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Q: $f_\infty(t)=g_\infty(t)$ a.e? Let $(E,\mathcal{A},\mu)$ be a finite measure space. Let $\{f_n\}$ and $\{g_n\}$  two uniformly integrable sequences such that:
$$
\qquad\forall n\geq 1~:~ f_n(t)=g_n(t)~~ \text{ a.e.}\tag1
$$
$$
\qquad f_n\underset{n}{\to} f_\infty\text{ weakly in } L^1 \tag2
$$
and for all subsequence $\{g_{n_i}\}$ of $\{g_n\}$ we have
$$
\qquad\frac{1}{m}\sum_{i=1}^{m}{g_{n_i}(t)}\underset{m}{\to} g_\infty(t) \text{ a.e.} \tag3
$$
Can we say that $f_\infty(t)=g_\infty(t) \text{ a.e}$?
My effort:
Since $\{g_n\}$ is U.I then there exists a subsequence $\{g_{n_i}\}$ of $\{g_n\}$ such that weakly convergence in $L^1$ . It follows from $(1)$ and $(2)$ that
$$
\qquad g_{n_i}\underset{i}{\to} f_\infty\text{ weakly in } L^1
$$
then for all $A\in \mathcal{A}$
$$
\lim_i \int_A g_{n_i} \,d\mu=\int_A f_\infty \,d\mu
$$
then, by Cesàro lemma, we have
$$
\lim_m\int_A \frac{1}{m} \sum_{i=1}^m g_{n_i} \,d\mu=\int_A f_\infty \, d\mu
$$
The sequence  $\{s_m\}$,  defined by $s_m:=\frac{1}{m} \sum_{i=1}^m g_{n_i}$, is uniformly integrable and converge weakly to $g_\infty$ then
$$
\lim_m\int_A s_m \, d\mu=\int_A g_\infty \, d\mu\qquad\forall A\in\mathcal{A}
$$
then
$$
\int_A f_\infty \, d\mu=\int_A g_\infty \, d\mu\qquad\forall A \in \mathcal{A}
$$
then $f_\infty(t)=g_\infty(t) \text{ a.e.}$
Is what I wrote correct? If not, please help.


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This doesn't work for all AMi bioses.
Can you post a download link for AMI dmiedit?
Can you post any other link to download your version?
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By Dr. Debby Herbenick
How long is the average penis? I'm just shy of 6 inches long, 20 years old and hoping to grow some more.
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April included a number of events including my birthday and the Easter holidays but I was doing pretty well – my weight yo-yoed a bit but was heading down overall (I got down to 105kg/16st 8lb) and my mileage was increasing with the runs even if my pace was dropping (towards the end of April I managed my first 5 mile run and, for the first time, I was geniunely confident that I can do a 10K). Unfortuately I lost my way a little when I ran the Harrold Pit Run – a 4.8km (3 mile) race which I ran/walked last year in just under 33 minutes (my first race) and this year I ran (not walked) it a full 5 minutes slower. I was gutted.
I was a difficult day: the race is in the afternoon and it was hot; we'd had a a Royal Wedding street party the day before and, although I'd been careful not to eat/drink too much, I've since learned that drinking beer the day before a run is not a good idea; and it had been a pretty full-on week as I was attempting to redecorate my office, have a new carpet fitted, and put it all back together again in 4 days. Added to that, I was pretty emotional. It was the first time I'd run in The Prostate Cancer Charity's t-shirt, complete with a note on my back advertising my fundraising site and someone said "good on you" as they ran past me. I'm pretty sure that they were referring to my cause (not the snail's pace I was jogging at) and that got me thinking about why I was doing it – which seemed to upset me, rather than help me get going. To say I was dissappointed with the result would be an understatement – it was all I could do not to burst into tears at the finish line.
The rest of that final weekend in April was no better either – I'm not sure how, but I finished the 4-day weekend 5lbs heavier than I started it.
The good news is that I'm back on the wagon, watching what I'm eating again, and pushing to lose another half-stone or so before the BUPA London 10K at the end of the month. In the first week of May I managed to run a 3.4 and a 5 mile loop (albeit in 12+2 run/walk intervals), so I know I can cover the distance – all that remains is to increase my pace (and hopefully cut out some of the walking). My workload has been crazy, which doesn't help the stress levels but I'm determined to complete the course – there's too much at stake now!
I'll let you know how I get on with the BUPA London 10K at the end of the month!
Good luck in London, don't worry about the pit run, the first race of the year is always meant to be your slowest.


In 2004, like any good liberal arts student, Leila traveled to Kenya to volunteer her time to teach orphans in the slums of Nairobi. She never found her orphans. In their place were children - bright, eager students who so badly wanted a chance to fight their own way out of poverty.
Her suitcase full of second-hand textbooks was part of the problem, not the solution. It didn't take long for her to realize that children who sleep on the street and rely on donated services often become teenagers who aren't able to carve out positive lives and build productive communities.


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I was watching a program about the St. John River in New Brunswick, and how it has been changed by hydro damming. And how that has affected the native peoples' relationship to it - and how they are giving tobacco gifts to the Great Spirit to let Him know they are care about it.
I feel so lacking in historical/cultural background. Again, what can I claim in my background that is special, unique, heritage? Even my "Christian heritage," as much as I appreciate it, seems to "lack" in some way - perhaps in a "hands-on" approach?
I wonder why so many "Protestants" were so eager to go "simple"? And yet, they quickly created their own traditions - barren, I feel, in comparison.
Barren in terms, especially, of forsaking the ancient psalms, songs, prayers - the loss of the word (Word?) it seems.


Being bought by Enterra (ENT.UN-T). Feels that Enterra's proven reserves might be under 7 years and he needs more than that in his holdings. If you are an E&P player, sell and look for other companies. If you are a trust player, check what the proven reserves are.
Being bought by Enterra Energy Corp (ENT.UN-T). If you own High Point would sell as it is a fairly favourable price for it.
Being bought by Enterra Energy (ENT.UN-T). Feels the deal will be beneficial to shareholders, but not a big fan of Enterra as they had a very, very short reserve life. If you own, take the cash.
Has $50 million debt level on the books which is a bit higher than he likes. Should do cash flow this year of about $35 million. Thinking about selling some non-core assets, but don't want to unless they can replace it with new production. Have some very high impact drilling going on right now, which, if successful, will probably look to sell something in Q3/Q4.
Stock has been languishing. They were trying to drill 8 wells in Duso(?) in Alberta. Because of the weather, they only got 6 done. Their production in Q1 was about the same in Q4 of 3,100 BOE's a day. They have quite a bit behind pipe which will be coming on in April so they will be about 4,000 BOE's a day which will be 1,000 BOE's coming on. Likes the story. Feels they have the ability to exit at 4,300/4,500 a day. Reserve Life Index of 8.2 years. Waiting for the stats.
Has 2 key assets, one is a winter access only in northern B.C. and the other in Alberta. Did 2,100 BOE's a day in 2003 exited at 2,700. Expects them to do 3,385, exiting at 4,500 in 2004. Also drilling a high impact which is not in the stock.
Have been disappointed througout the beginning of the year. Had a production limitation problem at one of its facilities which was overreacted to by the market. Solvable.
Seems to have dropped off the radar screen. The summertime is a difficult time in the northeast part of British Columbia. Expect it will be quiet for a few months.
Stock is down 20% on the year. The street doesn't like the Company. They have to tie in some wells to get production. Debt level may be a little high.
A great team. Has significant upside value.
Have 7 development locations and 3 exploration locations. Have year round access to their properties.
A great, well managed company. Tying in another thousand barrels shortly which probably won't affect the price, but will raise the floor in that the cash flow picks up speed and downside risk decreases. A long-term hold.
Good properties and good pipeline penetration. Have year-round access.


