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Lance Franklin returns early to training to do some post injury running at the Sydney Swans first pre season training session for 2-6 year players. Picture. Phil Hillyard
Blakey: Be afraid, AFL, be Buddy afraid
by Jon Ritson
"SCARY" is Nick Blakey's assessment of the impact Lance Franklin can have in 2020 - and that's after barely a week on the training track.
The bulk of the Swans' senior squad is not due back until next Monday, but Franklin is already getting the kilometres into his legs, having reported back a fortnight early.
For now, he is continuing to follow his individual training program but Blakey says a combination of hitting the ground running and a desire to put last year's individual and team disappointments behind him, means Franklin has the bit between his teeth.
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Franklin managed just 10 games last season, hampered by a lack of pre-season and hamstring problems.
But he finished on a high, chalking up his 300th AFL game in the Swans' last game of the season.
And ahead of that milestone clash with St Kilda, Franklin said he had "no doubt" he could get back to his best in 2020 with 350 games the next individual target to chase.
Blakey, who Franklin has described as a 'special' player, sees a man on a mission.
With the likes of Jarrad McVeigh, Heath Grundy, Nick Smith and Kieren Jack having called time on their playing careers at the end of last season, Franklin is now the most senior figure in the playing group.
"Everyone was disappointed with how we finished up last season," Blakey said.
"And there was no one more disappointed than Bud.
Nick Blakey says he can't wait to run out alongside Lance Franklin in 2020. Picture: AAP
"He's probably the oldest player at our club now and he's come back and started training with all the first to five year players. It really shows how much the club means to him.
"He's going to be scary to play with this year and scary for the competition.
"He's going to have has first pre-season in how long as well. He'll be back to his best, no doubt."
Blakey, who bagged 19 goals in 21 appearances in his first campaign for the Swans last season, is happy to put in the hard yards in the heat. The new season may be a long way off still but the 19-year-old cannot wait.
"It has been tough (training)," he said.
"But everyone has come back in incredible nick and has hit the ground running.
"We're a young side and excited about what's ahead. Everyone's going to be putting their hands up for selection and our list is looking really strong."
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'Jimmy Kimmel Live' skit with Justin Moore earns Emmy nomination
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The Emmys air live on CBS on September 17th
Chart-topping, ACM award-winning artist Justin Moore's performance in a Jimmy Kimmel Live! skit landed an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics category for "The Ballad of Claus Jorstad (Devil Stool)." The spoof was written by Jimmy Kimmel and Gary Greenberg.
"If you had told me I would be a part of earning an Emmy nod for singing a song about what I did, I would have thought you were crazy. Haha," says Moore in a press release. "Nonetheless, it's very cool to hear. I'm excited for Jimmy and his crew. Hopefully, we can bring it home. They told me this week that they would share it with me, so it would be pretty cool to add an Emmy to the mantle."
Watch below as the platinum-selling artist introduces his wicked sense of humor to the late night audience as he performed the song about an unlucky man in Norway who had an unfortunate run-in with an Ikea stool in the shower.
The 2017 Emmy Awards will air live on CBS on September 17th at 8 pm ET.
Moore performed both his latest hit single "Somebody Else Will" and title track "Kinda Don't Care" Tuesday night (August 1st) on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Moore has six No. 1's, including "You Look Like I Need A Drink," the first single from his latest album, Kinda Don't Care, which was released last fall on Valory Music Co.
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Leverage new tech opportunities for SDGs achievement in Africa
Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP. Photo: Hideyuki Mohri/UNDP Tokyo
The Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, called on African countries to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchains and machine learning, and deploy these in various sectors for the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She made the call during a panel session at a side event at the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) in Yokohama, Japan. The event, titled "From Idea to Action: Harnessing the Potential of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Africa's Development", was organized by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the World Bank.
Ms. Eziakonwa noted that, Africa needs to harness the potential of STI for development by prioritizing policies and making investments to increase access to state-of-the-art technologies such as e-governance, finance and digital literacy and skills – at secondary and TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) level. She called for the adoption of innovative financing schemes that combine both public and private sector resources and technical expertise for the achievement of the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environment.
"Mobilizing public, private and donor resources to finance research and development, and creating an enabling environment for multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral collaboration for innovation and entrepreneurship, remain the key to accelerate Africa's transition to an innovation-led, knowledge-based economy", stated Ms. Eziakonwa.
The UNDP Africa Director added that, with the ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), digitization can reduce barriers to entry and help connect Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) with global markets and value chains. She said this can provide SMEs with necessary services such as simplified payments and logistics to facilitate exports.
"Technology-driven innovations, such as mobile payments systems, AI, big data and blockchain, can be innovatively deployed to accelerate financing for SMEs, to generate new jobs, and help reduce poverty", Ms. Eziakonwa noted.
It is estimated that e-commerce in Africa could reach 75 billion USD by 2025 and could be of particular benefit to MSMEs, which constitute more than 80 percent of African enterprises. For UNDP, fostering innovation for accelerated socio-economic gain is now a priority, as the organisation has launched its first Digital Strategy. UNDP is also working with national and global partners on 60 SDGs Accelerator Labs, 36 of which are in Africa, catalysing innovative ideas, rapid iteration and experimentation to address complex development challenges. Through its YouthConnekt initiative, UNDP is supporting youth entrepreneurial skills development in Africa, for jobs creation. Moreover, UNDP has launched a dedicated Finance Sector Hub, working with the rest of the UN System as part of the Task Force on Digital Finance for the SDGs to demonstrate how such innovations can promote sustainable and inclusive growth.
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A total of 140 undergraduate IE students, more than in any other school at Tech, were honored in April during the annual Women in Engineering awards banquet. The event salutes the success and achievements of female engineering students who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.4 or above and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities on and off campus.
The keynote speaker was Jenifer Cistola, BIE 1981, vice president of North American Marketing for Scientific-Atlanta. She outlined the ten most important things she learned during her time at Georgia Tech and her career in the corporate world. They include being able to balance demands, maintain a positive attitude, continue to learn, and inspire the people around her. Cistola also recounted the hard work and countless hours of studying that characterize her memories of undergraduate life at Tech.
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A dialogue was held on 16 December 2020 hosted by the Truth Commission for Colombia entitled "Let's talk about coexistence and reconciliation". This reflexive dialogue focused on the mandate of the Commission to promote coexistence and reconciliation. The dialogue sought to learn from international experience to overcome challenges and help strengthening the work of the Commission and its legacy in Colombia.
The dialogue was an online discussion between panelists which included Professor Hamber. The participants, based on their experiences, responded to guiding questions put forward by the moderator. Participants included Brandon Hamber (Northern Ireland); Sergio Jaramillo (Colombia); John Paul Lederach (USA); Elizabeth Lira (Chile) and Kimberly Theidon (USA, Colombia).
In his input Professor Hamber stressed how despite significant investment in relationship building work in Northern Ireland from the EU, IFI and Atlantic Philanthropies that has strengthened community relationships, opportunities have not always been maximised. This he argued was because community and political processes have been treated separately., Ongoing political division at the leadership level undermines community interventions. In addition, the vision for reconciliation has focused on limited co-existence that accepts social, educational and residential divisions or changing these issue marginally, rather than a more transformative approach. The has created a negative rather than positive peace in Northern Ireland.
The panel discussion can be viewed below:
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 16th December 2020 16th December 2020 Categories Colombia, Discussion, Panel Discussion, YouTubeTags co-existence, Colombia, reconciliation, truth-telling
Experiences of Disappearances
As part of the ongoing "Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared" programme run by Conflict Textiles a new video interview was released on 10 December 2020, Human Rights Day.
In this video interview with Nicole Drouilly and Professor Brandon Hamber, Nicole shares, in-depth, her experiences of searching for her sister Jacqueline, husband and unborn child, who disappeared in Chile in 1974. The discussion centres around a textile she made about her experiences. The textile "Stitching the Search" was displayed on 3 December 2020 as part of the 'Conflict Textiles' permanent, rotating exhibition at the Magee Campus Library, Ulster University.
Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared is a partnership between Conflict Textiles, the Ulster Museum, and the John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster University. To find out more about Conflict Textiles visit.
Stitching the Search, Nicole Drouilly. Photo Andrew Proctor
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 15th December 2020 15th December 2020 Categories Chile, Life Stories, Online Interview, PodcastTags chile, Conflict Textiles, disappearance, following the footsteps of the disappeared
On 12 December 2020, Professor Hamber published a long article in the Belfast Telegraph focusing on the issue of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, reproduced below.
Moment of Truth…Victims of Northern Ireland's Troubled Past Can't Wait Forever
I started working in Northern Ireland in 1996, the first question I was always asked was: "Did Northern Ireland need a South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?" This was understandable, as I was at the time working in South Africa with victims testifying before the TRC that ran from 1995 until 2003. The troubling thing, however, is that I am still regularly asked that same question nearly 25 years later. During this time, how many victims have died without knowing the truth, or obtaining justice for atrocities?
The failure to deal effectively with the past remains a stain on the copybook of the Northern Ireland peace process. A potted history of the saga highlights how punishingly slow it has been.
The most significant Government-backed process was the Consultative Group of the Past that delivered its report in January 2009. But it ended up shelved, mainly due to its controversial recommendation around compensation for all those who lost relatives in the conflict.
Handing over of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
Creeping headway was made over the following years, building upon the report in the failed Haass O'Sullivan talks in 2013 and subsequently.
