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An actor's dream role and a captivating organic story, SHEDDING surprised me and kept me guessing what and why things were happening – in a good way. It's refreshing to finally watch a new story.
Originally from Canton, writer/director Jake Thomas has been making movies most of his life. It shows. He knows how to craft a story without the audience even realizing our adventure had begun. The first 5 minutes of this film were the most simple and purrrrfect (I had to) moments to introduce me to Thomas' minimal and casual slice-of-life style of storytelling. I was hooked enough to push pause and call a colleague and tell them to open my latest emailed screener link and watch SHEDDING right away.
Writer/Director Jake Thomas: "My first movies were on the family's VHS camera. My brother and my friends would put on costumes and make our own versions of Peter Pan, Robin Hood, and original superheroes. I came to California thirteen years ago thanks to the Los Angeles Film Studies Center, and while I was a student there I interned for Garry Marshall's company, which led to my first industry job. Over the last decade, while writing shorts, screenplays, and pilots, I ran a parallel track of working at three different studios (Universal, Paramount, and WB) in guest services."
Thomas hopes this film will not only entertain, but inspire other filmmakers to use available resources and a do-it-yourself attitude in production. This film literally stars his cat, a live-in available resource. And, this cat is a pretty damn great actor. But, it's not the only fab cat in SHEDDING.
Actor Lex Quarterman, the other actor to portray the cat, is the center of this entire movie. This brilliant, committed, and mesmerizing man is no man at all. He is cat. I believe it. I didn't even laugh it off for a second. Thomas captured this performance in a gentle and thoughtful way, by letting Quarterman just be. That's it. Thomas will win awards and collect accolades for letting the talented Quarterman just be and I am here for all of it. Quarterman is simple, emotional without relying on human facial emoting cues, hilarious by circumstance, and surprising. How do you even find a talent such as Lex Quarterman? How do you audition this? Thomas and Quarterman must have deeply trusted each other in order to bring about this seemingly authentic supernatural experience. This film should be shopped to acting AND directing teachers about how truly remarkable performances can and should come to life without a multi-million dollar budget. This movie is different, this movie is unique.
Thomas: "I hope audiences equally enjoy both the movie's fantasy aspects and its genuine emotion. You forget how tragic or scary a fairy tale can be when it's retold and glossed with familiarity. Since this is new and completely unfamiliar, hopefully it makes you sit up and take notice."
Also, this movie is not CATS. Yes, there is a cat that is both played by a real life feline and a real life human, but it is nothing like the uncomfortable ungodly half-feline half-human uniqueness of CATS. This movie is about so much more than even just the cat's supernatural journey.
:In this gentle, heartwarming fantasy, a bored and wistful city-dwelling house cat dreams of escaping into the outside world that awaits beyond his living room window. One morning, he awakens to discover himself mysteriously transformed into a human body, prompting his escape into the city. A kindhearted mother befriends the human-formed cat and invites him into her home to be clothed and fed. After a whirlwind day together, the cat meets the family's stern daughter and frightens her with his uncanny resemblance to her recently deceased brother. Despite their fantastic differences, all three of them share a bond of longing that will lead from loneliness to reconciliation." – Freestyle Media
As the Mother, I immediately knew something was 'off' about Karla Droege's character. I was struck enough to recognize she had a serious issue, but nothing I could explain to another person. Similar to when you know someone struggles, but don't want to judge them for their uneven inappropriate responses to situations and lack of social assimilation. It is truly difficult to find this balance and Droege handled this delicate character with elegance. She unravelled an entire history in her actions before I had the story to back up my assertions. I knew her. I saw her. It was painful.
I immediately identified with Jacquelyn Zook's reactionary journey as the daughter. We knew 'something' was wrong and she filled us in with all we needed to know through her pull between frustration, anger, and then patient understanding. Her pain and her worry painted the room. Coming to an unexpected breaking point of sorts, she opened up and allowed healing where there might not have been without such deep grief. Zook's character was handed an incredible amount of baggage to carry while processing loss AND that's where we meet her, at her worst. Yet, Zook shined in the role without outshining her work.
Thomas: "I want audiences to understand how simply being present for somebody else can be life-changing for that person. We might sit for hours in the same room as a friend or relative, but be distracted by our thoughts and worries. But to be fully present and undistracted with someone, similar to how a cat or dog would act toward them, can be a huge comfort."
This has been a wild year. Learning how to sit with people… but not 'with' people and process everything happening in the world is plain hard. But it is as rewarding as we hope it to be. This movie met me in a good place to encourage me. This movie is hopeful, encouraging, and fantastical. I was able to ask writer/director Jake Thomas about what he is taking away from our new-yet-not-permanent-normal.
Thomas: "The biggest area of growth for me this year has been how I've learned that it's okay to be uncomfortable in new situations, and make decisions before I know the answer to every question. What's important is to lean on the advice and accept help from knowledgeable people. And Zoom. I've learned Zoom."
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1.) Come up with a theme and figure out how to execute a timeless design inspiration; something that never goes out of trend or something that you yourself will never get tired of appreciating.
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To us, what really ties the entire room together is the bible verse on the wall. We were truly inspired in creating this room for our son because we want him to grow with it and him knowing that he is a blessing to us and it will always stay that way. We also want him to know that God hand-crafted him perfectly to fit into our lives and us into his.
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Yes did you have that wall pallet board with the Bible scripture made or did you make it yourself?
Could you explain how y'all did the pallet wall please?
What color did you use for the walls and where did you purchase the paint?
Also the stain for the pallets if it was diy??
I'm helping my daughter with her nursery and we both love the idea of the pallet with the bible verse. Can you share the dimensions of the pallet, as well as how you got the distressed (grayish) color. It's absolutely beautiful.
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It also happens that one of the results of Etoys was that children especially did much better with parallel logic than they did with lots of conditionals (this makes perfect sense if one thinks about it for a bit).
Hi Mark, this is interesting as I've just concluded some similar research based on the 'Crumble' platform. Looking at orphaned blocks to see if there was a link between this dead code lying around and eventual success of their code. It was the first step in developing a tool to direct classroom support to where it is most needed. It seems like there isn't or at least I couldn't find one. So I'm looking at other behaviours now to see if there are other aspects I should be looking at.
The blinkers example strikes me as not standing far enough back to envision the situation.
If they blink alternately, as on a typical light bar, one can start them in opposite states and blink them together inside one loop with whatever delays make that work. There are other ways to do that.
To create more arbitrariness, and any number of blinkers, it is useful to create events, possibly firing of interval timers. That is, each blinker is tied to a separate timing event and one can experiment with varying the timing interval, using randomness, adding colors, all of that.
What simply applying parallelism de novo does is complicate an already absence of rationality because the problem of when to have it and when not to have it, and synchronization become even greater mysteries.
When you create "dead" code that you can exercise interactively in testing or anything else, do you have a way to annotate what that is for so it doesn't smell?
Learning to distinguish what code is versus what it is for (except, maybe when toying around and simply exploring the tool) seems like something you want to provide a gentle nudge toward from the beginning, creating an opening for the recognition of abstraction and layering. Isn't that an important element of CS and so-called computational thinking?
Dennis, I suggest that you read the Commonsense Computing papers (by Gary Lewandowski, Beth Simon, and others). People find parallelism quite natural.
What does "standing far enough back" for a novice? There are no levels of abstraction yet, nor layering. You may be thinking about this as an expert software engineering, and this is falling within your expert blind spot.
It is of course the case that starting computing as a 19-year-old in 1959 does not have me experienced with the roadmap you favor.
By the way, multiple main() is strange question-begging. That is an odd extremely-low-level consideration. Seems like tinkering to me.
I came up with "Commonsense Understanding of Concurrency: Computing Students and Concert Tickets," C.ACM 53, 7 (July 2010), 60-70. That's a great paper. It is about CS1-taking undergraduates, yes? The Concert Tickets example is terrific, and the discussions are wonderful about "stepping" back and dealing with shared-data concurrency issues, and they even got into the seat-selection problem as well as the ticket purchase problem. It is interesting to me that in the initial study that provoked the larger one, the results are quite different. The real-world setting and formulation, separated from programming as such, seems to be the benefit of the second study. I recommend this paper too.
These students identified the problems of race conditions (whether knowledgable of the term) and also the problem of particular seats. They demonstrated conceptual knowledge and proposed strategies, but all had problems around the in-progress reservations of a seat that might not be completed. (Counting tickets seems easier, handling concurrent choices shows how it is not.) A great grounded problem. There was no programming or exploration of the mechanisms available in support of concurrency (not just parallelism). The conclusion is that it might be helpful to introduce such things earlier in the curriculum before spending so much on fluency with deterministic procedures first.
To me, it is an amazing inference to go from this to conclusions about people finding parallelism quite natural. I refer you back to the initial study in that paper where there was too much assumption of atomicity and waving away of the prospect of race conditions.
Or, perhaps, you have another paper in mind?
PS: The brief abstract, "Innate understanding of concurrency helps beginners solve CS problems with multiple processes executing at the same time." leaves too much to the imagination, I fear, although the text is much more circumspect, befitting the care of the particular study.
Running two different blinky lights with different unrelated periods is easy in a parallel system, but much harder in a single-thread system. You have to introduce all the machinery needed to implement parallelism (task switching, event schedulers, interrupts, …) in order to do a simple task like having one blink at π times a second and one at once every π seconds.
Although there is some benefit to students learning how parallelism is implemented on a single-thread machine, that is probably not the best place to start.
A lot of real hardware and software is inherently parallel and enforcing single-thread behavior is a difficult problem, both at a low level (metastability and synchronizers for signals that cross clock-domain boundaries) and at a high level (cache coherency in distributed databases).
Point of clarification: I do not propose introduction of layers of abstraction specifically (and I don't think of it as limited to computational arrangements). I said that standing back and addressing what a computation is for rather than what it is provides an opening for recognition of that kind of thing, related to the purposive use of computations. It is useful to foster that informally as a counter to simple fascination with what a computation is.
Context matters and I would hope that is emphasized relatively early.
There are several approaches to the "more than one main" concept.
1) main (the real one) can dispatch to the alternates. But you (or someone) need(s) to decide how that part works.
2) In a repl environment (or a debugging environment or a development environment, or …) alternate code paths can be brought up by the user. Here, colorizing or otherwise marking off the supposed "unreachable" stuff can be wise.
3) In a finished product, the use of eval or other such "bad practices" (pointers, user constructed names, etc.) can bring in "dead code".
4) When it's unnecessary, dead code can be painful and unpleasant.
5) the details of getting two "forever loops" to run "simultaneously" tend to be "advanced topics" (time slicing schedulers or parallel machines). That said, if she had had two arduinos that would have been a simple approach.
6) On the internet (an environment which includes a few hostile people, a lot of friendlies, and also people making decisions who don't adequately understand…) any of the above variant perspectives can take a turn for the worse.
LOL. After reading @gasstationwithoutpumps and Raul, I think I can be excused from operating from a Software Engineering expert blind spot.
PPS. I am curious why the eToys examples is thought to be about parallelism, rather than the separate setting of two properties on the same object? Is this so much about timing or is it just about the means of interactively specifying those (dynamic?) properties.
I'm curious about novices and parallelism. In particular, it seems like the examples above (turn AND press the gas peddle; blink the left AND blink the right LEDs) fall into the 'Embarrassingly Parallel' category of parallel task.
I'm curious: how well novices do when one needs synchronization to coordinate more complicated work?
I guess there's an implied question here too – do we care how well they do with synchronization? "Wouldn't it be great if easy parallel problems were easy, and we'll cover the harder later on in the curriculum like we're currently doing." seems like a reasonable answer.


