Taras Shklyar was born in 1969 in the Ukraine and spent 15 years near Moscow in a scientific system as a programmer. He went to Canada in April 2004, to work.
Since age seven or eight he'd had problems with his vision, but in 1999 his eyesight really started deteriorating. He also suffered from fatigue and loss of coordination from 2003. He had been treated in Russia, but without improvement.
Puzzled by what was happening to him, he sought help on moving to Canada. He could not work because of poor vision and was told it had to with spots on the retina.
In September 2004, a doctor's report read: "This is unknown, but most likely a Central Nervous Disease/Illness". The report added that Taras was not depressed, but actually in good spirits and looking forward to finding out what was wrong with him. The doctor queried Multiple Sclerosis, but mentioned that it was not his field. An ophthalmologist's report said he had optic atrophy.
In March 2005, Taras was referred to a neurologist. His balance was worse; he was getting occasional right hand numbness, clumsiness as well as leg fatigue. An MRI from November 2004 showed severe white matter changes in both hemispheres and involving the corpus callosum as well as several locations in the brain stem and cerebellum.
The diagnosis was severe and likely secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis.
In August 2005 Taras was on amantidine and cerebrolysin, which he stopped taking because of financial problems.
The doctor's report for August 2005 said he has "bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia, cognitive dysfunction, spastic ataxic gait [and] at this point disease modifying therapy is not available for this patient". He was therefore told to avoid stress, get enough rest, avoid viral infections, take extra vitamin D3 and exercise at least three times a week.
What does Taras say about his medical treatment?
When I'm dealing with modern medicine, I think: "Fascists were not very bad guys... Doctors can't help me. I see. It's impossible. But why can't they give me some poison?"
He sent us the following email: Thanks for your letter. Unfortunately due to my physical condition (poor vision) I cannot participate in any chat forums. As for publishing my story on your web site, please do that.