In December 2014, the political parties devised the Stormont House Agreement (SHA). It made a comprehensive set of proposals. The recommendations included setting up structures to collect the stories of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, investigating unresolved cases, seeking information for victims from responsible groups, ensuring statements of acknowledgment for past hurts and identifying steps to build reconciliation. The SHA was put in a draft Bill in 2016. A public consultation started some two years later in May 2018. Over 17,000 written responses were received in the 21-week consultation. In between, the UN Special Rapporteur responsible for transitional justice significantly made two visits to Northern Ireland, tabling recommendations in November 2016. The British Government responded, "the recommendations can be best achieved through the full implementation of the SHA".
In July 2019, a detailed summary of the consultation on the SHA was published. The British Government noted there was "an obligation to seek to address the legacy of the past" and it remained fully committed to the SHA.
But in March 2020, apparently motivated by political pressures from British Army veterans, the Government rowed back. The Secretary of State essentially proposed to pull the SHA apart, largely removing a focus of justice and investigation, favouring information recovery and storytelling under a broad, and undefined, banner of reconciliation. The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee rightly took issue with the approach, but then they argued for yet another consultation. Reading this abridged history, it is hard not to conclude that the dealing with the past process is nothing more than a protracted and shameful tale of delay and avoidance. How painfully frustrating must this be for victims and survivors.
This does not mean that a South African-style truth commission is the right answer. The exact structure of the South African commission, including its ability to grant amnesty to perpetrators who confessed to gross violations of human rights, is unlikely to work in Northern Ireland. Amnesty meant that some victims had to forgo retributive justice for truth in the name of the wider peace process. Closing down the potential for victims to get their cases to court, or preventing public inquiries, in exchange for a truth-recovery process is an unlikely (and arguably unnecessary) option in Northern Ireland. The public nature of parts of the South African process, with perpetrators and victims testifying openly, might also be a tall order for the more closed culture in Northern Ireland.
The South African process had other failings. The administrative treatment of victims and the lack of follow-up was a problem. Sometimes a simplistic language of reconciliation and healing was used that implied that truth and testimony alone could mend a deeply divided society, rather than coupling this with a long-term political process and socio-economic transformation, ensuring equality between black and white South Africans.
On the positive side, South Africans were confronted on television and radio directly with the past and could not ignore it. We had to face the harm we did to one another and listen to the stories of survivors. The five volumes of the South African TRC report, built on the testimony of approximately 22,000 victims (not just the 1,800 who testified publicly), tells a detailed and thematic story of human rights violations. The report and the extensive archive provide a historically authoritative record that cannot be erased.
One of the biggest successes of the process, however, was when the TRC challenged narrow assumptions about the past. I recall a survivor whom we worked with over many years. She believed, as did most of us who knew her, that the police were responsible for her 18-year-old son's assassination as they had routinely threatened him. Through the TRC it transpired, however, that her son, an underground ANC operative, was shot dead by his own Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) unit, the then military wing of the ANC. His killers, who the family knew well, accused him of being a spy. Whether these allegations were correct or not, as they have never been proved, the news was shattering for the family. The personal price of truth was enormous. However, as much as it pains me to write this, the TRC did its job in this case.
There were many cases of this kind that challenged dominant narratives. For example, during apartheid it was common to hear about MK activists who had killed themselves in operations. It turned out through the TRC that some of these deaths were the result of state entrapment. The state also carried out what were called "false flag operations". Sections of the security police undertook illegal acts, such as sabotage and arson, to give credibility to their agents; they also blamed MK activists for bomb blasts they had planted. It was these types of cases that brought home how "dirty" the war was in South Africa. But they also helped to create a "grey" picture of the past, challenging the blinkered view some had of the state and political groups they supported. Arguably, this loosened the narratives of the past, opening the door for new understandings.
Confronting the truth in this way is risky and unsettling. But is foot-dragging risk-free? In Northern Ireland, the past continues to dominate the present. Every day, we hear stories of tensions concerning unresolved cases, memorials and commemorations. Politicians and the public are in continuous narrative battles about who was the most responsible for the hurts of the past and why. Victims also cannot be asked to forget. A significant amount of work has been done by the community sector to fill the gap created by political indecisiveness. But still the unresolved past remains a threat to a stable future, particularly as new challenges, such as Brexit or border polls, loom.
International lessons unequivocally suggest the past will not go away over time. Many countries, where little has been done politically to address the past, such as those in the Balkans, remain polarised. Unresolved cases, as we have seen in Chile and Argentina, are also transferred generationally with new family members continuing the struggle for truth and justice. By any international standards, the undeniable pattern of evasion and political obfuscation of truth is fundamentally unjust to all victims seeking answers.
Inaction on the past is not a neutral act, it is an active denial of rights to victims. It is also creating ongoing political tensions in itself. Something must be done.
The South African process is not a blueprint and had its problems, but South Africans developed it to meet their specific set of needs at a critical historical moment. South African politicians showed leadership and courage to undertake a concerted and holistic attempt to deal with the past.
In Northern Ireland, a set of workable, locally developed and previously politically agreed proposals have been made in the Stormont House Agreement. These proposals are not perfect, but surely it is time for the governments and political parties to show some backbone and act in unison finally, supporting a way forward on dealing with the past? At the very least, no one can accuse them of rushing into anything.
Published by Brandon Hamber in the Belfast Telegraph, 12 December 2020.
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 12th December 2020 16th December 2020 Categories Newspaper Article, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, VictimsTags Northern Ireland, South Africa, truth-telling, victims
Celebrating Rights, Right to Celebrate
On the evening of 9 December 2020, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) and her Youth Panel hosted a seminar to explore how the protections found within the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) can provide a framework for children and young people to confidently celebrate their identity and their culture in a non-conflictual way without threatening the identities and cultures of others.
Specifically, the event was a consultation and discussion aimed at assisting the Youth Panel to draw up a statement on how children's rights can support children's and young people's expressions of identity and culture in a non-conflictual way. This is important in the context of the 'Decade of Commemorations' such as the Easter Rising and Battle of the Somme in 2016 and including the establishment of Northern Ireland as a state in 2021.
Professor Hamber was asked to address the group to help lay a foundation, along with other keynotes, for the group deliberations. In his input Professor Hamber reinforced the importance of young people's participation in peace processes, and how research has routinely found young people feel excluded from mainstream peace processes. Professor Hamber made specific reference to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2250 adopted in 9 December 2015. This resolution, deals with the role of young people in issues of peace and security. Most important this resolution points to the positive role young people can play in peace processes.
Building on the "The Missing Peace" report, which was commissioned by the Secretary-General and authored by Graeme Simpson, Professor Hamber made the point that we should look at young people as an asset in peace processes rather than treating them (and particularly young men) as a threat. When it comes to issues such as commemoration, the point is not to force certain understandings of history about the past on young people, but give them the freedom to express their views and ensure their voices are heard. We need to let young people interact with the past, that is "it's not about educating or sharing parents' views. We need to give space for young people to interrogate the past and interpret it through the lens of present".
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 9th December 2020 12th December 2020 Categories Masculinity, Seminar, YouthTags NICCY, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, security, UN Resolution 2250, UNCRC, Youth
Militarised Masculinities and Peace
Professor Hamber took part in podcast as part of Geneva Peace Week (2-6 November 2020) on "Militarised Masculinities and Sustaining Peace: Lessons from the Ground".
Militarised masculinities and its impact on peace has received little attention. Militarised masculinity, an idea of a certain 'maleness' that is violent, is central to elites strategies in staying in power. The podcast by Impunity Watch and the Master programme in Transitional Justice of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights provides space for an in-depth debate around this neglected topic with Brandon Hamber from Northern Ireland and human rights activist Brisna Caxaj from Guatemala.
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 6th November 2020 30th November 2020 Categories Masculinity, Podcast, UncategorisedTags geneva peace week, masculinity, militarism, peacebuilding
Memorialization as Truth-Telling
The sixth seminar in the Dealing with the Past series entitled "Memorialization as Truth-Telling: Lessons from the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation" was hosted online on 21 October 2020, 58 people attended.
The seminar was given by Sara Bradshaw, Program Director for Transitional Justice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC). The seminar discussed the opportunities, challenges and best practices for local-level memorialization efforts to serve as truth-telling initiatives in the absence of formal truth commissions. The seminar used practical examples and case studies from the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR), a consortium of nine partners led by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Lessons focused on cases in Colombia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, The Gambia, and other conflict and post-conflict contexts. These explored how community-driven truth-telling initiatives can help ensure that all members of society, particularly marginalized groups such as women and minorities, are able to share their stories and contribute to sustainable peace.
The seminar is part of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) and INCORE, in partnership with Healing Through Remembering and the John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, online seminar series.
Author Brandon HamberPosted on 21st October 2020 30th November 2020 Categories Colombia, Seminar, Sri Lanka, The GambiaTags International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Memorialization, reconciliation, truth, truth-telling
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Q: Symfony WebTestCase hook into database listeners So Im trying to hook into the database events of doctrine from the WebTestCase of Symfony.
I setup the client like this:
self::$client = static::createClient();
self::$client->followRedirects(true);
self::$client->setMaxRedirects(10);