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Background. In Asia, the role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in mental health delivery is not clearly defined and what happens to patients following a depressive episode remains poorly understood. Objective. To examine the 12-month naturalistic outcomes of depression in primary care and the impact of PCP identification. Methods. A cohort study was conducted. A total of 10179 adults were consecutively recruited from the waiting rooms of 59 PCPs across Hong Kong to complete a survey which screened for depression. Blinded doctors provided data on their diagnosis and management; 539 screened-positive and 3819 screened-negative subjects consented to telephone follow-up at 3, 6 and 12 months. Study instruments included Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 20 and Short-Form Health Survey Version 2.0 (SF-12v2) and self-reported mental health and primary care service use. Results. 12-month remission rate was 60.31%. PCP detection had no association with remission. Identified patients had poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL) at baseline but a faster rate of recovery in SF-12v2 mental component scores. PCP detection was associated with greater mental health service use at 12, 26 and 52 weeks, while GP consultation rates were only increased at 12 weeks. Conclusions. Over 1 year, ~60% of depressed patients experience symptom resolution, while 40% continue to suffer a chronic or remitting course of illness. Identification of depression by a PCP does not appear to affect remission of mood symptoms at 12 months, but is associated with a faster rate of recovery of HRQOL. PCP detection raises GP consultation rates temporarily however appears to enable more patients to access mental health services over 12 months.


