawtio/auth/login --unix-socket /opt/app-name/http.sock

I get a crash in the Tomcat log:
#first request
SEVERE [http-apr-/opt/app-name/http.sock-exec-1] org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service Error processing request
#011java.lang.NullPointerException
#011#011at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.getTextLength(Matcher.java:1770)
#011#011at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.reset(Matcher.java:416)
#011#011at java.base/java.util.regex.Matcher.<init>(Matcher.java:253)
#011#011at java.base/java.util.regex.Pattern.matcher(Pattern.java:1133)
#011#011at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:624)
#011#011at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:78)
#011#011at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:360)
#011#011at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:399)
#011#011at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
#011#011at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:890)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketWithOptionsProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2113)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1191)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
#011#011at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

# second request
SEVERE [http-apr-/opt/app-name/http.sock-Acceptor] jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke Error allocating socket processor
#011java.lang.NullPointerException
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.setSocketOptions(AprEndpoint.java:820)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.setSocketOptions(AprEndpoint.java:87)
#011#011at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Acceptor.run(Acceptor.java:149)
#011#011at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

Setup:

*

*Ubuntu 18.04

*Tomcat 9.0.64

*Java 11 Latest

*Apache Portable Runtime / Tomcat Native 1.2.35

Config:
    <Service name="CatalinaLocal">
        <Connector
            protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol"
            unixDomainSocketPath="/opt/app-name/http.sock" />
        <Engine
            defaultHost="localhost"
            name="Catalina">
            <Host
                name="localhost"
                appBase="webapps"
                unpackWARs="true"
                autoDeploy="false"
                deployIgnore="(?!.*hawtio).*">
                <Valve
                    className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve" />
            </Host>
        </Engine>
    </Service>

If you take out the RemoteIpValve, same behavior.
EDIT
The relevent code is here:
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/9.0.x/java/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/AprEndpoint.java#L807
            // Do the duplicate accept check here rather than in serverSocketaccept()
            // so we can cache the results in the SocketWrapper
            AprSocketWrapper wrapper = new AprSocketWrapper(socket, this);
            // Bug does not affect Windows. Skip the check on that platform.
            if (!JrePlatform.IS_WINDOWS) {
                long currentNanoTime = System.nanoTime();
                if (wrapper.getRemotePort() == previousAcceptedPort) {
                    if (wrapper.getRemoteAddr().equals(previousAcceptedAddress)) {
                        if (currentNanoTime - previousAcceptedSocketNanoTime < 1000) {
                            throw new IOException(sm.getString("endpoint.err.duplicateAccept"));
                        }
                    }
                }
                previousAcceptedPort = wrapper.getRemotePort();
                previousAcceptedAddress = wrapper.getRemoteAddr();
                previousAcceptedSocketNanoTime = currentNanoTime;
            }

This is a bit interesting because this code is only present specifically in the AprEndpoint connector (That is Apache Portable Runtime, or invoking the Apache Server via JNI (Java Native Interface)), but I was unable to find the bug it is referencing that it is trying to fix. It may not be relevant to using the APR directly and this could be an oversight.

A: For anyone also experiencing the issue.... I started a conversation with the Tomcat devs, they agreed this was a bug, and A PR opened for Tomcat with a fix. Not released yet, but hopefully soon.
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/pull/532

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A young father was stabbed to death less than an hour before a woman in her thirties was killed in London last night.
Raul Nicolaie, said to be in his 20s, was stabbed at his flat in Colindale, north London just before 6pm. He was rushed to hospital but died from his injuries.
In a separate attack, a woman in her thirties was stabbed to death in London just after 6.30pm.
Romanian national Nicolaie is believed to have come to the UK five years ago and was a doting father to his six-month-old son.
He lived with his girlfriend in Zenith Close which is where he was found with a stab wound to the shoulder.
In Sudbourne Road, Brixton, at 6.30pm the police were called to the property where they found a woman in her 30s stabbed to death.
Detectives have arrested a man in his 20s in connection with the murder. It is believed the two knew each other.
The latest two killings bring the number of suspected murders in the capital this year to 59.


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Warfighter Support:
Challenges Confronting DOD's Ability to Coordinate and Oversee Its Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices Efforts
GAO-10-186T: Published: Oct 29, 2009. Publicly Released: Oct 29, 2009.
Highlights Page:
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Accessible Text:
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William M. Solis
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Improvised explosive devices (IED) are the number-one threat to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, accounting for almost 40 percent of the attacks on coalition forces in Iraq. Although insurgents' use of IEDs in Iraq has begun to decline, in Afghanistan the number of IED incidents has significantly increased. The Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) was created to lead, advocate, and coordinate all DOD efforts to defeat IEDs. Its primary role is to provide funding to the military services and DOD agencies to rapidly develop and field counter-IED solutions. Through fiscal year 2009, Congress has appropriated over $16 billion to JIEDDO. In addition, other DOD components, including the military services, have devoted at least $1.5 billion to the counter-IED effort--which does not include $22.7 billion for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. This testimony is based on a report that GAO is issuing today as well as preliminary observations from ongoing work that GAO plans to report in early 2010. In the report being issued today, GAO is recommending that JIEDDO (1) improve its visibility of counter-IED efforts across DOD, (2) develop a complete plan to guide the transition of initiatives, and (3) define criteria for its training initiatives to help guide its funding decisions. DOD generally concurred with GAO's recommendations and noted actions to be taken.
Since its creation, JIEDDO has taken several steps to improve its management of counter-IED efforts. For instance, GAO's ongoing work has found that JIEDDO has been improving the management of its efforts to defeat IEDs, including developing and implementing a strategic plan that provides an overarching framework for departmentwide efforts to defeat IEDs, as well as a JIEDDO-specific strategic plan. Also, as noted in the report GAO is issuing today, JIEDDO and the services have taken steps to improve visibility over their counter-IED efforts, and JIEDDO has taken several steps to support the ability of the services and defense agencies to program and fund counter-IED initiatives. However, several significant challenges remain that affect DOD's ability to oversee JIEDDO. Some of these challenges are identified in GAO's report being released today along with recommendations to address them. For example, one challenge is a lack of full visibility by JIEDDO and the services over counter-IED initiatives throughout DOD. Although JIEDDO and various service organizations are developing and maintaining their own counter-IED initiative databases, JIEDDO and the services lack a comprehensive database of all existing counter-IED initiatives, which limits their visibility over counter-IED efforts across the department. In addition, JIEDDO faces difficulties coordinating the transition of funding responsibility for joint counter-IED initiatives to the services, due to gaps between JIEDDO's transition timeline and DOD's base budget cycle. JIEDDO's initiative transitions also are hindered when service requirements are not fully considered during JIEDDO's acquisition process. JIEDDO also lacks clear criteria for defining what counter-IED training initiatives it will fund and, as a result, has funded training activities that may have primary uses other than defeating IEDs. Additionally, GAO's ongoing work has identified other oversight challenges. For example, JIEDDO lacks a means as well as reliable data to gauge the effectiveness of its counter-IED efforts. GAO's work has identified several areas in which data on the effectiveness and progress of IED-defeat initiatives are unreliable or inconsistently collected. In some cases, data are not collected in-theater because the initiatives may not be designed with adequate data-collection procedures. Another challenge facing JIEDDO is its inconsistent application of its counter-IED initiative acquisition process, allowing initiatives to bypass some or all of the process's key review and approval steps. Further, JIEDDO lacks adequate internal controls to ensure DOD that it is achieving its objectives. For example, in July 2009, JIEDDO reported that its internal controls system had a combination of deficiencies that constituted a material weakness. Such a weakness could adversely affect JIEDDO's ability to meet its objectives. Finally, JIEDDO has not developed a process for identification and analysis of the risks it faces in achieving its objectives from both external and internal sources, and it has not assessed its performance over time or ensured that the findings of audits and other reviews have been promptly resolved. As GAO completes its ongoing work it expects to issue a report with recommendations to address these issues.
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New Delhi, Dec.23 : Seven-year-old Tiluck Keisam, a limbo skater from Manipur, has created a new world record of limbo skating under bars to the farthest distance.
Tiluck Keisam is the son of Keisam Ricky and Pravabati Takhellambam from Manipur.
On December 20, Tiluck made India proud when he bettered a world record in the Farthest Distance Limbo Skating under Bars at the Siri Fort Stadium in New Delhi.
He covered 116 meters as against the previous record of 50 metres in 31.87 seconds with cones and bars under the bars which were set at the height of 28 cm from ground level against the required 35 cm and the gap between the bars was kept to 1.0 meter.
He covered 144.7 meters without cones and bars in 56.01 seconds in a single run only.
A Class two student of Bluebells School International in Delhi, Tiluck has been skating since 2013.
He has participated in various competitions and so far won a total of 42 medals and many certificates.
Tiluck has already etched his name in the Limca Book of Records on 25th May this year by performing a 50-metre limbo skate under a horizontal bar set at the height of 7.5 to 9 inches from ground level.
Under the guidance of Coach Rohtash Dinodia, Tiluck was adjudged as the overall best Limbo skater for the year 2014-15.
Recently, Tiluck also appeared on the Reality show "I can do that" where he performed skating with a Bollywood celebrity.
A senior official of the stadium said the association planned to send the video of his performance to the authorities of the Guinness Book of World Records.