$doctrineDefaultManager = self::getContainer()->get('doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager');
$doctrineDefaultManager->getConnection()->getConfiguration()->getSQLLogger();

/** some other code loading database and fixtures etc **/

// Im adding the event listener to the defaultmanager here
$doctrineDefaultManager->getEventManager()->addEventListener([Events::onFlush], new FlushExampleListener());

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.13/reference/events.html#listening-and-subscribing-to-lifecycle-events
Then I have the example class to: (this class never get logged or fired or dumped)
use Doctrine\ORM\Event\OnFlushEventArgs;

class FlushExampleListener
{
    /**
     * @param OnFlushEventArgs $eventArgs
     * @return void
     */
    public function onFlush(OnFlushEventArgs $eventArgs): void
    {
        $em = $eventArgs->getObjectManager();
        $uow = $em->getUnitOfWork();

        foreach ($uow->getScheduledEntityInsertions() as $entity) {
            dd($entity);
        }

        foreach ($uow->getScheduledEntityUpdates() as $entity) {
            dd($entity);
        }

        foreach ($uow->getScheduledEntityDeletions() as $entity) {
            dd($entity);
        }

        foreach ($uow->getScheduledCollectionDeletions() as $col) {
            dd($col);
        }

        foreach ($uow->getScheduledCollectionUpdates() as $col) {
            dd($col);
        }
    }
}

