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Q: Voting system with probability Three independent algorithms are executed in parallel. The role of each algorithm is to give an answer (Yes or no) with a certain probability to a certain number of questions (say 100).
Example:
Question 3:: Is this a car?

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*Algo1: Yes (0.7 sure) => P1

*Algo2: Yes (0.65 sure) => P2

*Algo2: Yes (0.2 sure, which is also 0.8 No) => P3

And P = f(P1, P2, P3) where f() is a function.
If I want to proceed with a voting process where the final probability P is affected by the majority. Meaning P is high when most of the answers (3 answers in this question) are high, and low otherwise, what is the expression of the function f()?
PS:

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*I have tried a simple mean formula (average), but I don't feel that's enough or reasonable since the mean formula is affected by the max and min values.

*I am not explicitly/necessarily trying to compute an average value. The important thing is that P should represent the majority votes (more precise and "correct")

A: There might be better ways from people who have actually studied such questions, but I'd do this as follows. I'm assuming, as in your example, that you get answers in the the range from 0 to 100, 100 meaning definite "yes" to the question, 50 meaning "don't know" and 0 means a definite "no" to the question.
Then do the following
1) Order the results ($p_1,p_2,p_3)$ in ascending order: $r_1 \le r_2 \le r_3$.
2) Take the function
$$w(r) =
\begin{cases}
0,  & \text{if $r < 40$} \\
0.05r-2, & \text{if $40 \le r \le 60$} \\
1,  & \text{if $r > 60$}
\end{cases}
$$
3) Calculate the weigthed average:
$$f(r_1,r_2,r_3) =\frac{1-w(r_2)}2r_1 + 0.5r_2 + \frac{w(r_2)}2r_3$$

Reasoning: By ordering the results, $r_2$ becomes the decision between leaning to "yes" or "no". If $r_2 > 50$, you are leaning to "yes", if $r_2 < 50$, you are leaning to "no".
You may have a clear 'consensus of two', which is codified in $w(r)$ as $r_2 > 60$ (clear 'yes' by two algorithms) or $r_2 < 40$ (clear 'no' by two algorithms). Or you may have a greay area, where $r_2$ is near 50.
In the consensus case, the formula I gave comes out as the average of the two consenus opinions: If $r_2 < 40$, then $f(r_1,r_2,r_3)=\frac{r_1+r_2}2$. If, OTOH, $r_2 > 60$, then $f(r_1,r_2,r_3)=\frac{r_2+r_3}2$.
The problem with applying this formula strictly for $r_2<50$ and $r_2>50$ is that it becomes non-continuous when $r_2$ crosses 50. For example, if $r_1=0, r_2=49, r_3=100$, applying the average of the consensus votes ("no") would result in $\frac{r_1+r_2}2=24.5$ If $r_2$ changes slightly to $r_2=51$, the consesus vote changes to "yes", so the avarage of the consensus votes would be $\frac{r_2+r_3}2=75.5$, which is a big change.
In the middle area of $w(r)$ ($40 \le r_2 \le 60$), it gives a weight to both extreme answers ($r_1$ and $r_3$), which takes into account that we don't really habe a consensus. As $r_2$ changes from 40 to 60, the weight shifts gradually from $r_1$ to $r_3$, making sure the function $f$ is continuous.

A: Generally speaking, NNs are better at classification than regression, so I'm assuming the ground truth is something like $[1,0]$ for the cars and $[0,1]$ for everything else (easily done with something like keras.utils.to_categorical) and your wanted output is $[P,Q]$ where $P$ is the confidence of "this is a car", $Q$ is the confidence of "this is not a car". As loss function, cross-entropy sounds right.
A somewhat generalization of what Ingix said, is to have a final fully connected layer with softmax activation: the idea is to have $P = aP_1 + bP_2 + cP_3$ with $a,b,c$ trainable parameters. To really generalize his function, you can try to write a "piecewise linear" layer (which transforms $r$ into $w(r)$) followed by a fully connected layer.
Another idea is, if the three NNs have different structures (so they are extracting different but comparable features), to use them as networks-in-a-network (like Su et al. did in their first multiview paper or Lu et al. in their multipatch paper): the idea isn't to "agglomerate" the output probabilities of the networks, but to "agglomerate" the features extracted by them and reason on the new  "concatenated/pooled" set of features.


