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More on Pope Francis
I have to conclude that Evangelii gaudium is a failure as a policy document. It has been extensively misunderstood. As I think I showed yesterday, a careful reading of it favours neither Left nor Right in politics. Francis identifies what he sees as a raft of social problems and many of those problems are ones that Leftists dine out on. But he does not call for political action to remedy those problems . He recommends prayer and personal compassion as the response to such problems.
But just about nobody seems to have noticed that. The Left think he has come down firmly on their side and conservatives see him as pro-Left too. See for instance here for a conservative critique.
The problem as I see it is that people on both sides of politics in the Western world see a statement of social grievances as a call for political action. So Francis has misjudged his audience. He is politically naive: Rather surprising in a Jesuit.
Past Popes in their encyclicals have taken care to remain in the middle ground of politics. John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus annus is a good example of that. Fortunately, Evangelii gaudium is an informal document so is not binding in any way. So Francis should move soon to issue an encyclical which cancels out the naive political views that are expressed in Evangelii gaudium. He will lose a lot of conservative Catholics otherwise. And Leftists are not conspicuous as churchgoers. His good intentions may be bad for his church. Pius XII came quite unfairly to be called "Hitler's Pope". Will Francis come to be known as "Stalin's Pope"? -- JR
Another senseless shooting of an American white by American blacks
Though it obviously made sense to the limited minds of the blacks concerned
An Iraq veteran who thought he was buying an iPad as a Christmas present after responding to a Craigslist posting, has been shot dead in an Indianapolis parking lot by the fake sellers.
New-dad Jim Vester, 32, was lured to an address on Wednesday in the west side of the city and brothers Tyron Kincade, 19, and Tyshaune Kincade, 18, have been arrested after Vester was shot dead leaving behind his one-year-old son, Gavin and wife, Jamie.
In the wake of the senseless murder, nearly 1,500 people have donated $58,000 to a YouCaring.com fundraiser set up by Vester's family for the man described as a 'great cook, loving father and faithful man.'
'He would drop everything and cross town to help you and your family,' friend Master Sgt. Jerry Wurm said.
Vester was a career military man, with 12 years of service in the Indiana National Guard, including a year-long tour of duty in Iraq in 2006.
More documentation of black on white violence here.
In Government We Trust: The Progressive Religion
With a storied history of attacking people of faith as extremists, radicals and the greatest threat this nation faces, it seems odd to see progressives embrace religion in their "advance the agenda at any and all costs" march. But they are, with vigor.
The wheels are coming off the progressives' dream of a cradle-to-grave entitlements, amnesty-ridden nanny state. Their wish list for complete government control – and their predictions the government shutdown would be the end of the GOP have been sacrificed to an Obamacare rollout that has enjoyed all the success of the Hindenburg (except on MSNBC, of course, where the Earth remains flat).
Since the government reopened on Oct. 17th, the American people have had an unfiltered look at what progressive policy means to them, and they don't like it. Not only have President Obama's approval ratings tanked since Americans got a look at his "signature legislation," the generic ballot for control of the House of Representatives has gone through a dramatic flip. The chances of Congressional Democrats retaking the House have sunk lower than that of a hooker with an open cold sore getting a date at a eunuch convention before the bars open.
As such, desperate times require desperate measures. Enter the religious appeal.
It's not overt, for the most part, and it's certainly not well thought out. But when the ship starts to sink you grab whatever you can to bail it out, bucket or coffee mug.
What has happened is Democrats' previously uncheckable lies are now fully checkable. It's real now. You can't keep your doctor or insurance, no matter how much you like them. And this hurts in the wallet – a lot. Now that we know this does not qualify as a practical solution, certainly not to health care anyway, Democrats –with all the credibility of a used-Pinto salesman – now embrace "morality" as the reason to embrace Obamacare.
In a column reeking of desperation on par with a kid hoping for a unicorn under his Christmas tree, the Washington Post's Ryan Cooper complied a list of reasons "Why millennials will come around on Obamacare." Aside from a desperate lack of understanding of health policy and how people work, the second reason Cooper lists stands out. He writes, "Going without health insurance is morally wrong."
I'll give you a minute to let that sink in.
This pathetic attempt to manipulate the unthinking into an overwhelming sense of guilt that forces them to capitulate may work on those with fewer IQ points than fingers, but it won't work on those with a third-grade education.
Cooper explains, "The only way insurance can work for everyone is if everyone is in the system so risk can be pooled. This one doesn't carry much weight yet, since the system isn't even operating. But as time passes, this will become an important norm — and for young people, the norm has outsized importance (older people already have a reason to get coverage; they get sick more easily). Getting insurance will be part of living in a decent society where everyone chips in when they can afford it, and free-riding is frowned upon — and over time, young people will come to see this as part of being a responsible citizen."
Those 108 words are an incredibly inefficient way of rephrasing "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
Cooper's appeal wouldn't be noteworthy were it a lone cactus in the desert, but it's not.
Also this week the buffoonish Ed Schultz, MSNBC's angry Fred Flintstone clone, mused about how God would feel about Obamacare. "I'll tell you what I think God thinks of the Affordable Care Act. It's a big amen!"
Not to be outdone in the office pool of idiocy, Charlie Brown's illegitimate child, Chris Matthews, had an offering on this theme. Matthews temporarily snapped out of his loving gaze while interviewing the president Thursday and put the cherry on top of one of this planet's worst displays of sycophantism to utter what was supposed to be a question: "You know, Mr. President, your — your remarks the other day on economic justice to me, as a Roman Catholic, was so resonant with what the Holy Father, Francis, has been saying. Talk about that common Judeo-Christian or, even further, Muslim background to the belief we have a social responsibility, a moral responsibility to look out for people who haven't made it in this country."
The one thing missing from these transparent attempts at manipulation is a basic understanding of morality. Morality is not set by government, laws are. Morality, like it or not atheists, stems from religion. It's not exclusive to it, but religion is the soil in which the seeds of morality were planted. And nowhere in the Bible or Qur'an does it say government should confiscate the fruits of one man's labor for the benefit of another.
True, the texts of our major religions do call for aiding our fellow man, but they do so as part of the religion, not a mandate for every human being.
Setting aside the gross bastardization of religion through the integration of communist tenets by these progressives, the most striking part of their appeal is its hypocrisy. These are the same people who spent the better part of the last half-century proclaiming "government can't legislate morality" on any issue remotely moral. Perhaps Chris "Roman Catholic" Matthews can explain where the Vatican changed its views on, say, abortion to dovetail with the progressive agenda? Probably not.
