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7 Metaverse companies in Southeast Asia that caught our attention in 2021
Who would have imagined Vietnamese blockchain game developer Sky Mavis to become a unicorn within just three years of starting up? No one. Not even the founders or its investors. Non0-fungible tokens (NFTs), metaverse, and Web3 were the definite trends of 2021. Many companies operating in these domains attracted eyeballs and investors' attention. These verticals will continue […]
Fast Forward with HPE!: Helping startups grow through community support
American venture capitalist, well-known author, and entrepreneur Brad Feld once said, "they say it takes a village to raise a child and a startup is not different." It takes a whole community to raise a successful startup company that can grow, scale, and contribute to a healthy economy, he added. It is true that to […]
Cambodia's digital currency reaches nearly half the population
SINGAPORE — A digital currency run by the Cambodian central bank has been named one of the Awards for Excellence winners of the 2021 Nikkei Superior Products and Services Awards for its innovative technology and impact on the country's economic and social development, Nikkei announced on Tuesday.
Unnamed firm could be worth $100M; crypto predictions for 2022
Happy New Year! ETtech Top 5 returns to your inbox today after a well-earned break. When Indian startups raised a record $36 billion in 2021 and 39 of them turned unicorns, you may have thought, like we did, "Now I've seen it all." Well, a company that's still at the idea stage—and doesn't yet have […]
Telenor to divest Wave Money, exit Myanmar mobile banking
BANGKOK — Telenor, the Norwegian telecommunications operator, has agreed to sell its 51% stake in Wave Money, one of Myanmar's biggest mobile payment services, to a consortium led by Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings, its main partner in Wave, Nikkei has learned.
The big venture capital movements in 2021
Mumbai: 2021 was one the most active years for India's venture capital sector, in terms of funds raised and capital deployed by investors, as ET reported. The year has also been busy with people movement. The churn was largely driven by top executives seeking better opportunities in international investment vehicles or branching out on their […]
Singapore partner pulls out of Vietnam taxi joint venture
ComfortDelGro's taxis are parked at their vehicle inspection yard in Singapore October 9, 2017. Photo by Reuters Singaporean transport firm ComfortDelGro has decided to sell its entire stake in the Vietnam Taxi Company to a local company and pull out of Vietnam. Under a deal it has signed, it will transfer its 70-percent stake in […]
Vietnamese carriers open ticket sales for international flights
By Doan Loan &nbspDecember 29, 2021 | 04:30 am PT A Vietnam Airlines aircraft seen at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways have opened ticket sales to several locations including the U.S., Japan and Taiwan, signalling the resumption of international travel on New Year's day. National […]
China lays out five-year plan to be global robotics hub
China has unveiled a five-year plan to drive its ambition of becoming a global innovation hub for robotics by 2025. It hopes to get there by focusing on enhancements in key components such as servomotors and control panels. In releasing the five-year roadmap, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday said operating income […]
Teachmint acquires video engagement platform Airlearn to expand developer offerings
Mumbai: Education infrastructure startup Teachmint on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Airlearn, a video engagement platform for education businesses, in a cash-and-stock deal to expand its developer offerings. With this deal, Teachmint strengthens its developer offering called Teachstack, enabling edtech companies across the globe to build state-of-the-art classroom solutions for their users, the company said […]
Softbank-backed industrial robot maker YouiBot raises $47 million
YouiBot, a Chinese industrial mobile robot maker, announced Tuesday that it has received more than RMB 300 million ($47 million) in two additional funding rounds of Series B, led by venture capital firm FG Venture and private equity company Xicheng Jinrui respectively. Why it matters: The investment highlights the funding trend for industrial robotics manufacturers, […]
Top 10 community articles of 2021 on entrepreneurship
As we slow down for the holidays and wrap this year with a bang, I wanted to leave you with enough food for thought. Kicking off the e27 community wrap up series with the Top 10 community articles for founders. If you are a founder everything from funding to cap tables to hiring to company […]
Southeast Asian startups to watch in 2022
As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is "whoa!" This was the year that global investors not only started to pay close attention to the region's tech ecosystems, but also began putting real money into them. Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused […]


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1BT funds for Northland forest taonga
Northland's indigenous tree canopy is set to grow for the benefit of mana whenua and the wider community thanks to nearly $2 million in One Billion Trees funding, Forestry Minister Shane Jones announced today.
Te Komanga Marae Trust has received more than $1.54 million to restore and enhance the native flora on the Kōwhairoa Peninsula Historic Reserve at the entrance of Whangaroa Harbour.
"Kōwhairoa Peninsula is a culturally significant site, of huge importance to Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa and Ngāti Kaitangata haupū," Shane Jones said.
"It is also significant for its diverse flora and fauna. Sadly, much of the old-growth forests were cleared prior to 1948. But with the support of Te Uru Rakau, Northland Regional Council, Department of Conservation, the Kiwis for Kiwi Trust, Forest and Bird and Taipa Area School, Te Komanga Marae Trust will restore this forest to its former glory."
The Trust will also work with the Northland Region Corrections Facility and its horticulture programme for propagation of seedlings for the project.
The One Billion Trees-funded Restoration Ambassador, ecologist Dr Adam Forbes, has recommended planting up to 132,000 long-lived native old growth plant species across 110ha on the peninsula.
"The key focus of this biodiversity project is to restore the old growth forest species that would have once dominated the peninsula. Along with continued pest control, this forest restoration will create long-term biodiversity benefits for the peninsula and harbour," Shane Jones said.
As well as providing an economic boost for the area through the funding, the project will also create 10-14 jobs across its duration.
In a separate funding, a grant of $286,000 has gone to Te Roroa Development Charitable Trust for its Te Toa Whenua restoration project.
Te Roroa are the kaitiaki of Tane Mahuta and other significant kauri on the west coast of the Far North.
"Te Roroa is transitioning around 200ha of a 900ha block of land from exotic forest to native through the planting of seedlings from its own nursery," Shane Jones said.
They will employ a nursery manager and nursery kaimahi for three years to work in the plant nursery and contribute to the project. The goal is to produce 100,000 native seedlings each year.
"I am delighted that Northland iwi are able to utilise funds available through Te Uru Rakau and the One Billion Trees programme to return the whenua to its former state. New Zealand owes them a debt of gratitude for this work and their continued guardianship of our biodiversity taonga."