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{
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public:
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{
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When Australians are more mobile and better educated than ever, and the average Australian leaving school today will have five separate careers and work for seventeen employers (2), is the ETE definition fit for purpose?
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn – Alvin Toffler
Whilst our definition has remained static, our workforce has become dynamic. The modern Australian is educated and constantly updating their skills. Since 1989 the number of people of working age with a bachelor's degree or higher has tripled to just over 25% (3) and direct government funding for teaching, learning, and research has more than doubled in real terms (3). As of May 2015, 3 million Australians aged 15 – 64 were enrolled in formal study, and 59% of people aged 15 -74 had completed a non-school qualification. (4)
This has enabled Australians change jobs and careers more freely, with the latest statistics indicating 1 in 5 Australians have been in their current position for less than a year, and 60% have been at their current job for less than five years (5) Gone are the days of one job, one company for life.
Professor Johanna Wyn, Director of Melbourne University's Youth Research Centre stated "You pick up the skills you need as you decide you need them, (nowdays) there is a more open market around gaining educational skills as you need them" (6).
Above all, the Internet especially has transformed the workplace, and that workplace is no longer 9 -5 at a desk in an office Even the Federal government has made it a target for 12% of public servants to work from home by 2020 (7). Flexible working arrangements are increasingly accessible. From 1979 to 2009 the number of people working part-time increased from 16% to 29% (8). Task-based or project-based work has changed the work hour requirements and allows for self-pacing of work (9) for people with unpredictable work hours, or those requiring regular breaks. Employment contracts in the 21st century are increasingly 'transactional' (10).
The evolving nature of work can enable people to enter occupations that were previously inaccessible to them (9). Digitization has changed the way businesses operate creating new employment and expansion of industries (9). With a large number of people being accessible from multiple locations, the issues related to access to employment can be reduced (9).
With technology and adaptations, many barriers to employment are being removed. Voice-activated software and video-conferencing may have been seen as futuristic in times past, but they are a reality, and easily accessible for reasonable costs to enable people to continue working, where in the past this may not have been possible. Vehicle adaptations can be made to enable even bilateral upper limb amputees to operate a car. With innovation today, people have much greater opportunities to remain in work that is inherently good for them.
It is not just our preparation for work and the way we work which has changed – it is the very work we do. Nearly a million Australians now work from home (7), and many of us in jobs which until recently didn't exist. Even ten years ago, who had heard of Social Media? Today, Facebook alone has 1.71 billion active users (11) and is valued at around US$350 billion (12), making it the sixth most valuable company in America (12). Facebook didn't exist the last time Australia won an overseas Ashes series or the Bledisloe Cup. In such a fast-changing environment, how can we say someone will never work in a job which hasn't yet been thought of?
The labour market and technology is evolving to create opportunities that haven't existed in the past, and our failure to consider the changing nature of work and provide our customers with opportunities to participate in work is a sign we as an industry are living in the past.
In today's world, how can we argue that the ETE definition is fit for purpose?
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While Retail TPD Insurance – where individuals choose tailored policies through advisors to suit their specific needs, and pay a significantly higher premium – has been less of a concern, Group TPD policies – offered as default through superannuation funds and usually without underwriting – have become a major issue for the Life Insurance industry.
Profitability for group Death and TPD started to decline in June 2013 and continued for a year. Losses totaled $500 million, which when put in perspective was more than the total profits for the three preceding years ($400 million). (13). Following a period of poor claims experience, reinsurers ceased quoting for new TPD business, and renewal business was conditional of changes to contract terms (14). With increased risk to group insurers, premium increases became apparent for many group policies (14).
A combination of factors has brought Group TPD insurance to this low point. Poor underwriting controls and loose policy definitions left the industry vulnerable to a growing storm (14) – a storm we should have seen coming.
A greater public acknowledgement of common mental health conditions, and increased awareness of insurance held in super, both contributed to an increase in claims (14). Changes to workers compensation to reduce or eliminate lump sum payments and tighten requirements for ongoing payments, has driven both claimants and lawyers to TPD insurance (13). New freedoms for law firms to openly advertise to the public attracted a significant increase in their involvement (13), adding a new dynamic to Group TPD, and some of the claims they advocated – particularly long-tail claims – pushing in to territory not previously anticipated.
The net result has been a blow-out in claims numbers, claims costs, processing times, and an increasingly adversarial nature to TPD claims. Group TPD policies are no longer serving insurers, but more importantly are not serving the needs of the members.
When a member has exhausted workers compensation benefits or access to other schemes, often the only fall-back they have is TPD insurance, therefore otherwise temporarily disabled people are encouraged to claim TPD, with the financial incentive of proving their incapacity. With the lure of a large lump sum, members are encouraged not to participate in rehabilitation and return to work, and lawyers have increasingly been engaged to provide advice and navigate an unfamiliar claims process and complex policy and definitions. The black and white nature of the current TPD benefit structure perpetuates issues of increased lawyer involvement (15), with legal fees eroding payouts, and an avoidance of appropriate treatment, and support services to increase wellbeing and return to work (15). Is a lump sum the most effective form of benefit? Or can we provide a better member experience?