In nearly every way government has replaced religion in the progressive sphere. It is the grantor of rights, the arbiter of morality, the moderator of justice, the compass of true north. Government is the religion, and the agenda is God.
Any act done in service to the agenda is justified; the end is what matters, the means are irrelevant. That's how you rationalize selling big lies, known lies, to a public wanting to believe your snake oil is the cure for what ails them.
Perhaps progressives were correct in their charge that religious zealots are the greatest threat to our liberty today. And if they want to see one of those zealots, they need only look in the nearest reflective surface.
Coming to Grips with Rise of The Machines
After you heard President Obama's call for a hike in the minimum wage, you probably wondered the same thing I did: Was Obama sent from the future by Skynet to prepare humanity for its ultimate dominion by robots?
But just in case the question didn't occur to you, let me explain. On Tuesday, the day before Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage, the restaurant chain Applebee's announced that it will install iPad-like tablets at every table. Chili's already made this move earlier this year.
With these consoles customers will be able to order their meals and pay their checks without dealing with a waiter or waitress. Both companies insist that they won't be changing their staffing levels, but if you've read any science fiction, you know that's what the masterminds of every robot takeover say: "We're here to help. We're not a threat."
But the fact is, the tablets are a threat. In 2011, Annie Lowrey wrote about the burgeoning tablet-as-waiter business. She focused on a startup firm called E La Carte, which makes a table tablet called Presto. "Each console goes for $100 per month. If a restaurant serves meals eight hours a day, seven days a week, it works out to 42 cents per hour per table -- making the Presto cheaper than even the very cheapest waiter. Moreover, no manager needs to train it, replace it if it quits, or offer it sick days. And it doesn't forget to take off the cheese, walk off for 20 minutes, or accidentally offend with small talk, either."
Applebee's is using the Presto. Are we really supposed to believe that the chain will keep thousands of redundant human staffers on the payroll forever?
People don't go into business to create jobs; they go into business to make money. Labor is a cost. The more expensive labor is, the more attractive nonhuman replacements for labor become. The minimum wage makes labor more expensive. Obama knows this, which is why he so often demonizes ATM machine as job-killers.
Just a few days before Obama's big speech on income inequality, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launched a media frenzy by revealing on "60 Minutes" that he's working on the idea of having a fleet of robot drones deliver products straight to your door. I can only imagine the discomfort this caused for any UPS or FedEx delivery guys watching the show. There are still a lot of bugs to be worked out, but does anyone doubt that this is coming?
You might take solace in the fact that there will still be a need for truck drivers to deliver the really big stuff and to supply the warehouses where the drones come and go like worker bees. The only hitch is that technology for driverless cars is already here, it just hasn't been deployed -- yet.
None of this is necessarily bad. Machines make us a more productive society, and a more productive society is a richer society. They also free us up for more rewarding work. As Wired's Kevin Kelly notes, "Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm. Today automation has eliminated all but 1 percent of their jobs, replacing them (and their work animals) with machines."
While some hippies and agrarian poets may disagree, most people wouldn't say we'd be better off if 7 out of 10 people still did back-breaking labor on farms.
That doesn't mean the transition to a society fueled by robot slaves won't be painful. The Luddites destroyed cotton mills for a reason. Figuring out ways to get the young and the poor into the job market really is a vital political, economic and moral challenge. My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, James Pethokoukis, argues that one partial solution might have to be wage subsidies that defray the costs of labor, tipping the calculus in favor of humans at least for a while.
"Of course," Pethokoukis notes, "wage subsidies are an on-budget, transparent cost -- which politicians hate -- while the costs of the minimum wage are shifted onto business and hidden. But the costs exist just the same."
The robot future is coming no matter what, and it will require some truly creative responses by policymakers. I don't know what those are, but I'm pretty sure antiquated ideas that were bad policy 100 years ago aren't going to be of much use. Maybe the answers will come when artificial intelligence finally comes online and we can replace the policymakers with machines, too.
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Tickets in 1973
It's the summer of 1973. You've been reading your Walt Disney World Spring/Summer 1973 Information Guide. There are great attractions in each land of the Magic Kingdom.
Before you can enter the park, you need to decide what kind of admission to buy. You could just buy a General Admission ticket:
— GENERAL ADMISSION ONLY —
ADULT $4.50
JUNIOR (12 thru 17) $3.50
CHILD (3 thru 11) $1.50
Walt Disney World General Admission includes use for one day of the transportation systems (Monorails. ferryboats, and trams), admission to "Magic Kingdom" Theme Park and all free shows, exhibits, and entertainment.
A General Admission could work out well if you already have a pocket full of unused attraction tickets from earlier visits. But you probably don't because the park is less that two years old. And even if you do, the tickets in your pocket are probably just "A" and "B" tickets—not the valuable "E" tickets that you need for the best attractions, such as the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea submarine ride and The Hall of Presidents.
By the time you buy an adult General Admission and a couple of "E" tickets at 90 cents each, you might was well buy a Ticket Book. It's a much better value. So open your Information Guide to the page about Ticket Books:
Do you want to know a money-saving trick? For each adult, buy a 12-Adventure Ticket Book. For each child, buy an inexpensive $1.50 General Admission. The kids can use attraction tickets from the adult Ticket Books. Sure, you won't be able to go on as many attractions—but there aren't many attractions in the park anyway.
The ticket price page above is from the Walt Disney World Spring/Summer 1973 Information Guide. Here are a few observations:
The Magic Kingdom sold 8-Adventure and 12-Adventure Ticket Books, while Disneyland sold 10-Adventure and 15-Adventure Ticket Books, yet the Ticket Books at Disneyland cost 25 cents less.
The Magic Kingdom and Disneyland both recommended Guided Tours for first-time guests.
The parks had an age category called Junior (ages 12 to 17). Full adult prices didn't kick in until age 18.
Today, the age range for children is 3 to 9; everyone older than 9 requires a "Guest 10+" ticket.
With today's unlimited-attraction tickets, it's no longer necessary to decide ahead of time how many attractions one is going take in—but there are far more decisions for Walt Disney World guests to make today when choosing the right "Magic Your Way" tickets.
The "Magic Your Way" ticket options strongly encourage multi-day visits because the price per day goes down as the number of days goes up, but there was no such incentive in the era of Ticket Books.
20 Special Surprises!
Magic Kingdom in 1973
© 2008-2011Werner Weiss — Disclaimers, Copyright, and Trademarks
Updated June 3, 2011.
Scanned images from Spring/Summer 1973 Walt Disney World Information Guide
© 1973 Walt Disney Productions.