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Evenings: Roland Gift, James Acaster, Jeremy Vine, Alan Johnson, Simon Armitage, Prof Alice Roberts, Eddi Reader, Jo Enwright.
The line-up for this year's Bewdley Festival has something to meet everybody's taste throughout another ten days of music, comedy, drama and spoken word during October. This is the 31st consecutive year for the Festival. Once again the Festival has brought together a collection of international, national and local artists to entertain, enthral and challenge the audiences for the whole of the Festival.
It all begins on Friday 12th October, when our stage at the Mercure Heath Hotel will resound to a performance from Roland Gift and his six piece band.
Roland Gift rose to fame as the charismatic frontman for The Fine Young Cannibals and is one of modern music's true torchbearers. His distinguished career has expanded in recent years to include critically-lauded film acting and musical score work. A great voice never goes out of style, and Roland's trademark vocal prowess is both timeless and strikingly ahead of his time.
Opening this Friday evening, we present the acclaimed talent of Black Country wordsmith Liz Berry. Backed at times by the beautiful voice of Mish Maybe, and assisted by some well-known local musicians, this astonishing Black Country poetry princess will enchant and entertain.
Hard to follow our opening night, but try we must!
Saturday 13th October brings a Festival favourite to the stage in the afternoon at Bewdley Baptist Church, when Max Keen will help us decide in his own inimitable style whether Edward 1 was either "A Great or a Terrible King". Whichever is decided, it is certain to be a very entertaining afternoon.
Our evening show brings a very popular young comedian to the stage at the Mercure. James Acaster will be bringing his irreverent brand of humour that covers the strange, the mundane and everything in between. Join James as he works on his upcoming show 'Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999'. James' last three shows and Recap form the upcoming Netflix four-part series, Repertoire. He is the first UK comic to shoot more than one Netflix Original special. His debut book 'Classic Scrapes' made the Sunday Times bestseller list. A whimsical master, he has received acclaim from around the world, including a record breaking 5 consecutive nominations for 'Best Comedy Show' at the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. As seen on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, QI and Have I Got News for You.
Sunday 14th October provides a classical afternoon show that brings "Opera in the Afternoon" being performed in St Anne's Church. Local and national singers, including The Opera Studio - Elgar School of Music, treat us to renditions of many of our best loved pieces. If you are a lover of Opera this is a" must see" concert and if you've never heard Opera live, perhaps thinking it is 'highbrow', this is a wonderful opportunity to test your theory to destruction.
In the evening, we welcome one of the best known voices at the BBC – broadcaster Jeremy Vine. Twice voted Speech' Broadcaster of the Year' his daily programme on Radio 2 is now the most listened-to radio current affairs programme in the UK. He has over 25 years' experience in journalism, including being ambushed by rebels in Croatia, and has boundless stories to relate as he tells us "What I Learnt". His new book is at the heart of the evening as Jeremy tells us "what my listeners say and why we should take notice".
Monday 15th October afternoon brings cartoonist Barry Venning to town. Modern art is often considered difficult, but it is much less so when seen through the eyes of cartoonists over the years. The cartoonists could be funny, cruel and at times extremely perceptive. This afternoon will provide an absorbing, illuminating and, above all, funny, revealing and sidelong view of 150 years of modern art all under the banner of "A Child of Six Could Do It".
Our evening brings to Bewdley former Home Secretary Alan Johnson. Alan is definitely one of our most popular and respected MPs and as well as being an award-winning author and broadcaster, is a lifelong fan of Queens Park Rangers. As Members of Parliament go, he also has a surprisingly good taste in and obscure knowledge of music.
Regularly appearing on Question Time and This Week, we will find an evening filled with matters such as electoral reform, trade unionists, fairness at work and Jeremy Corbyn as Alan explains to us "In My Life – A Music Memoir".
Tuesday 16th October brings two Natural History speakers during the daytime. In the morning, the ever popular Brett Westwood brings more of his unique thoughts on our countryside to Festival under "Natural Influences". Brett is the creator and writer of Radio 4's Tweet of the Day in addition to being involved in various wildlife and conservation groups in our beautiful county.
Today Brett reveals which people and animals have had the biggest influences on his life and career. Expect slugs and toadstools, snakes and swans and of course a strong showing from the wildlife of north Worcestershire.
In the afternoon we present Chris Baines who is one of the country's leading independent environmentalists. He is a horticulturalist, landscape architect, naturalist, television presenter and author as well as the chair of the Wyre Forest Landscape Partnership.
In 1985 he inspired a generation of gardeners with his book "How to Make a Wildlife Garden" recently re-issued as an RHS Classic and he fills in the gaps during "Wildlife Gardening".
Our evening presentation features Simon Armitage relating "Journeys". A former probation officer, Simon Armitage is an award-winning poet who also writes extensively for television and radio. For this event, he will read prose from his entertaining best-seller, 'Walking Home', about trying his luck as a modern-day troubadour along the Pennine Way, and journey poems from several collections.
Making a welcome return to Bewdley Festival, but with a very different show from previous visits, Ian McMillan is joined by Ian Beesley on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th October. Using a genuine magic lantern projector, poet and broadcaster McMillan and documentary photographer Beesley tell a story of the First World War from the point of view of men who survived it and lived on to old age and a changing world. Here too are the tales of women who worked in the factories that oiled the wheels of war.
Our evening presenter sees the welcome return of Dr Alice Roberts presenting "Tamed": three species that changed our world . . .
Join Alice Roberts, biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster, as she delves into archaeology, history and genetics to reveal the amazing stories of three species that became our allies.
For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter- gatherers, consummate foraging experts, taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred – our ancestors' interaction with other species changed. They began to tame them. The human population boomed; civilisation began.
Thursday 18th October offers a day for enthusiasts! David Parker spent five years making four programmes for television about the revival of steam locomotives in Britain, some of it shot on the Severn Valley Railway, and including the story of the rebuilding of Flying Scotsman.
In this talk David will use clips from the programmes he made for the BBC to bring to life that remarkable story of ingenuity, perseverance and humour.
Along with rare film of the rebuilding of Flying Scotsman, David will talk about how he made the films and some of the problems, and the joys, he encountered along the way, including what it was like working with the celebrity presenters, Robson Green and Michael Portillo.
"The Archers" are back in Bewdley in the afternoon. In a show that will delight the many fans of the radio institution, Tim Bentink, otherwise known as David Archer, will be speaking and answering questions about "Being David Archer".
The final performance of the day offers jazz enthusiasts the chance to catch-up with amazing performance of The Clare Teal Trio. Four times winner of the British Jazz Singer of the Year accolade, Clare Teal brings her trio to Bewdley, including the hugely talented Jason Rebello on piano.
Clare continues to surge ahead on her mission to bring big band and swing to music lovers everywhere, to demonstrate that this genre is ever evolving and still relevant in today's world.
Friday 19th October In the 100th anniversary year of Women's Suffrage Professor Maggie Andrews, from the University of Worcester, will be enlightening her audience on the details and importance of the Suffragettes in her talk "Hidden Heroines: The Feisty Women who won the vote'.
An accomplished speaker, Maggie specialises in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain and the representation of that history in popular culture.
The evening brings a real Scottish gem to our stage. Eddi Reader is widely considered to be one of Scotland's greatest singers. Growing up in Glasgow and Irvine, it was in those towns that she first learned to use music as a vehicle for communicating with others whilst busking and performing at the local folk clubs.
Throughout the subsequent thirty years, Eddi has consistently released enduring solo albums and played thousands of memorable concerts, travelling the world with her music. Time and again her records and concerts showcase a knack for great songwriting and picking a great song, then making it her own. Eddi's 2018 concerts offer a chance to witness a live performer at the peak of her powers, with an incredible band and a devotion for great music. Expect new songs, old favourites and a night that will live long in the memory.
Saturday 20th October Lesley Smith is Curator of Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, where she regularly performs from her repertoire of famous women from history and is a firm favourite of Festival audiences.
This afternoon Lesley appears on the stage at the Mercure Hotel to portray the life of Mary, Queen of Scots in her own entertaining and informative manner.
And finally, the correct way to finish such an eclectic programme seems, to Festival organisers, to be with laughter.
Therefore, Saturday evening offers the chance to do so with Jo Enright Presents: A Comedy Showcase, hosted by the wonderful Midlands comedienne Jo Enright.
Jo has worked for more than a decade with many of the UK's leading comedy writers – Peter Kay, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to mention but a few. She is a highly acclaimed stand-up comedienne in her own right but in addition Jo will be introducing some of her Friends throughout the evening.
Sunday 21st October: We close Festival with a special Family Church Service involving local schools and recently formed 'Festival Voices' at St Anne's Church.
Another aspect of Festival is its Visual Arts Exhibition.
29th September to 27th October: Bewdley Museum's Wyre Forest Gallery showcases the vibrant work of Rob Hamp: author artist constructor.
The outcry from his ditties are presented in a visual format. The mechanics of this identifier systematically allows rob to purge the narrative complexities of his practice chapter by chapter.
It is the truth to material that outweighs whether any selected object is found, previously used or manufactured, allowing for a concise evaluation of what is real, unreal, true and untrue within the make-up of each of the characters and their multi-dimensional plots. The audience is left to decide the outcome with minimal evidence, "on the face of it".
29th September to 27th October: The Duck House Trail returns to Jubilee Gardens. A repeat of this highly successful and enjoyable Community Arts Project featuring an even bigger and better display of this year's newly designed Duck Houses.
Our Literary Day opens with local writer Heather Flack in St Georges Hall.
In the afternoon we welcome Gill Paul, best selling author of "The Secret Wife", "Another Woman's Husband", "The Lost Daughter" and other multi-million best sellers.
We continue with an evening presentation by Stuart Maconie . Stuart is an author, radio presenter on BBC Radio 6, DJ, critic and journalist writing in the field of pop music and popular culture. His work has been compared to Bill Bryson, Alan Bennett and John Peel and has been described by The Times as a "national treasure".