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Ievlanov, M. V., Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
Ignatkin, V., Dniprodzerzhynsk state technical university, Ukraine
Iliashenko, M. B.
Illiashenko, О. О., National aerospace university "KhAI", Kharkiv
Ilnitskyi, L. Ya., National Aviation University, Kyiv
Ilyashenko, M.
Ilyashenko, M., Zaporizhzhya National Technical University, Ukraine
Ilyashenko, M. B., Zaporizhzhia National Technical University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine
Il'yashenko, M.B., Zaporizhzhia National Technical University
Imamverdiyev, Y. N.
Imamverdiyev, Y. N., Institute of Information Technology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku
Imamverdiyev, Y. N., Institute of Information Technology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
Imshenetsky, D. A.
Indyk, S. V., Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport, Kharkiv
Irodov, V. F., Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Dnieper
Ivanitsa, S.V.
Ivanov, A. Y, Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine
Ivanov, D. Ye., Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of NAS of Ukraine
Ivanov, I. A.
Ivanov, Y. A., software engineer, Kiev, Ukraine
Ivanov, Y.A.
Ivanova, Ye. O., Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics
Ivanyk, E. G., Scientific Center of the Army Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy, Lviv
Ivaschenko, G. S.
Ivashchyshyn, F. O., Lviv Polytechnic National University
Ivochka, N. V., Zaporizhzhia National Technical University
Ivohin, E. V., Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv