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Derry road victim's dad supports 'Drive for Justice' campaign
Martin Gallagher.
The father of a young Derry man killed by a speeding driver has called for much stiffer sentences as a deterrent.
Jonathan Francis McGonagle (23) knocked down Martin Gallagher on November 1, 2009, and then sped off from the scene at Derry's Racecourse Road.
McGonagle was given three years in jail and three years on licence and banned from driving for 10 years.
His car hit Martin Gallagher (25) so hard that it threw him 33 metres in the air.
McGonagle, from Moyola Drive in Shantallow, was over the alcohol limit for driving and had cannabis in his system.
Martin Gallagher's father, also Martin, has spoken out as part of a new 'Drive For Justice' campaign spearheaded by Johnston Press.
The campaign calls for changes in the law to make sentencing fit the crime for those who kill or seriously injure people on our roads.
The 'Drive For Justice' campaign aims to give families who have lost loved ones in such circumstances 'a voice'.
It also urges government to re-work guidelines so judges can use existing powers as well as tackle loopholes and impose tougher sentences for the worst offenders.
Martin Gallagher Snr. says he and his wife Elizabeth had just gone to bed on Halloween night 2009 when they heard shouting outside their home.
Shortly afterwards, their eldest son burst into their bedroom, shouting: "He's dead, he's dead".
Martin's wife, Elizabeth, asked: "Who's dead?"
Their son replied: "Martin's dead".
They then went downstairs to find police in their living room asking them could they go with them to identify the body.
They travelled to the morgue in Belfast.
A young policeman came out of the morgue as they arrived.
"He was as white as a ghost and he said to us: 'If that was my son I wouldn't go in there,'" Martin recalled.
The couple discussed whether they should go in or not.
"Half his face was missing," says Martin. "We didn't go in and that is one of the reasons that you don't get closure because we had the coffin in the house but it was closed.
"So you are always wondering if he was in it. You knew he was in it but, still, you wonder, was he in it?"
Martin says McGonagle drove on to a party after killing his son.
Police, he says, found the car in the Shantallow area of the city, not far from Gallagher's home.
"He claimed that his mother had been driving the car but the police arrested him. There was a fella and a girl in the car with him. The girl said she saw Martin crossing the road and shouted - 'slow down, there is a man crossing that road'.
"But he just sped on and didn't even try to brake," Mr Gallagher added.
His son was about to step onto the footpath when he was hit.
The girl who had been in the back seat of the car gave the police a full statement, which meant the entire prosecution was completed within a year.
"But, to me, what is the difference with that and a man going out with a gun? If someone had shot Martin, they would have got seven years."
The family says it pressed the Public Prosecution Service to charge the driver with manslaughter, but to no avail.
His custodial sentence was three years, with three years on licence and a ten year driving ban.
When he was arrested, says Martin, he was well over the limit with drink and drugs in his system.
However, it could not be proved that he had them in his system at the time of the collision.
The Bradley family say they were subjected to personal abuse in the street in the run up to the trial, which they declined to engage with.
Their son was an electrician by trade and did a lot of running for charities such as the local hospice.
"He loved to run," says Martin. "He never smoked but enjoyed a drink at the weekends. He really looked after himself.
"He had a good personality, he was the life and soul of the party."
Martin lived at home with his parents and, at the time of his death, had been seeing a girl for several years.
"We never had any bother with him. He hung around with a great crowd of fellas, they were never in bother or anything like that," says his dad.
The family says it spoke to a range of elected representatives about the sentencing.
They say they were promised sentencing reform at Stormont, but say they are still waiting for change, six years later.
"We just felt that nobody wanted to help us, politicians or anyone; you are just left out on a limb. We didn't know what to do or where to turn."
Martin Gallagher hopes they can affect some change which will help the next family that may face a similar ordeal.
"I would like to get the sentences increased," says Martin. "It would be a bit of closure for us - not helping us but helping the next person."
A reasonable sentence, he feels, would be "life for life".
But, more realistically, he says such drivers should get "at least ten years".
"He got three years but me and Elizabeth have got a life sentence."
To sign the Drive for Justice petition, go to: tinyurl.com/zcgja88