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CCTAILS: CCT Artificial Intelligence Lecture Series – Spring 23
LSU Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization – Fall 22
LSU Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization – Spring 22
Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization – Fall 21
Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization – Spring 21
AI Ethics/Algorithmic Justice Panel Discussion
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Every first Wednesday of the month, at 3:00 pm CST, Zoom
Some of today's most visible and, indeed, remarkable achievements in artificial intelligence (AI) have come from advances in deep learning (DL). The formula for the success of DL has been compute power – artificial neural networks are a decades-old idea, but it was the use of powerful accelerators, mainly GPUs, that truly enabled DL to blossom into its current form.
As significant as the impacts of DL have been, there is a realization that current approaches are merely scratching the surface of what might be possible and that researchers could more rapidly conduct exploratory research on ever larger and more complex systems – if only more compute power could be effectively applied.
There are three emerging trends that, if properly harnessed, could enable such a boost in compute power applied to AI, thereby paving the way for major advances in AI capabilities.
Optimization algorithms based on higher-order derivatives are well-established numerical methods, offering superior convergence characteristics and inherently exposing more opportunities for scalable parallel performance than first-order methods commonly applied today. Despite their potential advantages, these algorithms have not yet found their way into mainstream AI applications, as they require significantly more powerful computational resources and must manage significantly larger amounts of data.
High-performance computing (HPC) brings more compute power to bear via parallel programming techniques and large-scale hardware clusters and will be required to satisfy the resource requirements of higher-order methods. That DL is not currently taking advantage of HPC resources is not due to lack of imagination or lack of initiative in the community. Rather, matching the needs of DL systems with the capabilities of HPC platforms presents significant challenges that can only be met by coordinated advances across multiple disciplines.
Hardware architecture advances continue apace, with diversification and specialization increasingly being seen as a critical mechanism for increased performance. Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and runtime systems that insulate users from hardware changes, coupled with tools that support performance evaluation and adaptive optimization of AI applications, are increasingly important to achieving high user productivity, code portability, and application performance.
The colloquium collates experts in the fields of algorithmic theory, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) and aims to transform research in the broader field of AI and Optimization. The first aspects of the colloquium are distributed AI frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Horovod, and Phylanx. Here, one challenge is the integration of accelerator devices and support of a wide variety of target architectures, since recent supercomputers are getting more inhomogeneous, having accelerator cards or solely CPUs. The framework should be easy to deploy and maintain and provide good portability and productivity. Here, some abstractions and a unified API to hide the zoo of accelerator devices from the users is important.
The second aspect are higher-order algorithms, e.g. second order methods or Bayesian optimization. These methods might result in a higher accuracy, but are more computationally intense. We will look into the theoretical and computational aspects of these methods.
This will be the second term for our Colloquium. For details from the inaugural Colloquium series, including speaker information and links to presentations, click here.
Confirmed Speakers
09/08/21 J. Nathan Kutz University of Washington in Seattle
TBD – rescheduled George Em Karniadakis Brown University
*11/03/21 @ 2 pm CST Daniel Soudry Simons Institute
12/01/21 Alex Hanna Google Ethics
Registration for the colloquium is free. Please complete your registration here: registration form
Local organizers
Patrick Diehl
Katie Bailey
Mayank Tyagi
For questions or comments regarding the colloquium, please contact Katie Bailey.
Speaker: Dr. J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington in Seattle
Date: Wed 9/8 @ 3:00 pm CDT
Title: Deep learning for the discovery of parsimonious physics models
Abstract: A major challenge in the study of dynamical systems is that of model discovery: turning data into reduced order models that are not just predictive, but provide insight into the nature of the underlying dynamical system that generated the data. We introduce a number of data-driven strategies for discovering nonlinear multiscale dynamical systems and their embeddings from data. We consider two canonical cases: (i) systems for which we have full measurements of the governing variables, and (ii) systems for which we have incomplete measurements. For systems with full state measurements, we show that the recent sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems (SINDy) method can discover governing equations with relatively little data and introduce a sampling method that allows SINDy to scale efficiently to problems with multiple time scales, noise and parametric dependencies. For systems with incomplete observations, we show that the Hankel alternative view of Koopman (HAVOK) method, based on time-delay embedding coordinates and the dynamic mode decomposition, can be used to obtain a linear models and Koopman invariant measurement systems that nearly perfectly captures the dynamics of nonlinear quasiperiodic systems. Neural networks are used in targeted ways to aid in the model reduction process. Together, these approaches provide a suite of mathematical strategies for reducing the data required to discover and model nonlinear multiscale systems.
Bio: Nathan Kutz is the Yasuko Endo and Robert Bolles Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington, having served as chair of the department from 2007-2015. He received the BS degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Washington in 1990 and the Phd in applied mathematics from Northwestern University in 1994. He was a postdoc in the applied and computational mathematics program at Princeton University before taking his faculty position. He has a wide range of interests, including neuroscience to fluid dynamics where he integrates machine learning with dynamical systems and control.
Web: Kutz Home | Kutz Research Group (washington.edu)
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Soudry, Simons Institute
Date: Wed 11/3 @ 2:00 pm CDT
Title: Algorithmic Bias Control in Deep learning
Abstract: Deep learning relies on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with deep architectures – machine learning models that have reached unparalleled performance in many domains, such as machine translation, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, text generation, and speech understanding. However, this impressive performance typically requires large datasets and massive ANN models. Gathering the data and training the models – all can take long times and have prohibitive costs. Significant research efforts are being invested in improving ANN training efficiency, i.e. the amount of time, data, and resources required to train these models. For example, changing the model (e.g., architecture, numerical precision) or the training algorithm (e.g., parallelization). However, such modifications often cause an unexplained degradation in the generalization performance of the ANN to unseen data. Recent findings suggest that this degradation is caused by changes to the hidden algorithmic bias of the training algorithm and model. This bias determines which solution is selected from all solutions which fit the data. I will discuss how understanding and controlling such algorithmic bias can be the key to unlocking the full potential of deep learning.
Bio: Daniel is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, working in the areas of machine learning and theoretical neuroscience. He did his post-doc (as a Gruss Lipper fellow) working with Prof. Liam Paninski in the Department of Statistics and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He is interested in all aspects of neural networks and deep learning. His recent works focus on quantization, resource efficiency, and implicit bias in neural networks. He is the recipient of the Gruss Lipper fellowship, the Goldberg Award, and Intel's Rising Star Faculty Award.
Speaker: Dr. Alex Hanna, Google Ethics
Title: Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure, and Genealogies of Data
Abstract: Problems of algorithmic bias are often framed in terms of lack of representative data or formal fairness optimization constraints to be applied to automated decision-making systems. However, these discussions sidestep deeper issues with data used in AI, including problematic categorizations and the extractive logics of crowdwork and data mining. In this talk, I make two interventions: first by reframing of data as a form of infrastructure, and as such, implicating politics and power in the construction of datasets; and secondly discussing the development of a research program around the genealogy of datasets used in machine learning and AI systems. These genealogies should be attentive to the constellation of organizations and stakeholders involved in their creation, the intent, values, and assumptions of their authors and curators, and the adoption of datasets by subsequent researchers.
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The Retro Bin: Fonzie and Friends (1980, 1981)
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Over the years, I've learned a few things about the laws of the universe. Among them:
The tide is inevitable.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
TV stars are much more fun when they're turned into cartoons
A good example of the latter would be when ABC was riding high on the success of Gary Marshall's Happy Days and decided to air a Saturday morning cartoon based on the franchise titled Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.
Can you dig it? I knew that you could.
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang was produced by Hanna Barbera studios and debuted on ABC and ran from 1980 to 1982. Actors Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham) and Don Most (Ralph Malph) reprise their roles from Happy Days. The shows' premise has Fonzie, Richie and Ralph, along with an original character, Fonzie cut-up dog named Mr. Cool (voiced by the legendary Frank Welker) having wacky adventures while traveling through various eras in a time machine owned by a girl from the distant future named Cupcake (voiced by Didi Conn, perhaps best known as Frenchy from Grease) trying each week to return to the gang's own time, 1957, Milwaukee. All of this is explained in the shows' intro, which was narrated by Wolfman Jack.