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Racial Romanticism
Civil rights history does not divide neatly into pre-1968 light and post-1968 darkness. A response to Richard Kahlenberg.
By Thomas J. Sugrue
from Summer 2009, No. 13 – 9 MIN READ
Tagged Civil RightsHistory
In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama writes of "the psychodrama of the baby-boom generation" with its "old grudges and revenge plots." A case in point: A generation ago, a group of mostly white, boomer journalists and intellectuals published a series of influential books and articles on the "failure" of civil rights politics. Their accounts began with an idealized story of the Southern civil rights movement, focusing on the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, which they contrasted starkly to the supposed excesses of the late 1960s: a divisive racial politics that played out mostly in the North, directed by black radicals and enabled by white leftists who together alienated the white "silent majority," weakened the Democratic Party, and thwarted Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of an integrated America. In this account, the North is the spoiler in an otherwise uplifting story of racial redemption.
This version of history took root in the conservative soil of the 1980s and 1990s and had a clear political purpose: to discredit controversial race-conscious programs, including affirmative action, school desegregation, and minority voting districts, as a betrayal of "the movement." To make that argument required a selective–and narrow–reading of civil rights history. Like most didactic narratives, it rested on simple binaries: integrationism versus separationism, nonviolence versus violence, Martin versus Malcolm. Mainstream historians have largely moved beyond such reductionism, and yet it is difficult to read Richard Kahlenberg's review of my book Sweet Land of Liberty without feeling sucked into that old boomer psychodrama once again ["Wrong on Race," Issue #12].
Spanning the long period from the 1920s to the 1990s, Sweet Land of Liberty gives voice to the diverse activists who joined the struggle for racial equality, tries to present their views evenhandedly, and does not shy away from controversial issues, including the domestic impact of the cold war, black power, and welfare rights. Yet Kahlenberg prefers to view civil rights in the North through a pinhole, from the vantage point of angry ex-leftists like New York teacher unionist Albert Shanker and a few blocks in Brooklyn. In this view, a handful of black nationalists, spouting anti-Semitic slogans and advocating affirmative action, destroyed liberalism.
To support his argument, Kahlenberg restates the widely discredited backlash thesis, namely that "the Northern civil rights movement took some wrong turns along the way, unnecessarily alienating working-class whites who shared common interests with blacks." Yes, activists sometimes took wrong turns, like the strange alliance between some leading black power activists and the Nixon Administration that I describe in Sweet Land of Liberty. And yes, black radicals sometimes alienated whites, with high political costs, including the rise of a destructive law-and-order politics in the late 1960s.
But Kahlenberg's assumption that an interracial working-class movement was just around the corner in 1968–or at any other point in the twentieth century, for that matter–is wishful thinking. The persistence of racial inequality in the last 40 years of the twentieth century was not the result of the betrayal of a "subset of whites" who would have been integrationists had it not been for Sonny Carson. It was the result of a long history of public policies, deindustrialization, and systematic disinvestment from black communities, persistent segregation in housing and education, discriminatory practices by employers and unions, and long-standing racial gaps in wealth, health, and income.
A whole generation of urban and political historians has dismantled the backlash thesis. Along with my first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis, studies of Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cleveland, Gary, Los Angeles, Newark, Oakland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Seattle, among other cities, document the depth of white racism in Northern and western metropolitan areas and the fragility of the New Deal coalition well before the 1960s. Only a minority of Northern whites ever supported civil rights (at King's peak of popularity in 1964, a majority of Northern whites believed that civil rights activists were pushing too far, too fast). Whites fought black incursion into their neighborhoods, fled to suburbs, and opposed school desegregation long before the Black Panthers shouted "off the pigs" or Stokely Carmichael mounted his soapbox.
The consequence is that even in the era of Barack Obama, Northern metropolitan areas remain highly segregated by race, if less so than at mid-century. Schools have resegregated. The weight of the past bears heavily on the present.
What racial progress there has been in the post-1960s period was primarily the result of public policy interventions, including affirmative action. And here is where Kahlenberg and I really clash. He is primarily interested in discrediting racial preferences by any means necessary–and he deploys some slippery rhetoric to do so, most notably by calling affirmative action plans "quotas" (quotas haven't been permitted since the 1978 Bakke decision) and conflating affirmative action with black power (even though hardly any black power activists actually supported affirmative action). My task is not to discredit affirmative action or to offer a brief for it, but rather to explain its origins and impact.
Affirmative action was never as far-reaching as its critics feared or as its supporters hoped. It certainly alienated some whites (though even here, the data are not straightforward–white support for racial preferences varied depending on how survey researchers phrased the question). Black enrollment in institutions of higher education skyrocketed in the 1970s, when colleges and universities voluntarily adopted affirmative action programs. The ranks of black professionals grew accordingly. Blacks made their biggest gains in public and government-contracted employment, where affirmative action was the strongest. That said, it was not a panacea for the problems of racial inequality. And it is even less so today, after a generation of court decisions and state referenda have narrowed its scope even further.
Kahlenberg's reading of the black freedom struggle is equally flawed. He relies on a clichéd history of civil rights that bears little resemblance to recent scholarship on the South and the North, and he offers a timeless, ahistorical definition of civil rights that is belied by actual history. For Kahlenberg, the reality of civil rights activism was its universalism and its effort to "vindicate American values…not [to] challenge them." But for those marching for civil rights both North and South–as well as their opponents–the civil rights struggle was dangerous, transgressive, and sometimes revolutionary.
Kahlenberg's narrow reading of civil rights history leads him, most egregiously, to distort Martin Luther King Jr's politics. To depict King, posthumously, as a "colorblind" opponent of affirmative action is simply wrong. From 1964 until his death, King consistently supported compensatory programs. Especially after he turned his attention northward, King called for a "radical revolution of values," and said, "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
Unfortunately, Kahlenberg does not appear to have dipped even superficially into the scores of books and articles on black activism that complicate his framework and shape my interpretation of civil rights in the North. One consistent theme in this work is the co-existence of racial separatism and self-defense with nonviolent strategies. Kahlenberg can't wish away this history–even if it undermines his romantic understanding of the civil rights movement.
His either/or framework cannot account for the alliances between black separatists and civil rights advocates, from the Don't Buy Where You Can't Work boycotts of discriminatory shopkeepers in the 1930s to A. Philip Randolph's insistence that the World War II March on Washington Movement remain all black. The 1966 "Freedom Budget for All Americans," an ambitious interracial public works and antipoverty program coordinated by Bayard Rustin, won the ringing endorsement of the Urban League, the NAACP, King, some liberal trade unions, and, yes, the black power advocates at SNCC and CORE.
What became crystal clear to me in researching the Northern civil rights struggle is that most activists and ordinary blacks saw nonviolence and moral suasion as only one strategy, which they readily jettisoned when it did not seem to be working. Northern activists were improvisational with their strategies and ideologically inconsistent. They boycotted and litigated, they engaged in nonviolent protests, and they took to the streets in more aggressive demonstrations. They worked through the political system, trying to use it, as had white immigrants, for group empowerment. And they experimented–especially in the realm of education–advocating integration, but when it seemed to be failing, trying out community control, Afrocentric education, and charter schools. I have long been an advocate of integrated education, but it would be irresponsible of me as a historian to marginalize those many black voices, from W.E.B. DuBois to Herman Ferguson, who thought otherwise.
King understood that "freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor." Some black activists took that lesson in directions that King understood but did not condone: They engaged in acts of disruption and violence that forced white civic leaders to heed black demands. Of course, militant protest and rioting had unintended, often damaging consequences. Like Kahlenberg, I wish it were otherwise. But my task as a historian is to report what actually happened.
Finally, Kahlenberg accuses Sweet Land of Liberty of displaying a "racial pessimism" so deep that had Barack Obama taken it to heart, "he would never have contemplated running for president at all." This misrepresents the book, not to mention Obama's career. Like many activists in the Northern freedom struggle, Obama started out as a community organizer precisely because he hoped to solve the persistent problems of racial and economic inequality, not because he thought that we had overcome. Sweet Land of Liberty offers an unsentimental assessment of the progress we have made (the expansion of opportunity in higher education, the rise in the number of black elected officials, and the emergence of a sizeable black middle class) but also the persistence of inequality (highly racially segregated housing markets, separate and unequal schools, the shockingly large gap in household wealth between blacks and whites, and the persistence of huge racial disparities in poverty, unemployment, incarceration, and mortality).
It is tempting, in the aftermath of the election of America's first African American president, to dismiss the history of the black freedom struggle as "dangerous" or discount realistic appraisals of racial progress as unduly pessimistic. We should celebrate the extraordinary gains of the last century–but remember that the struggle was hard fought, it exacted high costs, and that it remains unfinished. Sanitizing that past or boiling down history to a set of politically expedient polemics is neither good scholarship nor good politics. To distort the past inevitably distorts the present.
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Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. His most recent book is These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present, with Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore.
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Q: What's the purpose of defining the inner product? Is the inner product simply a definition that conveniently helps to give the notion of the norm and distance between points or vectors in a real vector space? I understand it gives the Euclidean space a sort of 'structure', but it seems like a quite artificially constructed definition. It seems to make calculations easy, but my question is, what would be the purpose of the inner product in and of itself?

A: Thanks to the inner product, we have the angle $\theta$ between two non-zero vectors $u$ and $v$; it's the number $\theta\in[0,\pi]$ such that$$\cos\theta=\frac{\langle u,v\rangle}{\|u\|.\|v\|}.$$

A: Inner products neatly encapsulate and extend Euclidean-ness. Whenever an inner product space $n$-dimensional, it is structurally identical to $\mathbb{R}^n$ or $\mathbb{C}^n$, depending on whether it's a real or complex space.
Although I'd agree that the definition itself is somewhat artificial, it is easy to apply, while giving us an enormous amount of structure. It permits for geometry to be done in more abstract spaces, and sometimes lends itself to some elegant algebraic proofs of purely geometric facts (e.g. orthogonality of diagonals of a rhombus becomes essentially a difference of two squares argument).
The benefits go further into infinite dimensions. Often, inner product spaces are required to be complete (in the sense of convergent Cauchy sequences), giving us Hilbert Spaces. In such spaces, we can consider things like Fourier Series: an easy yet powerful and efficient tool for approximation of functions, as well as other tricky infinite-dimensional problems.
Correspondingly, you also get tools like the Fourier Transform, which is invaluable in many applied settings, particularly notably, in the manipulation of sound. For example, if you take a soundwave and compress it, the sound plays faster and more high-pitched. If you want to make a soundwave simply play faster or play with higher pitch (but not both), then you need to use the Fourier Transform.
I guess a more natural definition would be a the direct definition of an angle. However, in practice, a sensible definition would end up equivalent, and likely end up a lot harder to put into practice, or perform calculations with. Inner products are defined to be powerful and elegant.