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America is on the verge of craziness. Without the Holy Spirit, Americans are completely un-restrained. We have no moral compass at all. Just on Black Friday these people get in fights, steal from each other, scream at each other, and act like complete idiots for what? To save a couple bucks? Seriously? Imagine that it was the last bottle of water. Imagine if it was the last few cans of food on the shelf in an emergency. What do you think will happen then? Wake up people, reality is going to set in, and it's not going to be merciful.
What's the first thing God requires of people? To do Justly. Listen folks, without justice there can be no mercy. Justice is mercy to the victim. Do you understand that? When the Church ignores justice, they are no longer doing the will of God. When people are unjust, they are not fulfilling the standard that God set forth in both the Old and New Testaments.
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Save 55,000 kudos and buy the "3D Glasses Cheat" from the in-game "PGR Shop" and take a picture with it on. You can do during a race in the pause menu, but not during a replay.
6) Take a picture and cheevo will pop.
It should also be said that to save time, you should use your kudos to unlock useful cars that will help you earn more kudos to help you through the game before you blow that on this, since it doesn't help you in game. Not that 55,000 is all that much, but that is just my 2 cents.
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package io.rdbc.pgsql.core.internal.cache

import io.rdbc.pgsql.core.internal.protocol.messages.frontend.{NativeSql, StmtName}

trait StmtCache {
  type Cache <: StmtCache
  def get(sql: NativeSql): (Cache, Option[StmtName])
  def put(sql: NativeSql, stmtName: StmtName): (Cache, Set[StmtName])
  def evict(sql: NativeSql): Option[(Cache, StmtName)]
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Founding statement and Certificate of Incorporation (CK1) or CIPRO certificate.
Amended Founding Statement (CK2), if applicable or CIPRO certificate.
Copy of official SARS document showing the CC name and Income Tax number.


Kate understood exactly what I wanted and had the expertise and empathy to advise me on what would achieve that while keeping to the style I had decided upon. Her careful attention to detail enabled her to add all the little details which made my dress unique and special and she produced the perfect dress for me, Kate was friendly, patient, sensitive to my needs and reliable. I treasure my dress and the process of creating it with Kate.