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Clutch made a stop at House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois as part of their Psychic Warfare World Tour. Clutch released their eleventh studio album, Psychic Warfare, during October 2015 and it debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200. The number of diehard fans in attendance that night in Chicago, combined with fans attending shows across the U.S., are clearly one part of the reason why the album was so close to cracking the top ten.
After two well received sets from openers Kyng and Zakk Sabbath, Clutch started off the night with Who Wants To Rock? from Jam Room (2009) before going straight into The House That Peterbilt and Animal Farm, both from their 1995 self-titled release. Singer Neil Fallon was firing on all cylinders and the crowd were fully onboard for the ride.
The band continued with two songs from Psychic Warfare, fast-paced X-Ray Visions and Firebirds! which included Neil on guitar. Clutch dug deep into their catalog again with The Regulator and Immortal before treating fans to another new song. Bassist Dan Maines and drummer Jean-Paul Gaster really brought a funky life to Quick Death in Texas, and fans happily sang along. We're not talking just the chorus either as a lot of people on the floor and even in the balcony were giving as much to the band as the band were giving to the crowd.
When the band started Spacegrass from their self-titled 1995 release, the room changed. Not only were a lot of fans singing along from the very beginning, many could be heard above Neil. To say people lost their minds during this song would be an understatement. With Passive Restraints, fans continued singing along, moshed and generally soaked up every bit of the night.
Clutch continued with two more from Psychic Warfare. Noble Savage was another fast-paced rocker with the line, "Unapologetic lifer for Rock and Roll", which probably applied to a lot of people that night. While I have seen Clutch in the past before, between hearing the inflection in Neil's voice all night as he sang each word, verse and chorus combined with his spastic body movements, by this point, I had decided Neil was the equivalent of a Baptist Rock n' Roll preacher. He was such a contrast to other members in the band and you wouldn't dare take your eyes off him.
If by chance you missed seeing Clutch on this recent run, you missed one hell of a show. Not only did they give Chicago fans their monies worth, they played a set that spanned their entire catalog, which is most likely why there was very little talking from Neil, who instead chose to get down to business. The business of rocking some faces off. I guess when you've been a band since the early 90's and have 11 studio albums to your credit, you are definitely a Noble Savage.
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#ifndef OSKAR_MS_CREATE_H_
#define OSKAR_MS_CREATE_H_

/**
 * @file oskar_ms_create.h
 */

#include <ms/oskar_ms_macros.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * @brief Creates a new Measurement Set.
 *
 * @details
 * Creates a new, empty Measurement Set with the given name.
 *
 * @param[in] file_name       The file name to use.
 * @param[in] app_name        The name of the application creating the MS.
 * @param[in] num_stations    The number of antennas/stations.
 * @param[in] num_channels    The number of channels in the band.
 * @param[in] num_pols        The number of polarisations (1, 2 or 4).
 * @param[in] freq_start_hz   The frequency at the centre of channel 0, in Hz.
 * @param[in] freq_inc_hz     The channel separation, in Hz.
 * @param[in] write_autocorr  If set, write auto-correlation data.
 * @param[in] write_crosscorr If set, write cross-correlation data.
 */
OSKAR_MS_EXPORT
oskar_MeasurementSet* oskar_ms_create(const char* file_name,
        const char* app_name, unsigned int num_stations,
        unsigned int num_channels, unsigned int num_pols, double freq_start_hz,
        double freq_inc_hz, int write_autocorr, int write_crosscorr);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* OSKAR_MS_CREATE_H_ */

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19201. SECUNDERABAD PORBANDAR SC PBR EXPRESS TRAIN FROM SECUNDERABAD TO PORBANDAR RUNS WEDNESDAY
19201 Secunderabad Porbandar Express train from Secunderabad to Porbandar runs on Wednesday, covering 1690 kms in 32 hours & 55 minutes, running at a speed of 54.72 km/hr, making 27 stoppages of 122 minutes in total.
1690 kms, 2 d
32:55 hrs, 54.72 km/hr
28 stops, 122 mts
SECUNDERABAD PORBANDAR SC PBR EXPRESS TIMETABLE
1 SECUNDERABAD JN (SC) 15:00 0 km
2 BEGAMPET (BMT) 15:08 15:10 02:00 6 km
3 TANDUR (TDU) 16:55 16:56 01:00 115 km
4 WADI (WADI) 18:40 18:45 05:00 185 km
5 KALABURAGI (KLBG) 19:22 19:25 03:00 221 km
6 SOLAPUR JN (SUR) 21:20 21:25 05:00 334 km
7 DAUND JN (DD) 00:25 00:30 05:00 522 km
8 PUNE JN (PUNE) 02:00 02:05 05:00 597 km
9 LONAVALA (LNL) 03:05 03:07 02:00 661 km
10 KARJAT (KJT) 03:58 04:00 02:00 689 km
11 KALYAN JN (KYN) 04:37 04:40 03:00 736 km
12 BHIWANDI ROAD (BIRD) 05:18 05:20 02:00 754 km
13 VASAI ROAD (BSR) 06:10 06:20 10:00 781 km
14 BOISAR (BOR) 07:12 07:14 02:00 832 km
15 VAPI (VAPI) 08:06 08:08 02:00 904 km
16 VALSAD (BL) 08:28 08:40 12:00 928 km
17 SURAT (ST) 09:55 10:05 10:00 996 km
18 ANKLESHWAR JN (AKV) 10:39 10:41 02:00 1046 km
19 VADODARA JN (BRC) 11:48 11:58 10:00 1125 km
20 ANAND JN (ANND) 12:29 12:31 02:00 1161 km
21 NADIAD JN (ND) 12:46 12:48 02:00 1179 km
22 AHMEDABAD JN (ADI) 13:55 14:10 15:00 1225 km
23 VIRAMGAM JN (VG) 15:14 15:16 02:00 1290 km
24 SURENDRANAGAR (SUNR) 16:29 16:31 02:00 1355 km
25 RAJKOT JN (RJT) 19:03 19:08 05:00 1471 km
26 HAPA (HAPA) 20:39 20:41 02:00 1547 km
27 JAMNAGAR (JAM) 20:56 21:04 08:00 1556 km
28 WANSJALIYA (WSJ) 22:56 22:57 01:00 1656 km
29 PORBANDAR (PBR) 23:55 1690 km
Route map of Secunderabad to Porbandar trains,
19201 SECUNDERABAD PORBANDAR FARE
Secunderabad Porbandar Sc Pbr Express has AC1, AC2, AC3, SLEEPER CLASS
1st AC 4083 60 75 184 4402
2nd AC 2356 50 45 106 2557
3rd AC 1598 40 45 72 1755
19201 Secunderabad Porbandar Express is the fastest train from Secunderabad to Porbandar railway station. (Compare Train Speeds)
Returning train number 19202. Secunderabad Porbandar Sc Pbr Express commences from Porbandar at 15:00 and reaches Secunderabad Jn at 23:55. It runs on wednesday.