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.13/reference/events.html#reference-events-on-flush
Then I post a form with the WebTestCase like this:
public function iSubmitAFormOnPageValue(string $url, string $btn): void
{
    $crawler = self::$client->request('GET', $this->getHost() . $url, [], [], []);

    $form = $crawler->selectButton($btn)->form();

    $this->crawler = self::$client->submit($form, $this->formData);
    $this->response = self::$client->getResponse();
}

What works fine and in this case if I hit the /entity/new route it works. I see a new record in the database. Also can I see with a new GET request that indeed the webpage is updated. Only does the onFlush event not get fired? So how can I see what get inserted into the database from the WebCaseTest or does symfony use another doctrine manager to insert stuff into the database where I need to put the event listener on?


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Five Fast-Growing Jobs You Couldn't Find 15 Years Ago
Fifteen years ago Facebook had just been launched and the iPhone was yet to be released. Since then, technology has continued to advance at breakneck speed, and new jobs that people could only have dreamed of are now burgeoning. Here are five growing jobs that didn't exist 15 years ago:
Although some of the first mobile apps can be traced back to the early 90s, it was with the birth of the iPhone in 2007 that mobile apps as we know them were born. Today, over 65% of the world's population has mobile phones and there are more than two million iOS apps available. From checking the weather to posting on Facebook, mobile apps are now a part of our everyday lives in ways unimaginable just over 10 years ago. With the emergence of apps comes the need for Mobile App Developers who create, design, and update applications. With VR and AR becoming common features in commercial apps, a CNNMoney/Payscale study predicts a 20% job-growth for developers over the next 10 years.
Virtual Assistants are a new take on a job that has been around for centuries. While assistants are still an important asset to executives and other top-level professionals, technology now allows most tasks to be done remotely. Whether it's maintaining a calendar, sending emails, or attending meetings, virtual assistants can do it all from the comfort of home. As more companies embrace remote work these jobs are destined to grow.
Search Engine Optimization Analysts
While Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gained traction with the popular growth of Google in the early 2000s, it is in the most recent decade that businesses have begun to considerably hire SEO Analysts. Search Engine Optimization is becoming incredibly important for businesses considering today's immense use of technology and the continual development of SEO algorithms. Researching and analyzing trends in search engine traffic and such algorithms, SEO Analysts are increasingly being hired by companies to advise in further expanding and reporting on company web exposure and visibility.
Love them or loathe them, drones are here to stay. While the recreational drone industry is in decline, the commercial industry is booming according to the FAA, outpacing their own predictions by nearly 80%. It's not just filmmakers who use drones, they are becoming an important part of many professions, including real estate, insurance, and construction. Of course, not just anybody can become a commercial drone operator: you must be trained in usage and certified by the FAA.
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Looking to start an RPGA sanctioned Eberron campaign, following the Xen'drik expeditions line of adventures. RPGA is free to join, and I'll have membership cards, so don't worry if you're not a member yet.
It'll probably only run once a month at a local store, since I don't have the time I wish I had.
I've been DMing for some time now with friends and family, and am ready to reach into the community. I know I've got a lot to learn, so I'll be looking for feedback, and will try to run a campaign the way the players like it.
I've got 3 defininates and a couple maybes. Would be good to have one more definate.
We'll be doing BlackWheel Company at first.
If you could run more than once a month I would join.
Unfortunately, once a month is about all my schedule allows (as is the case for most of my players).
I'll be starting a game in Fort Washington soon. I'll be down here until we are finished painting the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. I play using the Forgotten Realms though. Let me know if you are still looking to play.
Still looking for players for your Eberron game? Do you have a store to play in? There is a nice one in Gainsville.
We've moved onto 4e full tilt.


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When Wolfgang dies in my arms, my voice broke and my eyes prickled as I blinked back hot tears and told myself, "it's just the lights so say your lines Anu" and somewhere far away, I heard people applauding as they thought the play was over. Whenever I think about "Amadeus" it's the requiem that was played in that scene, that comes to mind and it fills my heart with an intense hurting sadness.
The story of "Amadeus" had affected me deeply. My throat was full of giggles as, an 18-year old slip of a girl, I hid under the grand piano playing mouse, while Wolfgang 'meowed' and chased me into marriage and a short period of bliss. And then dragged me to witness his debauchery and downfall. I don't know what my co-actor Arun went through but that play left me all churned up and emotionally troubled for months.
This brought back memories of my own adolescent love affair with Mozart's Requiem and my discovery of Milos Forman's Amadeus. The Requiem came into my life just when the curtains were going down on the last "glorious" year of my life in school. So it wasn't surprising that I poured all my adolescent uncertainties into it. Some may consider this odd; a Requiem is, after all, by definition "a sung mass for the dead". My adolescent self, though, craved the "intense hurting sadness", the momentous tragedy that Mozart so beautifully captures in his last incomplete work, his Swan Song. In retrospect, my first reaction to the Requiem, though tinged with the infatuation of an adolescent, does not seem unwarranted. Though tragic, the Requiem is the kind of musical composition that inspires awe by its sheer energy. It remains and will forever remain one of my favourite pieces of music.
Sometime in 2004, after pestering the staff at Landmark bookstore into getting us a VCD of Amadeus, we (my brother and I) finally got to watch Milos Forman's vision of Peter Schaffer's play. And what a vision it turned out to be! Peter Schaffer blows up the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri into epic proportions, to create a fable that counterpoints casual genius with methodical mediocrity and delves into moral questions associated with the nature of genius. Forman paints this on a magnificent baroque canvas, filling in tiny details and adding copious quantities of the most crucial element: music. From the dramatic opening sequence accompanied by the 1st Movement of Symphony No. 25* to Mozart's first "German" opera, filled with "German values", the terrifying score of Don Giovanni, and the final act of the tragedy played out to the Requiem, in which Salieri effectively kills Mozart by driving him into exhaustion, each piece of music, conducted by Neville Marriner, is a perfect performance in itself. F. Murray Abraham as the passionate but frustrated Antonio Salieri and Tom Hulce as the rash, mischievously vulgar, but consistently brilliant Mozart, play their parts to perfection. Historical accuracy isn't one of the virtues of Schaffer's play. His intention, and Forman's too, is to create a dramatic fable using a minor historical detail. And we knew this. Nevertheless, I vividly remember how on that sunny afternoon when we watched the movie for the first time, my brother, with an indecipherable expression on his face, refused to watch the last act and went into hiding in his bedroom! He didn't want to see Mozart "die". I stuck with it until the credits started rolling and have to confess that the experience left me mildly disturbed. But then, I think that's the power of both the play and the movie. They lay bare the dark deeds that the human mind is capable of when confronted with raw genius.
*A part of the 1st Mvmt of Symphony No. 25 (one of only two of Mozart's G minor symphonies, the other being No. 40) must, I guess, be familiar to every Indian as the Titan theme music.
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Apache Lenya — система керування вмістом з відкритим кодом на основі Java/XML, що використовує Apache Cocoon як програмний каркас. Для Lenya характерні: контроль версій, планування, пошукові інструменти, зображення потоку робіт та серверні WYSIWYG редактори.