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What's new in 1.0?
Authorization service
Containerized smart contracts – improved performance
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Greatly improved stability for PoA and PoS consensus algorithms
Increased blockchain speed
Added interface to work with API and updated SWAGGER, with documentation
Forthcoming UI features
The release will feature containerized smart contracts improved performance, new tools and an upgraded API.
Waves Enterprise is releasing a major network upgrade. Version 1.0 will see a number of significant improvements and updates to the platform, which is designed specifically for use by enterprises and the public sector.
The platform was launched earlier this year to address the unique needs of enterprise blockchain adoption, and features a high-performance network, private and hybrid blockchains, multiple encryption modules, and containerized smart contracts written in any popular programming language.
The VST token, which operates as the system token for the network, was recently renamed WEST: Waves Enterprise System Token. The total supply of WEST has now been reduced from 1 billion to 400 million, without the need for any further changes to the protocol.
This flagship release sees several key features deployed and important new functionality for enterprise customers:
We have implemented authorization services into the system to achieve enterprise level security under oAuth 2.0 specification. New features include:
Previously, the Waves Enterprise API was open and anyone could use it. Now, users need to log in before using the API. This is a measure taken to increase security.
Multiple accounts are now supported (i.e. many blockchain addresses) under one login-password. This is designed to make the platform more convenient to use.
Node administrators can now control the keys that are included in the keystore (which do not have a seed phrase) from the client app.
A single Waves Enterprise account can now be used across all services. This feature will soon be made available with the coming release of personal account functionality, where it will be most useful.
All of this functionality can also be integrated with other Waves Enterprise services.
It is now possible to execute hundreds of contracts per minute. These are not simple scripts, but very extensive sets of instructions. We recently published an article about face recognition, which utilizes a neural network library. This is the kind of application that can be implemented.
We have changed the mechanics of processing requests by nodes in the Waves-NG protocol.
We will soon publish an article about performance testing, including a description of our testing methodology. At present we are trying to place 600,000 records per hour into a contract.
This release makes it possible to seamlessly update contracts, without causing unnecessary problems with maintaining the security of the state.
Versions will be updated automatically, so fraud is not possible.
In the case that the load on the network exceeds the maximum allowed, the blockchain retains consistency. We have removed the restrictions on blocks that we inherited from the parent network (Waves Platform). We have conducted tests at maximum load and confirmed stable operation for a period of several weeks on a geographically distributed cluster spanning 13,000 kilometers.
Nodes with the following characteristics operate stably: 2 cores, 8 GB RAM. The network creates a block of 2 MB every 12 seconds, with up to 10,000 transactions per block and microblocks every 500 milliseconds. The bandwidth of the Waves Enterprise blockchain network is 8 Mbit/s, which is 1 MB/s. The blockchain is like a data bus. Bandwidth can be expanded up to 2 MB/s, like Cosmos.
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Increased the speed of integration and made the process easier. All methods are provided with examples to simplify integration.
In the next release we will implement additional features in the client interface:
All private transactions will be displayed in the interface.
The client will have a tab which will display the status of anchoring, errors, and filters.
Users will have information about anchoring in in the personal account.
All of this sets Waves Enterprise apart from its competitors, offering the unique functionality that our research shows is in demand by corporate and public sector clients.
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I discovered to my surprise today that the BYU bookstore was having a 1$ book sale.
With some difficulty, I limited myself to fifteen selections. My roommates thought they were a little silly. That's alright - they don't get to read them.
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation - David Ricardo. Ricardo is one of the top two or three founders of classical economics, and I've finally gotten ahold of his authentic text. If econ isn't your thing, I understand; if it is, you understand.
How We Think - John Dewey. Dewey is one of top three or four founders of educational and cognitive theory. If you want to know how and why schools run the way they do, this 1910 publication is a must-read. I'm actually doing a research project right now on the application of the big cognitive theorists on e-learning in Utah. Not just for the history majors, guys.
Manliness - Harvey C. Mansfield. One would hope not to have to purchase such a book, as a man. This text, however, is a critical defense of manliness, aimed at a feminist or post-feminist audience. A friend of mine keeps a feminist blog, and I've wanted to contribute on several occasions, but have not taken the time to put together a coherent, respectful argument against some of the things that make me angry about feminism. I'll write my first response, and then read the book and see if I can further refine my arguments using it. Incidentally, I received today the invitation to attend a Mormon woman's critique of Christian Feminism on Thursday, that I would actually quite like to attend. I think the entire feminist movement, though positive in some regards, is riddled with hatred and bigotry, and I look forward to contributing to the debate.
What are People For? - Wendell Berry. I've heard of Berry, and heard lots of good things about him, so I selected two compilations of his essays.
Maguire, and Wild. This book is in direct preparation for my Wilderness Writing class. Why not begin now? Besides, I like exploration writing as a form, and I enjoy the heady romanticism of some of the explorers.
The Writer's Journey (3rd Edition) - Christopher Vogler. I hadn't heard of this one, but picked it up in pursuit of my dream of becoming a writer. When I told my humanities class about the booksale before class started, and mentioned that I got this book, my teacher lighting up confirmed that I had made a good selection.
The Essential Nietzsche - Mostly, Nietzche. He's a nihilist or an existentialist; if the latter, then I can learn from him. A girl I used to date said that it had helped her refine her Christianity and life-pattern (by considering Nietzsche's critiques of religious hypocrisy, etc.). I've heard enough about him, I thought I'd give a Nietzsche sampler a shot.
Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It - Miller Williams. This is by a professor of poetry somewhere; I hope that with it I will be able to improve my prose.
The Contracted World: New and Selected Poems of Peter Meinke - Peter Meinke. Another book of poetry, hopefully for example and edification.
Unrecounted: Poems by W.G. Sebald and Lithographs by Jan Peter Tripp. Also. This picture book also includes lithographs of people's eyes with each poem; it's kind of fun.
Expression and the Inner - David H. Finkelstein. A critical analysis of the author-self in writing, with suggestions on how to use the assumed worldview as a writing tool. My friend at this blog did a whole field study on this topic; seeing the intensity of her interest in it, I decided to investigate the topic myself.
Well, there you have it. More than three, though when I am going to read them I have no idea. One day, a little at a time.


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This is the emotional moment a mom is surprised with her dream car – rebuilt from scratch by her son.
Jeanie Pinto – known as Nonni to her family – was left in tears as she walked out and saw the red Chevrolet Chevy Nova convertible sat on her drive.
Her dedicated son Donny and his friend Gregg had meticulously crafted it from near-scratch over a period of six years.
It had always been Nonni's dream car, ever since she rode in one as a child in 1964.
Donny drove the car to his mom's house in Chatsworth, California, before sending her a picture of him stood next to it, asking her to come outside – before revealing the car by driving up the driveway.
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"It was an overwhelming moment for myself, Gregg, my dad and especially my mom."
Donny first purchased a beat up, barely usable Chevrolet Nova for $6500, plus $1500 to ship it to San Diego from South Carolina.
He explained: "We admit we overpaid and only used the body, fenders, windshield and the door – everything, and I mean everything, else was garbage.
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"We cut out all the floors, as they were pathed together with fibreglass.
"We eventually stopped counting how much we spent, but I would guess it was around $30,000 mark, using a lot of used parts and restoring a lot by hand ourselves."
The project was funded by Nonni's devoted husband Tony Pinto, who had himself also received his dream car, restored by his son Donny and Gregg.
In total, they spent six years restoring it, which meant keeping the whole thing secret throughout multiple visits from Nonni.
Donny added: "The car was in San Diego where I live and my parents live in LA so we had to move it each time she came to visit.
"We would hide it anywhere we could – neighbors, friends, rental trailers. Wherever we could find to stash it for a weekend until she left.
"The hardest part was moving it when it didn't drive, steer or stop.
"A couple times the parts suppliers would call my dad and accidentally get through to my mom asking to discuss shipping for her nova parts.
"She would politely reply, 'we don't have a Nova'. So thankfully she never twigged and it was secret right up until the surprise."
The family arranged a big get together with family and friends on the day of the reveal.
Donny spent all morning teeing up the surprise by sending his mom cryptic text messages.
But it was only once they sent her a picture of Donny stood next to the car not he back of a trailer and told her to come outside, that she finally caught a glimpse of the restored Chevy Nova Convertible.
Video filmed by family members shows Nonni walking outside of the house and instantly breaking down into tears as she sees the bright red convertible rolling up the driveway.
Lost for words, all she can say is, "Are you kidding me?" Before embracing her don Donny.
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Nonni, from Chatsworth, California, talking about the first time she sat in a Chevy Nova Convertible said: "I was at camp in 1964 and my dad died while I was there.
"My girlfriend's mom and grandmother came and picked me up in the car [the Chevy Nova Convertible].
"We rode home, but they didn't tell me anything.
"I rode home in the back seat and had a great time – the wind blowing in my hair."
During the journey she fell in love with the car, but upon arriving home, she learned of her father's tragic passing.
But despite the potentially negative memories of that day, she always remembered the vehicle and would name it as her dream car.
And so after saving up the money, her husband and son set about bringing her dream to reality.
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NOTES ON SELF-AWARENESS