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For the sake of keeping things manageable, let's confine the discussion to a single continent and a single week: North America over the last seven days.
In Houston they got down to the hard and unromantic work of recovery from what economists announced was probably the most expensive storm in US history, and which weather analysts confirmed was certainly the greatest rainfall event ever measured in the country – across much of its spread it was a once-in-25,000-years storm, meaning 12 times past the birth of Christ; in isolated spots it was a once-in-500,000-years storm, which means back when we lived in trees. Meanwhile, San Francisco not only beat its all-time high temperature record, it crushed it by 3C, which should be pretty much statistically impossible in a place with 150 years (that's 55,000 days) of record-keeping.
How about we compare it to previous warm periods? How about during the Holocene?
Oh, and while Irma spun, Hurricane Jose followed in its wake as a major hurricane, while in the Gulf of Mexico, Katia spun up into a frightening storm of her own, before crashing into the Mexican mainland almost directly across the peninsula from the spot where the strongest earthquake in 100 years had taken dozens of lives.
Did Bill just link the earthquake with Hotcoldwetdry?
Yes, yes he did. BTW, why no mention of the fact that the climaweenies models failed for over 18 years, fail when applied to the past, and that there was extremely low landfalling hurricane activity for almost 12 years? If Bill want to talk 150 years, well, the major hurricane landfalling dearth record shattered that from the Civil War era years.
Maybe it was too much to expect that scientists' warnings would really move people. (I mean, I wrote The End of Nature, the first book about all this 28 years ago this week, when I was 28 – and when my theory was still: "People will read my book, and then they will change.") Maybe it's like all the health warnings that you should eat fewer chips and drink less soda, which, to judge by belt-size, not many of us pay much mind. Until, maybe, you go to the doctor and he says: "Whoa, you're in trouble." Not "keep eating junk and some day you'll be in trouble", but: "You're in trouble right now, today. As in, it looks to me like you've already had a small stroke or two." Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are the equivalent of one of those transient ischaemic attacks – yeah, your face is drooping oddly on the left, but you can continue. Maybe. If you start taking your pills, eating right, exercising, getting your act together.
That's the stage we're at now – not the warning on the side of the pack, but the hacking cough that brings up blood. But what happens if you keep smoking? You get worse, till past a certain point you're not continuing. We've increased the temperature of the Earth a little more than 1C so far, which has been enough extra heat to account for the horrors we're currently witnessing. And with the momentum built into the system, we're going to go somewhere near 2C, no matter what we do. That will be considerably worse than where we are now, but maybe it will be expensively endurable.
And that's why people tune out: over-wrought hysterics pushing apocalyptic doom, just like the mentally disturbed people on street corners screeching about the end of the world. And, just like the wackos on the street corners, the Warmists cannot prove their assertions. Just because there has been warming does not mean it is primarily/solely caused by Mankind.


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Q: How to print dropped elements in a stream with OverflowStrategy? Is there a way to print the dropped elements of a stream when using OverflowStrategy.dropHead or OverflowStrategy.dropTail?

A: If akka.stream.impl.ActorRefSourceActor can be of any help there are these two cases in receive:
    case DropHead ⇒
      buffer.dropHead()
      buffer.enqueue(elem)
    case DropTail ⇒
      buffer.dropTail()
      buffer.enqueue(elem)

I think it crosses out possibility to have the elements printed out before being dropped.