A: As you know many concepts such as projection of a vector on another vector, orthogonality, finding the angle between two vectors, and as you mentioned the concepts of norm and distance are easily explained by dot product.
In Numerical Analysis,  most quaratures are simply a dot product of two vectors, such as $$w_1 f(x_1) + w_2 f(x_2) +...+ w_n f(x_n)$$
You may downgrade the dot product because it is easy to compute but is indeed a virtue of dot product not a failure.
Compare it with the cross product and you will like it.


This is a one hour online module on the core principles of EBM (evidence-based medicine) aimed at a wide range of healthcare personnel from GPs to medical students. To access BMJ learning requires a subscription, although if you have a BMA membership it's available for free.
The module walks you through key ideas in posing a clinical question and evaluating research papers, in particular using the PICOS model, assessing the validity of a paper and evaluating and interpreting the results. It tests your knowledge with questions at the end.
I thought it was a really good module to get started with EBM or as a refresher. The info on each page was clear and easy to follow. I liked that you could dip in and out of the module if you didn't have time to complete all of it. It's a great guide to flick through before researching a paper and think it would be suitable for healthcare personnel and students alike. The quiz is good for making you feel confident in reading results and tackling some of the more tricky papers. On the negative side students who aren't with the BMA would have to pay £35 a year to view the content, which was my main issue with the resource.