John McCarthy

Computer Science Department

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305

jmc@cs.stanford.edu

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

2004 Apr 11, 10:41 p.m.

Abstract

These notes discuss self-awareness in humans and machines. The

goal is to determine useful forms of machine self-awareness and also

those that are on the road to human-level AI.

This is a draft which is to be improved, and suggestions are so-

licited. There are a few formulas in this version. The final version will

have more.

1 Introduction

Developing self-aware computer systems will be an interesting and challeng-

ing project.

It seems to me that the human forms of self-awareness play

an important role in humans achieving our goals and will also be impor-

tant for advanced computer systems. However, I think they will be difficult

to implement in present computer formalisms, even in the most advanced

logical AI formalisms. The useful forms of computer agent self-awareness

will not be identical with the human forms.

Indeed many aspects of hu-

man self-awareness are bugs and will not be wanted in computer systems.

(McCarthy 1996) includes a discussion of this and other aspects of robot

consciousness.

Nevertheless, for now, human self-awareness, as observed introspectively

is the best clue.

Introspection may be more useful than the literature of

experimental psychology, because it gives more ideas, and the ideas can be

checked for usefulnes by considering programs that implement them. More-

over, at least in the beginning of the study of self-awareness, we should be

ontologically promiscuous, e.g. we should not identify intentions with goals

Significant differences may become apparent, and we can always squeeze

later. 1

Some human forms of self-awareness are conveniently and often linguisti-

cally expressed and others are not. For example, one rarely has occasion to

announce the state of tension in ones muscles. However, something about it

can be expressed if useful. How the sensation of blue differs from the sen-

sation of red apparently cannot be verbally expressed. At least the qualia-

oriented philosophers have put a lot of effort into saying so. What an artificial

agent can usefully express in formulas need not correspond to what humans

ordinarily say, or even can say. In general, computer programs can usefully

be given much greater powers of self-awareness than humans have, because

every component of the state of the machine or its memory can be made

accessible to be read by the program.

A straightforward way of logically formalizing self-awareness is in terms

of a mental situation calculus with certain observable fluents. The agent

is aware of the observable mental fluents and their values. A formalism

with mental situations and fluents will also have mental events including

actions, and their occurrence will affect the values of the observable fluents.

I advocate the form of situation calculus proposed in (McCarthy 2002).

Self-awareness is continuous with other forms of awareness. Awareness of

being hot and awareness of the room being hot are similar. A simple fluent of

which a person is aware is hunger. We can write Hungry(s) about a mental

situation s, but we write Holds(Hungry, s), then Hungry can be the value

of bound variables.. Anohter advantage is that now Hungry is an object,

and the agent can compare Hungry with T hirsty or Bored. I'm not sure

where the object Hunger comes in, but I'm pretty sure our formalism should

have it and not just Hungry. We can even use Holds(Applies(Hunger, I), s)

1Some philosophers who emphasize qualia may be inclined to regard self-awareness as

a similar phenomenon—in which a person has an undifferentiated awareness of self, like

the qualia oriented notion of the pure sensation of red as distinct from blue. This is not

at all what is needed for AI. Rather we study the specific aspects of self and its activity

which it is useful to be aware.

but tolerate abbreviations, especially in contexts. 2 3 4

Our goal in this research is an epistemologically adequate formalism in the

sense of (McCarthy and Hayes 1969) for representing what a person or robot

can actually learn about the world. In this case, the goal is to represent facts

of self-awareness of a system, both as an internal language for the system

and as an external language for the use of people or other systems.

Basic entities, e.g. automaton states as discussed in (McCarthy and Hayes 1969)or neural states may be good for devising theories at present, but we cannot

express what a person or robot actually knows about its situation in such

terms.

2 Of what are we aware, and of what should

computers be aware?

Humans are aware of many different aspects of their minds. Here are samples

of kinds of self-awareness—alas not a classification.

2The English grammatical form "I am hungry" has no inevitability to it. French has

"J'ai faim", literally "I have hunger", and German has "Es hungert mich", literally "It

hungers me". In French the noun "faim" meaning "hunger" is used, whereas in English an

adjective "hungry" is used. In logical we have both; I don't see a use for a logical version

of the German form.

3Holds(Hungry(I), s) might be written if our agent needs to compare its hunger with

that of other agents. However, if we use formalized contexts ((McCarthy 1993)) we can get

by with Holds(Hungry, s) in an inner context in which the sentences are about the agent's

self. We won't use formalized contexts in these notes, but an informal notion of context

can avoid some worries. For example, some discussions are carried out entirely in contexts

in which the fact that John McCarthy is a professor at Stanford is permanent. However,

when needed, this context can be transcended. Likewise there are useful time-limited

contexts in which George W. Bush is permanently President of the United States.

4In spite of the fact that English has an enormous vocabulary, the same word is used

with diverse meanings. I don't speak of simple homonyms like "lock on a door" and "lock

of hair". These can be ruthlessly eliminated from our computer language, e.g. by having

words lock1 and lock2. A more interesting example is that one can speak of knowing a

person, knowing a fact, and knowing a telephone number. German uses kennen for the

first and wissen for the second; I don't know about the third. In my (McCarthy 1979),

"First order theories of individual concepts and propositions", I use different words for

the different concepts. I suspect that it will be useful to tolerate using the same term in

related senses, e.g. using the same word for the bank as an institution and as a building,

because too many related meanings will arise.