The episodes followed a predictable formula: The gang would travel to a different era and have a run in with the local weirdos (including King Arthur and Merlin in Camelot in one episode. Camelot is a work of fiction and not part of history, but whatever…), Richie and Ralph would panic. Mr. Cool would engage in some comically stupid shtick. Cupcake would use her 25th century magic, which more often hindered than helped the situation (more on this later), and Fonz would use his powers of cool to save the day and romance whatever young woman would be on the scene at the time. In fact, Fonzie's coolness was downright super natural in this series. He could fix anything just by hitting or kicking it, everything that is, except for the time machine, which would routinely send the gang to the wrong destination in every episode. Just like the Professor on Gilligan's Island, Fonzie could seemingly do anything, except take himself and his friends home.
Now time to indulge in a bit of Talkin' Nerdy: It was hard to know exactly what to make of the character of Cupcake. All we knew about her was that she apparently owned the time machine (how she came into possession of the device is anyone's guess) and that she was from the distant future. Yet she had these magical powers. Was Cupcake a witch? Was she an alien? Do all humans evolve to have magical powers in the future, or was Cupcake in some way unique? Not a single one of these points was ever addressed on the show. Perhaps Cupcake's magic was the result of scientists genetically modifying tomatoes too much. Who knows?
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang apparently did pretty well in it's initial season, since it was renewed for a 2nd season. During this time, ABC and Hanna-Barbera produced another animated series based on one of Happy Days' spinoff series, Laverne and Shirley. The series was titled Laverne & Shirley In the Army (although the "In the Army" part never appeared on the shows' title cards) and it debuted on ABC in 1981.
Be all that you can be, and many viewers chose to be somewhere else when this cartoon was on!
Here's the shows' intro
The series was loosely based on one episode of the live action L&S titled 'You're In the Army Now", in which L&S join the army and are ordered around by a tough drill sergeant named Lavinia T. Plout (played by Vicky Lawrence). H-B execs must've said "We love it! But let's replace Vicky Lawrence with a pig!"
Yes, that's right. The shows' premise had L&S having wacky adventures in the army while constantly being at odds with their commanding officer, a talking pig named Squealy (voiced by Ron Palillo, who'll be forever known as Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter), who was constantly threatening to report L&S to his commanding officer Sgt. Turnbuckle, who was mentioned more often than seen. Penny Marshall (Laverne) and Cindy Williams (Shirley) reprise their roles for the cartoon.
"Where's our cartoon? We was on dat sitcom since day one! An' then we get passed over for a talkin' pig?!? What the what,man?!"
One of the most frequently asked questions regarding Laverne & Shirley in The Army (it was posed at least thrice on YouTube) was "Why was L&S' commanding officer a pig?" I'm guessing that this was still during that time when network executives thought that the presence of an animal character instantly made a cartoon seem more appealing to kids. Apparently, Hanna-Barbera really liked the idea of a cartoon about wacky WACs because over on CBS, The All New Popeye Hour was renamed to The Popeye and Olive Show (which ran for only a half hour) and featured a regular segment titled "Private Olive Oyl" which had Olive and Alice the Goon serving in the army for who knows what reason and driving their commanding officer, one Sgt. Bertha Blast (voiced by Laugh-In's Jo Ann Worely) bonkers on a daily basis. Both ideas were inspired by the 1980 movie Private Benjamin starring Goldie Hawn.
Private Olive Oyl. Yes, this was a thing that actually happened. Someone thought of this. Someone greenlit it, and someone put it on the air.
Anyway, Fonz and the Happy Days Gang ran for 2 seasons. L&S' 1st season was Fonz's 2nd season. The following year, an additional 8 episodes of L&S in the Army aired as part of another series which sported one of the longest titles for a Saturday morning cartoon ever: The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour. In these episodes, L&S were joined by Fonzie and Mr. Cool, who were now working in the auto maintenance department of L&S base. There was no final episode of Fonz and the Happy Days Gang where the gang was returned to their own time, but we can assume by this series that Fonzie and Mr. Cool eventually made it home, although the whereabouts of Richie, Ralph and Cupcake were unknown. Either they, like Fonzie, successfully made it back to 1957 Milwaukee or the 3 of them shacked up together in a harem in ancient Baghdad. The mind boggles. Meanwhile, on the live action sitcom Happy Days, Ron Howard and Don Most had left the show. Ron Howard would go on to become a famous movie director, while Don Most would go on to voice Eric the Cavalier on CBS' Dungeon & Dragons. Ironically, the in universe explanation of why Richie and Ralph were no longer on Happy Days was the 2 of them had joined the army (although both actors returned for Happy Days' series finale). Having Squealy and Mr. Cool together in the same cartoon must've blown the needle off of the Annoying Meter, and having a talking animal appearing with a non talking animal pet was just…bizarre. As previously stated, there were only 8 episodes of Laverne & Shirley with Fonzie (the other 5 weeks were reruns of L&S' 1st season), so I tend to think of this season as Season 1.5 rather than season 2. This series was a co-production between H-B and Ruby Spears (the Mork & Mindy cartoons were produced by Ruby-Spears).
All of these shows were gone from ABC's Saturday morning schedule the following season. Both series resurfaced (in reruns) on the Pat Roberston owned Family Channel (formerly the Christian Broadcasting Network – CBN) and ran on weekday afternoons under the umbrella title "Fonzie and Friends", with Fonz and the Happy Days Gang running on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Laverne and Shirley in the Army running Tuesdays and Thursdays (FAM didn't air any of the L&S episodes with Fonzie for whatever reason. Perhaps it was felt that Fonzie's green army pants clashed with his treademark leather jacket. Who knows?). Fonz and the Happy Days Gang turned up one more time in 1999 as part of TV Land's short lived Saturday morning program block "Super Retro Vision Saturdays".
The trend of doing SatAM cartoons based on live action prime time sitcoms seems to have petered out, although one can only imagine what things would be like if networks were still making cartoons based on their popular prime time shows.
Sheldon: A Saturday morning cartoon about us? I suppose that I'd be open to that idea, provided that we wouldn't be saddled with some annoying, unrealistic non-human comic relief mascot.
Leonard: We've already got one of those, Sheldon.
Sheldon: You're referring to Wolowitz, correct?
Leonard: No comment.
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"TV stars are much more fun when they're turned into cartoons"
That indeed seemed to be a popular trope on SatAM from the mid-to-late 60's through the 80's. I once read that an animated version of the Marx Brothers was even planned at one stage.
I remember when my father caught an episode of 'Fonz and the Happy Days Gang' back when the series was on its' initial run on ABC; he was surprised that only 3 of the 'Happy Days' cast members were depicted on the show. He thought they'd use the entire cast. Nah, if the cartoon had just been the live-action show in animated form, then that would've been boring, not to mention redundant, since the sitcom was still going at the time. When you put TV stars into cartoon shows, you have to give 'em some snazzy gimmick that you couldn't see in live-action, like having them travel through time or space, or making them teacher in a school for monsters or putting them in a band. There was even going to be a planned cartoon starring the teenage sons of the 3 Stooges in a bubblegum rock band in the late 60's.
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Fun fact: One of the inspirations for Seth MacFarlane in the production of Family Guy was Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. Many premises in the series were based off of Saturday morning cartoons he watched when he was a kid, such as Fonz and…Rubik, the Amazing Cube…you guys grew up on some weird shows.
But man, imagine cartoons based off of sitcoms today. The Modern Family kids discovering a magical pixie that take them all around the world. Or the It's Always Sunny gang learning the meaning of love and friendship with an idiotic rabbit getting into goofy shenanigans along the way. The possibilities are endless!
"There was even going to be a planned cartoon starring the teenage sons of the 3 Stooges in a bubblegum rock band in the late 60's."
It's true. A picture for the proposed "The Little Stooges" animated series can be found in the book "The 3 Stooges Scrapbook".
I was somewhat surprised that for "The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" we got Fonzie, Richie and Ralph, but no Potsie, especially since Anson Williams was on "Happy Days" before Don Most (Ralph) joined the main cast. One reason could have been financial. Maybe getting Henry Winkler, Ron Howard and Don Most to reprise their roles wasn't cheap and so H-B just didn't want to pay any more TV actors. Just a guess.
Someone at Hanna Barbera must've really liked the idea of a tough drill sergeant character named "Sgt. Blast", since years previously there was a Sgt. Blast who was commander of the race car the Army Surplus Special (car #6) on HB's 'Wacky Races'. Perhaps Bertha Blast was the WR's Sgt. Blast's sister? Cousin? Wife? Who can say?
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Browne, Susan (2013) The experiences of colorectal cancer patients: a longitudinal perspective. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK for both men and women. Survival rates are improving and more than half of those diagnosed will survive for more than five years. The configuration of care for colorectal cancer patients is likely to shift in line with survivorship strategies which favour self care, a personalised approach, a holistic perspective, and a reduction in specialist care.
The overall aim of the study is to explore the physical, social and psychological impact of colorectal cancer at diagnosis and one year post diagnosis, with a particular focus on the impact of health care professionals on patients' experience.
In-depth interviews with 24 participants with a new diagnosis of colorectal cancer, and then follow-up interviews with 19 of the 24 twelve months later.
This physical illness can largely be understood as an experience of uncertainty. Uncertainty as a reaction to colorectal cancer is associated with lower quality of life and the findings here demonstrate that uncertainty proves profoundly unsettling (in spite of efforts to interpret the experience positively). Current health care provision does not reflect this yet there is clear scope for mitigating the experience of uncertainty.
Primary care is well placed to play a central role in the care of colorectal cancer patients and has the capacity to mitigate aspects of uncertainty that characterise the experience.