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The eyes were brown but their whites were mottled red. They longed to shut up shop and hibernate for the winter, but there was work to be done. They slouched above twin creases that wrinkled or relaxed at will. Occasionally their shutters drew down upon them and they were at rest- but this never lasted long. Encouraged by their bushy brows and sweeping lashes they emerged regularly to enlarge or shrink depending on the light; to scan or survey depending on occasion.
Without prior notice, the eyes were called upon to appear earlier than usual. Like blurred stars on a cloudy night they peered reluctantly through the darkness, translating their surroundings. They focused with difficulty, pupils wide. They needed light, but when it came- the harsh, artificial light of a bare bulb- they flinched and retreated halfway behind their lids.
Gradually they became accustomed to the glare, though they yearned for gentle moonlight.
To add insult to injury, water rudely splashed down on the weary eyes, upsetting their natural moisture so that some leaked away. They blinked several times in protest, but large droplets of liquid continued to fall.
The eyes drew down their brows and peered through the slats of their lashes; adjustment to the dawn was unavoidable.
But as the eyes were made subject to warm, then cool, then icy passages of air, they began to act up. One of them flooded spontaneously, losing focus and ejecting goop and its corner; the other attempted to look in wrong direction. They were ordered back in line, but instruction was weak and their rebellion wasn�t. The eyes crossed and uncrossed, darted back and forth, shot up to their lids then down to their lashes at random, focusing then unfocusing.
The eyes took little notice of their surroundings on this winter morning.
They made little effort to relay the images before them, or translate the figures and obstacles it was their job to identify. They were of as much use as two left shoes.
An object swung down before them so that their lids dropped like guillotines, an automatic reflex to protect the eyes from being squashed.
Cowering in their dark hiding place they felt some pressure; the left eye felt a poke and the right eye was kneaded and rolled slightly. When the lids drew back this time the eyes were stunned from the shock.
The eyes gestured, in their disoriented state, that they were no longer progressing forwards, to either side, up or down. They were poised in mid-air looking straight ahead like a blinkered horse. They gazed, glazed, into darkness. Then they began to tremble and shake. The eyes quivered, although they felt frozen into space as if mounted in frames. A thin, chilling breeze taunted their lashes. It was altogether too much for the eyes to contend with: they clamped shut.
The next time the eyes opened, all they saw was red.
Craig stuck a reddened, grimy finger into the petrie dish. Helen screwed up her nose, exclaiming �eugh, gross!� Spurred on by her distaste, Craig took hold of the eyeball between finger and thumb and, with the other hand, stabbed at the iris with his blunt scalpel. The disc of dull brown colour was cracked, and inky fluid trickled out into the dish. Cackling with sudden glee, Helen took up the pair of tongs, seized the second eye, and said �here, Craig, plug in the Bunsen burner�. The eyes looked on.
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KatsBits: I was surprised to learn that Funcom was using GTK radiant for the upcoming Conan; is there any specific reason for that?
MrLycon: Well, we didn't really have any good tools for making dungeons, and it would be a total waste of time to make a new tool to do the exact same thing as radiant does when radiant has been around for years and is very perfected and is a fast tool to use and learn. We where talking about doing the dungeons in 3D Studio Max but it would take too long to build and texture.
KatsBits: Radiant was being used in the same way as you would do to build level and areas for Quake 3?
MrLycon: More or less. I mean, we make the basic structure in radiant and then we take it into 3D Studio Max to do the details and lighting, so we only use it for the basic build process, adding objects and stuff are done in our in-house tool 'Genesis'.
KatsBits: So it's being used in the same way as a modeling application like 3D Studio Max in that case, yes?
MrLycon: Yea I would say yes.
KatsBits: How well did the rest of the team take to it? Many regard the Radiant level editor as an odd way to work.
MrLycon: Most of the world designers at Funcom don't know 3D Studio Max too well, so they thought it was a nice tool to learn and use for dungeons. Some other team members were afraid it would give the dungeons a too 'hard edge' square look, and that's why we try to chamfer-edges and detailing in 3D Studio Max once we have the level completed and textured.
KatsBits: 'Hard Edged', a symptom of using brushes that's relatively easy to fix once converted to models though, right? It's just an issue with 'smoothing'; or were they worried about the lower poly count?.
MrLycon: I guess both, as you would get a more smooth look and not so square-ish if you did it in Max. But then it's very fast to just go over the edges and parts of the map you want more smooth, or just drag some verts to make it more non-square in Max. The only issue of course is that their map must be more or less done as you can't do major changes once you have imported to Max.
KatsBits: Which does touch in things like 'VIS' and 'BSP', which you would normally be using when building a level using GTK Radiant. Is that part of the build process? In other words, are you building with the same considerations as you would with Quake 3 for instance?.
MrLycon: Well, we are not really using the BSP, we are converting it [the map] to our own format, and for VIS we are using our own portal technology so in a way yes, we are adding portals in GTK which are used for visibility culling; something like HINTS in Quake 3.
KatsBits: You can place those arbitrarily? i.e. they not used in the same 'black magic' way they're used in Quake 3?.
MrLycon: It's much improved from Quake 3, more like Quake 4 'portals'.
KatsBits: With the team using GTK Radiant the way they are, it doesn't necessarily mean the game is mod-able does it?
MrLycon: As far as I know the game will not be mod-able, as it's an MMO and you would need a server running the mod etc.
KatsBits: So even if it were mod-able it's something that you wouldn't want to undertake 'lightly'? Not like Quake 3 modding for instance?
MrLycon: Yeah, it would require a bit more skills with max and scripting than a regular Quake 3 level.
As above, BLACK outlines show 'normal' brushwork, BLUE outlines show grouped brushwork. Also shown in ORANGE are 'reference objects'.
KatsBits: Did GTK Radiant's open source status (GPL) make any difference to whether Funcom used it?
MrLycon: Well, we haven't really changed anything code wise yet; though there are some things we are planning to change, but as we licensed the tool from id software I guess we would get the source code even if it wasn't open source.
KatsBits: Oh so Radiant was acquired *before* it went open source?
MrLycon: We licensed it some time ago.
KatsBits: It makes sense for a game developer to fully licence it though because you have the freedom to then do what you want/need.
KatsBits: Related to the question above about how well the team took to using the app, I'm guessing you were the one that showed them how to use it, especially given your previous experience with it?
MrLycon: Yeah, I have been working professionally with Radiant for 3 years, and I was the one convincing the leads to license GTK Radiant so we could use it for dungeons. And with that I worked close with our dungeon technology programmer to make our own technology from it, and so I wrote a big document covering everything from the basic radiant stuff to more advanced Conan editing stuff we use. Finally I held a few teaching sessions.
KatsBits: That's something in itself isn't it, trying to show other people how to use an application like GTK Radiant. Did you have any particular or common problems cropping up?
KatsBits: Well I know you guys are pretty busy right now, crunch time isn't it? So I'll say "thanks" to you for giving me a few minutes of your time.
MrLycon: Yeah, in the middle of Beta crunch. Well no problem, take care.


