Margaret Tyler has a collection of over 10,000 items of royal memorabilia. She is known as Britain's most loyal royalist. Her favorite piece is a painting of Diana and her two sons. She was recently thrilled to add a plate from the Queen's Gallery in Victoria to her collection. Tyler displays her memorabilia, including a special room dedicated to Diana, in her home called Heritage House.
Trifles: A drama by Susan Glaspell that comprises literary elements, metaphors through women's strife and solidarity. It represents primary movement to women's suffrage and political equality through men's presumptuous deduction.
Trifles: A drama by Susan Glaspell that comprises literary elements, metaphors through women's strife and solidarity. It represents primary movement to women's suffrage and political equality through men's presumptuous deduction.
Towards a graph of ancient world geographical knowledgeElton Barker
Presentation on three collaborative projects: Hestia (http://hestia.open.ac.uk/), GAP (http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/gapvis/), and Pelagios (pelagios-project.blogspot.com)
Herein u will find part of Marjorie Kanter´s OneHundredDays Project in conjuction with the London Word Festival. Originally posted on Twitter/Facebook/Blogger.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Towards a graph of ancient world geographical knowledgeElton Barker
Presentation on three collaborative projects: Hestia (http://hestia.open.ac.uk/), GAP (http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/gapvis/), and Pelagios (pelagios-project.blogspot.com)
Herein u will find part of Marjorie Kanter´s OneHundredDays Project in conjuction with the London Word Festival. Originally posted on Twitter/Facebook/Blogger.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
mithun sharing his collection of quizzes/ppts which were left over in his laptop. this is something i have prepared for my own learning or for conducting some quiz in hyd or bglr between 2005 and 2011. might even contain some strays of ppts from other quizzes i visited/tried
TEN SETS OF COMMONLY MISUSEDCONFUSED TERMS (httpwww.grammaru.docxmattinsonjanel
TEN SETS OF COMMONLY MISUSED/CONFUSED TERMS (http://www.grammaruntied.com/?p=32)
In each pair/set, explain how you understand each word is defined. Be sure to include how each is used differently. Include a short sentence that demonstrates your knowledge of each word. DO NOT simply look up a word and list the definition (although you may if you need to, of course, as a starting point); you must also, however, show how YOU understand each term.
1. to, too, two
2. there, their, they’re
3. you’re, your
4. it’s, its
5. accept, except
6. affect, effect
7. than, then
8. allusion, illusion
9. allude, elude
10. elicit, illicit
BASIC ACADEMIC KEYWORDS (S.A.S.E.)
Again, explain how you understand each of the four listed acts of reading/writing. Be sure to include how each is used differently. Include your grasp of what each act involves and does not involve. DO NOT simply look up a word and list the definition (although you may if you need to, of course, as a starting point); you must also, however, show how YOU understand each term.
Summarize
Analysis
Synthesize
Evaluate
RHETORICAL APPEALS
Again, explain how you understand each of the four three concepts. DO NOT simply look up a word and list the definition (although you may if you need to, of course, as a starting point); you must also, however, show how YOU understand each term.
logos
pathos
ethos
Choose the word that completes each sentence in the most conventional way.
1. I absolutely refuse to (accept except) that my PS4 has been stolen.
2. I don't always like to take my grandmother's (advice advise), but in this case, she is definitely correct about that guy.
3. Do you know whether we will be (aloud allowed) to use our notes during the final exam?
4. The insurance adjuster just showed up to (apprise appraise) the damage to our car.
5. I really need to take some Tylenol; this headache is almost more than I can (bear bare).
6. I realize that it is none of my business, but your new haircut is extremely (bazaar bizarre).
7. After we are done with this activity, I think we will take a 15 minute (brake break).
8. Because it has so many sex scenes in it, that book was (censored censured) in most European countries.
9. The band's new lead guitarist simply couldn't get his fingers to form the correct C minor (cord chord).
10. Of (course coarse), your behavior is the real reason why she is so frustrated.
11. Luckily, Samantha was able to use comedy to (defuse diffuse) the tension of the situation.
12. If you want to sneak in to the concert, your movements must be (discreet discrete).
13.1 expect there to be a huge lightsaber (dual duel) at the end of the upcoming J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars movie.
14. In order to (ensure insure) that you will remember these new vocabulary terms, you need to find some ways to understand them on a personal level.
15. The best thing to do is put your late report in an (envelope envelo ...
New Headway Intermediate - Unit1 what a wonder ful world... ..
New Headway Intermediate Unit1 what a wonder ful world.
UNIDAD 1. Its a wonderful worl. PAGINA 6
TEMAS: Tenses, Auxiliary verbs, Short answers, Whats in a world, Social expressions.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
With each of the past 3 Ruby releases, YJIT has delivered higher and higher performance. However, we are seeing diminishing returns, because as JIT-compiled code becomes faster, it makes up less and less of the total execution time, which is now becoming dominated by C function calls. As such, it may appear like there is a fundamental limit to Ruby’s performance.
In the first half of the 20th century, some early airplane designers thought that the speed of sound was a fundamental limit on the speed reachable by airplanes, thus coining the term “sound barrier”. This limit was eventually overcome, as it became understood that airflow behaves differently at supersonic speeds.