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We are currently experiencing a wave of disruptive technologies centered around recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, big data, robotics, nanotechnology, advanced materials, and 3D/4D printing. Welcome on board the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
Until now we have gone through three such revolutions. The first was the introduction of steam power at the end of the 18th century that mechanized production. The second comprised the widespread development of electricity at the beginning of the 20th century that allowed mass production. The third was the advent of information technology (IT) in the 1970s that introduced automated production. The fourth one builds on the infrastructure provided by the third revolution to launch us into the wave we are currently experiencing.
The impact of the 4IR is massive as it integrates several disruptive technologies. It is already affecting our personal lives and is set to completely transform the petroleum industry business.
Recent articles (Robinson, 2018; Ighalo et al., 2018) give a high level insight into the importance of utilizing the massive amount of data available in the petroleum industry today and building data analytics capabilities around the evolution of IT infrastructure. Even though AI has been applied in other fields for more than 4 decades, its application in the petroleum industry has been sparse and limited.
This article will give a succinct overview of the AI paradigm, discuss the challenges in applying AI in the petroleum industry, highlight some of the emerging opportunities and prospects, and conclude with recommendations to accelerate the admission of AI into workflows.
My favorite definition for AI is the one proposed by a Stanford University Professor, John McCarthy: "The science and engineering of making intelligent systems." It should be known that those "intelligent systems" could be hardware (e.g., robotic arms during some repetitive jobs like capping drink bottles), software (e.g., algorithms that recognize patterns), or a combination of both (e.g., autonomous rovers that make independent decisions based on certain events).
AI could not have existed without computers. Therefore, the discussion on the history of AI would not be complete without looking at the history of computers. Some computer-like developments started as early as 1800. The first electronic computer, ENIAC, was developed in the early 1940s. This facilitated the arrival of the first commercially stored program later in the decade around 1949. With this success, more programming languages were rolled out in quick succession: LISP language in mid-1950s followed by PROLOG in early 1970s, when the first expert system was revealed. With this strong foundation, more advanced programming languages have evolved over time and continue to the present day.
The words "artificial intelligence" were first mentioned at a conference in 1956. Leveraging the capability to program computers, the new field of AI rapidly developed. This assisted the development of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) along with other variants such as Generalized Regression Neural Networks, Radial Basis Function Neural Networks, Probabilistic Neural Networks, and Cascaded Neural Networks. AI became a multi-million dollar business with the introduction of AI-based hardware in 1986 and started to be incorporated in military systems and games in the early 1990s.
The news of an AI machine (Deep Blue) beating a human chessmaster (Garry Kasparov) came in 1997. There was a massive launch of AI-based products, both software and hardware, by companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft from 2010. Advanced machine learning (ML) concepts such as hybrids, ensembles, and deep learning followed rapidly to accelerate the application of automatic image classification and object recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks. Since the middle of this decade, extensive deep learning applications have been developed and actively supported by improved and advanced hardware capabilities to handle the complexities of the applications.
The next section attempts to clear the confusion around the terms data science, computational intelligence, AI, and neural networks.
People outside the data science community have used the terms: data science, computational intelligence, AI, and neural networks, interchangeably. AI is not a "technique." It is a branch of computer science that covers other sub-fields such as Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Robotics, and Computational Intelligence. CI, also known as soft computing or neural computing, combines knowledge discovery (KD), pattern recognition, and data mining processes to develop ML workflows.
Some of the various techniques that can be used for ML are ANN and its variants, Decision Tress, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, Extreme Learning Machine, Fuzzy Logic Types I and II, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (popularly mentioned in the literature by its abbreviation ANFIS), and Nearest Neighbors. This new and rapidly evolving field that uses various scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, is called data science.
It is also necessary to clarify the relationship among KD, data mining, and ML.
The KD process is a collection of tasks and procedures that are used to extract knowledge or meaningful insight from data. It starts with identifying a challenge.
The type of challenge determines the data to use. This is the data selection phase. For example, if you need to predict reservoir porosity, you would need petrophysical data, among others, rather than geochemical. The selected data usually needs to be preprocessed to remove anomalies, outliers, noise, and other artifacts. Based on the statistical evaluation of the selected data, it might be necessary to apply some transformation functions such as log normalization or resampling on the data. This is the point data mining comes in.
The most common among the possible data mining techniques is ML (discussed below). The result of data mining is a recognized pattern. The pattern will be interpreted, evaluated, and validated to generate a new insight that can be added to the organizational workflow. The KD process is summarized in Fig 1.
Fig. 1—The knowledge discovery process workflow.
The main tool used for data mining is ML. In simple terms, ML can be defined as the process of teaching computers to do what humans naturally do without being explicitly programmed. Through ML, algorithms are able to continuously learn from historical events captured in data and adaptively improve their predictive capabilities with more data.
There are three ML methods: supervised, unsupervised, and hybrid learning. Supervised ML algorithms learn patterns from historical examples. This is called training. The trained model is able to predict the target variable given new input instances. An example is to use the relationship between wireline logs and reservoir properties from historical data to predict the properties of a new reservoir given new input scenarios. Typical applications of this learning method are regression and classification.
Unsupervised ML algorithms make inferences from events depicted by data without prior classification or label. They infer a function, usually based on some distance metrics, to describe a hidden structure from unlabeled data. From this result, an expert can derive meanings that can lead to new insights.
An example is to use historical log data to compartmentalize a reservoir into sections based on certain signatures such as the density of data points. An expert may then interpret the sections as different lithologies. A typical application of this learning method is clustering.
Hybrid ML algorithms combine supervised and unsupervised methods to arrive at a solution in situations where there are uncertainties in human knowledge. They have the capability to considerably improve learning accuracy with limited labels. An example of this is to use a clustering approach to compartmentalize a huge volume of reservoir data into sizeable zones before applying regression or classification.
In summary, ML enables analysis of massive quantities of data. While it generally delivers faster and more accurate results to identify profitable opportunities or dangerous risks, it may also require considerable amount of time and resources to train it properly. The main objective of ML is to maintain a balance between underfitting and overfitting. The traditional ML workflow is shown in Fig 2.
Fig. 2—The conventional machine learning workflow.
When To Use Machine Learning?
No existing rule/equation. If there is an established relationship among certain parameters that can be accurately defined by an equation, then there is no need for ML. For example, we know that the distance traveled is directly proportional to speed and inversely to time. This is universally established. Using ML to predict distance from speed and time will be useless. Investigating the relationship between log measurements and reservoir permeability would be a good candidate for ML.
Rules and equations are too complex. When a set of rules or an equation is based on very complex and confusing assumptions, then consider using ML.
Rules are constantly changing. When relationships change due to various conditions, then consider using ML. For example, when some relationships that are valid for clastic reservoirs become invalid in carbonates, then ML can be used to derive a complex relationship in both environments.
The nature of data keeps changing. If the nature of data keeps changing such that the fundamental principles of the underlying equations are no more honored, then ML might be useful to establish a nonlinear dynamic mapping to handle the change.
It requires substantial data. Having access to large enough historical dataset to ensure effective model training and generalization capability has been a major challenge.
The learning process requires a degree of expertise. Most users of ML in the industry simply go with the default parameter settings in those packages. ML is an art in itself and hence needs to be mastered. It goes beyond simply running the ANN app over a dataset. There are technicalities involved in choosing the right features, tuning the model parameters, trying different learning algorithms and activation functions, and possibly carrying out certain post-processing activities to enhance the output and presentation of the process.
Focus on pattern in data rather than the physics of the problem. One of the possible reasons petroleum industry experts would not easily accept the ML paradigm is the focus of the latter on extracting patterns in data rather than incorporating the physics of the problem. This will continue to pose a challenge until there is a very close collaboration between data scientists and domain experts to leverage the strength of both parties.
Spend enough time on data quality assurance. Given the robustness of the model, good data determines the quality of the results. Most of the time when algorithms don't perform well, it is due to a problem with the training data such as insufficient amount, skewed data, noisy data, or insufficient features describing the data for making decisions.
Choose the right features that describe the problem to be solved. This process is domain-specific and hence should be done in close collaboration with domain experts rather than being left completely to data scientists.
Seek to understand ML techniques rather than using them as black boxes. Each ML technique has its own science forming the foundation.
Make the products of ML projects easy to use. Invest enough time to build user-friendly and simple user interfaces. A process that can be executed in a few clicks is better and will be easily adopted by consumers than those that are complicated.
Build integrated solutions to form a suite. Rather than building ML applications around small and narrow problems, think of a "one-stop shop" type solutions.
Invest time in learning. When a MLalgorithm is not working, we often feed the machine with more data. This can lead to issues with scalability, in which we have more data but not enough time to invest in the "learning" process.
ML is not a magic wand. It may not be able to solve all problems. Handle ML projects with a focus on clear set of objectives driven by knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of the ML paradigm. Attempting to use it as a blanket solution that must work in all situations seldom works.
This article has been written with the objective of providing a basic understanding of AI, its relevant terminology, and the rudiments of how it works. I hope that I have succeeded in infusing the "AI thinking" in the minds of the readers and tickled your interest in looking for opportunities to apply ML in your projects.
Robinson, D. (2018) What's the Difference between Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence? The Way Ahead.
Ighalo, S., Blaney, J., and Sachdeva, J.S. (2018) Keeping up with the Digital Age: What is Data Analytics all about? The Way Ahead.
Fatai Anifowose is a research scientist at the Geology Technology Division of the Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center, Advanced Research Center in Saudi Aramco. His career interweaves the artificial intelligence aspect of computer science with reservoir characterization aspect of petroleum geology. His expertise is in the application of machine learning and advanced data mining in petroleum reservoir characterization. Anifowose has published more than 45 technical papers in conferences and journals. He is a member of SPE; European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers; and Dhahran Geoscience Society, Saudi Arabia. Anifowose obtained his PhD degree from the University of Malaysia, Sarawak, in 2014; MS from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in 2009; and BTech from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, in 1999.