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HomePersecution NewsGlobal PersecutionReligious Freedom 'severely deteriorated' in Afghanistan since Taliban take over, USCIRF press...
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Religious Freedom 'severely deteriorated' in Afghanistan since Taliban take over, USCIRF press release says
The United Stated Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its recent press release has expressed grave concerns about severe deterioration of religious freedom deterioration in Afghanistan. This report, published on Tuesday, August 23 says that the situation of religious freedom worsened since the Taliban took over.
The USCIRF release highlighted a "severe decline" in religious freedom since the Taliban takeover, which poses a greater risk to the religious minorities even to the extent of "extinction." Ever since the Taliban took over reign of the country, they have enforced a strict Sharia law which has adversely affected Afghans who do not adhere to that interpretation. "The Taliban's imposition of their narrow interpretation of Sunni Islam poses a grave threat to the religious freedom and all Afghans who do not subscribe to that interpretation. The Taliban's harsh enforcement of its religious interpretation violates the religious freedom of minorities, women, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) community, Afghans with differing interpretations of Islam, and Afghans who follow no religion," USCIRF maintained.
The USCIRF further stated the Taliban administration has failed miserably to safeguard the religious minorities in the country. "Despite continued promises to protect all ethnic and religious communities residing in Afghanistan, the Taliban de facto government has been unable to provide safety and security to religious minorities against attacks from Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K). While some religious minority communities face the threat of extinction, others struggle to practice their faith in hiding due to fear of reprisal," USCIRF release said.
Previously, the USCIRF in its Annual Report 2022, has recommended Afghanistan to be designated a country of particular interest. USCIRF recommended the U.S. Department of State to designate Afghanistan CPC, for particularly "engaging in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, as defined by IRFA." USCIRF has also previously highlighted the Hazara Community in Afghanistan which is endangered, and the Christians who are facing 'extreme danger in Afghanistan.'
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A Book Addict's Musings by Readinghearts: A book that will make you both laugh and cry, but ultimately leave you smiling.
A book that will make you both laugh and cry, but ultimately leave you smiling.
Spare Change is the first book I have read by Bette Lee Crosby, but I can definitely say it won't be the last. Her book is filled with wonderful characters from the main characters of Olivia Westerly-Doyle and Ethan Allen Doyle, all the way down to the seemingly most insignificant ones. As I journyed along the stories of Olivia and Ethan Allen, I realized that none of the characters in the book are insignificant. Everyone has a role to play in the story, just as everyone has a role to play in life and the absence of any one of them would change the outcome. In addition to the way that Bette was able to weave the lives of all of the characters into a compelling story, I also loved the fact that each character was given a distinct personality allowing me to enjoy their quirks and foibles while still feeling compassion for them. But more than just a cast of characters, what Bette has crafted in this book is a compelling story about the myriad of ways that our lives intersect and how that affects not only who we are, but who we think we are. She does this while allowing us to laugh, cry, and cheer along the way, and leaving us with a feeling of contentment and joy at the end. And be sure to pay attention to the passage that explains the concept of "spare change" that eloquently sums up the underlying theme of the story to a tee. It is priceless, and I only wish that I had copied it down before I sent the book on so that I could quote it. In the end, I was left feeling that the unpredictability of life is not a curse, but rather a gift that should be embraced to the fullest.
Kudos to Bette! I highly recommend this book and am already anticipating the next two Bette Lee Crosby books that I have on my list.
I liked that book very much, too, Lyn!