Sunsuper interviewed 330 TPD claimants five years after their TPD claim had been paid, and found that 66% of people wanted assistance with finding a job and 69% wanted assistance with retraining. Of the people interviewed 22% had returned to work (19% to part time work and 3% to full time work) and a further 14% were looking for work (16). 660 other claimants were contacted during the work day and were not able to be reached. And it is worth noting that the age group contacted were 41 to 60yo, which would have a lower likelihood of return to work than younger claimants (16).
AustralianSuper introduced an optional advanced rehabilitation service for TPD claimants, which has seen an up-take of 55%. (16).
Members are crying out for assistance and we are leaving them with the money but not the resources.
MySuper was a part of the Stronger Super reforms, effective 1 January, 2014, whereby products were authorised as MySuper products and are required to offer standard, default TPD and life insurance, and have the choice to offer income protection insurance (13). MySuper legislation has gone a long way to bridge the underinsurance gap in Australia, being an important mechanism to distribute disability insurance products (13). However, the reality is that a 40-year-old member is 200 times more likely to need income protection than a TPD benefit and many funds choose not to offer default income protection insurance (17).
Clearly a lot of TPD claimants are really in need of IP cover and could benefit from access to rehabilitation assistance.
Hadler (1996) perhaps says it best – "If you have to prove you are ill, you can't get well" (19). The Health Benefits of Work Position Statement provides evidence to encourage a paradigm shift to acknowledge that work is generally positive for health (18). The current design of TPD benefits works against this statement and does not allow its signatories to fulfill their requirements. Health professionals are encouraged to provide medical certification that their patient will never work again, which can have a significant psychological impact, and insurers have limited contact with members and are unable to provide rehabilitation assistance. Are we actually doing more damage than good?
Greenborough and Fraser's (1989) study on the health impacts of compensable claims, found that people claiming lump sum benefits had much worse health outcomes than those on intermittent payments (19).
The claims process and litigation processes are often protracted, stressful, and may encourage preoccupation with incapacity associated with injury or illness (20). Suggestions of long-term incapacity may become apparent in this process, and people may be encouraged to repeatedly re-live an event (20). Psychological factors can have a significant impact on recovery and litigation can have a huge impact on this (20).
The industry has already suggested a product change involving a hybrid IP/TPD benefit (15). A small initial lump sum benefit has been considered, with the purpose of paying for treatment and lifestyle changes (15). Not only would a smaller lump sum limit legal interest (15), but it would provide more timely access to benefits which would reduce the financial burden and associated psychological distress that often accompanies unexpected injury or illness and that can significantly impact recovery.
It is suggested that following the initial smaller lump sum, staged regular IP-style payments be made to the member for a defined period, allowing an ongoing relationship, where their condition can be managed and rehabilitation and return to work support can be initiated. There should be a focus on early intervention and rehabilitation (13) without a fear from the member that they will lose entitlements for displaying capacity or attempting to better their situation. The number of people that return to work after payment of a TPD benefit (21) suggests that insurer risk will be mitigated by providing this assistance, and the number of people requesting assistance to find employment or engage in retraining indicates that many people consider they do have work capacity even after being deemed unable to work again. This style of benefit enables insurers and health professionals to reinforce the health benefits of work, increasing the wellbeing of our customers. The reduction in claims costs would also make it a more sustainable product. With SunSuper's new TPD product – incorporating reduced waiting periods, introduction of rehabilitation, and staged benefit payments – a premium reduction of 15% has been passed on to members (21).
Incentivizing early notification to claim is also important and insurers may consider a monetary incentive for notification to claim within the first few weeks of absence from work, as there has been a great deal of evidence supporting better return to work and health outcomes with early notification and engagement with some work activities.
The road ahead may difficult to navigate but the direction is clear. Lump sum benefits are no longer sustainable or desirable and the sooner they are replaced with IP-style benefits the sooner group cover will serve the purpose it's intended for: serving the insurance needs of the members at an affordable price.
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REdirect's willingness to work with the client was the most positive attribute about the company; they honored our requests and remained true to the spirit of the contract. I would work with REdirect again and would recommend their services to someone else. It was a challenging but beneficial experience and I am happy we chose to work with REdirect. Overall, the Yardi implementation was a success. We met all of our milestones and there were minimal unexpected occurrences throughout the process, both of which were good indicators the implementation was executed properly. We were happy with the work that REdirect did for us. The people we primarily dealt with at REdirect were professional, responded in a timely fashion and understood our concerns. No matter what the problems were, they always came back with viable solutions.