Irving recently worked on LFF title Departure.
The BFI has appointed Kristin Irving as a development executive.
Irving most recently co-founded company Amaro Films, the company behind Andrew Steggall's recent feature Departure.
She has also worked as a development executive for Cascade Pictures and Portobello Pictures. At the latter, Irving helped develop Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-winning film.
In her new role at the BFI, Irving will work alongside senior executives at the BFI Film Fund, assessing film project applications and providing support through the development process.


These functions solve the root of some function f(x) without the need for any derivatives of f(x).
The bracket_and_solve_root functions use TOMS Algorithm 748 that is asymptotically the most efficient known, and have been shown to be optimal for a certain classes of smooth functions. Variants with and without __policies are provided.
Alternatively, there is a simple bisection routine which can be useful in its own right in some situations, or alternatively for narrowing down the range containing the root, prior to calling a more advanced algorithm.
All the algorithms in this section reduce the diameter of the enclosing interval with the same asymptotic efficiency with which they locate the root. This is in contrast to the derivative based methods which may never significantly reduce the enclosing interval, even though they rapidly approach the root. This is also in contrast to some other derivative-free methods (for example the methods of Brent or Dekker) which only reduce the enclosing interval on the final step. Therefore these methods return a std::pair containing the enclosing interval found, and accept a function object specifying the termination condition. Three function objects are provided for ready-made termination conditions: eps_tolerance causes termination when the relative error in the enclosing interval is below a certain threshold, while equal_floor and equal_ceil are useful for certain statistical applications where the result is known to be an integer. Other user-defined termination conditions are likely to be used only rarely, but may be useful in some specific circumstances.
A unary functor which is the function whose root is to be found.
The left bracket of the interval known to contain the root.
The right bracket of the interval known to contain the root. It is a precondition that min < max and f(min)*f(max) <= 0, the function signals evaluation error if these preconditions are violated. The action taken is controlled by the evaluation error policy. A best guess may be returned, perhaps significantly wrong.
A binary functor that specifies the termination condition: the function will return the current brackets enclosing the root when tol(min,max) becomes true.
The maximum number of invocations of f(x) to make while searching for the root.
where m is the initial value of max_iter passed to the function.
In other words, it's up to the caller to verify whether termination occurred as a result of exceeding max_iter function invocations (easily done by checking the updated value of max_iter when the function returns), rather than because the termination condition tol was satisfied.
A unary functor that is the function whose root is to be solved. f(x) must be uniformly increasing or decreasing on x.
A scaling factor that is used to bracket the root: the value guess is multiplied (or divided as appropriate) by factor until two values are found that bracket the root. A value such as 2 is a typical choice for factor.
Set to true if f(x) is rising on x and false if f(x) is falling on x. This value is used along with the result of f(guess) to determine if guess is above or below the root.
A binary functor that determines the termination condition for the search for the root. tol is passed the current brackets at each step, when it returns true then the current brackets are returned as the result.
The maximum number of function invocations to perform in the search for the root.
In other words, it's up to the caller to verify whether termination occurred as a result of exceeding max_iter function invocations (easily done by checking the value of max_iter when the function returns), rather than because the termination condition tol was satisfied.
A unary functor that is the function whose root is to be solved. f(x) need not be uniformly increasing or decreasing on x and may have multiple roots.
The lower bound for the initial bracket of the root.
The upper bound for the initial bracket of the root. It is a precondition that a < b and that a and b bracket the root to find so that f(a)*f(b) < 0.
Optional: the value of f(a).
Optional: the value of f(b).
A binary functor that determines the termination condition for the search for the root. tol is passed the current brackets at each step, when it returns true, then the current brackets are returned as the result.
The maximum number of function invocations to perform in the search for the root. On exit max_iter is set to actual number of function invocations used.
toms748_solve returns: a pair of values r that bracket the root so that: f(r.first) * f(r.second) <= 0 and either tol(r.first, r.second) == true or max_iter >= m where m is the initial value of max_iter passed to the function.
In other words, it's up to the caller to verify whether termination occurred as a result of exceeding max_iter function invocations (easily done by checking the updated value of max_iter against its previous value passed as parameter), rather than because the termination condition tol was satisfied.
eps_tolerance is the usual termination condition used with these root finding functions. Its operator() will return true when the relative distance between a and b is less than twice the machine epsilon for T, or 21-bits, whichever is the larger. In other words, you set bits to the number of bits of precision you want in the result. The minimal tolerance of twice the machine epsilon of T is required to ensure that we get back a bracketing interval: since this must clearly be at least 1 epsilon in size.
This termination condition is used when you want to find an integer result that is the floor of the true root. It will terminate as soon as both ends of the interval have the same floor.
This termination condition is used when you want to find an integer result that is the ceil of the true root. It will terminate as soon as both ends of the interval have the same ceil.
This termination condition is used when you want to find an integer result that is the closest to the true root. It will terminate as soon as both ends of the interval round to the same nearest integer.
Algorithm 748: Enclosing Zeros of Continuous Functions, G. E. Alefeld, F. A. Potra and Yixun Shi, ACM Transactions on Mathematica1 Software, Vol. 21. No. 3. September 1995. Pages 327-344.
The implementation here is a faithful translation of this paper into C++.