1. Permanent aspects of self and their relations to each other and aspects

of other persons.

Thus I am human like other humans.

[I am a small child, and I am

"supposed to do" what the others are doing. This is innate or learned

very early on the basis of an innate predisposition to learn it.5

What might we want an artificial agent to know about the fact that it

is one among many agents? It seems to me that the forms in which self-

awareness develops in babies and children are likely to be particularly

suggestive for what we will want to build into computers.

2. I exist in time. This is distinct from having facts about particular time,

but what use can we make of the agent knowing this fact—or even how

is the fact to be represented?

3. I don't know Spanish but can speak Russian and French a little. Sim-

ilarly I have other skills.

It helps to organize as much as possible of a system's knowledge as

knowledge of permanent entities.

4. I often think of you. I often have breakfast at Caffe Verona.

5. Ongoing processes

I am driving to the supermarket. One is aware of the past of the

process and also of its future. Awareness of its present depends on

some concept of the "extended now".

Temporary phenomena

6. Wants, intentions and goals:

Wants can apply to both states and actions.

I want to be healthy,

wealthy and wise. I want to marry Yumyum and plan to persuade her

guardian Koko to let me.

7. I intend to walk home from my office, but if someone offers me a ride,

I'll take it. I intend to give X a ride home, but if X doesn't want it, I

won't.

5Autistic children may be deficient in this respect.

8. If I intend to drive via Pensacola, Florida, I'll think about visiting Pat

I suppose you can still haggle, and regard intentions as goals, but if

you do you are likely to end up distinguishing a particular kind of goal

corresponding to what the unsophisticated call an intention.

Hayes.

9. Attitudes

Attitudes towards the future:

hopes, fears, goals, expectations, anti-expectations, intentions action:

predict, want to know, promises and commitments.

Attitudes toward the past:

regrets, satisfactions, counterfactuals

I'm aware that I regret having offended him. I believe that if I hadn't

done so, he would have supported my position in this matter. It looks

like a belief is a kind of weak awareness.

Attitudes to the present:

satisfaction, I see a dog. I don't see the dog. I wonder where the dog

has gone.

There are also attitudes toward timeless entities, e.g. towards kinds of

people and things. I like strawberry ice cream but not chocolate chip.

10. Hopes: A person can observe his hopes. I hope it won't rain tomorrow.

Yesterday I hoped it wouldn't rain today. I think it will be advanta-

geous to equip robots with mental qualities we can appropriately call

hopes.

11. Fears: I fear it will rain tomorrow.

Is a fear just the opposite of a

hope? Certainly not in humans, because the hormonal physiology is

different, but maybe we could design it that way in robots. Maybe, but

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that we should.

Why are hopes and fears definite mental objects? The human brain

is always changing but certain structures can persist. Specific hopes

and fears can last for years and can be observed.

It is likely to be

worthwhile to build such structures into robot minds, because they

last much longer than specific neural states.

12. An agent may observe that it has incompatible wants.

2.1 Mental actions

The companion of observation is action. A theory of self-awareness, i.e. of

mental observation, is complemented by a theory of mental action.

(McCarthy 1982) discusses heuristics for coloring maps with four colors.

A form of self-awareness is involved. In coloring a map of the United States,

the goal of coloring California can be postponed to the very end, because it

has only three neighbors and therefore no matter how the rest of the map

is colored, there will always be a color for California. Once California is

removed from the map, Arizona has only three neighbors. The postponement

process can be continued as long as possible. In the case of the US, all states

get postponed and then can be colored without backtracking. In general it

is often possible to observe that in planning a task, certain subtasks can be

postponed to the end. Thus postponement of goals is a mental action that

is sometimes useful.

A human-level agent, and even an agent of considerably lower level, has

policies. These are creatable, observable both in their structure and in their

actions, and changeable.

Useful actions: decide on an intention or a goal. Drop an intention.

Clearly there are many more mental actions and we need axioms describ-

ing their effects.

3 Machine self-awareness

Self-awareness is not likely to be a feasible or useful attribute of a program

that just computes an answer. It is more likely to be feasible and useful for

programs that maintain a persistent activity.

What kind of program would be analogous to Pat deciding while on the

way to his job that he needed cigarettes? See formula (4) below. Here are

some possibiliities.

It's not clear what event in a computer program might correspond to

Pat's sudden need for cigarettes. The following examples don't quite make

it.

A specialized theorem-proving program T 1 is being operated as a sub-

program by a reasoning program T . Assume that the writer of T has only

limited knowledge of the details of T 1, because T 1 is someone else's program.

T might usefully monitor the operation of T 1 and look at the collection of

intermediate results T 1 has produced. If too many of these are redundant,

T may restart T 1 with different initial conditions and with a restriction that

prevents sentences of a a certain form from being generated.

An operating system keeps track of the resources a user is using, and

check for attempts to use forbidden resources. In particular it might check

for generation of password candidates. In its present form this example may

bad, because we can imagine the checking be done by the programs that

implement supervisor calls rather than by an inspector operating with clock

interrupts. While the programs called by clock interrupts exhibit a simple

form of self-awareness, the applications I know about are all trivial.

The main technical requirement for self-awareness of ongoing processes

in computers is an interrupt system, especially a system that allows clock

interrupts. Hardware supporting interrupts is standard on all computers

today but didn't become standard until the middle 1960s.6 The human

brain is not a computer that executes instructions in sequence and therefore

doesn't need an interrupt system that can make it take an instruction out

of sequence. However, interruption of some kind is clearly a feature of the

brain.

With humans the boundary between self and non-self is pretty clear. It's

the skin. With computer based systems, the boundary may be somewhat

arbitrary, and this makes distinguishing self-awareness from other awareness

arbitrary. I suppose satisfactory distinctions will become clearer with expe-

rience.