Lenya був створений Майклом Вехнером на початку 1999 року. До цього Майкл займався дослідженнями фізичної області через написання комп'ютерних симуляторів дендритного росту.

У 2000 році Майкл став співзасновником Wyona, де продовжилась розробка Lenya на базі інтерактивного видання газети Нойє цюрхер цайтунг. Сама назва Lenya створена через комбінацію імен двох синів автора — Леві(Levi) та Івана(Vanya).

Навесні 2003 року Wyona передала проєкт Lenya до Apache Software Foundation, де він набув статус первинного проєкту у вересні 2004.

У 2006 році Майкл почав створення нової СКВ під назвою Yanel (анаграма до Lenya), що отримала інший підхід до роботи з інтерфейсом для забезпечення зворотньої сумісності у будь-який час, а отже властивість безперервного постачання оновлень, на відміну від старого методу періодичних релізів.

Проєкт був перенесений до Apache Attic у квітні 2015.

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Hoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is transported back one hundred years, where she meets the house's previous owner, David. As her feelings for David grow, it becomes clear that Jennie is not only torn between two men and two times, but she also faces danger in both worlds.
Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.
Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.
A romantic comedy about an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location.
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Jack and Audrey Landry are a middle-aged couple who have barely gotten the hang of being a pair of "empty nesters" when their three grown daughters -- Teri, Nora, and Dahlia -- end up tumbling back home again. That's not so hard to take but just as the parents re-adjust their lifestyle to accommodate their offspring, all three of the Landry daughters fall in love. Happiness abounds until the daughters each announce they're getting married. At the same time. And guess who's footing the bill? Now it's a race to see which runs out first -- Jack and Audrey's bank account or their sanity.
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Ashley was raised in a picture perfect all-American family with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem, she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her.
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother. Casey meets Lord Bredon's son Michael and both fall in love. When Lord Bredon realizes this new relationship he gets really angry, assuming Casey wants to blackmail his family somehow, and begins to investigate her background. The plot heightens dramatically when it appears that an event from the past might part the lovers.
A cowherd with a skull-mounted motorcycle and a university student meet in Dakar; put off by life in Senegal, they plan to make money in Paris.
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.


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I like Manika, but have no interest in seeing bobrow once again repeat his exhibitionist tendencies. I don't think professional announcers act like this (or dress like this) in pro sports that are taken seriously.
No, but I take it it's some famous hockey guy? I guess bobrow doesn't have an exclusive on obnoxious.
Yup, Don Cherry, one of the main personalities at 'Hockey Night in Canada', pretty big deal as far as pro sports go . Had significant coaching career in NHL too.
But yeah, both him and Adam are quite a bit on the goofy side of things as far as pro sports go.
Those clips are to highlight the players, themselves. Not to promote the sport!
I agree with this. He did a pretty good job with Harimoto as well, brings out the actual person in them. Actually, SHE was the one who brought up the twerking..
He had Hirano Miu dancing?? I'll have to go look for that one..
Not sure what NotBob wants... maybe some long serious technical interview about how twiddling helps her confuse the opponent or something of the sort. There is always room for that sort of thing, too, but that doesn't mean this sort of interview is worthless. He does seem to be down on anything involving ITTF.
Aside from Adam's clothing, there really isn't anything outlandish about him. He asks better questions than you see interviewers doing on basically any good morning news show. Besides... he asks questions submitted by... the fans! So obviously someone was curious enough to write those down.
Maybe Bob is having some frightening flashbacks to his tye dyed hippy days every time he sees bobrow lol!
Actually, I can imagine Miu-chan dancing. But if he could get Mima-chan dancing, THAT really would be something to see.
Hmm.. What ARE those green dots?? Stickers?? Paint?? They're not only on his jacket, they cover his tie and shirt as well. But not his handkerchief, so they're not from a projector. Maybe he just has a custom-made matching set of jacket, shirt and tie and he carefully arranges them before going on air. NotBob's definition of obnoxious is quite a bit different from mine. It isn't what one wears, it's how one behaves. An obnoxious person is someone who is rude, combative, snide, constantly angry, condescending, dismissive, etc. Bobrow is none of these, rather, he is friendly, outgoing and funny as well as a great interviewer. Alex Jones would qualify as "obnoxious".
I saw the full match at ITTF TV live. She played really strong holding her own vs the JNT players.
Manika beat Georgina Pota today at the Hungarian Open 12-10 in the 7th.