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Aristotle. Politics, The Basic Works of Aristotle[M].translated by Benjamin Jowett, ed. and introduced by Richard McKeon. New York: Random House, Inc., 1941:1263 at 25—29.
[③] 比如圣经就要求基督教服从世俗政府等。See Roscoe Pound, the Spirit of the Common Law, William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1995, P38.


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The repository, developed and administered by the JRC's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection in Ispra, Italy, is starting out with 25 types of reference nanomaterials - such as carbon nanotubes, silver nanoparticles, titanium dioxide, cerium oxide, and bentonite - that are widely used in industrial applications, according to Christoph Klein, a scientific officer at the institute focusing on nanomaterials. The original collection were supplied as bulk loads directly from industry, such as makers of cosmetics or paints, and the intention is that more will be added in time.
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Henicocoris monteithi ist die einzige Art der Gattung Henicocoris, die wiederum die einzige der Wanzen-Familie Henicocoridae ist. Sie zählte bis vor der Revision der Pentatomomorpha mit Schwerpunkt der Lygaeoidea durch Henry im Jahr 1997 als Unterfamilie zu den Bodenwanzen (Lygaeidae) und wurde danach in den Familienrang gestellt.

Merkmale
Die Wanzen haben einen langgestreckt-eiförmigen Körperbau. Ihr Kopf ist nach vorne gerichtet und die die Schnabelrinne seitlich begrenzenden Wangenplatten (Bucculae) sind kurz. Punktaugen (Ocelli) sind ausgebildet. Die Fühler und auch das Labium sind viergliedrig. Das trapezförmige Pronotum ist breiter als lang. Die Duftdrüsen am Metathorax sind zurückgebildet, Verdunstungsbereiche und Peritremata (ringförmige Sklerite, die die Atemöffnungen umgeben) sind ausgebildet. Die Schenkel (Femora) der Vorderbeine sind nicht verdickt und die Tarsen an allen drei Beinpaaren sind dreigliedrig. Die Hemielytren haben zurückentwickelte Membranen und sind ähnlich wie Deckflügel bei den Käfern ausgebildet, Hinterflügel fehlen. Die Setae haben eine stark erhöhte, gekörnte Basis. Am Hinterleib sind die Nähte der Sterna vollständig ausgebildet und reichen bis zum Seitenrand des Hinterleibs. Alle Stigmen am Hinterleib liegen ventral. Die Tiere haben eine bei den Wanzen einzigartige Anordnung der Trichobothria am Hinterleib: Am dritten und vierten Sternum befindet sich submedial jeweils ein und seitlich keine Trichobothria, am fünften Sternum sind keine Trichobothria ausgebildet, am sechsten und siebten befinden sich seitlich zwei Trichobothria caudal der Stigmen. Die Seitenränder des Hinterleibs (Connexiva) sind gleichmäßig abgerundet und haben am zweiten bis vierten Hinterleibssegment segmentierte innere Laterotergite. Bei den Weibchen ist das siebte Sternum gespalten und der Ovipositor ist befranst. Bei den Männchen fehlt die Spermatheca. Die Nymphen haben ihre Duftdrüsenöffnungen am Hinterleib zwischen dem vierten und fünften sowie fünften und sechsten Tergum.

Verbreitung
Henicocoris monteithi kommt im südlichen Victoria, in den gemäßigt temperierten Wäldern der Otway Ranges und den südlichen Küstengebieten von New South Wales in Australien vor.

Lebensweise
Über die Lebensweise von Henicocoris monteithi ist nur wenig bekannt. Bisher wurden die Tiere nachts gefangen, als sie auf am Boden liegendem Totholz und direkt am Boden in gemäßigt temperierten Wäldern liefen.

Taxonomie und Systematik
Thomas E. Woodward beschrieb die Art 1968 und stellte sie in die von ihm ebenso neu beschriebene Unterfamilie Henicocorinae zu den Bodenwanzen (Lygaeidae). Im Wesentlichen auf Grund von Ähnlichkeiten der Trichobothria am Hinterleib und der fehlenden Spermatheca vermutete er eine nahe Verwandtschaft zu den Idiostolidae und Oxycarenidae, wobei letztere Familie damals ebenfalls als Unterfamilie der Bodenwanzen galt. Die heute aktuelle Klassifikation der Art entstand 1997 nach einer Revision der Pentatomomorpha mit Schwerpunkt der Lygaeoidea durch Thomas J. Henry. Er reklassifizierte die Unterfamilie Henicocorinae und stellte sie in den Familienrang. Er betrachtet die Idiostolidae als Schwestergruppe und stellte diese beiden Familien in die von ihm neu aufgestellte Überfamilie Idiostoloidea.

Belege

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 R. T. Schuh, J. A. Slater: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1995.