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Microsoft's new AI can simulate anyone's voice with 3 seconds of audi
On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker's emotional tone.
Meta's AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
Its creators speculate that VALL-E could be used for high-quality text-to-speech applications, speech editing where a recording of a person could be edited and changed from a text transcript (making them say something they originally didn't), and audio content creation when combined with other generative AI models like GPT-3.
Microsoft calls VALL-E a "neural codec language model," and it builds off of a technology called EnCodec, which Meta announced in October 2022. Unlike other text-to-speech methods that typically synthesize speech by manipulating waveforms, VALL-E generates discrete audio codec codes from text and acoustic prompts. It basically analyzes how a person sounds, breaks that information into discrete components (called "tokens") thanks to EnCodec, and uses training data to match what it "knows" about how that voice would sound if it spoke other phrases outside of the three-second sample. Or, as Microsoft puts it in the VALL-E paper:
To synthesize personalized speech (e.g., zero-shot TTS), VALL-E generates the corresponding acoustic tokens conditioned on the acoustic tokens of the 3-second enrolled recording and the phoneme prompt, which constrain the speaker and content information respectively. Finally, the generated acoustic tokens are used to synthesize the final waveform with the corresponding neural codec decoder.
Microsoft trained VALL-E's speech-synthesis capabilities on an audio library, assembled by Meta, called LibriLight. It contains 60,000 hours of English language speech from more than 7,000 speakers, mostly pulled from LibriVox public domain audiobooks. For VALL-E to generate a good result, the voice in the three-second sample must closely match a voice in the training data.
On the VALL-E example website, Microsoft provides dozens of audio examples of the AI model in action. Among the samples, the "Speaker Prompt" is the three-second audio provided to VALL-E that it must imitate.
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It is traditional, in the world of construction, to celebrate the completion of a house or building by placing a leafy branch on its roof or topmost beam. The practice—known as "topping out"—originated in ancient Scandinavia, and was meant to appease the spirits who had been disturbed by the construction works.
For ordinary constructions, a leafy branch is enough to symbolize the completion of civil work. For the Tokamak Building, which will host the ITER machine, something bigger and more spectacular—a full-grown olive tree—was required. The tree will be replanted on site.
ITER being ITER, a simple leafy branch would not have been enough. The size of the Tokamak Building and the amount of work that went into its construction required something bigger and more spectacular. As a consequence, an entire olive tree (as ITER is located in Provence) was lifted to the uppermost level of the building to symbolize its completion.
According to the European Domestic Agency, which is responsible for the construction of all the buildings of the ITER installation, 850 workers devoted six million work hours to the construction of the building that will house the ITER Tokamak. Now that concrete works have been finalized, a small team is presently busy erecting the steel structure that will top the edifice and allow for the creation of the crane hall above the assembly pit.
On Wednesday 13 November, the team posed for this group picture with ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot; Buildings Infrastructure Project Leader for the European Domestic Agency, Laurent Schmieder; and Vinci Project Director Fabrice Lemaire.
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package org.apache.mahout.math.hadoop.stochasticsvd;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.mahout.common.MahoutTestCase;
import org.apache.mahout.math.DenseMatrix;
import org.apache.mahout.math.DenseVector;
import org.apache.mahout.math.Vector;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 *
 * Tests SSVD solver with a made-up data running hadoop solver in a local mode.
 * It requests full-rank SSVD and then compares singular values to that of
 * Colt's SVD asserting epsilon(precision) 1e-10 or whatever most recent value
 * configured.
 *
 */
public class LocalSSVDSolverDenseTest extends MahoutTestCase {

  private static final double s_epsilon = 1.0E-10d;