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OpenAI's Virtual Wrestling Bots
OpenAI, a firm backed by Elon Musk, has currently revealed one of it's latest developments in the fields of Machine Learning, demonstrated using the technology of virtual sumo wrestlers.
These are the bots inside the virtual world of RoboSumo controlled my machine learning. They (The Bots) taught themselves through trial and error using Reinforcement Learning, a technique inspired by the way animals learn through feedback. It has proved useful for training computers to play games and to control robots. The virtual wrestlers might look slightly ridiculous, but they are using a very clever approach to learning in a fast-changing environment while dealing with an opponent. This game and it's virtual world were created at OpenAI to show how forcing AI systems to compete can spur them to become more intelligent.
However, one of the disadvantages of reinforcement learning is that doesn't work well in realistic situations, or where things are more dynamic. OpenAI devised a solution to this problem by creating its own reinforcement algorithm called proximal policy optimization (PPO), which is especially well suited to changing environments.
The latest work, done in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley, demonstrates a way for AI agents to apply what the researchers call a "meta-learning" framework. This means the agents can take what they have already learned and apply it to a new situation.
Inside the RoboSumo environment (see video above), the agents started out behaving randomly. Through thousands of iterations of trial and error, they gradually developed the ability to move—and, eventually, to fight. Through further iterations, the wrestlers developed the ability to avoid each other, and even to question their own actions. This learning happened on the fly, with the agents adapting even they wrestled each other.
Flexible learning is a very important part of human intelligence, and it will be crucial if machines are going to become capable of performing anything other than very narrow tasks in the real world. This kind of learning is very difficult to implement in machines, and the latest work is a small but significant step in that direction.
(sources: MitTechReview, OpenAI Blog, Wired)
NVIDIA'S CHIPS FOR COMPLETE CONTROL OF DRIVERLESS CARS
The race for autonomy in cars is ubiquitous. Top car brands are working in providing complete autonomous vehicles to their customers and the future with self-driving vehicles is inevitable. Adding the cherry to the cake, Nvidia's recently announced chip is the latest generation of its DrivePX onboard car computers called Pegasus. The device is 13 times faster than the previous iteration, which has so far been used by the likes of Audi, Tesla, and Volvo to provide semi-autonomous driving capabilities in their vehicles.
Nvidia Pegasus
At the heart of this semiconductor is the mind-boggling technology of Deep Learning. "In the old world, the more powerful your engine, the smoother your ride will be," Huang said during the announcement. "In the future, the more computational performance you have, the smoother your ride will be."
Nvidia asserts that the device is only about the size of a license plate. But it has enough power to process data from up to 16 sensors, detect objects, find the car's place in the world, plan a path, and control the vehicles itself. Oh, and it will also update centrally stored high-definition maps at the same time—all with some resources to spare.
The new system is designed to eventually handle up to 320 trillion operations per second (TOPS), compared to the 24tn of today's technology. That would give it the power needed to process the masses of data produced by a vehicle's cameras and other sensors and allow it to drive completely autonomously, Nvidia said. The first systems to be tested next year will have less processing power but will be designed to scale up with the addition of extra chips.
(sources: MitTechReview, NvidiaBlog)
MIT uses AI to kill video buffering
We all hate it when our video is interrupted by buffering or its resolution has turned into a pixelated mess. A group of MIT researchers believe they've figured out a solution to those annoyances plaguing millions of people a day.
MIT discovered a way to improve video streaming by reducing buffering times and pixelation. A new AI developed at the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory uses machine learning to pick different algorithms depending on network conditions. In doing so, the AI, called Pensieve, has been shown to deliver a higher-quality streaming experience with less buffering than existing systems.
Instead of having a video arrive at your computer in one complete piece, sites like YouTube and Netflix break it up into smaller pieces and sends them sequentially, relying on ABR algorithms to determine which resolution each piece will play at. This is an attempt to give users a more consistent viewing experience while also saving bandwidth, but it created problems. If the connection is too slow, YouTube may temporarily lower the resolution – pixelating the video- to keep it playing. And since the video is sent in pieces, skipping ahead is impossible.
There are two types of ABR: a rate-based one that measures how fast a network can transmit data and a buffer-based one tasked with maintaining a sufficient buffer at the head of the video. The current algorithms only consider one of these factors, but MIT's new algorithm Pensieve uses machine learning to choose the best system based on the network condition
In experiments that tested the AI using wifi and LTE, the team found that it could stream video at the same resolution with 10 to 30 percent less rebuffering than other approaches. Additionally, users rated the video play with the AI 10 to 25 percent higher in terms of 'quality of experience.' The researchers, however, only tested Pensieve on a month's worth of downloaded video and believe performance would be even higher with a number of data streaming giants YouTube and Netflix have.
As a next project, the team will be working to test Pensieve on virtual-reality (VR) video."The bitrates you need for 4K-quality VR can easily top hundreds of megabits per second, which today's networks simply can't support," Alizadeh says. "We're excited to see what systems like Pensieve can do for things like VR. This is really just the first step in seeing what we can do."
Pensieve was funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation and an innovation fellowship from Qualcomm.
Open AI's bots beat world's top Dota 2 players
Open AI has created a bot that is taking down top Dota 2 players at The International Dota event held by Valve.
This year's big Dota 2 tournament is currently in its second to last day with only four teams remaining in the competition. Between the event's official games, Valve always includes some fun show matches, and this year it brought in Open AI's aforementioned Dota 2 b to face off against the game's most famous player, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, live on the main stage.
Open AI said the 1v1 bot has learned from playing against itself in a lifetimes worth of matches. In a promo video shown before the match, we see the bot besting some of the game's top players, including Evil Genius' cores Arteezy and Sumail.
In the live Shadow Fiend mirror match against Dendi, the bot executed an impossibly perfect creep block, perfectly balanced creep aggro, and even recognized and canceled Dendi's healing items. The bot quickly bested Dendi in two matches, leading Dendi to say it's "too strong!" Footage of those matches can be found on Dota 2 Rapier's YouTube channel.
Open AI says their next goal is to get the bot ready for the infinitely more complex 5v5 matches, noting it might have something ready for next year.
How DeepMind's AI taught itself to walk
DeepMind's programmers have given the agent a set of virtual sensors (so it can tell whether it's upright or not, for example) and then incentivize to move forward. The computer works the rest out for itself, using trial and error to come up with different ways of moving. True motor intelligence requires learning how to control and coordinate a flexible body to solve tasks in a range of complex environments. Existing attempts to control physically simulated humanoid bodies come from diverse fields, including computer animation and biomechanics. A trend has been to use hand-crafted objectives, sometimes with motion capture data, to produce specific behaviors. However, this may require considerable engineering effort and can result in restricted behaviors or behaviors that may be difficult to repurpose for new tasks.
True motor intelligence requires learning how to control and coordinate a flexible body to solve tasks in a range of complex environments. Existing attempts to control physically simulated humanoid bodies come from diverse fields, including computer animation and biomechanics. A trend has been to use hand-crafted objectives, sometimes with motion capture data, to produce specific behaviors. However, this may require considerable engineering effort and can result in restricted behaviors or behaviors that may be difficult to repurpose for new tasks.
DeepMind published 3 papers which are as follows:
Emergence of locomotion behaviors in rich environments:-
For some AI problems, such as playing Atari or Go, the goal is easy to define – it's winning. But describing a process such as a jog, a backflip or a jump is difficult because of accurately describing a complex behavior which is a common problem when teaching motor skills to an artificial system. DeepMind explored how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from scratch from the body interacting with the environment using only simple high-level objectives, such as moving forward without falling. DeepMind trained agents with a variety of simulated bodies to make progress across diverse terrains, which require jumping, turning and crouching. The results show that their agents developed these complex skills without receiving specific instructions, an approach that can be applied to train systems for multiple, distinct simulated bodies.
Simulated planar Walker attempts to climb a wall
But how do you describe the process for performing a backflip? Or even just a jump? The difficulty of accurately describing a complex behavior is a common problem when teaching motor skills to an artificial system. In this work, we explore how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from scratch from the body interacting with the environment using only simple high-level objectives, such as moving forward without falling. Specifically, we trained agents with a variety of simulated bodies to make progress across diverse terrains, which require jumping, turning and crouching. The results show our agents develop these complex skills without receiving specific instructions, an approach that can be applied to train our systems for multiple, distinct simulated bodies. The GIFs show how this technique can lead to high-quality movements and perseverance.
Learning human behaviors from motion capture by adversarial imitation:-
A humanoid Walker produces human-like walking behavior
The emergent behavior described above can be very robust, but because the movements must emerge from scratch, they often do not look human-like.
DeepMind in their second paper demonstrated how to train a policy network that imitates motion capture data of human behaviors to pre-learn certain skills, such as walking, getting up from the ground, running, and turning.
Having produced behavior that looks human-like, they can tune and repurpose those behaviors to solve other tasks, like climbing stairs and navigating walled corridors.
Robust imitation of diverse behaviors:-
The planar Walker on the left demonstrates a particular walking style and the agent in the right panel imitates that style using a single policy network.
The third paper proposes a neural network architecture, building on state-of-the-art generative models, that is capable of learning the relationships between different behaviors and imitating specific actions that it is shown. After training, their system can encode a single observed action and create a new novel movement based on that demonstration.After training, their system can encode a single observed action and create a new novel movement based on that demonstration.It can also switch between different kinds of behaviors despite never having seen transitions between them, for example switching between walking styles.
(via The Verge, DeepMind Blog)
Optical Deep Learning: Learning with light