Weblinks

discoverlife.org Foto eines Präparats von Henicocoris monteithi
Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory Verbreitungskarte von Henicocoris monteithi

Pentatomomorpha (Wanzen)
Pentatomomorpha

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Difference Between Terrace and Balcony
Terraces may also be completed isolated and detached from buildings.
Fashion Quiz
Test your knowledge about topics related to fashion
Which of the following is not a type of shoes?
Which luxury brand is known for its interlocking "GG" logo?
Which brand is known for its classic, preppy style?
What is the name of the French luxury fashion house founded in 1854?
What type of fabric is commonly used to make suits?
What does the term 'CSM' refer to in fashion industry?
Certified St. Martins
Circle St. Martins
Central St. Martins
Central Score Mark
What type of shoe is characterized by its low-cut and slip-on design?
Who is known as the "Queen of Pop" in the fashion industry?
Khakis, jeans and capris are all kinds of what?
Pants Or Trousers
Which famous celebrity has a fashion range called Twelve8Twelve?
Terrace vs Balcony
What is a Terrace?
What is a Balcony?
Main Differences Between Terrace and Balcony
Balcony refers to a platform protruding from the walls of a building. Balconies are always connected to rooms –or corridors- within the residence and have parapets enclosing them.
The difference between a terrace and a balcony is their location. The former is usually located on the top of a building, frequently used as an area for leisurely activities.
The access to a balcony is limited and guarded by a single gateway, as it is located within the residence. Due to its location, a balcony is much more enclosed than a terrace.
A terrace is comparatively more exposed and also encompasses multiple entry points.
Location A terrace is commonly located on a rooftop or a raised platform. A balcony is always located as an extension of a room or corridor. It is an architectural structure protruding out of a building.
Size Terraces are large open spaces. The size of a balcony is much smaller than that of a terrace.
Special Organization Terraces are large spaces. They are famed for their spacious character. Balconies are enclosed by the walls of the building, the parapet or with rails. They are partially open but are much more restricted than terraces.
Accessibility As large open spaces, they can have multiple access points. As enclosed spaces, they can only be accessed through the indoor rooms and corridors.
Architectural Orientation They can be constructed as standalone structures. They cannot be constructed as standalone structures.
Originating from the Latin linguistic family, the word terrace connotes 'earth'. Terraces have been an indispensable and conspicuous part of architecture since pre-historic times.
They were a prominent part of Greek architectural designs. Terraces are large, open, spacious areas commonly located on the rooftops of buildings.
However, they can also be constructed on raised platforms outdoors. The distinguishing feature of a terrace is its spacious location.
Usually, there are multiple access points to enter a terrace. This is because it is a relatively open space.
Throughout history, their usage has varied. During the medieval age, they were used as primary gardening spaces by the Egyptians.
In 1500s Venice, they were used as spaces for laundry. Rooftop terraces gained immense popularity in New York during the 1890s.
The rooftop summer party trend gripped New York's social elites. Today, they are commonly used for recreational purposes like sitting, strolling or even gardening.
A significant amount of literature has been produced about the use and importance of balconies. They have a rather interesting and eventful history of evolution.
Greek architecture has beautiful balconies interspersed throughout its landscape. In certain languages, the term balcony means a large window.
The consistency in all the varied definitions of a balcony is that it is an enclosed space that protrudes out of a building. It is usually connected to corridors or rooms inside the residence.
Much like terraces, their usages have changed over the years. The role of balconies in the advent of surveillance mechanisms has also been widely studied.
They were used by rulers in ancient Rome to address gatherings. They were initially developed as natural ventilators to effectively filter in sunlight and fresh air.
Over the years this function has remained constant, but other social uses have been added to balconies. They are frequently used as spaces for spending leisurely time.
The aesthetic importance of balconies has been augmenting over the years. The only permissible access pathways to balconies are through the rooms and corridors of the indoor space.
The first important difference between the two is in terms of their location. Terraces are usually located on rooftops or raised platforms. They may also be located on the space adjoining buildings. Balconies, on the other hand, are located as adjunct architectural features of buildings. They are architectural forms protruding out from buildings and are usually enclosed with walls.
Accessibility of terraces and balconies is also quite different. Terraces are more easily accessible than balconies, as they are open spaces. They can have multiple access points. Balconies are solely accessible through the indoor rooms and corridors.
The next difference between the two is in terms of spatial organization. Terraces are inevitably open spaces. Balconies on the other hand are enclosed spaces. They are enclosed with walls or railings and can never be completely open spaces.
The difference in the size of the two structures also posits a valid point of difference. A terrace is usually a much larger space compared to a balcony. Due to the location of a balcony, its size is invariably smaller than a terrace.
Terraces can be standalone structures. They can be constructed on rooftops or as extensions of the building. But they can also be constructed as detached structures on raised platforms. Balconies can only be constructed as an extension of indoor spaces. They cannot be constructed as standalone structures.
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Q: Why is a leading digit not counted as a significant figure if it is a 1? Reading the book Schaum's Outline of Engineering Mechanics: Statics I came across something that makes no sense to me considering the subject of significant figures:

I have searched and saw that practically the same thing is said in another book (Fluid Mechanics DeMYSTiFied):

So, my question is: Why if the leading digit in an answer is 1, it does not count as a significant figure?

A: Significant figures are a shorthand to express how precisely you know a number. For example, if a number has two significant figures, then you know its value to roughly $1\%$.
I say roughly, because it depends on the number. For example, if you report
$$L = 89 \, \text{cm}$$
then this implies roughly that you know it's between $88.5$ and $89.5$ cm. That is, you know its value to one part in $89$, which is roughly to $1\%$.
However, this gets less accurate the smaller the leading digit is. For example, for
$$L = 34 \, \text{cm}$$
you only know it to one part in $34$, which is about $3\%$. And in the extreme case
$$L = 11 \, \text{cm}$$
you only know it to one part in $11$, which is about $10\%$! So if the leading digit is a $1$, the relative uncertainty of your quantity is actually a lot higher than naively counting the significant figures would suggest. In fact, it's about the same as you would expect if you had one fewer significant figure. For that reason, $11$ has "one" significant figure.
Yes, this rule is arbitrary, and it doesn't fully solve the problem. (Now instead of having a sharp cutoff between $L = 9$ cm and $L = 10$ cm, you have a sharp cutoff between $L = 19$ cm and $L = 20$ cm.) But significant figures are a bookkeeping tool, not something that really "exists". They're defined just so that they're useful for quick estimates. In physics, at least, when we start quibbling over this level of detail, we just abandon significant figures entirely and do proper error analysis from the start.