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Q: I need module my program by python,how I do How do I convert my fun.py into a module so that I can use it in untitled.py?
fun.py
class test:
    def __init__(self,num0,num1):
        self.num0 = num0
        self.num1 = num1

    def add(self):
        self.num0 + self.num1

    def sub(self):
        self.num0 - self.num1

    def mul(self):
        self.num0 * self.num1

    def div(self):
        self.num0 / self.num1

untitled.py
  from a import fun
  a = eval(input('enter a:'))
  b = eval(input('enter b:'))
  test = fun.test(a,b)
  print(test.add())

A: Few issues with your current code,

*

*In the methods of your class, you're just operating on the variables but not returning any data

*The import statement is wrong, there's nothing called a from where you're trying to import the file

*input() returns a string, you need to parse it into an integer if you want to do integer based operations on them.

# fun.py
class test:
    def __init__(self,num0,num1):
        self.num0 = num0
        self.num1 = num1

    '''
    You were just doing operations on variables,
    you need to return the values as well
    '''
    def add(self):
        return self.num0 + self.num1
    def sub(self):
        return self.num0 - self.num1
    def mul(self):
        return self.num0 * self.num1
    def div(self):
        return self.num0 / self.num1

# from {filename} import {class}
from fun import test

# You need to convert inputs into int() as input() returns string
a = int(input('enter a:'))
b = int(input('enter b:'))
test = test(a,b)
print(test.add())


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Q: Perl data parsing and inserting lines to Perl Masters in the world!
I have a file like this to parse and want to make......
starting from the first column, ID, exon information, start position, end position and direction. ID increases by 1 when it meets a number.
1   9239    712 8571    +
1   start_codon 712 714 +
1   stop_codon  8569    8571    +
2   3882    24137   24264   +
2   start_codon 24137   24139   +
3   3882    24322   24391   +
4   3882    24490   26064   +
4   stop_codon  26062   26064   +
5   4972    26704   26740   +
5   start_codon 26704   26706   +
6   4972    26814   27170   +
7   4972    27257   27978   +
7   stop_codon  27976   27978   +
8   10048   40161   41114   -
8   start_codon 41112   41114   -
8   stop_codon  40161   40163   -
9   272 43167   43629   -
9   stop_codon  43167   43169   -
10  272 43755   44059   -
10  start_codon 44057   44059   -

like this ....
1   9239    *712*   *8571*  +
1   start_codon 712 714 +
1   stop_codon  8569    8571    +
*X  9239    712 8571    +*
2   3882    *24137* 24264   +
2   start_codon 24137   24139   +
3   3882    24322   24391   +
4   3882    24490   *26064* +
4   stop_codon  26062   26064   +
*X  3882    24173   26064   +*
5   4972    *26704* 26740   +
5   start_codon 26704   26706   +
6   4972    26814   27170   +
7   4972    27257   *27978* +
7   stop_codon  27976   27978   +
*X  4972    26704   27978 +*
8   10048   *40161* *41114* -
8   start_codon 41112   41114   -
8   stop_codon  40161   40163   -
*X  10048   40161   41114   -*
9   272 *43167* 43629   -
9   stop_codon  43167   43169   -
10  272 43755   *44059* -
10  start_codon 44057   44059   -
*X  272 43167   44059   -*

each line begins with X has to be added but with my skill I cannot... :(
The thing is for every exon number in the second column ignoring the "start_codon" and "end_codon", have to get the minimum numbered exon position and maximum numbered exon position between asterisks *.
This is my basic code to parse the data... but I guess, have to re-code from the scratch
(I do not have any idea how to insert the line 'X')
(Sorry I deleted the code as its not so good enough and may give a confusion...)
Perl Masters in the World, Could you please help me???
Thank you!!
AS TLP aked I put my code back. Its embarrassing code though
use strict;

if (@ARGV != 1) {
    print "Invalid arguments\n";
    print "Usage: perl min_max.pl [exon_output_file]\n";
    exit(0);
}

my $FILENAME = $ARGV[0];
    my  $exonid = 0;
    my  $exon = "";
    my  $startpos = 0;
    my  $endpos = 0;
    my  $strand = "";
    my  $min_pos = 0;
    my  $max_pos = 0;

open (DATA, $FILENAME);

while (my $line = <DATA>) {
    chomp $line;

    if ($line ne "") {
        if ($line =~ /^(.+)\t(.+)\t(.+)\t(.+)\t(.+)/) {
        $exonid = $1;
        $exon = $2;
        $startpos = $3;
        $endpos = $4;
        $strand = $5;
        }
        if ($exon =~ /\d+/) {
            print $exonid,"\t",$exon,"\t",$startpos,"\t",$endpos,"\t",$strand,"\n";
        } else {
            print $exonid,"\t",$exon,"\t",$startpos,"\t",$endpos,"\t",$strand,"\n";
        }
    }
}

close (DATA);
exit;

How can I compare the biggest value and the lowest value....