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"From running shops to serving customers": The Tesco turnaround story 2015-2019
In crisis there is always opportunity.
This old adage summarises the position Tesco, BBH and MediaCom found themselves in five years ago and ultimately what united us together to turn this great British brand around.
Let's rewind a moment and remember that in late 2014 Dave Lewis had just been appointed as the first outside CEO to the company and immediately faced a number of strong headwinds including a lack of consumer trust, a share price in decline and brand health under attack – which he concluded later was "like performing open heart surgery in public."
The precarious predicament the business found itself in posed an opportunity for a total reset across all aspects of the company including a total revitalisation of the brand and its approach to communications – both creative and media.
This is where we came in to play and a small army here at MediaCom have been working tirelessly over the last half a decade hand in hand with the client and creative agency to re-establish and re-focus the direction of travel of Britain's biggest retailer – a £50 billion+ business no less. It seems obvious writing it now, but we needed to go back to basics, and this started simply with isolating the problem(s) that marketing could address.
From a media perspective this included rebalancing investment to campaigns with long-term objectives, such as Food Love Stories; to regaining market-leading share of voice that had dwindled; to developing an inside out planning mentality that meant putting the 330,000+ colleagues first, maximising the £147 million of owned media estate and then and only then turning to paid-for channels for the 90% of households who shop with Tesco every year.
Owned, earned and then paid (certainly less catchy).
These strategic comms changes were then underpinned by a return to the craft of media, which was deployed at every step of the way. This included many firsts: bespoke TV ad breaks with all the main broadcasters, a contextual sponsorship with broadcaster VOD, an ad-funded TV show, creating 'virtual shop windows' on the frontpages of the red top newsbrands, on the day editorial news takeovers, audience targeting strategies based on 1st party Clubcard data … all the time testing, learning and repeating.
The scale of Tesco's turnaround over this period cannot be understated with the rebounding of the share price and brand health by 36% and 630% respectively between 2015 and 2019.
More importantly, through the MediaCom Business Science team we were able to isolate marketing's impact, which helped drive £4.3 billion incremental revenue in both short and long term.
Fast forward to October 2020 and it is with huge honour that Tesco, BBH and MediaCom were awarded one of only five IPA Effectiveness Gold awards, but also the prestigious Grand Prix title too.
Effectiveness is in the DNA of our agency and the award is recognition for how we looked for the long-term opportunity during the short-term crisis.
MediaCom's 2020 media predictions
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If you are really interested in learning and developing skills in teambuilding, there are certainly no books on the market that can beat Belbin's books in this subject area. Exceptional!
Team Roles at Work is a follow-up to Meredith Belbin's highly successful book Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail.
In this book, the nine Team Roles – now familiar to managers and management trainers all over – are explored further, adding value to the original Team Role concepts. Operational strategies provide ideas, techniques and a new range of information and advice which can be used to the organisation's advantage.
Team Roles at Work offers managers a practical guide to improving their teams within the workplace to deliver significantly better results for their company, reflecting well on them as a manager, whilst also saving them time and energy, by using each team member to their best advantage to achieve overall team goals.
Now fully updated for today's managers and students Team Roles at Work takes the academic background of the team roles method and offers a more practical approach with a new structure and visual aids such as tables, illustrations and graphs to ease learning.
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them.