A: It's Experiment Time!
(I was starting to see both points of view on whether to drop the 1, and was curious if there was some objective way of tackling the problem... so I figured it might be a good opportunity for an experiment.  For Science!)
Assumptions: Significant Digits are a way of signifying precision on a number - either from uncertainty of measurement or as the result of calculations on a measurement.  If you multiply two measurements together, the result has the same number of significant digits as the lower of the two starting values (so 3.8714 x 2.14 has three digits total, not seven like you'd get from plugging it into a calculator.)
That 'calculation' part is what I'd like to take advantage of.  Because arguing significant digits on a number in a vacuum is just semantics.  Seeing how the precision carries forward with actual operations gives an actual testable prediction.  (In other words, this should remove any sort of 'cutoff' issue.  If two numbers have X significant digits, then the multiplication of them should have an accuracy of roughly X significant digits - and the validity of the how you determine what's a significant digit should translate accordingly.)
Experimental Layout
Generate two high precision, Benford-compliant coefficients (I'm not actually sure Benford matters in this experiment, but I figured I shouldn't omit any possible complicating factors - and if we're talking physics, our measurements should be fit Benford's Law.)  Perform an operation like Multiplication on them.  Then, round those same coefficients down to 4 digits after the decimal, and perform the same multiplication on those rounded values.  Finally, check how many digits the two resulting values have in common.
Aka, check how well the imprecise 'measurement' version compares the actual, hidden, high-precision calculation.
Now, in an ideal world, the value would be 5 matching (significant) digits.  However, since we're just blinding checking whether digits match, we're going to have some that match by sheer luck.
Experimental Results For Multiplication
Digits Matching Where Result Doesn't Start With One
    ... and no input value starts with One:
            5th digit matches 89.7%
            6th matches 21.4%
    ... and one input value starts with One:
            5th digit matches 53.7%
            6th matches 5.57%
    ... and two input values start with One:
            5th digit matches 85.2%
            6th matches 11.1%
Digits Matching Where Result Starts With One:
    ... and no input value starts with One:
            5th digit matches 99.9+%
            6th matches 37.8%
    ... and one input value starts with One:
            5th digit matches 99.9+%
            6th matches 25.5%
    ... and two input values start with One:
            5th digit matches 95.0%
            6th matches 13.9%

Conclusions For Multiplication
First, multiplying two numbers and ending with a number that starts with 1, you should probably count the 1 as a significant digit.  In other words, if you multiply '4.245' x '3.743', and come up with '15.889035', you should probably leave it at '15.89'.  If you add an additional digit and call it '15.889', you have a 38% chance of that final digit being correct... which probably isn't high enough to be defensible to include.
But multiplying where one of the inputs starts with 1, and it gets strange.  Multiplying '1.2513' x '5.8353', and realistically, you don't have five significant digits in your result.  According to the experiment, you've got four digits... and a 54% chance of being right with that fifth value.  Well, if a 38% chance in the prior situation (multiplying two numbers and ending with a value starting with '1') of getting an 'extra' significant digit isn't acceptable, then it's probably fair to say the 54% chance in this situation is also probably too low to justify including the 5th digit.
So you might be tempted to say "Don't treat a leading 1 as significant as an input to a calculation"... except that  multiplying 1.##### x 1.#### (two numbers that start with 1) gives you 85.2% accuracy on that fifth digit - which is pretty much the same level of accuracy where none of the three numbers begin with a 1.  So if 8.83 x 8.85 should have three significant digits, so should 1.83 x 1.85.
Final Conclusion: It's actually a deceptively difficult problem to figure out a good heuristic.  Especially since there's a pretty big difference between a measurement of 1.045 that's fed into the input of a calculation, and the 1.045 that comes out as a result of a calculation.  Which explains why there are multiple methods of handling leading 1's.  (If I were forced to choose a Heuristic, it would be: don't count the leading '1' on any measurements performed, but count it for the output of any calculations.)

A: Keeping track of "significant digits" is a heuristic for indicating approximately the precision of a number. It's not a substitute for a real uncertainty analysis, but it's good enough for many people and many purposes. When some people run up against the limitations of significant figures, they have enough background (or colleagues with enough background) to switch to a more serious error analysis. When other people run up against those same limitations, they try to "fix" the significant-digits approach by creating new ad-hoc rules like this one.
Let's suppose that you and I are independently analyzing the same data set.  Each of us has measured the same quantity to two significant figures: your result is 0.48, and my result is 0.52.  Since a healthy significant-figure analysis retains one least-significant digit whose value is only mostly trustworthy, it's not clear whether our measurements agree or not; that level of disagreement is interesting and we might end up discussing how to turn that into a three-significant-figure experiment, in case we've both correctly measured a "true" value closer to 0.498.
Now imagine a different universe where we both do the same experiment, but a different definition somewhere means that our "results" are different numerically by a exact numerical factor of twenty. Your measurement in this universe is 9.6, and mine is 10.4.  There's still an interesting tension between those numbers.  But if I count the leading 1 as one of my two significant digit s, I should report my result as "10", suggesting it is equally likely to be "9" or "11."  If you report 9.6 and I report 10, the tension between our results is much less obvious.  Also it appears that my result is ten times less precise than yours. I shouldn't be able to change the precision of a number by doubling or halving it.
That's the logic for keeping track of a "guard digit" if a number happens to fall in the bottom part of a logarithmic decade.  (The Particle Data Group keeps a "guard digit" if the first two significant digits are between 10 and 35.)  But to explain this by saying that "a leading 1 isn't a significant digit," as your source does: that's terribly confusing. I'd find a book written by someone else and read the author you quote here with some caution.
@supercat reminds me in a comment that there is a compact convention for representing real uncertainties that's become popular in the literature in the past couple decades: one writes theuncertainty in the last few digits in parentheses just after the number.  For example, one might write $12.34(56)$ as a shorthand for $12.34\pm 0.56$.  This approach is nice in the precision measurements business, where there are many significant figures. For example, the current Particle Data Group reference reports the electron mass (in energy units) as $0.510\ 998\ 950\ 00(15)\,\mathrm{ MeV}/c^2$, which is much easier to write and to parse than $0.510\ 998\ 950\ 00\,\mathrm{ MeV}/c^2 \pm 0.000\ 000\ 000\ 15 \,\mathrm{ MeV}/c^2$.
I haven't seen that approach much in material for introductory students, and I can think of a couple reasons why. The "significant figure rules" are, for most people, the first time they learn that arithmetic is something you can do with numbers that are not exact. Many students are intellectually unprepared for that idea: they're ready to write 0.5 instead of 1/2, but they're vague on whether to decimalize 1/7 as 0.1 or as 0.1428571429, because the latter is how it comes out of the calculator.  Furthermore, to use the parenthesis notation, you have to have some understanding of significant figures already. To combine my examples above, most people who aren't in the precision measurements business (where understanding the uncertainty may be more challenging than understanding the central value) would write 12.3(6) rather than keeping the guard digits in 12.34(56).  But if you were multiply that value by twenty, it would become 246.8(11.2). Whether to record it thus, or as 247(11), or as $250\pm10$, winds up raising the same issues about guard digits that started this question. While the ambiguity is moved from the central value to the uncertainty, so the stakes for misjudging are lower, explaining this to a person who is new to the idea of careful imprecision is a tall order.

A: This isn't an actual rule. And as some people point out in the comments, it's not even mentioned in the Wikipedia article on significant digits. The rule applies to $0$, not to $1$.
Simple counter-example: $10$. Would the authors claim that this number has no significant digits?
You can verify this by doing a search for "sig fig counter." All of them should tell you that the number in your question has 4 significant figures.
As others note, this boundary condition is clearly arbitrary. But it needs to be consistent across literature, or else confusion abounds when you're working with others. So I'd say ignore the rule.

A: Truncating numbers to a certain precision is completely arbitrary. There's no reason not to make it more arbitrary.
It seems like someone didn't like the step in precision between 9.99 and 10.0 so they moved it to between 19.99 and 20.0.
In any field where results are clustered around a power of 10, doing this may be beneficial.

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