A: Basically what you do is go through the lines, skip the ones you don't want (i.e. no number in col 2), remember min/max for each new line in the same set, and when the col 2 number changes you print and start over. With this solution, you also have to print the last set manually at the end.
This code uses the internal DATA file handle for demonstration data. Simply change <DATA> to <> to use on a target input file like so: perl script.pl inputfile
use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw(min max);

my $print;
my ($min, $max, $id);
while (<DATA>) {                   ###### change to <> to run on input file
    my @line = split;
    if ($line[1] !~ /^\d+$/) {                # if non-numbers in col 2
         print;                               # print line
         next;                                # skip to next line
    }
    if (!defined($id) or $id != $line[1]) {   # New dataset!
        say $print if $print;                 # Print and reset
        $id = $line[1];
        $min = $max = undef;
    }
    $min = min($min // (), @line[2,3]);       # find min/max, skip undef
    $max = max($max // (), @line[2,3]);
    $print = join "\t", "X", $line[1], $min, $max;  # buffer the print
}
print $print;

__DATA__
1   9239    712 8571    +
1   start_codon 712 714 +
1   stop_codon  8569    8571    +
2   3882    24137   24264   +
2   start_codon 24137   24139   +
3   3882    24322   24391   +
4   3882    24490   26064   +
4   stop_codon  26062   26064   +
5   4972    26704   26740   +
5   start_codon 26704   26706   +
6   4972    26814   27170   +
7   4972    27257   27978   +
7   stop_codon  27976   27978   +
8   10048   40161   41114   -
8   start_codon 41112   41114   -
8   stop_codon  40161   40163   -
9   272 43167   43629   -
9   stop_codon  43167   43169   -
10  272 43755   44059   -
10  start_codon 44057   44059   -

Output:
9239    712     8571
3882    24137   26064
4972    26704   27978
10048   40161   41114
272     43167   44059

A: If I understand you right, here's one way (untested!) to do what you seem to be asking for:
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

# read first line, initialize accumulators, print it back
chomp($_ = <>);
my ($last_id, $last_exon, $min_start, $max_end, $last_strand) = split /\t/;
say $_;

# loop over remaining lines
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    my ($exonid, $exon, $startpos, $endpos, $strand) = split /\t/;

    if ($exon !~ /\D/ and $exon != $last_exon) {
        # new exon found, print summary of last one...
        say join "\t", "X", $last_exon, $min_start, $max_end, $last_strand;
        # ...and reset accumulators
        ($last_id, $last_exon, $min_start, $max_end, $last_strand)
            = ($exonid, $exon, $startpos, $endpos, $strand);
    }
    else {
        # previous exon continues, just update accumulators
        $last_id     = $exonid;
        $last_exon   = $exon     if $exon !~ /\D/;
        $min_start   = $startpos if $min_start > $startpos;
        $max_end     = $endpos   if $max_end < $endpos;
        $last_strand = $strand;  # should not really be needed
    }
    # ...and don't forget to print the original line back again
    say $_;
}
# end of file, print summary of last exon
print join("\t", "X", $last_exon, $min_start, $max_end, $last_strand), "\n";

Basically, I'm assuming that you want to print a summary line starting with X whenever you encounter a number in the second column which is different from the previous number in that column, and that lines with non-numeric values in the second column should never trigger a summary.  Also, you'll presumably want a summary line at the end of the file, too.
The expression $exon !~ /\D/ returns true if $exon contains only numbers.  (Specifically, it tests whether it doesn't contain a non-numeric character, so an empty string would match too.)
There are a bunch of edge cases that I haven't considered, since I don't know whether they're possible in your data and how you want to treat them if they do occur.  For example, just to be careful, one might wish to also print a summary in the unlikely event that the strand changes while the exon number stays the same.  Similarly, a careful programmer might want to consider the possibility of the input file being empty, or of the first line containing a non-numeric value in the second column.
At least with use warnings you'll be alerted if any of the values I assumed would always be numeric turn out not to be so.