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Aesthetically, one can again see that the Q70 shares the same basic chassis as the Q45; all the connections are identically arranged and it shares an identical keyboard to boot. Unfortunately, this means that it also has the Fn key to the left of the Ctrl key; to my mind and others this is the wrong way around and it would be appreciated if Samsung would take note.
That doesn't mean there aren't some differences, with Samsung adding a very smart graphite coloured brushed aluminium finish to the inside of the notebook. It certainly adds a sense of class and quality to the Q70, and it provides a nice counter balance to the more eye-catching shiny black exterior.
Another small difference between this and the Q45 is the lack of a web cam. Considering this is the more expensive of the two I'd expect the Q70 to at least match the Q45 in this regard, thus it seems like something of an oversight.
Connection wise on the left you'll find the Ethernet port, Type II PC Card and a 4-pin FireWire port along with the optical drive. The front features a combined Headphone and S/PDIF socket, a Mic socket and a memory card reader. All the usual formats are supported, including MemoryStick, MemoryStick Pro, SD, MMC, MMC Plus and xD.
One of the few differences can be seen on the right edge, where the modem, D-Sub and USB ports that were exposed on the Q45, are covered by a small plastic flap. This helps tidy up the look of the exterior edge, but it can be a little annoying to open every time you want to use one of the ports – especially considering the only other USB port is on the back of the unit.
Once again Samsung has furnished the Q70 with an excellent display. A native resolution of 1,280 x 800 is fairly par for the course these days, as is the high contrast glossy finish. It's noticeable that the back light bleeding evident on the Q45 is much less pronounced on the Q70, and the viewing angles are improved too. However, if anything the black levels aren't quite as deep as on the Q45, though they're still very good and the display produces crisp clean text, nice colours and a generally good contrast level.