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G2A.COM G2A News Features Games Like Star Wars Battlefront
10 Games like Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2
The Star Wars Battlefront games, one released in 2015, the other in 2017 had a rough start but ended up being a perfectly enjoyable multiplayer way to visit famous Star Wars locations and shoot some Separatist or Imperial forces to your heart content.
With a focus on teamplay and class-based activities, especially Battlefront II ended up as a satisfying production with plenty of content to enjoy, often tying into the modern batch of the Star Wars movies. Unlike its immediate predecessor, it also featured a full single-player campaign fleshing out the transformational period between the Battle of Endor and the rise of the First Order.
There are, however, many games out there, and some of them may appeal to you even more the modern Battlefronts. That's why we've prepared a list of ten games that might match your tastes better, but still share some similarities with BFs, whether in gameplay or something more elusive.
Games similar to Star Wars Battlefront
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Genre: Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter game
Developer Rogue Planet Games
Planetside 2 is a treat for everyone who thought "Battlefront 2 is nice, but too small". Well, here you can technically take part in battles with hundreds of participants. If that sounds like it's too extreme, don't worry, PS 2 is at its core a team-based game. You can easily form a squad of up to twelve players, which can be further divided into separate fireteams for special tasks.
There are also several classes: light and heavy assaults, medic, engineer, infiltrator, and a power armor-using MAX. Overall, Planetside 2 clearly goes for scale, with four continents, three factions you can fight for, and even a variety of vehicles to assist the infantry. If you want to play a game that makes you feel like you're participating in massive operation, then Planetside 2 might be worth a look.
Class-based massively multiplayer PvP first person shooter
Hundreds of soldiers in every battle
Free to play with a membership option
Science fiction setting
Genre: First-person shooter, battle royale
Developer DICE
Seeing how the modern Battlefront games are quite reminiscent of the long-running Battlefield series, and even share the same developer, it's no wonder that a BF game made the list. The similarities are obvious in the presence of the class systems giving everyone a specific role, the large-scale PvP, and the importance of vehicles. That's not to say there aren't differences.
Battlefield V is set during World War II and expands on solutions that worked out very well for its immediate predecessor, Battlefield 1. One of BF5's best features is the Grand Operations mode, which simulates a war front and depending on each team's performance might play across several maps. There's also an interesting anthology of single-player stories from various frontlines.
Excellent, intense Grand Operations multiplayer mode
Interesting singleplayer mode telling stories from various fronts of World War II
Class-based and team-based
The sequel, Battlefield 2042 might interest you if you prefer something more futuristic
Battlefield V | Definitive Edition
Genre: First-person shooter
Developer Respawn Entertainment
Titanfall 2 differs a fair bit from the expected formula, but it still features a lot of stuff that might appeal to fans of Battlefront. Titanfall 2 is a first-person shooter which, despite a solid, exciting multiplayer, is perhaps even more notable for its outstanding single-player campaign. Players control an incredibly mobile Pilot, who can, in a pinch, call in help from a semi-autonomous mecha: a Titan.
In the single-player campaign you're playing as Jack Cooper, a field-promoted Pilot who, alongside his mentor's Titan, is in a unique position to stop the deployment of a superweapon. Meanwhile, the multiplayer modes feature low player count, but can nonetheless feel quite tense and tight, because Pilots can call in Titans, which take up some space and each Titan type has its own unique abilities.
Futuristic first-person shooter
Tense, fast multiplayer engagements
Several Titan types with unique regular and ultimate abilities
Phenomenal singleplayer campaign
Titanfall 2: Ultimate Edition (Origin)
Classic Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2
Release year: 2004 – 2005
Genre: Action, third-person shooter, first-person shooter
Developer Pandemic Studios
Oldie but goodie, the original Battlefronts were warmly welcomed in their own time, and ever years later remain in pleasant memory of many. So much so, that their arrival on digital distribution platforms was quite a big news. Even back in 2004 they had the elements which came back in the modern incarnations: class-based multiplayer, vehicles, several Star Wars eras you could play in…
…as well as Heroes, introduced originally in Battlefront II, giving players a chance to wreck some Stormtroopers as Luke or Leia. The singleplayer mode also included the Galactic Conquest mode, which turned the multiplayer shooter into a singleplayer strategy game. If you aren't looking for the visual flair of modern games, the classic Battlefronts might be the kind of Star Wars action you need.
The Galactic Conquest mode was an interesting feature in an otherwise action-focused game
Class-based multiplayer
Heavy use of vehicles
You can fight alongside (BF1) or as (BF2) heroes you know from the movies
Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Genre: First-person shooter, third-person shooter, hack and slash
Developer Raven Software
Another oldie on the list, but just as worthy of being included, because it had just the right mix of modes and features to draw attention. At its core Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a story-heavy single-player game. It's both a third-person hack'n'slash when you're wielding a lightsaber, but turns into a first-person shooter if you decide to use a blaster to solve your problems.
Jedi Academy had a great single-player, which gave you a set of several missions per act and let you decide in which order you want to clear them. It ALSO had a solid multiplayer, which made great use of both the shooting and the outstanding, incredibly fun lightsaber combat. Jedi Academy was a cool, varied game with awesome, tailor-made single-player and multiplayer you could spend hours in.
Dismemberment-heavy lightsaber combat
Almost non-linear singleplayer, with two different paths for the final mission
Fully-fledged multiplayer with neat character customization and bots
Set a decade after the end of Return of the Jedi, in the old canon
Call of Duty (series)
Release year: 2003 – 2020 (ongoing)
Developer Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software
The Call of Duty series has gone a long way from its World War II roots, and nowadays is famous for a snappy, fast-paced multiplayer and bombastic single-player campaigns. The CoD settings are all over the timeline, ranging from World War II, through Cold War, to futuristic Earth and even a Solar system-spanning science fiction. You won't find aliens, but you will find a lot of great shooter gameplay.
CoD is usually less tactically minded than some of the multiplayer shooters, and its relationship with classes varies from entry to entry, but what you can always expect is energizing multiplayer PvP. You can also expect a co-op Zombies mode, which is more story-driven and team-based than the usual MP and has featured voice work from actors you probably know and like.
A long-running series of excellent shooters
Explosive, tightly scripted singleplayer sequences
Intense multiplayer
Ranges from historical to futuristic settings
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Battle.net) (US)
Genre: First-person shooter, MMOG
Developer Bungie
Destiny 2 has some of the finest gunplay you could find anywhere in multiplayer and singleplayer shooters alike. It also features a vast arsenal of powerful and creative guns supported by a class- and subclass-based array of cool superpowers. By default, Destiny 2 is a 4-player PvE, with more than a little attention given to its storytelling, but it does also feature some PvP options for competitive players.
You can also check Destiny 2 out easily because the base game is free, you only pay for the expansions, all of which are quite substantial in terms of both story and gameplay. If you take these first steps it might quickly turn out that you're raiding with passion, enjoying the excellent gunplay, or you'll become invested in the world and its story and you'll want to find out what happens next. Who knows?
Three core classes, with several subclasses within
Bungie-grade gunplay, some of the best in the genre
Several large expansions
Free-to-play base game
Destiny 2 | Legendary Edition
Genre: Massive multiplayer online role-playing game
Developer BioWare Austin
A whole different ball game, The Old Republic MMORPG can nevertheless deliver on a massively multiplayer Star Wars experience. True, it doesn't feature a whole lot of shooting, instead it uses a tried and tested MMO standard of clicking abilities in a sequence that makes sense. However, no other Star Wars game currently on the market makes you feel like a part of an epic war quite like TOR.
There are four classes per side of conflict, and each one has a unique storyline, complete with full voice acting and cutscenes, each story showing a different perspective on the war raging between the Republic and the Sith Empire. Aside from single-player content, there's also a lot to enjoy in a team, enjoying various kinds of raids and PvP options. Even some story content is team-oriented!
Eight unique stories taking you on an epic journey across the Galaxy
Plenty of activities for teams of various sizes
Singleplayer content feels like a proper Bioware RPG
There also modes for fans of spaceships: on-rail missions and PvP combat
Star Wars The Old Republic Prepaid Time Card 60 Days
Halo (series)
Developer Bungie, 343 Industries
Halo is one of the most famous first-person shooter series in the world. It has fully earned this status thanks to excellent gunplay (it was created by devs who later made Destiny), a detailed science fiction setting, and many stories that come with it. However, the element that truly cemented Halo's status is the amazing multiplayer, which kept people playing each entry for years after the release.
All the main installments also remain very playable thanks to re-releases adapted for modern hardware. If you're looking for dynamic, fast-paced science fiction FPS which can also handle vehicle combat, then you should absolutely take a look at Halo, especially the Master Chief Collection is a convenient deal, bundling up several games in the main series, expect Halo 5 and Halo Infinite.
One of the best FPS series out there
Vast universe expanded via non-game media
Excellent gunplay
Satisfying customization in multiplayer
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
Jedi: Fallen Order
We're closing with a complete change of pace in case what you're actually looking for isn't a (multiplayer) shooter, but a solid Star Wars adventure. Jedi: Fallen Order is a completely singleplayer game, but it has an engaging story, beautiful locations, cool combat, and rewarding exploration. You're playing as Cal Kestis, a padawan survivor of Order 66 who has been hiding ever since.
Having been forced to reveal himself, he quickly becomes embroiled in a story larger than just his immediate survival. Fallen Order is third-person action game focused mostly on dodge- and parry-intensive combat and exploration enabled in large part by Cal's returning Force abilities. You also cross paths with inquisitors and some characters from the broader Star Wars canon.
Cool, engaging lightsaber combat
Gaining new powers unlocks previously inaccessible areas of many maps
Plenty of collectibles, both functional and cosmetic
A challenge mode which lets you test and polish your lightsaber skills
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Deluxe Edition (Xbox Live)
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This concludes our list of games which offer something you might have liked about Star Wars Battlefront games: satisfying multiplayer, classes, Star Wars license, or maybe even just a singleplayer campaign exploring the setting. Whatever your main interest might be, hopefully our list helped you find something that piques it.
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Q: How to separate production and development code in React Native? I haven't found any proper answer to this sadly.
I'm currently developing a react-native app with redux and I found out that the release version is getting slowed down by some development tools.
Here's an example:
const store = createStore(
  Reducers,
  composeWithDevTools(
    applyMiddleware(thunk),
  ),
);

And this composeWithDevTools is obviously some development tool and in release I should use another function called compose.
What I'd like to do would be something like this:
//development
const store = createStore(
  Reducers,
  composeWithDevTools(
    applyMiddleware(thunk),
  ),
);
//production
const store = createStore(
  Reducers,
  composeWithDevTools(
    applyMiddleware(thunk),
  ),
);
//end

It would automatically choose the right code sample considering where I am. (Dev or release).
Do you guys know some tool I could use for this ?
Thanks in advance

A: You can use __DEV__ global constant. Moreover, babel compiler smart enough to completely remove code guarded by constants, so you also can reduce code size.
For example, we use this code to initialize store:
function setupStore(extra = {}) {
  const middlewares = [thunk.withExtraArgument(extra)]
  if (__DEV__) {
    const createLogger = require('redux-logger').createLogger // redux-logger 3.x
    const logger = createLogger()
    middlewares.push(logger)
  }
  const store = createStore(reducer, applyMiddleware(...middlewares), autoRehydrate())
  return store
}

A: Redux Logger has been changed a little while ago.
Now you need to import like this:
import { createLogger } from 'redux-logger';
In the example above you can do something like this:
const { createLogger } = require('redux-logger');
const logger = createLogger();
middlewares.push(logger);