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Q: Numerical Accuracy with scipy.optimize.curve_fit in Python I am having issues with the numerical accuracy of scipy.optimize.curve_fit function in python. It seems to me that I can only get ~ 8 digits of accuracy when I desire ~ 15 digits. I have some data (at this point artificially created) made from the following data creation:

where term 1 ~ 10^-3, term 2 ~ 10^-6, and term 3 is ~ 10^-11. In the data, I vary A randomly (it is a Gaussian error). I then try to fit this to a model:

where lambda is a constant, and I only fit alpha (it is a parameter in the function). Now what I would expect is to see a linear relationship between alpha and A because terms 1 and 2 in the data creation are also in the model, so they should cancel perfectly;

So;

However, what happens is for small A (~10^-11 and below), alpha does not scale with A, that is to say, as A gets smaller and smaller, alpha levels out and remains constant.
For reference, I call the following:
op, pcov = scipy.optimize.curve_fit(model, xdata, ydata, p0=None, sigma=sig)
My first thought was that I was not using double precision, but I am pretty sure that python automatically creates numbers in double precision. Then I thought it was an issue with the documentation perhaps that cuts off the digits? Anyways, I could put my code in here but it is sort of complicated. Is there a way to ensure that the curve fitting function saves my digits?
Thank you so much for your help!
EDIT: The below is my code:
# Import proper packages
import numpy as np
import numpy.random as npr
import scipy as sp
import scipy.constants as spc
import scipy.optimize as spo
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from numpy import ndarray as nda
from decimal import *

# Declare global variables
AU = 149597871000.0
test_lambda = 20*AU
M_Sun = (1.98855*(sp.power(10.0,30.0)))
M_Jupiter = (M_Sun/1047.3486)
test_jupiter_mass = M_Jupiter
test_sun_mass = M_Sun
rad_jup = 5.2*AU
ran = np.linspace(AU, 100*AU, num=100)
delta_a = np.power(10.0, -11.0)
chi_limit = 118.498

# Model acceleration of the spacecraft from the sun (with Yukawa term)
def model1(distance, A):
    return (spc.G)*(M_Sun/(distance**2.0))*(1 +A*(np.exp(-distance/test_lambda))) + (spc.G)*(M_Jupiter*distance)/((distance**2.0 + rad_jup**2.0)**(3.0/2.0))

# Function that creates a data point for test 1
def data1(distance, dela):
    return (spc.G)*(M_Sun/(distance**2.0) + (M_Jupiter*distance)/((distance**2.0 + rad_jup**2.0)**(3.0/2.0))) + dela

# Generates a list of 100 data sets varying by ~&a for test 1
def generate_data1():
    data_list = []
    for i in range(100):
        acc_lst = []
        for dist in ran:
            x = data1(dist, npr.normal(0, delta_a))
            acc_lst.append(x)
        data_list.append(acc_lst)
    return data_list

# Generates a list of standard deviations at each distance from the sun. Since &a is constant, the standard deviation of each point is constant
def generate_sig():
    sig = []
    for i in range(100):
        sig.append(delta_a)
    return sig

# Finds alpha for test 1, since we vary &a in test 1, we need to generate new data for each time we find alpha
def find_alpha1(data_list, sig):
    alphas = []
    for data in data_list:
        op, pcov = spo.curve_fit(model1, ran, data, p0=None, sigma=sig)
        alphas.append(op[0])
    return alphas

# Tests the dependence of alpha on &a and plots the dependence
def test1():
    global delta_a
    global test_lambda
    test_lambda = 20*AU
    delta_a = 10.0**-20.0
    alphas = []
    delta_as = []
    for i in range(20):
        print i
        data_list = generate_data1()
        print np.array(data_list[0])
        sig = generate_sig()
        alpha = find_alpha1(data_list, sig)
        delas = []
        for alp in alpha:
            if alp < 0:
                x = 0
                plt.loglog(delta_a, abs(alp), '.' 'r')
            else:
                x = 0
                plt.loglog(delta_a, alp, '.' 'b')
        delta_a *= 10
    plt.xlabel('Delta A')
    plt.ylabel('Alpha (at Lambda = 5 AU)')
    plt.show()

def main():
    test1()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A: I believe this is to do with the minimisation algorithm used here, and the maximum obtainable precision.
I remember reading about it in numerical recipes a few years ago, I'll see if i can dig up a reference for you.
edit:
link to numerical recipes here - skip down to page 394 and then read that chapter. Note the third paragraph on page 404:

"Indulge us a final reminder that tol should generally be no smaller
  than the square root of your machine's floating-point precision."

And mathematica mention that if you want accuracy, then you need to go for a different method, and that they don't infact use LMA unless the problem is recognised as being a sum of squares problem.
Given that you're just doing a one dimensional fit, it might be a good exercise to try just implementing one of the fitting algorithms they mention in that chapter.
What are you actually trying to achieve though? From what i understand about it, you're essentially trying to work out the amount of random noise you've added to the curve. But then that's not really what you're doing - unless i've understood wrong...
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So after reading how you generate the data, there's an issue with the data and the model you're applying.
You're essentially fitting the two sides of this:

You're essentially trying to fit the height of a gaussian to random numbers. You're not fitting the gaussian to the frequency of those numbers.
Looking at your code, and judging from what you've said, this isn't you end goal, and you're just wanting to get used to the optimise method?
It would make more sense if you randomly adjusted the distance from the sun, and then fit to the data and see if you can minimise to find the distance which generated the data set?