Artificial Neural Networks mimic the way the brain learns from an accumulation of examples. A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a novel approach to deep learning that uses a nanophotonic processor, which they claim can vastly improve the performance and energy efficiency for processing artificial neural networks.
Optical computers have been conceived before, but are usually aimed at more general-purpose processing. In this case, the researchers have narrowed the application domain considerably. Not only have they restricted their approach to deep learning, they have further limited this initial work to inferencing of neural networks, rather than the more computationally demanding process of training.
The optical chip contains multiple waveguides that shoot beams of light at each other simultaneously, creating interference patterns that correspond to mathematical results. "The chip, once you tune it, can carry out matrix multiplication with, in principle, zero energy, instantly," said Marin Soljacic, an electrical engineering professor at MIT, in a statement. The accuracy leaves something to be desired for making out vowels, but the nanophotonic chip is still work-in-progress.
The new approach uses multiple light beams(as mentioned above) directed in such a way that their waves interact with each other, producing interference patterns that convey the result of the intended operation. The resulting device is something the researchers call a programmable nanophotonic processor.The result is that the optical chips using this architecture could, in principle, carry out calculations performed in typical artificial intelligence algorithms much faster and using less than one-thousandth as much energy per operation as conventional electronic chips.
The team says it will still take a lot more effort and time to make this system useful; however, once the system is scaled up and fully functioning, it can find many user cases, such as data centers or security systems. The system could also be a boon for self-driving cars or drones, says Harris, or "whenever you need to do a lot of computation but you don't have a lot of power or time."
Google's and Nvidia's AI Chips
Google will soon launch a cloud computing service that provides exclusive access to a new kind of artificial intelligence chip designed by its own engineers. CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the new chip and service this morning in Silicon Valley during his keynote at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference.
This new processor is a unique creation designed to both train and execute deep neural networks—machine learning systems behind the rapid evolution of everything from image and speech recognition to automated translation to robotics. Google says it will not sell the chip directly to others. Instead, through its new cloud service, set to arrive sometime before the end of the year, any business or developer can build and operate software via the internet that taps into hundreds and perhaps thousands of these processors, all packed into Google data centers.
According to Dean, Google's new "TPU device," which spans four chips, can handle 180 trillion floating point operations per second, or 180 teraflops, and the company uses a new form of computer networking to connect several of these chips together, creating a "TPU pod" that provides about 11,500 teraflops of computing power. In the past, Dean said, the company's machine translation model took about a day to train on 32 state-of-the-art CPU boards. Now, it can train in about six hours using only a portion of a pod.
Nvidia has released a new state-of-the-art chip that pushes the limits of machine learning, the Tesla P100 GPU. It can perform deep learning neural network tasks 12 times faster than the company's previous top-end system (The TitanX). The P100 was a huge commitment for Nvidia, costing over $2 billion in research and development, and it sports a whopping 150 billion transistors on a single chip, making the P100 the world's largest chip, Nvidia claims. In addition to machine learning, the P100 will work for all sorts of high-performance computing tasks — Nvidia just wants you to know it's really good at machine learning.
To top off the P100's introduction, Nvidia has packed eight of them into a crazy-powerful $129,000 supercomputer called the DGX-1. This show-horse of a machine comes ready to run, with deep-learning software preinstalled. It's shipping first to AI researchers at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and others in June. On stage, Huang called the DGX-1 "one beast of a machine."
The competition between these upcoming AI chips and Nvidia all points to an emerging need for simply more processing power in deep learning computing. A few years ago, GPUs took off because they cut the training time for a deep learning network from months to days. Deep learning, which had been around since at least the 1950s, suddenly had real potential with GPU power behind it. But as more companies try to integrate deep learning into their products and services, they're only going to need faster and faster chips.
(via Wired, Forbes, Nvidia, The Verge)
A peek into NVIDIA's self driving AI.
In a step toward making AI more accountable, Nvidia has developed a neural network for autonomous driving that highlights what it's focusing on.
Sorta follow-up to my previous blog post: Is AI Mysterious?. Some of the most powerful machine-learning techniques available result in software that is almost completely opaque, even to the engineers that build it.
We still don't know exactly how AI works, the people at Nvidia still don't know why the AI they built wasn't following a single instruction given by its creators. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.
It simply matches input from several video cameras to the behavior of a human driver and figures out for itself how it should drive. The only catch is that the system is so complex that it's difficult to untangle how it actually works.
Nvidia is now working to open the black box by developing a way to visually highlight what the system is paying attention to. Explained in a recently published paper, the neural network architecture developed by Nvidia's researchers is designed so that it can highlight the areas of a video picture that contribute most strongly to the behavior of the car's deep neural network. Remarkably, the results show that the network is focusing on the edges of roads, lane markings, and parked cars—just the sort of things that a good human driver would want to pay attention to.
Nvidia's Convolutional Neural Network architecture for Self-Driving AI.
"What's revolutionary about this is that we never directly told the network to care about these things," Urs Muller, Nvidia's chief architect for self-driving cars, wrote in a blog post.
Fascinatingly enough, this compares a lot to human intelligence where we don't actually know how to describe certain actions we do, but we just do them.
This certainly highlights the fact that in the near future we might start seeing AI those are just like us or even Superintelligent. I highly recommend reading the book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom.
(Sources: Nvidia, MitTechReview, Nvidia Blog)
The rise of A.I. and over-powering humans will prove to be a catastrophic situation. Elon Musk is attempting to combat the rise of A.I. with the launch of his latest venture, brain-computer interface company Neuralink. Detailed information about Neuralink on Wait But Why. (Highly Recommended to Read!)
Musk seems to want to achieve a communications leap equivalent in impact to when humans came up with language – this proved an incredibly efficient way to convey thoughts socially at the time, but what Neuralink aims to do is increase that efficiency by multiple factors of magnitude. Person-to-person, Musk's vision would enable direct "uncompressed" communication of concepts between people, instead of having to effectively "compress" your original thought by translating it into language and then having the other party "decompress" the package you send them linguistically, which is always a lossy process.
Another thing in favor of Musk's proposal is that symbiosis between brains and computers isn't fiction. Remember that person who types with brain signals? Or the paralyzed people who move robot arms? These systems work better when the computer completes people's thoughts. The subject only needs to type "bulls …" and the computer does the rest. Similarly, a robotic arm has its own smarts. It knows how to move; you just have to tell it to. So even partial signals coming out of the brain can be transformed into more complete ones. Musk's idea is that our brains could integrate with an AI in ways that we wouldn't even notice: imagine a sort of thought-completion tool.
So it's not crazy to believe there could be some very interesting brain-computer interfaces in the future. But that future is not as close at hand as Musk would have you believe. One reason is that opening a person's skull is not a trivial procedure. Another is that technology for safely recording from more than a hundred neurons at once—neural dust, neural lace, optical arrays that thread through your blood vessels—remains mostly at the blueprint stage.
( via Wired, TechCrunch )
Is A.I. Mysterious?
Contemplating on the book I recently began, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, the author clearly describes the future of AI as tremendously frightening and tells us in what ways AI will overpower human beings, until a point in the future where the humans will no longer be needed. Such kind of intelligence will be superior to human beings, hence coined the term Superintelligence. Nick, further mentioned in the initial pages of the book that such kind of invention would be the last invention humans would ever make, and the AI would then invent new things itself, without feeling the need of a human being.
Does AI possess a darker side? (Enter article by MitTechReview)
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. This experimental vehicle was developed by researchers at Nvidia, didn't look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn't follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it. Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling since it isn't completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle's sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems. The result seems to match the responses you'd expect from a human driver. But what if one day it did something unexpected—crashed into a tree, or sat at a green light? As things stand now, it might be difficult to find out why. The system is so complicated that even the engineers who designed it may struggle to isolate the reason for any single action. And you can't ask it: there is no obvious way to design such a system so that it could always explain why it did what it did.
Now, once again, such kind of experiments and research may seem obscure at the moment or may even be neglected by some people, but what if an entire fleet of vehicles start working in the manner they learned and ignoring the commands by a human.
Enter OpenAI: Discovering an enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company, associated with business magnate Elon Musk, that aims to carefully promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit humanity as a whole.
Hopefully, OpenAI will help us have friendly versions of AI.
The artist Adam Ferriss created this image, and the one below, using Google Deep Dream, a program that adjusts an image to stimulate the pattern recognition capabilities of a deep neural network. The pictures were produced using a mid-level layer of the neural network.
This image sure seems kind of spooky. But who knows, there might be some hidden sarcasm in the AI that we are yet to discover.
Meanwhile, you can give it a try https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ .
Sources (MitTechReview, OpenAI, Wiki)
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Shopian: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) SP Vaid on Saturday said identification of the four terrorists killed earlier in the day is underway.
Speaking to ANI, Vaid said operations were initiated after information of terrorist holed up in Shopian's Killora village was received.
four more terrorists were recovered. The operation has been called off," he said.
On Friday, an encounter broke out between security personnel and terrorists, after which the body of one terrorist, identified as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Umar Malik, was recovered, along with an AK-47.