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Q: How to git-apply a git word diff I needed to edit a messy commit commit that only changed a word in a few subsequent rows, keeping some of those changes and removing others.
The changes were easy to see in git diff --word-diff, and in that format I could easily edit the hunks to do what I intended to do, but now I have a file like this
diff --git a/cldf/forms.csv b/cldf/forms.csv
index 46c12a4..0374ece 100644
--- a/cldf/forms.csv
+++ b/cldf/forms.csv
@@ -1783,8 +1783,8 @@ ID,Lect_ID,Concept_ID,Form_according_to_Source,Form,Local_Orthography,Segments,C
1782,adan1251-lawah,day,dilɛlɛ,dilɛlɛ,dilele,d i l ɛ l ɛ,Lit. 'all day'.,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1783,adan1251-lawah,day,wɛd saha,wɛd_saha,wed saha,w ɛ d _ s a h a,midday' lit. 'hot sun',datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1784,adan1251-lawah,morning,lalami,lalami,lalami,l a l a m i,,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1785,adan1251-lawah,yesterday,ʔu:mi,ʔuːmi,[-umi-]{+'umi+},ʔ uː m i,,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1786,adan1251-lawah,day_before_yesterday,ʔotariŋ alumi,ʔotariŋ_alumi,[-otaring-]{+'otaring+} alumi,ʔ o t a r i ŋ _ a l u m i,,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1787,adan1251-lawah,tomorrow,dilɛlɛ,dilɛlɛ,dilele,d i l ɛ l ɛ,,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1788,adan1251-lawah,day_after_tomorrow,a:lu,aːlu,alu,aː l u,,datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv
1789,adan1251-lawah,twilight_dawn,lalami,lalami,lalami,l a l a m i,"(lit, 'early morning')",datasets_Adang_Lawahing_tsv

which I would like to use as a patch for git apply.
However, vanilla git apply words.diff fails with a fatal: corrupt patch at line 6 – a normal diff file would start with a space in that unaffected line – and I don't see anything that might make git apply accept a word-diff file in its manpage.
How can I convince git apply to take a file of this format as patch? Or how can I easily convert this file into a valid patch?

A: I couldn't find a working solution, so I've put together a script that converts word-diff into a regular diff that can be applied:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# convert-word-diff.pl -- rev. 2, this script is licensed under WTFPLv2

my (@minus, @plus);

sub flush_diff {
  print join("", map { "-$_" } @minus);
  print join("", map { "+$_" } @plus);
  @minus = (); @plus = ();
}

while (my $line = <>) {
  if ($line =~ /^(?:index |diff |\+\+\+ |\-\-\- |@@ )/) {
    flush_diff();
    print $line;
    next;
  }

  my $is_diff_line;

  if ($line =~ /\[\-.*\-\]/ || $line =~ /\{\+.*?\+\}/) {
    my $copy = $line;
    $copy =~ s/\[\-(.*?)\-\]\{\+.*?\+\}/\1/g;
    $copy =~ s/\[\-(.*?)\-\] ( )?/ \1 /g;
    $copy =~ s/\{\+.*?\+\} ?//g;
    push(@minus, $copy);

    $copy = $line;
    $copy =~ s/\[\-.*?\-\]//g;
    $copy =~ s/\{\+(.*?)\+\}/\1/g;
    push(@plus, $copy);
    $is_diff_line = 1;
  }

  unless ($is_diff_line) {
    flush_diff();
    print " $line" ;
  }
}

flush_diff();

Usage:
cat word-diff.txt | perl convert-word-diff.pl | git apply

Hopefully I didn't mess up anything and you are on Linux/Mac and have Perl. :-)