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As the picture of the 1942 Santa Ana High School graduating class shows, uniformed graduates were headed into the service right after graduation day — some may have been volunteers and others drafted. Those who weren't eligible for service could volunteer to help the war effort at home. As the images in this topic show, people at home contributed to the war effort in a variety of ways.
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The Living and the Dead (and the lack of a sense of place)
Posted byDavid Petts	 July 22, 2016 June 4, 2019 2 Comments on The Living and the Dead (and the lack of a sense of place)
I've been watching the new BBC folk-horror production TheLiving and the Dead for the last month – it's good; decent production values, often beautifully filmed, just this side of histrionic and tipping its hat to the ancestors (Wicker Man etc). I enjoy it, and I'll watch the whole series. It's just that something doesn't quite sit right with me- I can't seem to give myself over to it properly, and I've been struggling to work out why. It was watching last week's episode, involving a blight on the wheat harvest that I finally started to twig why it wasn't working for me. Enlightenment came when a song was played over a scene of the harvest. The song was a version of Reaper's Ghost written in the 1930s by the US songwriter and musician RichardDyer-Bennet. My first reaction was "…but it's not a pigging hayfield!" It was a wheat field – they are not the same thing at all. Hay is grass cut for fodder to feed animals; the scene was showing reapers harvesting wheat. Different crops, different times of year, different purposes. Now I'll put my hands up and admit that it's probably me being really petty – and that the point of the song was to give a suitably menacing ambience to the scene. Yet, it pointed to a bigger problem- that starts with the music, but is embedded in much of the rest of the programme.
Let's start with the music – the title song is a version of the Lyke Wyke Dirge done by Bristol-based outfit The Insects. Again, a song with suitably menacing lyrics
"This one night, this one night,every night and allFire and sleet and Candle-lightand Christ receive thy soul"
It's sung with a certain ominous hamminess – it's fine. But, and this is a big but, the actual first verse (and forgive the phonetics) are
"This ane night, this ane night,every night and awle: Fire and Fleet and Candle-lightand Christ recieve thy Sawle."
Again, I open myself to charges of pickiness here- but the Lyke Wake Dirge is a song with a particular pedigree; it's a northern song written in Yorkshire dialect, and recount the soul's journey through purgatory and clearly has Catholic undertones. Yet The Living and the Dead makes great play of being set in Somerset. It's a cracking song, but it's completely decontextualized in as the title song. So, what about the other music used in the series? We hear The Brave Ploughboy – perfectly common folk song collected in the 19thcentury – no problem with that one. We also hear the tune of Bold Sir Rylas, again fine. But then it starts to get problematic- She Moves through Fair, an incredibly well known (indeed a little hackneyed) Irish song first collected in the early 20th century, then I am Stretched on Your Grave, another well-known Irish folk song, covered by many including Kate Rusby and Sinéad O Connor – and crucially, the words and the tune were only combined from separate sources in the 1970s.
Hopefully, you are getting my drift now- the music is cobbled together from old folk standbys which no doubt lurk somewhere side by side on Now That's What I Call Folk Music 1. There is no sense of shaping or selecting the sound track; instead it feels that it's a selection of folk standards that have been thrown together by people with no real engagement with folk music or the specific Somerset setting. This is a real shame, because Somerset has no shortage of its own excellently recorded folk tradition. Indeed, it was in Hambridge in Somerset that Cecil Sharpe recorded his first folk song "in the wild" – the Seeds of Love – from the gardener John England. There has been no shortage of subsequent collection and research into the musical tradition of the county, I'd single out the work of Yvette Staelens and her Somerset Folk Map here.
This is all well and good; I admit I'm a folk music geek, and I'm probably hard to please. I'm admittedly perhaps not the target audience for the soundtrack. But what about other aspects of the programme's mise en scene. As I noted above, the programme claims to be set in a specific part of the country, Somerset. The name of the village where it is set is Shepzoy – and full marks here. That –zoy suffix is a genuine localised Somerset place-name element. It's found in place-names such as Westonzoyland, Middlezoy and Chedzoy. These are all found in the lower reaches of the River Parrett to the north-east of Langport. This is in the heart of the Somerset Levels – a distinct low-lying watery district characterised by many drainage ditches and channels, peat beds and wetlands. It's an eery and unsettling landscape in its own right. Yet, none of this materialises on the programme. Instead, the landscape views (and there are lots of them) seem to be of rolling good quality wheat growing countryside – nary a fen or bog in view! Indeed, one episode a coal mine plays a part; although not well known, there was a Somerset coalfield, but this was well away from the levels and up in the north of the county. Once again, despite an attempt to localise the programme and embed it into a particular pays, it comes over as slightly tone deaf, managing to miss out detail, and not engaging with the reality of the human and physical landscape it claims to occupy. It is, in fact, filmed in South Gloucestershire, a very different landscape.