  /*
   * I actually never saw errors more than 3% worst case for this particular
   * test, but since it's non-deterministic test, it still may occasionally
   * produce bad results with a non-zero probability, so i put this pct% for
   * error margin high enough so it (almost) never fails.
   */
  private static final double s_precisionPct = 10;

  @Test
  public void testSSVDSolverDense() throws IOException {
    runSSVDSolver(0);
  }

  @Test
  public void testSSVDSolverPowerIterations1() throws IOException {
    runSSVDSolver(1);
  }

  /*
   * remove from active tests to save time.
   */
  /* @Test */
  public void testSSVDSolverPowerIterations2() throws IOException {
    runSSVDSolver(2);
  }

  public void runSSVDSolver(int q) throws IOException {

    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
    conf.set("mapred.job.tracker", "local");
    conf.set("fs.default.name", "file:///");

    // conf.set("mapred.job.tracker","localhost:11011");
    // conf.set("fs.default.name","hdfs://localhost:11010/");

    File tmpDir = getTestTempDir("svdtmp");
    conf.set("hadoop.tmp.dir", tmpDir.getAbsolutePath());

    Path aLocPath = new Path(getTestTempDirPath("svdtmp/A"), "A.seq");

    // create distributed row matrix-like struct
    // SequenceFile.Writer w = SequenceFile.createWriter(
    // FileSystem.getLocal(conf), conf, aLocPath, IntWritable.class,
    // VectorWritable.class, CompressionType.NONE, new DefaultCodec());
    // closeables.addFirst(w);

    // make input equivalent to 2 mln non-zero elements.
    // With 100mln the precision turns out to be only better (LLN law i guess)
    // With oversampling of 100, i don't get any error at all.
    int n = 100;
    int m = 2000;
    Vector singularValues =
      new DenseVector(new double[] { 10, 4, 1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1,
          0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1,
          0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1,
          0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 });

    SSVDTestsHelper.generateDenseInput(aLocPath,
                                       FileSystem.getLocal(conf),
                                       singularValues,
                                       m,
                                       n);

    FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(aLocPath.toUri(), conf);

    Path tempDirPath = getTestTempDirPath("svd-proc");
    Path aPath = new Path(tempDirPath, "A/A.seq");
    fs.copyFromLocalFile(aLocPath, aPath);

    Path svdOutPath = new Path(tempDirPath, "SSVD-out");

    // Solver starts here:
    System.out.println("Input prepared, starting solver...");

    int ablockRows = 867;
    int p = 10;
    int k = 3;
    SSVDSolver ssvd =
      new SSVDSolver(conf,
                     new Path[] { aPath },
                     svdOutPath,
                     ablockRows,
                     k,
                     p,
                     3);
    /*
     * these are only tiny-test values to simulate high load cases, in reality
     * one needs much bigger
     */
    ssvd.setOuterBlockHeight(500);
    ssvd.setAbtBlockHeight(400);
    ssvd.setOverwrite(true);
    ssvd.setQ(q);
    ssvd.setBroadcast(false);
    ssvd.run();

    Vector stochasticSValues = ssvd.getSingularValues();
    System.out.println("--SSVD solver singular values:");
    dumpSv(stochasticSValues);

    // the full-rank svd for this test size takes too long to run,
    // so i comment it out, instead, i will be comparing
    // result singular values to the original values used
    // to generate input (which are guaranteed to be right).