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By Eoin Redahan | Published: 27 May 2020 | 4 minute read
Our lives have been changed dramatically over the past few months by the coronavirus pandemic. As well as a shift to online working for some, and social distancing for many, it's now normal for people to shop with surgical gloves, wear masks, and duck into driveways to avoid contact with others.
We've also seen a number of new, temporary transport measures, leading to healthier spaces with more walking and cycling, reduced vehicle emissions and cleaner air.
So what can we do in the long term to make these measures stick?
1. Build an inclusive cycling environment
We've seen extraordinary progress with cycling infrastructure in a short space of time. In Bogotá, Colombia, temporary cycle lanes sprang up overnight, an extensive emergency cycling network has been planned in Mexico City, cycling and walking space will be expanded by 35 km in Milan this summer, and the Mayor of Liverpool has promised to invest £2 million in pop-up cycle lanes.
Cycling should be open to everyone but much needs to be done to make it more inclusive. People need to feel safe when cycling, and that means dedicated cycle lanes free from cars, vans and motorbikes, which can accommodate all types of cyclists.
Making cycling inclusive also means redressing the gender balance. In English-speaking countries and many Latin American countries, there's a significant gender gap in cycling. Tiffany Lam, urban sociologist with New Economics Foundation Consulting, says: "for every female cyclist, there are 3 to 4 male cyclists, and this ratio has not changed over the past decade or so, despite increased investments in cycling infrastructure".
Much must be done to improve the gender balance in cycling.
Credit: photojB
Violence, street harassment, and a higher incidence of aggressive drivers targeting women all disproportionately affect female cyclists. Women are disproportionately burdened with caring responsibilities, which transport infrastructure doesn't do enough to accommodate. Lam has called for more gender expertise and diversity in transport planning to address these factors.
To improve safety for cyclists, walking and cycling charity Sustrans advocates using barrier blocks and planters on some roads to slow vehicles and reduce vehicle access, creating low-traffic neighbourhoods. It recommends removing access barriers from some cycle networks, opening them up to those on adapted bikes, tricycles, and even cargo bikes.
The government must do more to support the expansion of safe cycling networks. The recent announcement of a £2 billion package for so-called Active Travel is encouraging news, but is dwarfed by the £27 billion pledged to build new roads.
"The government must use the dreadful pandemic to re-think its massive £27 billion roads programme, which would just generate new extra traffic," says Friends of the Earth campaigner Jenny Bates. "The funds must be used instead to build back a better transport system so that we can all enjoy safer walking and cycling and better public transport."
2. Make our cities more walkable
Around a third of carbon emissions from driving could be avoided if people were able to switch to walking and cycling.
The widening of pavements in Milan, planned car-free zones in London and Brighton, and the Super Blocks in Barcelona (where car traffic is limited to the outskirts of certain areas) show what can be done to make walking more attractive to people.
But across the UK, walking infrastructure (like pavements and crossings) needs to be safer and more socially inclusive, especially for older people and those with young children. Busy areas and dangerous crossings mean some are reluctant to leave their homes and others drive instead.
Ridhi Kalaria, project officer at Sustrans, says longer traffic light crossing times, pavement parking bans, and wider pavements with better surfaces encourage people to walk. Crucially, these measures also help reduce social isolation.
"We're looking at these physical factors and how they might be a factor of social isolation – that someone cannot get out of their house and across the road to get to a community centre," she says. "It contributes to their social isolation, of not being able to get to the spaces and places they want to go."
3. Reduce car traffic
According to The Guardian, lockdown at its strictest triggered a 31% reduction in UK carbon emissions, in part due to less road traffic.
The worry is that traffic will return to its polluting, pre-COVID-19 levels once lockdown ends. As Transport for Quality of Life notes, traffic needs to be reduced by 20-60% if we're to combat climate breakdown, and even a big increase in electric vehicles won't be enough.
Street kit being used to narrow a wide junction to slow traffic.
Credit: Sara Jones/Sustrans
But there are promising signs. Cities across Europe, including London and Birmingham (from 2021), are introducing clean air zones that charge high-polluting vehicles for entering the city centre. Nottingham's workplace parking levy has been a notable success, with revenue invested in an electric tram network.
And change can happen on a smaller scale too, helped by community buy-in. One of Sustrans' projects aims to encourage more children and parents to walk or cycle to school. And in Birmingham, multi-faith Climate Action group Footsteps is organising car-share schemes and walking groups for those travelling to religious services.
4. Improve public transport
Transport accounts for the largest slice of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and public transport will be key in cutting it. However, the way people view public transport could be adversely affected by the pandemic, given social distancing concerns and homeworking.
So now's the time to rethink our approach to public transport, in terms of routes, costs and funding. According to Tiffany Lam, transport planning has long focused on users being male breadwinners who commute into city centres, with less emphasis on local journeys.
But with attitudes towards commuting to city centres changing, she feels we could see a change from radial public transport routes, which go from suburbs straight into city centres, to more orbital ones.
Lam also says we may need to reframe the way we think of public transport – as an essential public service, like affordable housing. So it could be subsidised or even free, as it is for essential workers in Barcelona.
5. More emphasis on Active Travel
To reduce vehicle emissions, public transport must remain an attractive option into the future. The expansion of walking and cycling infrastructure is something to build on to make our transport use more sustainable.
Now more than ever, we need to find sustainable transport solutions. That's why Climate Action groups are working with national and local government to make temporary transport measures a permanent fixture, and protect people's health as well as the environment. Join your local Climate Action group and find out how you can get involved.
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Q: Derivative of expressions with field conjugates So I've been trying to define the orthogonal projection as the linear approximation of a vector by another, such that the error is minimised, but for an arbitrary field...
Formally, in an inner product space over a field F $(V, +, . , F, <.,.>)$, the orthogonal projection of a vector f on a vector x is
$proj_x(f) = \frac{<f,x>}{<x,x>}x$
now whenever the field is $\mathbb{R}^n$, you can argue that the formula stems from the best linear approximation of f by x. Indeed we can write
$f = \alpha x + e = proj_x(f) + e$  (the linear approximation and it's error)
Then the best linear approximation is the one with the smallest error, i.e., with $<e,e> = |e|^2$ minimised. And since:
$|e|^2 = <f-\alpha x, f-\alpha x> = |f|^2+\alpha\alpha^*|x|^2-\alpha^*<f,x>^* -\alpha<f,x>\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (*)$
it is then easy to see that if the field is Real, we get
$|e|^2 = |f|^2+\alpha^2|x|^2-2\alpha<f,x>$
and that minimizing $e$ with $\alpha$ yields
$\frac{\partial |e|^2}{\partial\alpha} = 2\alpha|x|^2 -2<f,x> = 0$
effectively retrieveing the projection coefficient.
I however run into trouble when trying to generalize this notion to an arbitrary field such as the Complex numbers with the classic complex conjugate, but also to other arbitrary field and their own conjugation rule. I haven't taken any particularly advanced abstract algebra classes and don't know how to formally take the derivative of equation (*) w.r.t. alpha, in order to make the same argument.
Thanks in advance for any help


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CROSSKEY AVENUE by Howard Crosskey
You can't have failed to miss the huge surge in independent candle companies that have launched over the past twelve months. With us spending the majority of our time at home, candles became the "must have" home product to help relax, stimulate, or calm the senses. The majority of these new brands simply bought pre-existing fragrance oils (how many times have you seen a variation on Pomegranate Noir?) but thankfully some decided to create from scratch. When Howard Crosskey launched Crosskey Avenue it followed multiple trials to perfect his own fragrances, and his debut trio of candles is a scented success.
Howard Crosskey is one of thousands of people that took the upheaval of the past twelve months as the impetus to look at where life had led him, and whether it was still where he wanted to be. A twelve year career in media relations had offered security, but at the expense of creativity. So, he took the decision to change direction and focus on an industry that he really loved - candles. Howard told me how he'd always used them at home to create a mood, or set a scene, and so was excited to bring his own ideas to the candle market.
He plunged headlong into studying how to create candle fragrances with Zaga Colovic, the founder of Beauty Handmade, and always had in the forefront of his mind that he wanted to take inspiration from "global travel, nature, and horticulture." However, the difference with Howard Crosskey is he's very clear that he's not in competition with, or copying, any existing brand. What he's promising are beautiful fragrances that tell a story, and also a collection that he is proud to put his name to. This refreshing level of honesty is rare in the perfume industry at the moment, and it's just one of the reasons why he deserves to be successful.
His design choices incorporate a sleek white jar with a deep jade green label, and the boxes come without cellophane. He wanted the entire product to be recyclable, and also for the overiding focus to be on the scents themselves. His debut candle collection launched in October 2020, and this opening trio really is enchanting. Ischia is inspired by visits to the volcanic island that shares its name and showcases an uplifting blend of lemon, rose, and tomato leaf. With the support of frankincense, alongside a smooth mineral note, it definitely gives the impression of Italian terraces and sun warmed rocks.
Langkawi is the more tropical of the trio and transports you to Malaysia. The central scent of frangipani gives you that gardenia and ylang quality, but it's quickly joined by a note of coconut milk and lemongrass. In the background you also have a touch of sweet orange and cinnamon for some exotic intrigue. Haputale is my favourite of the collection with its beautiful realisation of Shri Lanka's tea growing mountains. The initial scent of bergamot and pink pepper combines seamlessly with ginger and earthy vetiver, but a powdery chamomile manages to put you firmly in mind of expansive lands and sundried, freshly picked leaves.
Ischia, Langkawi, and Haputale are available from the Crosskey Avenue website at crosskeyavenue.com priced at £39 each or £110 for the complete set. [Samples provided by Howard Crosskey]
Labels: Beauty Handmade, Candle, Crosskey Avenue, Haputale, Howard Crosskey, Independent, Ischia, Langkawi, Niche, Zaga Colovic
GENOA BAY EAU DE COLOGNE by Wild Coast Perfumery
The New Jo Loves Fragrance Paintbrush
TASSONI 225 by Terre del Garda
APERTURE by Ulrich Lang
EARTH HAND SANITISER SPRAY by Tessa Williams
DARYA, METSA, and SEPEIDEH by Marlese Assman
JO'S RHUBARB by Jo Loves and Zara


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The origin of the term 'gene' comes from the Greek word 'gonos', and means offspring. Defined by the Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen in 1905, the study of genes is by no means completed, with new discoveries being made every day.
Where are genes located? A gene is a tiny section of a long DNA molecule, which are coded with instructions to allow a cell to produce a specific product, usually a protein, or an enzyme, intended to trigger a specific action. The DNA molecules, each containing thousands of genes, are located inside chromosomes. Chromosomes, in turn, are found inside the nucleus of cells. Therefore, an organism can contain hundreds to even millions of gene structures.
Now that you know the answer to the question "where are genes located", let's see what goes on inside a gene.
A gene is basically a combination, a very long one at that, of four different chemicals, known as nucleotide bases. The way that these four nucleotides combine determines what physical characteristics a person may have. In a human being, there are around 20,000 genes that can be found on one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in the cell nucleus.Think of a gene as a recipe for making a certain protein. When a protein needs to be manufactured, enzymes (which are other kinds of special proteins) read the information contained in the DNA sequence, and build a messenger RNA code, which then gets sent to the cell, telling it what protein to make.
As much as scientists have discovered about genes, they've learnt that there is still a lot more to be learnt about this fascinating unit that they've now come to call the blueprint of life.