In order to break the Ruby performance barrier, it will be necessary to reduce the dependency on C extensions, and start writing more gems in pure Ruby code. In this talk, I want to look at this problem more in depth, and explore how YJIT can help enable writing pure-Ruby software that delivers high performance levels.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Swu 123 (3rd week)
1. SWU 123 (3SWU 123 (3rdrd
Week)Week)
KriangkraiVathanalaoha
Language Centre, SWU
2. 1A/2: Answers1A/2: Answers
1) Rabid typing; ruining their company’s sales
department
2) Voluntary work with those with special needs
3) Being into pop music; liking the cinema;
supporting a local football club
4) Married; eight children; would prefer frequent
travel
5) They insisted that we get to work by 8:45 every
morning and I couldn’t work under those
conditions
6) A passion for rock climbing
3. 1A: Language Notes, Hobbies1A: Language Notes, Hobbies
A) Words that describe people who like
something: supporter; fans; aficionado
B) Words that refer to people’s interest:
crazy about: obsessed with; got a taste
for; a passion; got the … bug; keen on;
into it
C) Words that refer to starting of an
activity: give … a try; take up
4. To make Question Sentence…To make Question Sentence…
Question words Auxiliary Verb Subject Verb
Why are you doing it?
When do I love you?
How far does he go?
5. Subject QuestionsSubject Questions
1) We make questions by putting the subject
between the auxiliary verb and the main verb.
2) If there is no auxiliary verb in the affirmative (i.e.
present simple and past simple) add
do/does/did.
3) We put the subject after the verb in questions
with be.
4) If the question word (who, what, which) is the
subject – put in “normal statement”
6. ExamplesExamples
We make questions by putting the
subject between the auxiliary verb and
the main verb:
Is he playing the guitar?
(He is playing the guitar.)
Has she loved me?
(She has loved me.)
7. ExamplesExamples
If there is no auxiliary verb in the
affirmative (ie present simple and past
simple) add do/does/did.
Do I kick that orange cat?
(I kick that orange cat.)
8. ExamplesExamples
We put the subject after the verb in
questions with be.
Were you confident?
(You were confident.)
9. ExamplesExamples
If the question word (who, what, which)
is the subject – put in “normal statement”
Who gave you that?
(Sarah gave you that.)
What happened to you?
(Failure happened to you.)
10. Language notes: saying noLanguage notes: saying no
A very definite, strong and firm no
(possibly rude)
You must be joking!
No way!
Certainly not!
I don’t see why I should!
11. 'Did Alex get you a present, then?' 'You must
be joking! He didn't even remember it was
my birthday.'
12. Saying no, but less than a 100% no. It is a
no answer, but not definite or firm.
Not really
Not exactly
Possibly not
15. Your coworker invited you to go out for
drinks after work today. You don't want
to go, so you say this to decline politely.
“You know, I'd love to, but I can't”
16. Saying that you think the answer is no,
but you may be wrong
Not to my knowledge.
17. To Page 9: Saying “No”To Page 9: Saying “No”
- Do you know if I have to do root canal
treatment?
- Not to my knowledge, but you can
consult with a dental specialist.
18. Page 9: Functional Language: SayingPage 9: Functional Language: Saying
“No”“No”
1) I’m afraid not
2) Not really
3) Not exactly
4) Possibly not
5) Not to my knowledge
6) Certainly not
7) No way!
8) You must be joking
19. Time AdverbialsTime Adverbials
Initially, at first, at the beginning, to begin
with
- suggestion of a “contrast” between the
beginning and later events
Initially everything was fine, but later we had
some problems.
20. Eventually, finally, in the end
- there has been a long story, delays,
difficulties and problems.
This afternoon, I had to cope up with traffic
jams, raining cats & dogs, feeling wet;
eventually, I was home.
21. Subsequently
- that an event happened after (and
possibly because of)
Mary said she couldn’t come and
subsequently the picnic was cancelled.
22. Later on
- At a later time, after the time that has just
been mentioned.
Peter stayed for tea until four o’clock. Later on he
called in at the garage.
24. After a while
- “after a short period of time”
I met Alan this afternoon, after a while he
invited me to his club.
25. Word order with timeWord order with time
adverbialsadverbials
They went to the café .
(ABC): eventually, finally, initially,
subsequently
(AC): afterwards, after a while, at first, at
the beginning, in the end, later on, to
begin with
A B C
27. Reading: Dream JobsReading: Dream Jobs
Indulge yourself
Backstage
Draw a line
Trade
Track down
Make an exception with something
28.
29.
30.
31.
32. Page 9: Cultural Notes: UnusualPage 9: Cultural Notes: Unusual
hobbieshobbies
Guerilla gardening
- gardening on other people’s land
without permission.
- proactive way of taking responsibility
for improving public spaces in towns and
cities
Urban exploring
- illegal act
- just to take photographs, no footprints
37. Answers: Exercise 3Answers: Exercise 3
First name: Margaret
Surname: Tyler
Age: 67
Address: Heritage House, Wembley, Middlesex, UK
Collection type: Royal memorabilia
Number of items: Approximately 10,000
Favourite piece: painting of Diana and her two sons
Latest Piece: Plate from the Queen’s Gallary in Victoria
Special room: Diana room
39. Answer: Exercise 5Answer: Exercise 5
1) The china plate from the Queen’s
gallery, Victoria
2) Reporting on the wedding for American
television
3) The Diana room
4) The painting of Diana and her sons
5) Her collection
6) The announcement of Prince William’s
engagement
40. Answer: Exercise 7Answer: Exercise 7
She uses direct speech when she reports
speech. She uses the verb say instead of
ask when it’s a question.