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Redefining Success
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What would you say are the marks of a successful church?
Here are some of my ideas for North Church:
We're going to court some billionaire investors. Not donors, but investors. We want to incentivize their giving by promising a lucrative return. Once we have their money, we're going to make use of it.
First of all, because we need to keep them happy (so they'll keep sending us money), we're going to turn our upstairs balcony into a skybox where our wealthiest members can observe the service in comfort, with leather recliners and a full wait staff serving champagne and caviar.
For our music ministry, we're going to hire a full-time, paid, professionally trained choir (we already have the best organist in Michigan, so we won't need a new one of those). Our contemporary worship team will get brand new, state-of-the-art AV equipment.
We're going to get TV cameras so our service can be broadcast live via satellite around the world.
We'll get paid endorsements from celebrities like Derek Jeter (add Christina Hendricks and George Clooney for sex appeal), who will tell everybody how great North Church is.
And finally, we'll need to protect all this new stuff, so we'll need to get a security force to guard the church. And I'm not thinking just some smiling, helpful rentacops either… I'm talking about SWAT team gear with assault rifles: I want such an overwhelming display of power that nobody will even THINK about messing with our church.
If we had all of those things (i.e. money, fame, and power), we would be a successful church, right? Wrong.
Blessedness
Jesus' definition of the word success is different from the one accepted by the rest of the world. The world has a very self-centered definition of success, but Jesus presents us with a God-centered definition of success. The word he uses is blessed, which can also mean successful or lucky when you take away the spiritual side of it. That word blessed, by the way, comes from the Latin beatus and is where we get get the word Beatitude from. Blessedness, from the God-centered perspective of Jesus, is quite different from the world's self-centered idea of success.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The world sees wealth as a sign of success: the Armani tux, the Vera Wang dress, the Italian sports car, the yacht, and the mansion. The world looks at people who have those things and calls them successful/lucky.But Jesus says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." The kingdoms of this world (governments, corporations, institutions) cater to the desires of the haves, but the kingdom of heaven (Jesus' vision of an ideal society) will serve the needs of the have-nots. On the day when God's dream for this world comes true, no more will Senators and CEOs vote to give themselves raises and go on vacation while the people whose jobs they cut sleep in shelters and line up outside soup kitchens. That's not going to happen anymore.
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
The world looks at people who seem to be happy and calls them "successful." Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the one day a year when people watch TV just as much for the commercials as they watch it for the program. How many people plugging products in those commercials will be average-looking folks, looking bored, and saying, "Meh, I guess this product is okay…"? Not very many, I think. TV commercials are full of beautiful, smiling people who are excited to tell you all about how a particular cleaning solution changed their lives forever. They want us to believe that we'll be as beautiful and happy as they are if only we buy what they're selling. The world says that happy people are successful people, but Jesus says, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." Jesus invites us to not buy into that "cult of happiness." Jesus doesn't want us to turn away from the pain of this world, he wants us to look at it and do something about it. That's what compassion is: Showing up with food or clothes, visiting the shelter, the drop-in, the hospital bed, the courtroom, and the prison cell. That's the kind of love Jesus showed us and it's the kind of love he wants us to show others. Wherever there's pain, there's Jesus, so that's where we should be too.
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
The world says that successful people are tough-minded alpha-dogs who stand their ground and don't compromise. Those are the big-shots who end up in running the show. The world puts them in charge of things. But Jesus says, "Blessed are the meek (i.e. gentle, flexible), for they will inherit the earth." I like this one because I read a book by a couple of biologists last year that talks about how competition is not the only driving force behind evolution. They make the case that cooperation plays just as big a role in the ongoing development of life. When God's dream for this world comes true, the ones in charge will be the ones who know how to work well with others and value relationships more than ideologies.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."
The world believes that truly successful people lack for nothing. They have everything they could ever want. They benefit from the way things are. Insulated by wealth and power, they don't sense the urgency of the situation or feel the need to challenge the system. But Jesus says, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (i.e. justice, fairness), for they will be filled." That last part is especially ominous because history has shown, time and again, that poor people will not stay quiet and submissive forever. If the leaders will not change the system, the people will change the leaders. Jesus has been proven right more than once: "The first shall be last and the last shall be first."
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy."
The world says that successful people know how to give as good as they get. If you hit them, they hit you back. They make an example of you so that others know not to mess with them. That's the politics of power. But Jesus says, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy." Real power, according to Jesus, comes from knowing that you could rip your enemies to shreds but choosing not to. What's more is that mercy is contagious: it comes back to you. It stops the cycle of violence from going around and around and escalating until the situation is out of control. The United States and the Soviet Union spend the latter half of the twentieth century with nuclear missiles pointed at each other in the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). But then the Cold War ended, not with a mushroom cloud, but with a party: people singing and dancing as the Berlin Wall came down. The doctrine of MAD-ness did neither side any good in the end.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."
The world says that successful people are savvy: they know how to read between the lines and close the deal. They're street-smart; they have guile. Successful people know how the game is played and stay two steps ahead of the competition. These savvy, successful people are sure to see great big dividends on their investments. But Jesus says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Savvy, street-smart people see the world for what they can get out of it, but they're missing a whole other dimension of reality. Those who see the world like Jesus does get to see the hand of God at work in creation. These blessed folks know that they're not alone and that life has meaning. I like to compare this one to the scene in Star Wars when Han Solo is laughing at Luke Skywalker as he trains to be a Jedi Knight. Luke says, "You don't believe in the Force, do you?" Han replies, "Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense." Han is savvy but Luke is pure in heart. Luke is learning how to see the world through a different set of eyes and so, as Obi-Wan Kenobi said about him, he's taking his "first steps into a larger world."
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
The world defines success by winning. Whether it's trophies on the shelf or notches on the bedpost, the world wants to know about your conquests. This was especially true in ancient Rome, where the empire was built on the doctrine of Pax Romana: world peace through global conquest. They believed that Roman order would prevail over the barbarians of the world by the mighty hand of Caesar. And Caesar himself was worshiped and given a very special title: "The Son of God," Sol Invictus, "the Unconquerable Sun." But Jesus says, "Blessed are the peacemakers (not the conquerors), for they will be called children (lit. 'sons') of God."
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Finally, the world says that respect is a measure of success. They say a good name is as good as gold. If people listen to what you say, you're successful. If you get invited to the White House to advise the President on a matter, you're successful. The world says it's good to be admired and respected. Those who possess the kingdoms of this world are accorded respect, whether they deserve it or not. But Jesus says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Notice the parallel with the first beatitude. God's ideal world belongs to the have-nots, the disrespected, the ones without a voice, and those who suffer and die for standing up and speaking out for what's right. When God's dream for this world comes true, these are the people we'll be listening to, not the flattering bootlickers who only tell powerful leaders what they want to hear. We need people of conscience who will "speak the truth in love" to the powerful ones in charge. That's what prophets do, but they're almost never listened to or given the respect they deserve. Nevertheless, Jesus calls them "blessed" and commands us to keep doing it.
Jesus redefines success. He takes the world's self-centered idea of success and replaces it with his own God-centered idea of blessedness. In the mind of Christ, success is not a blessing and blessing does not look like success. God's blessing is upon the poor and oppressed peoples of this world, the ones without a voice, the ones who weep in the night, and the ones who are literally starving for change. God's blessing is upon the gentle, the compassionate, the pure in heart, and the peacemakers.God's blessing is upon those who face the pain of this world and do what they can to make a difference. God's blessing is upon those who are a blessing. And so it is that I say to you:
May God bless you and make you a blessing, this day and every day. AMEN.
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Q: Recursively obtaining kth smallest element in an array I'm trying to "translate" this algorithm from the pseudocode provided in my textbook. My program keeps crashing though, and I'm not really sure where I went wrong with my implementation. Here's the pseudocode in image with my code right below it:
int kSmallFirst (int k, int anArray[], int first, int last) {
    int pivotIndex = 0;

