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On the Nose Audiobook Summary
Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that's considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. Ascending the Nose takes most climbers anywhere from twelve to ninety-six hours. Florine, along with climbing partner Alex Honnold, does it in an astounding two and a half hours.
But Florine's story is not one of super-human athletic prowess; it's one of persistence and dogged determination. In thirty years of climbing, he's ascended the Nose a mind-blowing, death-defying 100 times, more than anyone else ever has, and most likely ever will. In On the Nose, Florine describes the most dangerous, pivotal, and inspirational of those climbs, providing a rare look inside the adrenaline-charged world of competitive climbing in Yosemite Valley. He tells of his very first attempt on the Nose, which ended in failure after fourteen hours, his friendships (and rivalries) with climbing's most colorful personalities, and his battle with Dean Potter to secure the definitive speed record on the Nose—an endeavor that's been called the wildest competition known to man.
Perhaps most interestingly, Florine attempts to answer the question why. Why would anyone undertake one of the greatest adventure epics on earth 100 times? His answers provide unique insights on how to live a satisfying life, how to achieve big goals, and how an otherwise ordinary guy can become a rock star.
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About the Author(s) of On the Nose
Hans Florine is the author of On the Nose
Hans Florine, in addition to his climbing accolades, is the coauthor of Speed Climbing, and has contributed to three other books, as well as written articles for Rock and Ice and Climbing. Hans served as executive director of the American Sport Climbers Federation from 1992 to 1996, and is currently an Ambassador for the Access Fund, as well as manager and shareholder at Touchstone Climbing & Fitness, the largest climbing gym chain in the country. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and maintains strong relationships, fundraising and otherwise, with Yosemite Conservancy, Outward Bound, the Access Fund, American Safe Climbing Association, American Alpine Club, Sierra Club, and Nature Bridge. He is also a professional motivational speaker, delivering keynotes at trade shows, conferences, and college auditoriums worldwide, from local Rotary club meetings to Fortune 500 events.
On the Nose Full Details
Narrator Hans Florine
Length 5 hours 36 minutes
Author Hans Florine
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
According to Blackstone Publishing, the Publisher of On the Nose Audiobook, On the Nose includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Adventurers & Explorers
The imprint is Made for Success. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781982602765.
Global Availability
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Q: Multiply matrix columns by array element-twise I have this matrix:
[[1, 2, 3],
 [0, 1, 0],
 [4, 5, 6]]

and this array:
[2, 4, 0.5]

I would like to multiply every row by the array elementwise:
[[2, 8, 1.5],
 [0, 4, 0],
 [8, 20, 3]]

And also, the same but with columns:
[[2, 4, 6],
 [0, 4, 0],
 [2, 2.5, 3]]

How can I do?
@John
This is my code:
import numpy as np

mx = np.matrix([[0,0,0,0],[1,1,1,1],[2,3,4,5],[6,7,8,9]])
print 'matrix:'
print mx
print '\n'

v = np.array([20,0,10,5])
print 'narray'
print v
print '\n'

I cannot get what I need:
print mx * v

ValueError: shapes (4,4) and (1,4) not aligned: 4 (dim 1) != 1 (dim 0)

And:
print mx * v.reshape(-1,1)

[[  0]
 [ 35]
 [105]
 [245]]

A: The first is trivial:
a * b

For the second, here's one way:
a * b[:,np.newaxis]

That first converts the 3-vector b to a 3x1 matrix.  It is equivalent to:
a * b.reshape(-1, 1)