Now, not only am I a folk music geek, I am an archaeologist with an interest in historic landscapes- so not only not a good audience, potentially, the worst possible audience. I admit, I am probably being overly pedantic here- I am sure there are other things I could worry away at too (would a labour force as late as the 1890s been shocked by the introduction of a steam plough? ).
But I think the underlying lesson for me is that a good folk-horror needs to be genuinely sedimented into its landscape. Folk-horror as a genre arises out of a particularly English tradition of ghost story and more broadly fantasy writing- figures such as MR James, Tom Rolt, R and Alan Garner are key here. In their writing, the stories are clearly situated in real, specific locations – drawing on existing exterior traditions and myths. MR James' Burnstow in "Oh Whistle and I'll come to you, my lad" is clearly based on Aldburgh or another small town on the Suffolk Coast. The landscape described in A Warning to the Curious is again clearly located in Suffolk. In other cases, he uses real locations- St Bertrand de Comminges and Viborg – carefully slipping the plot lines into the interstices of real historical events and real people. The ghost stories of Rolt clearly draw on his knowledge of industrial archaeology and canals (for a good example read his 'Bosworth Summit Pound'). Garner's work which is situated more on the fantasy side of things than the supernatural, despite having some horrific elements within them, also has an incredibly strong sense of place. The brooding summit of Mow Cop (Cheshire) looms over the lives of the cast of Red Shift, whilst the plot of The Owl Service traces a plot drawn from the Mabinogion in a clearly described central Welsh location. In all cases, Garner, James and Rolt, these writers have researched deeply into the traditions, landscapes and practices about which they right. Their writing is organic and situated and it would be hard to transpose the stories to other contexts without losing something important.
This interest in particular places, the folding of chronology and presencing of the past and the central importance of specific places and landscapes, for me, lodges this British folk horror/fantasy tradition firmly into the English Neo-Romantic movement, which springs from a particular sensibility that sees the past as something that it perpetually immanent in the present, particularly in rural contexts. In some ways, this taps into the notion of the 'archaeological imagination' as described by Michael Shanks, who describes it as the urge
"To recreate the world behind the ruin in the land, to reanimate the people behind the sherd of antique pottery, a fragment of the past… a creative impulse and faculty at the heart of archaeology, but also embedded in many cultural dispositions, discourses and institutions commonly associated with modernity. The archaeological imagination is rooted in a sensibility, a pervasive set of attitudes toward traces and remains, towards memory, time and temporality, the fabric of history" (Michael Shanks 2012 The Archaeological Imagination, 25).
It's the emphasis on the fragment, the ruin and the trace that is reflected in the Neo-Romantic tradition – the ruins drawn by John Piper, the rural and industrial scenes of Ravilious, the aerial fieldscapes of Peter Lanyon. No matter how abstract, no matter how surrealist, they arise out of specific landscapes and monuments. It is easy to see then, how ghost stories and tales of supernatural key into this tradition. There is nothing that presences the past more clearly and explicity than the appearance of a ghost.
So to bring slightly rambling post back to the beginning, for me the failure of The Living and the Dead is in its' failure to root itself into a real landscape and tradition. It misses an opportunity to engage with the real traditions and landscape of Somerset, something I would argue that would have given it more depth, more heft, and would, like all good folk-horror, allowed to linger and perhaps seep out into reality. There is an absence where there ought to be a real place. It's this lack of attention to detail that ultimately disappoints. It's fast –food folk horror, it meets a craving, but fails to sustain.
Posted byDavid Petts July 22, 2016 June 4, 2019 Posted inUncategorized
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Icy Sedgwick says:
I haven't watched it yet but I certainly keep an eye out for this when I do!
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It may be some time before I get a chance to watch this, as I'm on the \"wrong side of the Pond\" and all. However …… Wikipedia informs me that this is by Ashley Pharoah (not a spelling mistake on my part) and Matthew Graham the fellas behind Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. Would you say that those shows were better in their choices of music to evoke a particular time and place? (I'm genuinely curious.)