    /*
     * System.out.println("--Colt SVD solver singular values:"); // try to run
     *
     * the same thing without stochastic algo double[][] a =
     * SSVDSolver.loadDistributedRowMatrix(fs, aPath, conf);
     *
     *
     *
     * SingularValueDecomposition svd2 = new SingularValueDecomposition(new
     * DenseMatrix(a));
     *
     * a = null;
     *
     * double[] svalues2 = svd2.getSingularValues(); dumpSv(svalues2);
     *
     * for (int i = 0; i < k ; i++) { Assert .assertTrue(1-Math.abs((svalues2[i]
     * - stochasticSValues[i])/svalues2[i]) <= s_precisionPct/100); }
     */

    // assert first k against those
    // used to generate surrogate input

    for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
      assertTrue(Math.abs((singularValues.getQuick(i) - stochasticSValues.getQuick(i))
          / singularValues.getQuick(i)) <= s_precisionPct / 100);
    }

    double[][] mQ =
      SSVDHelper.loadDistributedRowMatrix(fs, new Path(svdOutPath, "Bt-job/"
          + BtJob.OUTPUT_Q + "-*"), conf);

    SSVDCommonTest.assertOrthonormality(new DenseMatrix(mQ),
                                           false,
                                           s_epsilon);

    double[][] u =
      SSVDHelper.loadDistributedRowMatrix(fs,
                                          new Path(svdOutPath, "U/[^_]*"),
                                          conf);

    SSVDCommonTest.assertOrthonormality(new DenseMatrix(u), false, s_epsilon);
    double[][] v =
      SSVDHelper.loadDistributedRowMatrix(fs,
                                          new Path(svdOutPath, "V/[^_]*"),
                                          conf);

    SSVDCommonTest.assertOrthonormality(new DenseMatrix(v), false, s_epsilon);
  }

  static void dumpSv(Vector s) {
    System.out.printf("svs: ");
    for (Vector.Element el : s) {
      System.out.printf("%f  ", el.get());
    }
    System.out.println();

  }

  static void dump(double[][] matrix) {
    for (double[] aMatrix : matrix) {
      for (double anAMatrix : aMatrix) {
        System.out.printf("%f  ", anAMatrix);
      }
      System.out.println();
    }
  }

}

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Unless otherwise noted, trail rides will begin at Brockdale Park. Times listed are "ride-out" times, so arrive early to allow time for tacking up, etc. If the ride is cancelled for inclement weather, we'll announce if there is a rain date for the following Saturday.
Current paperwork with a Negative Coggin's Test result will be required of each horse. Horses without current paperwork will NOT be allowed to participate. This requirement is for the safety of the other horses on the ride.
Workday locations will be determined as the date approaches depending on the needs of the Trail at that time.
Workdays will begin at 9am, except for "beat the heat" workdays in June/July/Aug/Sept (8am). Workdays may start later in the day during winter months, depending on forecast.


Naugler's Traditional Evergreen Tree Farm is conveniently located in central Nova Scotia.
Our location is very near to a large highway that leads directly to the international port of Halifax. In Halifax our trees are loaded onto large container ships and transported immediately to destinations around the world.


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Bringing the Cruise life to land
A Relaxing Day at the Doctors Office
Not many people are eager to head to the doctor. The founders of Joshua Medical Center recognize this. But think about the attitude people have when going on a cruise—they're focused on relaxation, peace, joy, and enjoying the people around them. That is the spirit the Joshua Medical team wanted to convey in their new building.
You enter the medical center from the port (left) side, which is how you enter most ships and stepping in the door, you are greeted with breezy ocean colors and a sandy-colored floor. They have live music playing in the common areas, a relaxed atmosphere conveying the idea of health and wellness, encouraging exercise, eating nutritionally. The medical staff wears Hawaiian shirts to add to the ambiance, and they regularly host luaus!
We remodeled the entire main floor and started the second floor. The future plans are:
adding balconies that will look like life rafts with a pop of orange; this would add some additional detail to that side of the building and also people from the medical suites could step out onto the balconies to contribute to the look of a ship.
a roof deck with string lights and ambiance where they can host events, almost like topside on a cruise ship
potentially creating a vertical circulation on the south end of the building in a curved bow form.