3.1 Interrupts, programming languages and self-awarenesConsider a persistent program driving a car that is subject to observation and

modification by a higher level program. We mentioned the human example of

noticing that cigarettes are wanted and available. The higher level program

must observe and modify the state of the driving program. It seems that a

6Historical note: The earliest interrupt system I know about was the "Real time pack-

age" that IBM announced as a special order instigated by Boeing in the late 1950s. Boeing

wanted it in order to control a wind tunnel using an IBM 704 computer. At M.I.T. we

also needed an interrupt system in order to experiment with time-sharing on the IBM 704.

We designed a simple one, but when we heard about the much better "Real time package"

we started begging for it. Begging from IBM took a while, but they gave it to us.

The earliest standard interrupt system was on the D.E.C. PDP-1 and was designed by

Ed Fredkin, then at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, who persuaded D.E.C. to include it in

the machine design. Again the purpose was time-sharing.

clock interrupt activating the higher level program is all we need from the

hardware.

We need considerably more from the software and from the programming

languages. A cursory glance at the interrupt handling facilities of C, Ada,

Java, and Forth suggests that they are suitable for handling interrupts of high

level processes by low level processes that buffer the transfer of information.

Lisp and Smalltalk can handle interrupts, but have no standard facilities.

My opinion, subject to correction, is that self-awareness of the kinds

proposed in this note will require higher level programming language facilities

whose nature may be presently unknown. They will be implemented by the

present machine language facilities.

However, one feature of Lisp, that programs are data, and their abstract

syntax is directly represented, is likely to be necessary for programs that

examine themselves and their subprograms. This feature of Lisp hasn't been

much used except in macros and has been abandoned in more recent pro-

gramming languages—in my opinion mistakenly.

4 Formulas

Formalized contexts as discussed in (McCarthy 1993) will be helpful in ex-

pressing self-awareness facts compactly.

Pat is aware of his intention to eat dinner at home.

c(Awareness(P at)) : Intend(I, M od(At(Home), Eat(Dinner)))

or

Ist(Awareness(P at), Intend(I, M od(At(Home), Eat(Dinner))))

(1)

Here Awareness(P at) is a certain context. Eat(Dinner) denotes the

general act of eating dinner, logically different from eating Steak7642.

M od(At(Home), Eat(Dinner)) is what you get when you apply the modifier

"at home" to the act of eating dinner. I don't have a full writeup of this

proposal for handling modifiers like adjectives, adverbs, and modifier clauses.

Intend(I, X) says that I intend X. The use of I is appropriate within the

context of a person's (here Pat's) awareness.

We should extend this to say that Pat will eat dinner at home unless his

intention changes. This can be expressed by formulas like

(2)

(3)

¬Ab17(P at, x, s)∧Intends(P at, Does(P at, x), s) → (∃s0 > s)Occurs(Does(P at, x), s).in the notation of (McCarthy 2002).

Here's an example of awareness leading to action.

Pat is driving to his job. Presumably he could get there without much

awareness of that fact, since the drive is habitual. However, he becomes

aware that he needs cigarettes and that he can stop at Mac's Smoke Shop

and get some. Two aspects of his awareness, the driving and the need for

cigarettes are involved. That Pat is driving to his job can be expressed with

varying degrees of elaboration. Here are some I have considered.

Driving(P at, J ob, s)

Doing(P at, Drive(J ob), s)

Holds(Doing(P at, M od(Destination(J ob), Drive)), s)

Holds(M od(Ing, M od(Destination(J ob, Action(Drive, P at))), s)

.

The last two use a notion like that of an adjective modifying a noun. Here's

a simple sentence giving a consequence of Pat's awareness. It uses Aware

as a modal operator. This may require repair or it may be ok in a suitably

defined context.

Aware(P at, Driving(J ob, s), s) ∧ Aware(P at, N eeds(Cigarettes), s)

∧Aware(P at, About-to-pass(CigaretteStore, s), s)

→ Occurs(StopAt(CigaretteStore), s).

(4)

The machine knows that if its battery is low, it will be aware of the fact.

Knows(M achine, (∀s0)(LowBattery(s0) → Aware(LowBattery(s0))), s)

(5)

The machine knows, perhaps because a sensor is broken, that it will not

necessarily be aware of a low battery.

Knows(M achine, ¬(∀s0)(LowBattery(s0) → Aware(LowBattery(s0))), s)

(6)

The positive sentence "I am aware that I am aware . . . " doesn't seem to

have much use by itself, but sentences of the form "If X happens, I will be

aware of Y" should be quite useful.

5 Miscellaneous

Here are some examples of awareness and considerations concerning aware-

ness that don't yet fit the framework of the previous sections.

I am slow to solve the problem because I waste time thinking about ducks.

I'd like Mark Stickel's SNARK to observe, "I'm slow to solve the problem,

because I keep proving equivalent lemmas over and over".

I was aware that I was letting my dislike of the man influence me to reject

his proposal unfairly.

in making self-aware systems.

Here are some general considerations about what fluents should be used

1. Observability. One can observe ones intentions. One cannot observe

the state of ones brain at a more basic level. This is an issue of epistemological

adequacy as introduced in (McCarthy and Hayes 1969).

2. Duration. Intentions can last for many years, e.g. "I intend to retire

to Florida when I'm 65". "I intend to have dinner at home unless something

better turns up."

3. Forming a system with other fluents. Thus beliefs lead to other beliefs

and eventually actions.

Is there a technical difference between observations that constitute self-

observations and those that don't? Do we need a special mechanism for

self-observation? At present I don't think so.

If p is a precondition for some action, it may not be in consciousnes,

but if the action becomes considered, whether p is true will then come into

consciousnes, i.e. short term memory. We can say that the agent is subaware

of p.

What programming languages provide for interrupts?