Or:
(a.T * b).T

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Facebook sends operators a friend request at the TM Forum
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At the recent TM Forum in Nice, Facebook used the opportunity to reach out to operators to try and persuade them to open their hearts and minds.
Historically the relationship between Facebook and mobile operators has been a little… frosty. Some love the social network site, some simply can't stand it. It's a bit like Marmite here in the UK.
I wasn't surprised to hear that MIR favourite, Amdocs, were on site at the TM Forum. As one of the key suppliers to the global operator industry, I've been tracking the offerings and performance of Amdocs for years now.
Indeed it's often positively depressing (in a good way!) listening to the forward thinking teams from Amdocs describe their new products and services knowing that most things are at least a minimum of 6 months away from hitting the market with a live operator. I'm not that patient!
I'm delighted that Amdocs' own Yifat Kafkafi (pictured left) was able to write up the Facebook session from TM Forum for us here on MIR. It makes for interesting reading, especially around the their rather contentious 'internet.org' plans.
Over to Yifat.
"The more we connect, the better it gets," was Markku Mäkeläinen's message to telecom operators as Facebook's Director of Global Operator Partnerships announced that the social media giant has joined the telecom industry association TM Forum.
In his keynote at TM Forum's annual event in Nice, Mäkeläinen explained that Facebook intends to deepen its collaboration with telecom operators in its push to expand its internet.org initiative:
"We want to create industry-based practices to scale this globally. We are looking forward to contributing to best practices, APIs and even infrastructure."
While the Internet's growth rate is slowing down, through working together with telecom operators, Facebook believes the digital divide can be bridged to connect the 4 billion who are not yet online, and who represent two-thirds of the world population. Internet.org is the Facebook-sponsored project to connect the world to the Internet by providing some basic services for free – an initiative which is now available across 11 countries.
"The Internet belongs to everyone; it should be accessible to everyone," noted Mäkeläinen, before explaining Facebook's plans to overcome the three primary barriers to connecting the world's unconnected.
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Another (less obvious) barrier is relevance and awareness. There is a lack of content available in many local languages which reduces the relevance of Internet services to potential users' daily life.
Facebook believes a minimum of 100,000 online articles must be available in any particular language for its speakers to view the Internet as a relevant too, and currently, only 52 languages representing 53% of the world's population meet that criteria. According to Mäkeläinen, in order to reach 80% of the population, a total of 92 languages would each need to have 100,000 online articles.
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But it still remains to be seen whether that is enough reason for mobile service providers to accept Facebook's friend request.
Thank you Yifat for taking the time to write this! I do think it's in the interests of operators to support internet.org.
Now then, here's a bit of background on Yifat: Yifat is a business development and presales manager for Amdocs Big Data Analytics. She has over 10 years of communications industry experience in marketing, strategy and sales. You can follow Yifat on twitter at @yifatkafkafi.
Tags Amdocs, facebook, internet.org, tm forum, yifat kafkafi
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People who have been on the Internet in the past two months have probably heard about the back and forth reception of hello infinity, On the one hand, this is probably the best game aura The game ever made, perfectly matches traditional gameplay with modern movements and mechanic upgrades. On the other hand though hello infinity Some have been held back by questionable design choices, from armor customization to a lack of features like working custom games and forges. Most of the disappointment comes from the long wait since Halo 5: GuardiansWhen, in fact, the game looks like it could have used more time in the oven.
January 12th was National Roast Day, and for some reason Xbox let Wendy's take a shot at it, and the fast-food chain didn't disappoint. An almost intimidating Xbox responded to Wendy's call for roasts on Twitter, writing at the time, "Okay. Let's do this." Two minutes later, Wendy replies, "Want to collaborate with this new aura campaign?" in which the Xbox simply gives an overlapping image of . hello infinityThe weapon looks shocked and disappointed. In the summer, 343 industries announced hello infinity The campaign will not launch with the cooperative and will come sometime in 2022.
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U.S. Northern Command Seeks Semi-Autonomous Arctic ATV
by Mia Bennett | on June 2nd, 2012 | 0 comments
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In April, the U.S. Army's Northern Command released a request for information (RFI) for a semi-autonomous all terrain vehicle dubbed "KODIAK." The request for information is merely that, as no money has been allocated for the actual development of such a vehicle. KODIAK should be able to withstand temperatures ranging from -50 degrees to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. It might be surprising, but the record high temperature ever recorded was 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Fort Yukon, in Alaska's Interior, while the coldest temperature ever recorded, -79.8 degrees Fahrenheit, occurred a bit to the northwest in Prospect Creek, just south of Gates of the Arctic National Park. Given the extreme range in temperatures that places like Alaska's Interior can experience in the span of a year, the RFI suggests the vehicle's frame be constructed out of steel, as plastic can freeze and crack.
KODIAK must also be able to remain mobile in both "deep snow (winter) and wet, muddy, and water-filled drainage areas (summer)," an environment which sounds a lot like the Arctic tundra. It is also preferred that KODIAK be able to operate with or without a driver, compelling Wired Magazine's Spencer Ackerman to call the sought-after concept vehicle an "Arctic Knight Rider."
Alaskan tundra in summer – very boggy. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Alaskan tundra in winter – lots of snow (and caribou). U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
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The Department of Defense has expressed a lot of interest lately in developing new military technologies for the Arctic. In March, I wrote about DARPA's Assured Arctic Awareness Program, which has a budget of $4 million to invest in things like anti-submarine warfare technologies. All of this has taken place somewhat under the radar, with RFIs and solicitations for research proposals rather than big announcements by the president or prime minister, which are more typical of countries like Russia and Canada. DARPA's presentation (PDF) about the Assured Arctic Awareness program says, "We are an Arctic nation with little presence. Traditional forward presence will require billions in investment." The Coast Guard, Army, and Navy all advocate increased spending in the Arctic. While the U.S. is beginning to explore how it can effectively operate in the north, it is doing so without a real commitment to the region. It has not allocated the billions of dollars that will ultimately be necessary for a true presence, and until then, any proposals and ideas submitted by researchers will remain blueprints.
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Q: Getting a double output of last input after a validation check in a while loop I'm learning input validation in a while loop. If i enter 1, 2, 3, x, -1 as my inputs it prints 1, 2, 3, 3. Can someone explain why it outputs the 3 twice. Is my try statement incorrect or in the wrong spot?
def input_validation_while_loop():

    list = []

    guess_num = int(input("Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop."))

    # sentinel_value = -1
    while guess_num != -1:
        try:
            if 1 <= guess_num <= 100:
                list.append(guess_num)
            guess_num = int(input("Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop."))
        except ValueError:
            print("That was not a number. Try again.")

    else:
        for x in list:
            print(x)

A: Using a while loop and getting rid of the redundant input statement:
def input_validation_while_loop():
    list = []
    # sentinel_value = -1
    while True:
        try:
            guess_num = int(input("Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop."))
            if 1 <= guess_num <= 100:
                list.append(guess_num)
            elif guess_num == -1:
                break
        except ValueError:
            print("That was not a number. Try again.")

    for x in list:
        print(x)
input_validation_while_loop()

OUTPUT:
Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop.1
Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop.2
Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop.3
Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop.x
That was not a number. Try again.
Enter a number between 1 and 100 or enter -1 to stop.-1
1
2
3