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Be Careful When Using These Social Media Platforms. Are You Next To Be Banned?
Could Following These Survival Ideas Kill You?
You've probably heard about the banning of Alex Jones's social media pages by Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, and there are many people applauding this action. After all, Jones is sensationalist, controversial, and given to conspiracy theories, and, given that he's been putting out material like this for years, that's unlikely to change.
The disturbing thing to consider is that these tech giants censor Jones, who most people would generally consider to be on the far right politically, but these same giants aren't censoring material from other people which is downright offensive such as new New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong who called "white people" "dogs" and "goblins" and called for violence against them. Oh, and the New York Times is known for having a political viewpoint which does not lean to the right.
In fact, you know the situation with Facebook, Apply, Spotify, and YouTube is crazy and wrong when people who are completely opposed to Alex Jones's political positions oppose the actions of these tech giants. For example, take recent comments by Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is an MIT professor and is open about his left-leaning politics (he advocates for a type of mini-socialism called anarcho-syndicalism). Chomsky recently wrote,
What I've seen of what [Alex Jones] does is outrageous, but unlike many civil libertarians here and especially in other countries, I don't think that the right way to deal with "hate speech" and crazed fabrications is to ban them; rather, to confront them, and to seek and confront the reasons why anyone pays a moment's attention to them.
Chomsky also said,
If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like.
I completely understand if people don't like what Alex Jones says. There is no question that Jones intentionally pushes the envelope of what many Americans consider to be rational or realistic, and Jones has been labeled a conspiracy-theorist for his viewpoints. What these people supporting the censorship of Jones by these tech giants don't seem to understand is that, when they are at odds politically with these tech giants, they could be next.
Frankly, if you want to maintain open communication lines with like-minded people, then you will want to make sure that you subscribe to the mailing list of sites that you like (such as this one. It's in the upper right corner of this page.) and make sure that your email provider isn't sending those emails to your spam folder.
And if you are talking openly about controversial subjects, then you will want to set up an email list that social media giants can't ban so that you can continue to communicate with your family and with those who want to hear from you.
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kassa1 says:
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AJ and his sidekick MA bans me for free speech using the completely legal and proper description to describe their "bl*cks" (ethnic lieberal slur) as NEGROES.
These two snowflake BAN ME when they hear that TRIGGER word, but don't mind PLASTERING their sites with the lieberal ethnic SLUR of "BL#CK" on them.
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I will not Let A Buch of Fake Morons dictate to me what I say, believe or even think or what I Like or dislike . Screw Their "Political Correctness" Mantras nor wi9ll they push their deviate Behaviors on me . I don't need "Social Networks " as They are the ones running scared and Need To SPY On US You See They are an Election SHORT and 2 years BEHIND We No Longer Need Their Platforms To Gather "Our Steam" for the Mid Terms The Dumbasses Communist socialist Already Has Shown Their EVIL! We All See It! We All Feel It. We All Use Our Discernment in Masse now. Now Sit Back And Watch what the Mid Terms DO! I wonder what will be Released On The "Peoples Republic" Front To Really Turn Even their own against The " TreasonousTraitors"?
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I periodically check out Allex Jones; I like Jerome Corsi who is fairly accurate. These and many
like Q are far more accuate news sites than CNN, CNBC, ABC and CBS. Even BBC has
gotten much propaganda out. What does one expect from the CIA which funds most of this garbage!!!
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Going through security for my flight from New York to Virginia I noticed a sign that said 'no snow-globes may be taken on this flight.' It sounded such a fanciful idea to even think of taking a snow-globe flying that I immediately wanted to. And that got me thinking about how to make an edible snow-globe. So far the best I've come up with is this…. a borage ice sphere.
Admittedly it's more like one of those hefty glass paperweights that are the mystery weapons in Agatha Christie crime novels, but I think it's beautiful all the same. And since I was in fanciful mood I decided to pair my globe with not red but green gazpacho soup. I've always found the sheer bossy lividness of red gazpacho very off-putting. This green confection is coolly elegant Grace Kelly to siren fire-cracker Rita Hayworth.
Simply add borage flowers (which taste of cucumber) to your favourite ice-cube mould, top up with water and freeze.
Whizz up the tomatoes and gin in a blender. Pour into a sieve lined with kitchen towel and allow to drip into a bowl in the fridge overnight. Meanwhile mix the peppers, cucumber, celery and celery leaves with the vinegars, juice, sugar and seasoning in a bowl and place this in the fridge too. The next morning chuck out the tomato that has collected in the kitchen paper. Add the clear tomato liquid, the contents of the vegetable bowl and the coriander leaves to the blender and whizz until smooth. If you like you can re-drip this through a paper-lined sieve if you want clear, green sophistication. But there's really no need and I never do.
Add a borage sphere to your ice cold soup. Eat while imagining what your fantasy snow globe would contain.
Love it! Love it! I also love the image of businessmen sitting in their plane seats playing with their snow globes…I think cold soup is comforting and elegant at the same time. I'll certainly try this one, my favourite is the one with yoghurt, garlic and walnuts eaten in Albania twenty five years ago – I can still taste it..
Thanks Liz. And I love the sound of the soup you ate in Albania – how delicious.
I'm a big fan of gazpachos – used to have lovely meals in Granada with local friends and there could be nothing better for the extrelly hot summers they have. This Green gazpacho sounds very, very interesting.Will never look at a snow globe the same way again.
Hi Valentina Thank you – gazpacho in Grenada sounds perfect.
Oh wow, this is so extraordinary!!! Wow!!
Absolutely beautiful. Borage grows so easily and the flowers are so beautiful.
I love the sound of the claret cup….
I don't think I have ever eaten (or even seen) borage. What a drop-dead gorgeous dish this is! Still giggling about the Snow Globes of Global Terror… Who knew.
Thank you very much Jeanne! Must be a relief to know about the Snow Globes of Terror..