    if (k < pivotIndex - first + 1)
        return kSmallFirst(k, anArray, first, pivotIndex - 1);
    else if (k == pivotIndex - first + 1)
        return pivotIndex;
    else
        return kSmallFirst(k - (pivotIndex - first + 1), anArray, pivotIndex + 1, last);
}

int main () {
    int i = 0;
    int arr[512];
    fstream data;
    data.open("data.txt");

    while (!data.eof()) {
        data >> arr[i];
        i++;
    }

    data.close();

    cout << kSmallFirst(42, arr, 0, i-1);

    return 0;
}

Thank you very much!

A: The problem is: you have not implemented the main part of the algorithm, which is described in your book with italic font:

Choose a pivot value 'p' form 'anArray[first..last]'
Partition the values of 'anArray[first..last]' about 'p'

These two lines are not a comment! They are the pseudocode you're going to translate to C/C++ to make your code to do what you want it to do.

A: Note that kSmallFirst never uses anArray, so contrary to what JoriO says this is not an input problem. Even if it did try to use a range main is passing the range [0 .. -1] in as kSmallFirst's first and last.
You need to understand what the algorithm is doing, otherwise as is mentioned by CiaPan you won't implement the most important part.
kSmall is:

*

*Taking in a partition of anArray defined by first and last

*Choosing a pivotIndex in the partition of anArray between first and last

*Moving all elements smaller than anArray[pivotIndex] below pivotIndex and all elements larger than anArray[pivotIndex] above pivotIndex

*This will define the next pair of partitions of anArray, the partition from first to pivotIndex and the partition from pivotIndex to last

*kSmall will recurse on the range that will contain the kth element

Rewriting kSmall with this in mind will yield:
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>

int kSmall(int k, int* anArray, int first, int last){
    int p = anArray[(last - first) / 2 + first]; // Choose a pivot value from anArray[first .. last]
    int* pivotIndex = std::partition(anArray + first, anArray + last, std::bind2nd(std::less<int>(), p)); // Partition the values of anArray around p

    if(k < pivotIndex - anArray){
        return kSmall(k, anArray, first, pivotIndex - anArray);
    }
    else if(k == pivotIndex - anArray){
        return pivotIndex - anArray;
    }
    else{
        return kSmall(k, anArray, pivotIndex - anArray, last);
    }
}

I'm sure you'll notice that the math in the if statement differs from the book. I've chosen to implement kSmall, as you did using int parameters, the book chose to use int* parameters.

A: You choice of pivot index value is wrong.
Since this is a recursion you need to update your pivot for every call.
Make it more generic.
In the kSmallFirst function,
Use pivotIndex = first, rather than pivotIndex = 0.


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