After months of working to resolve a contract that prioritizes patient care, Harborview Medical Center is still resisting nurses' calls for solutions to the hospital's ongoing staffing concerns. Harborview nurses and healthcare workers will be joined by community leaders at an informational picket at the hospital Thursday to call on Harborview to improve staffing.
Currently many nurses and healthcare workers have to double up on patient loads to cover for co-workers to eat or take needed breaks. Patients may find themselves waiting for care from healthcare specialists and social workers who often have to carry two pagers to cover shifts. Nurses and healthcare workers have been proposing solutions since they started bargaining new contract months ago.
Instead, Harborview has brought new cuts to the table and they haven't fully addressed our staffing and recruitment and retention concerns. Harborview is our region's only level 1 trauma care hospital and we can't afford for it to fall behind on community standards.
"This has gone on long enough," said Susan Tekola, RN. "Harborview's mission is to provide exemplary patient care, something we strive to do every day. But we've been telling Harborview for months that in order to do that we need the right staff at the bedside. It's time to get this right," Tekola said. The nurses and healthcare workers will picket before and after shifts and during their breaks.


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Top 5 Bets for the Weekend: October 6-7
Tottenham v Cardiff - Tottenham Win with -1 Handicap - 1.70 – BET HERE
Tottenham have a strong record against newly-promoted sides of late. They have won seven of their last ten games against promoted teams in the Premier League, including a 3-1 victory at home to Fulham earlier this season. Cardiff have lost two of their three away league games this season, both by a margin of at least two goals. It seems unlikely that they'll get off lightly at Wembley.
Toronto v Vancouver Whitecaps – Both Teams to Score - 1.50 – BET HERE
Both teams have been on the scoresheet in seven of Toronto's past ten matches in MLS, as well as seven of their last ten home league games (including each of the last five). Similarly, both sides have scored in eight of the Whitecaps' last ten MLS games, while eight of their last ten matches in all competitions against Toronto have featured goals at both ends. Expect an exciting game here.
Hoffenheim v Eintracht Frankfurt – Both Teams to Score - 1.45 – BET HERE
All six of Hoffenheim's Bundesliga matches this season have seen goals at both ends. The same has occurred in five of Eintracht Frankfurt's six league games. Both meetings between these sides last season featured both teams on the scoresheet. Frankly speaking, it would be remarkable if this game ended with a clean sheet for either side.
AS Monaco v Rennes – Both Teams to Score - 1.65 – BET HERE
AS Monaco have scored and conceded in five of their eight league games this season, with only one clean sheet so far. Six of Rennes' eight matches in Ligue 1 have featured goals at both ends, including all four of their away matches. Both of these teams have scored in each of their last three meetings, and form suggests the same outcome here.
Gent v Genk - Over 2.5 Goals - 1.55 – BET HERE
Sixth-placed Gent have seen a total of 34 goals across their nine games in the First Division A this season, with Over 2.5 Goals in eight of those games. Genk have scored 26 goals and conceded just nine in their nine league games so far, and there has been at least three goals on six occasions. Will the fans be treated to more goals this Sunday?


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Q: CMAKE: Library Missing Header File I have a subdirectory that creates a shared library that builds into a folder off my root project. I link it in my cmake file without any problems. However, the compiler can't find the header files no matter how I reconfigure it.
The folder structure is similar to :
Root

*

*build

*

*lib

*src

*

*library

*test

*

*library_test

Essentially I want to link the library that compiles to the lib folder to link to its test. However, no matter how I configure the CMakelists, it can't find the header file for the library during compilation. However, there are no errors during the cmake process.
The actual error message reads as follows:

fatal error: 'file.h' file not found

My post recent attempt:
find_library(LESSIONS_LIBS chp_two PATHS {CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/build/lib/)
add_library(test_chptwo SHARED ${TEST})
target_link_libraries(test_chptwo gtest LESSIONS_LIBS)

Any ideas?

Edit One
Here are my updated CMakelists:
The library CMakeLists:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7.0)

#Project Name
project (chp_two)

#Build Problem Sets as Library
#Header Files
include_directories(include ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/inc/)
#Source files
set(LIB random_queue.cpp ${include})
add_library(chp_two SHARED ${LIB})

The Test CMakeLists:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7.0)

#Project Name
project(TESTING)

#Setting Test sources
set(TEST test_random_queue.cpp)

#Search for libraries
find_library(LESSIONS_LIBS chp_two PATHS {CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/build/lib/)

enable_testing()

#turn test into a library
add_library(test_chptwo SHARED ${TEST})

target_link_libraries(test_chptwo gtest LESSIONS_LIBS)

A: Hard to know for sure without your cmake file. However, would you by any chance be missing the include_directories call?  This call will set the path to your .h files for compilation.
include_directories (path_to_my_headers)

Below is a CMAKE example of what I am referring to in the comments. Same concept applies to both libs/exe more or less anyway.
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7.0)
#
project (MyProj)
#
include_directories (.)
include_directories (path_to_a_dir_with_files_I_need)
include_directories (path_to_another_dir_with_files_I_need)

#
file (GLOB HEADERS *.h)
file (GLOB SOURCES *.cpp)

# Finish with your CXX flags, add_executable, target_link_libraries, install, etc


Field trials. 1. Long term copper residual page 1. 2. Effect of granule size and cultivations on copper availability – 79N23 page 2. 3. Copper, zinc residual for sub-clover – 78MO26 page 5. 4. Copper, zinc residual for sub-clover on peaty sand – 75AL24 page 6. 5. Effect of copper fertilizer on wheat yield – 80NO27 page 7. 6. Ammonium sulphate/molybdenum on wheat – 80NO28 page 8. 7. Mo, lime, mg on sub-clover – 80NO29 page 9. 8. Zinc residual with high analysis N.P. Fertilizer for wheat – 80NO31 page 10. 9. Zinc, sulphur, copper residual with high analysis N.P. Fertilizer for wheat – 80GE51 page 11. 10. Long term molybdenum residual on sub-clover – (65ME5): 80ME21 page 12.
Glass house 1. Copper page 13. 2. Zinc page 17.
65ME5, 66N14, 73N23 A & B, 75A124, 78MO36, 80GE51, 80NO27, 80NO28, 80NO29, 80NO31. Table 3: Lancelin, Gingin, Dongara. Table 4: Lancelin, Newdegate, Dongara.
Gartrell, J W, and Brennan, R F. (1980), Trace element nutrition. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth. Report.


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How to Register to Vote Online
Caitlin McGarry
Election Day is just around the corner, and the deadline to register to vote is rapidly approaching in most states. The quickest way to register to vote online—or to check your status to make sure you're active—is to head on over to your state's elections website.
But it's even easier nowadays than it used to be. Vote.gov makes it easy to navigate to your state or territory's online voter registration system and either submit a new voter registration, check your registration status, or change your affiliated party. Simply choose your residence from the dropdown toolbar, which will take you to your state or territory's voter resources website.
Not every state or territory allows you to register to vote online, but Vote.gov also includes information about how to register to vote by mail or in person.
If you are able to register to vote online, you'll be required to submit some personal information, including your name, address, and, in my state of California, a form of identification like a driver's license number or the last four digits of your social security number. The information required depends on your state.
You don't want to be turned away at the polls on Election Day—not only do we have a president to choose, but you also have the opportunity to vote in your state and local races, the outcomes of which can have a huge impact on your community. So check out the video above for more information on how to register to vote online.
Consumer tech editor, Gizmodo.
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This headline is confusing. The way it's written, it can be interpreted that people can "vote online".
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