Ask students to roll up their sleeves to the arm bend, carefully observe the color of his inner wrist: if it is pink, it is cool; if yellow, is warm, and then choose the color for your foundation.
Color card production: the color selection color system, "my style" one copy, the direct use of the following colors on the paper coloring, with the help of eye shadow sticks, soft color beauty brush, blush brush and other tools, lipstick with a cotton swab Apply and wipe the grease dry with a paper towel after application to prevent the grease in the lipstick from dizzy on the paper.
Or, we can also directly to the Beauty Consultant living in the shape of the makeup page as a model.
· It is recommended that customers choose the more natural skin white skin, darker skin type using the classic, while the contrast is suitable for late-night styling.


Medicaid is a state-run, federally-funded program that helps pay for medical care for those who cannot afford it on their own. Medicaid often enters the lives of senior citizens for nursing home expenses, but there are several little known facts regarding this program.
In order to qualify for Medicaid, an applicant must meet eligibility requirements for both income and assets. In order to meet the asset limit, you are not permitted to simply gift property or money to family or friends, as Medicaid may go back and review gifts and transfers as far back as 60 months. This is known as a look-back period, and it's an important aspect of Medicaid planning.
You may be eligible and enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid at the same time. This is known as dual eligibility and it allows Medicaid to assist in paying Medicare premiums and other medical costs, such as copayments, for those who qualify.
Many believe that in order to qualify for Medicaid benefits, all of their money and assets must be 'spent down.' While it may be necessary to spend down some assets to meet eligibility limits, there are several exemptions to the spending down process, including provisions for spouses and residences.
If a patient receives medical services paid for by Medicaid after their 55th birthday or when permanently residing in a nursing home, Medicaid may recover the amount of the cost of these services from the assets in their estate upon their death.
A Medicaid Attorney can help you with the many aspects of this program, from Medicaid planning to using Medicaid for nursing home expenses, as well as estate planning to handle many of the situations that may come up later in life.


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