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The newest Spider-Man movie showcases three generations of Spider-Man.
Breanna Laws, Staff Writer
From his first comic book appearance in 1962, Spider-Man has been a household name. Recently, fans around the world have been talking incessantly about the most recent addition to the film saga: "Spider-Man: No Way Home".
Released in the United States on Dec 17, 2021, "No Way Home" has grossed more than $1.37 billion worldwide. With a budget of $200 million, this film was an absolute hit in theaters — and for good reason.
The film explored the concept of a multiverse within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in doing so brought back previous Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. Along with the excitement of seeing Tom Holland play Peter Parker, fans also got to feel the nostalgia from seeing their old favorite portrayals back on screen again.
The juxtaposition of the three actors has had people wondering: which Spider-Man actor does it the best?
Garfield's "Spider-Man" was the first-ever superhero-type movie I ever watched as a kid, so I am quite partial to him as Parker. Putting any bias aside, all of the actors bring a unique set of attributes to the character.
Parker is a character known for his quirks. A quick-witted and geeky persona is essential to the character, and all three actors portray these elements of Peter's personality in their own way. The dialogue between the three actors in "No Way Home" was humorous and often cleverly coded with references to Maguire's and Garfield's films.
Maguire has always done well at portraying Parker's awkwardness, and he played quite a sensitive version of Spider-Man in his films. However, in "No Way Home", he shows a different kind of maturity as a mentor for Holland's Peter Parker.
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The actor that really went through some growth in this film was Garfield — and no, I am not just saying that because he is my favorite. In his films, Garfield primarily played off of the witty side of his spider counterpart. He was portrayed to be the "cooler" version of Parker, and this was a point of contention throughout his time as the character. Many fans questioned if Garfield was too abrasive or not quite nerdy enough to fully give the character justice.
In "No Way Home", we finally get to see Garfield's Parker as a more humanistic character — I mean seriously, if you shed no tears during his scene saving MJ, are you even human? His portrayal feels much more sensitive and vulnerable than it did before.
Several fans will argue that Holland combines the acting styles of Maguire and Garfield perfectly in his portrayal of the hero. Throughout "No Way Home", fans get to see Holland in extremely intense and upsetting situations, and he never shies away from putting his character's emotions at the forefront of his scenes.
This attribute of Holland's Parker makes him similar to Maguire in that he shows more of the humanity in the character. However, he still is able to demonstrate the more lighthearted and intelligent side of the character rather beautifully. It could be argued that, since Holland has played a much younger version of Spider-Man than his predecessors, it is almost natural to show the more vulnerable side of Parker. After all, at the beginning of his films, he was written as being only 15 years old.
However you choose to view it, all three actors brought out a wide range of emotions within audiences across the world last December. With over a billion dollars in revenue, as well as the honorable "certified fresh" on rotten tomatoes, "No Way Home" was an absolute success. Fans from every corner of the map look forward to seeing what is in store next for our web-slinging hero. For now, let's just hope that the new Doctor Strange movie will be able to live up to the increasing hype surrounding the multiverse.
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Thibault de Vassal (2018-06-30)
Interview with 15th chess WCH finalist
For once, as Eros & I couldn't find much more to say after all his consecutive wins, I asked Ramil Germanes these few questions around his match & correspondence chess (with what may look like a quite surprising conclusion).
- Hello Ramil, many thanks for answering those few questions! This is a first time with the WCH finalist, as the winner (Eros again) agreeded this could be an interesting experiment for a change, so we'll probably have a quite different point of view this time! You just finished your games to score 6-6 (12 draws), Eros retaining the title again. I guess this was the first time you played such a correspondence chess match, what are your impressions on this knockout format?
Yes this is the first time I've played a world championship match although I played before in earlier editions of this world championship but not reaching the challenger level. My impression? Its great playing for the world championship but I know its nearly impossible to beat the world champion.
- Let's rewind a few months backward, would you make other choices, in openings or anything?
I don't know. Tbh, I'm not very good on chess theory and not very updated as well. So I'm just playing basic moves hoping for opportunities to come up.
- So, is Eros beatable in this final match according to you? (please give us some hope) ^^
With how quickly you can search information and the strength of chess engines nowadays, its almost impossible to beat him unless you have access to alpha zero (haha). Though maybe Herbert Kruse can pull it off.
- What can you tell us about yourself and your relation to chess & correspondence chess?
I'm just an ordinary guy from the Philipines who happens to love playing chess. But my love of computers is what brought me to correspondence chess and to ficgs.
- Do you play other games, e.g. Go, Shogi, cards games?
No I don't know how to play those games.
- Could you tell us how these 12 games went from your own point of view?
For me, the games went through their normal course. Both of us didn't made any major mistakes so all games were drawn. That's just how it went. Though there were new moves on some the games it doesn't really changes result of the older games played before.
- Would you share a few tips to play good correspondence chess in 2018, or at least to beat the best chess engines? :)
Sorry but i dont know. I will be the new world champion by now if i know, hehehe.
- You told me that your computer configuration was basically a quad-core i5 3570 / 4gb on Fritz GUI (about 10,500 kn/s) / Windows 10, and we know that many of us (Eros included) still use such configs or even dual-core, would an octa-core have brought a significant advantage to you to win this match according to you?
Oh I don't know they still have those configurations. But I've already encountered opponents in Infinity Chess with 18-22 cores configs. Anyways, an octa-core or faster cpu would definitely be going to speed up my analysis and will let me analyze more lines and variations which may improves my overall play.
Honestly, I don't have that much time these days for correspondence chess. In my match against Eros, I had only about 1 hour of analysis time before work and about another 1 hour after work. Since I already have a family and 2 kids, they have to be my priority first. And I think somebody also can relate to this. So a faster cpu would be very helpful in the match and maybe will give a better chance than a slower cpu.
- As far as I know, you love to build computers, did you use or think about using several ones at the same time for analysis?
No. I only used one computer in my match against Eros. I have 2 other computers but both are slower.
- How much time you've been playing correspondence chess & how do you feel the way the game changed over the years?
I've been playing correspondence chess since 2010 and I have observed that its easier to win games in the past when chess engines were still weaker. Because you notice some players depend only on engine moves and engines still commit mistakes and you can exploit those mistakes if you "investigate" further.
Unlike now, engines are very strong that even players who rely solely on engines moves will be very hard to beat. It lessens the gap of players that know how to "use" the engines and the ones who do not.
- Finally, what makes you love correspondence chess in 2018?
I will always love chess and correspondence chess but what makes it exciting now is the rise of the new kind of engines.
Engines like Leela chess zero that has a different approach in playing chess. Maybe more of these kind of chess engines will be seen in the future. Because of its use of monte carlo analysis and neural networks, we are starting to see moves that we have never seen before. Very aggressive attacks and moves defying opening principles can now be seen. Correspondence chess is getting exciting again!
Ilmars Cirulis (2018-07-02 16:05:07)
Interesting interview! Thank you.
[URL=http://www.ficgs.com/Interview-with-15th-chess-WCH-finalist-q12686.html]Interview with 15th chess WCH finalist[/URL]


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The UAE is a member of an multi-country alliance spearheaded by International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) and the India headquartered International Solar Alliance (ISA) to diversify global solar manufacturing supply chains.
The initiative announced during the 13th Clean Energy Ministerial held last month at Pittsburg, is focused on solar manufacturing around the world to meet 800-1,000 Gigawatts (GW) of production by 2030 in a resilient, diversified way, said ISA in a press statement.
"This is an international cooperation initiative, and the current members are Australia, Germany, India, US and the UAE," Irena said in an emailed statement to Zawya Projects.
"The work plan is currently being developed. The broader areas will be empirical and analytical work to support the diversification and resilience of supply chains through best practice exchange and technical assistance. Each country will decide for itself how they wish to proceed," a spokesperson for Irena said in the statement.
"The increased deployment of solar energy will result in an increase in global photovoltaic production capacity, including the production of polysilicon, ingots, wafers, cells and modules. Production capacities will need to continue to increase and existing production facilities will need to be upgraded.
A diversification of production approaches will be critical to ensure sustainable and robust growth in the global deployment of solar energy," the statement said.
Irena has done a report on manufacturing of solar for the UAE some years ago and is open to support the county with an update on new developments, the statement added.
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