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La Lué est une rivière du Nord de l'Angola. Elle départage la province de Bengo au nord, sur sa rive gauche, et la province de Uíge au sud, sur sa rive droite, depuis sa source jusqu'à sa confluence avec le fleuve Loje.

Sources

Cours d'eau en Angola

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Home Economy Lopez steps down as chairman emeritus of Philippines' media giant
Lopez steps down as chairman emeritus of Philippines' media giant
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ABS-CBN building. Photo by Flickr
Eugenio "Gabby" Lopez III has stepped down from his position as chairman emeritus of embattled Philippine media giant ABS-CBN Corp., months after the latter was ordered shut down by the government.
Citing personal reasons, Lopez also tendered his resignation as director of ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation–the largest media company in the Philippines–and other Lopez-led companies such as Sky Vision Corporation, Sky Cable Corporation, as well as publicly-listed firms First Philippine Holdings Corporation, First Gen Corporation, and Rockwell Land Corporation. The resignation was effective immediately.
It can be learned that ABS-CBN failed to renew its 25-year franchise due to issues on his citizenship. The shutdown resulted in 11,000 laid-off employees.
Under Article XVI, Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, the ownership and management of mass media shall be limited to only Filipino citizens or corporations and associations wholly-owned and managed by such citizens.
In a statement on Thursday, ABS-CBN said Lopez's resignation was accepted with regret.
"We thank him for his dedication and leadership in expanding and transforming ABS-CBN beyond television through the years," the media giant said.
"Just like his father, Eugenio 'Kapitan Geny' Lopez Jr., Gabby is a visionary and a compassionate leader driven by his love for the Philippines and the Filipino people. He would always tell the men and women of ABS-CBN that being a part of the network is not a job, but a calling," it added.
"We shall continue the journey that he and his father began as we remain in the service of the Filipino."
Lopez was replaced by Mario Luza Bautista as director of ABS-CBN.
Bautista, 66, served as the General Counsel of the company and a member of the Board of Advisors since 2011. He is also a Board Advisor of First Philippine Holdings and a founding partner of the Poblador Bautista and Reyes Law Office and has been its Managing Partner since 1999.
Bautista graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1975. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of the Philippines in 1979 and ranked sixth in the Bar Examinations of that year.
President Rodrigo Duterte has lashed out on ABS-CBN since 2017, accusing the broadcasting network of unfair reporting and for its failure to run his advertisements during his presidential bid.
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Gabby Lopez
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"I wanted to study on a course which was RICS accredited. NTU also had the option of completing an internship instead of a dissertation, something that other universities did not offer. The internship option is the main reason that I chose NTU.
"The course staff are knowledgeable and helpful. It helps to have staff which have practised in the industry, rather than being purely academics.
"If you want a job in the construction industry and think that Quantity Surveying is suited to you, then I would suggest doing this course. The amount of interest that employers show in you, means that you are hard pushed not to secure a job before the end of exams in June. NTU carries a good reputation in the industry and many employers have other team members who have come from NTU.
Has the course given you any job opportunities?
"I have been offered 11 interviews, with various Quantity Surveying companies between October and February (after starting the course in October). I was offered two Graduate Quantity Surveyor roles before Christmas, one with a main contractor and one with a consultancy firm, after attending their interviews. I accepted the job with the consultancy firm in January.
"The amount of employers who wanted to interview me because I was studying this course was unbelievable. The fact that I was so in demand meant that I could be picky about where I wanted to get a job and what sort of company I wanted to work for, this is something that graduates want but never actually get to experience.
How do you think the course will aid your career progression?
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This verse has been part of my life for a very long time. Actually, this scripture was crucial in my conversion experience. Just before I came to Christ, I was wandering around in the French Quarter; okay, I was on Bourbon Street and I was approached by different cults trying to raise funds or gain converts. I remember speaking to a member of a group called 'the Foundation' and also speaking to one of the ever present Krishna's that night. As they were going through their routine, I kept remembering this scripture verse I had learned in Sunday School as a child. Actually it was in 8th grade and I was attending Memorial Baptist Church Sunday School when I had learned that verse. What was the scripture? You guessed it, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 Those words were screaming in my ears. It was the power and reality of those words that kept me from the cults and ultimately brought me to Christ. Martin Luther shares some interesting thoughts on this verse.
If you think about, every other religion is some sort of deflection designed to keep us from coming to Christ on the basis of grace. When the truth of salvation by grace through faith hit me I was caught totally by surprise. It was so simple yet so profound. I didn't have to do anything to be saved; actually, I couldn't do anything. He had done everything. All that was left for me was to surrender and to receive. Jesus is the way to the Father. He is the way to life. Receiving His love is where life truly begins.
THANK YOU, FATHER, JESUS, HOLY SPIRIT!
GOOD AFTERNOON, PASTOR FRANK, HALLELUJAH. GLORY HONOR AND PRAISE TO OUR KING. I LOVE YOU. HAVE A BLESSED AND FILLED DAY IN our KING JESUS. HALLELUJAH.


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Q: install nvidia drivers with ppa into Ubuntu 15 I use a Ubuntu 15(desktop) + KDE Plasma 5 into a Vagrant Box.
I have problem with my resolution screen.
For resolve this I want to install NVIDIA drivers on my Ubuntu. It seem to be more goodly than install this with the ppa way.
I'm helping with this official howto : Ubuntu NVIDIA install

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*sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa => OK

*sudo apt-get update => OK

*ubuntu-drivers devices this return me this :

If I try to install the official .run file NVIDIA I have another problem.
What is the process to install my NVIDIA GeForce 580GTX drivers on Ubuntu 15 ?
I need install VBoxGuestAdditions mandatory for using graphical drivers ?
I try with Ubuntu 15 and Unity :

A: To install the latest driver on Kubuntu, first remove that PPA from /etc/apt/sources.list in a terminal
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

Now add this one
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Now install the latest driver
sudo apt-get install nvidia-358

and reboot
sudo reboot