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NEW DELHI: Indian start-up EVage, which is building electric delivery vans for e-commerce and logistics companies including Amazon.com, has raised US$28 million from US-based venture capital firm RedBlue Capital, the company said on Friday (Jan 14).
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IPMS-USA Founder Jim Sage has Passed Away
By SkyKing, February 18, 2014 in Ask the IPMS/USA
SkyKing 45
Plastic Habit
IPMS/USA Member
First Name:Michael
Last Name:McMurtrey
IPMS #:1746
Location:Carrollton, Texas
Interests:Airliners (Braniff), civil aircraft, real space, sci-fi (Star Trek)
In response to an inquiry from Mary Jane Kinney, I did some research and very quickly found this on-line obituary (at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?pid=163258579)
"Sage, James H. James H. Sage, 84, of Dallas, passed away on February 16, 2013 in a nursing home in Knox City, Texas. James was born September 4, 1928 in Kalamazoo, Michigan; the son of Howard & Bonnie Sage. He moved to Dallas in 1951 where he was employed by Southwestern Life Insurance Company. He married Peggye Bright in the early 1950s. James enjoyed traveling & spending time with his church friends & others. He also wrote a small paper called Durango Drive News, with his friend Old Bear. James is preceded in death by his wife and brother Richard Sage. He is survived by his sisters Mary Popejoy, Penny Lamb, Pam Doherty & Hester Dulla; and a brother Howard Sage. Funeral services will be held at 2pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at the Hughes Crown Hill Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Calvary Hill Cemetery."
I'm pretty certain this is our Jim; I know he worked for Southwestern Life Insurance Company, his wife's name was Peggy, and they lived on Durango Drive in Dallas. I first met Jim in 1967 after joining IPMS, and I spent a night on their sofa once after Braniff cancelled my return flight back to home in Wichita Falls, and woke up the following morning to find one of their cats sleeping on my chest!
It was Jim who was responsible for the "International" in IPMS, when he began promoting the British Plastic Modelers Society by placing announcements in kits that he imported in the early 1960s. As interest grew, Jim became the first Executive Director of IPMS-USA, running the US branch from his house in Dallas. He actually was the first member of IPMS-USA, but forgot to give himself a membership number! Accordingly, he was named Member #0 by IPMS-USA a few years ago.
I have no idea how long he was in the nursing home, but what's really sad is that I moved back to Texas and the Dallas area in 2005, and Knox City is not so far away that I and others could not have gone to visit him had we known where he was. But he and Peggye had no children, so there was no immediate family to keep us informed as to his health or whereabouts.
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I'm very grateful for the society he founded. I've learned a lot and met some very good friends. I hope he knows how much of an impact he had on many lives. May he rest in peace.
ralph4hand 18
First Name:Ralph
Last Name:Forehand
Location:Elkton, MD
Interests:IPMS Local, Regional and National Conventions, Va Tech and NFL Football, WW II and Spanish Civil War aircraft.
I first met Jim in 1967 when he helped us form IPMS/NorDel . Next we worked together drafting the IPMS/USA C&BLs, then on the first EB, Jim was a joy to work with during those early IPMS times.
Jim's efforts established IPMS/USA's guiding principles we follow today. Jim was both our society's founder and inspiration.
Jim was one of those rare individuals you meet, work with, and then admire and deeply appreciate the rest of your life. Jim will be sorely missed by those of us that knew him.
PaulBradley 0
First Name:Paul
Last Name:Bradley
IPMS #:35554
That's sad news. We owe him a huge debt of thanks for starting IPMS/USA; for all it's faults, it's the glue that's held US modeling together for many years.
Edited February 19, 2014 by PaulBradley
ghodges 491
Lord of the Sprue
First Name:Gil
Last Name:Hodges
I owe Jim a debt that cannot be repaid for a lifetime of modeling enjoyment through the Society he founded: IPMSUSA! May the Lord rest his soul and comfort his loved ones!
To paraphrase Will Rogers, Jim never met a modeler he didn't like. We should create a national contest award in his memory.
Mark Deliduka 313
First Name:Mark
Last Name:Deliduka
Location:Rowland Heights CA
Interests:Models Theater Skiing Wargaming
This is good to know. I never met him, but I am thrilled with the organization he founded. I have enjoyed the company of so many friends from all over through this organization and I offer my condolences to his family. May God welcome him into His Kingdom and may he rest in peace.
MikeBrickman 7
First Name:Mike
Last Name:Brickman
Location:St. Louis, MO
Interests:Primarily Aircraft, with Space/Science Fiction and Miscellaneous
Sad news, indeed. I got to know Jim when I was 2nd VP, and always made time to talk with him. He never turned down any of my requests.
When I consider how many strong egos we have in IPMS/USA, Jim stood out as one of the most humble, genuine people I've ever met.
He was truly overwhelmed at the growth of IPMS/USA, particularly the number and the extraordinary quality of entries at the National Contests.
He always deflected the attention and the accolades, but there was a "proud papa" type of sparkle in his eyes when we discussed the past
and ideas for the future of the Society.
We didn't become real close friends, but every chance to sit and talk with him is a treasured memory.
Rest in peace, Jim. You will be missed by everyone in IPMS/USA.
ClareWentzel 27
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Moderator-at-large
First Name:Clarence
Last Name:Wentzel
Location:Kalamazoo, MI
Interests:1/72 Scale Aircraft.
Sad news indeed. Thanks Michael, for passing the word. I missed it on this forum and just got your note on the WW I models forum. I loved in the Detroit area in the '60s and the IPMS group there took their turn sending out the IPMS UK magazine along with the IPMS/USA newsletter. As I remember, we also had a type of "Nationals" there. He certainly started a great activity.
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Location:Georgetown,Texas
Interests:Aircraft, civil and military from 1930 to 1955. Interviews with former professionals from this era have made it come alive.
I cannot put into words what these icons have meant to us! I met Jim at the 2000 IPMS Nationals in Dallas where I was a member of IPMS North Central Texas, He established IPMS/USA there and it was an honor to meet him! With Arlo Schroeder passing last December 17th, it's difficult to accept the fact that these great men have passed from the scene. My sincere condolences to his family.


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