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It's never too late to be learning something new, and what better place to do that than the Mary Idema Pew Library at GVSU. Never sleep. Never stop learning. Never quit.
Children are little adults and there are fine lessons in life that they teach and some take proddings from the children in the adults we have become, the resulting exchange is world made far better for the rest who follow...
Beeton's Science, Art & Literature - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. c1875.
Illustrated with numerous woodcuts.
Published by Ward, Lock & Tyler, London. Three Volumes with half leather binding, approx 3800 pages.
Big Questions for Artificial General Intelligence
2. Can abstract knowledge representation serve as an adequate foundation for the adaptive creation of context-specific knowledge representations?
(and if so, what kind?)
From the opening session: Review of AI and AGI Past Present and Future by Ben Goertzel of Novamente at the The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) Ben Goertzel was one of the conference organizers and is a driving force in the AGI community.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI -- to create intelligence as a whole, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. AGI is also called Strong AI in the AI community.
Another good reference is Artificial General Intelligence : A Gentle Introduction by Pei Wang
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Artist: Hogeboom
Description: States, 'Ex Libris Clarence S. Jacoby, Welcome to the Temple and when you leave, leave my book.;' depicts a house named 'Temple of Knowledge' made of books with an inkwell in front and stylized smoke emerging from the chimney. Signed at the bottom right 'Hogeboom.'
Format: 1 print, b&w, 10 x 7 cm.
Source: Pratt Institute Libraries, Special Collections 187a (sc00383)
For inquiries regarding permissions and use fees, please contact: rightsandrepro.library@pratt.edu.
The last few days have been a flurry of activity with building on the river and wet lands. But, in between I have gone to a bunch of new places and back to some of my favorite venues.
Xavier & I love to salsa. So we did a search and wham, we found >Latin Palace Dance Club. Couples were dancing in dressy attire to wonderful salsa music. Wearing a tuxedo without a shirt and me in a short cocktail dress, it so reminded Xavier & me of Miami clubs.
A stopover at Organica to catch the last hour of DJ Qee's set woke us up with a nice psy jolt! So good to hear Qee's dynamic sounds and see old friends.
A brand new club called Fear FM sent me a tp. I got to meet owner/builder Cypher Webb. Beautifully built by Cypher, he was also spinning an awesome set of hardstyle and goth rock. I had a blast there. Cypher is also recruiting DJ's so peeps, give him a shout!
It was so late on Thursday night (Fri morn?) that I just had to stop off and say hi to DJ Xavi at The Cave. Owner Tasty Hax was there, too. I run into her at every party!
Friday afternoon, I got a tp from one of the builders. I ended up at Blackhearts 80's club. I love the funkiness of this club. So simple. It feels like a rock n roll club. Halloween was coming and the Pillsbury Dough Boy showed up! LOL!
Late night, and Xavier & I headed for DJ Nebulae's set at Piranha. Xavi loves this club. He set his JMD Effects hud on and we were in psy heaven. We always have fun at Shad's club!
In between all the craziness, I hit New Berlin's Electro Smog. Gee... I can't seem to get enough of this place. Zap Hax was hosting and DJ djleftydc Denja was spinning a sweet set of tunes.
Another new place I landed upon was Le Ghetto Hype. This is a fun club of alternative and eclectic tunes. Owner DJ Frederick Neberle & partner ARNAUD Mureaux have built a wonderful place to hang.
Off to Divaz Lounge! DJ 8wall Wrigglesworth just sent me a tp! OMG, 8wall is spinning at Divaz.
I met 8wall at Dance Island last year and then over at Nutrie. He spins a very chill set of house and minimal tunes.
But, the highlight of my night was at Old Factory listening to DJ Jeangilles Anthony. This frenchman is an artist. Beautiful industrial noise layered with a hardstyle beat... then transcending into experimental music... psychedelic experimental noise. LOL! and I fell asleep there... just couldn't leave!
Late night on Friday, Xavier and I ended up at DJ Digital Francis' Le Pardis de Digital Nation. It was an after party and Digi was spinning. Xavi & Digi started a "stump me" game. I think Digital was very impressed with Xavier's musical knowledge. They bro-downed the entire night leaving me and DJ Snowkitty dumbfounded... 'cause neither of us knew any of the tunes. LOL! I think Xavier has a new favorite dj now!
Knowledge comes by taking things apart. Wisdom comes by putting things together.
— John A. Morrison
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Landfill is in aquifer recharge zone
Pictures by for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, .
www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/2013/09/landfill-is-in-aquifer-recha...
The impression of water puppet show
Water Puppet show folk knowledge integrated in the creative arts. Due to living in low-lying terrain floods, farmers used to the water, out of water, so they make art with water. Village ponds used as campus performances, and here, the dancing puppet appeared on the water in a buffer talented in music, audio, take advantage of natural, color combinations sun, water, color green of the trees and flowers.
Vietnam water puppet show
Water Puppet contain quite interesting understanding of the farmers in the field of artistic creativity, experience, and how to deal with the environment is cumulative over time, very simple, very direct natural art.
Not only to take advantage of and exploit particular characteristics of the country, puppetry also reflect the beauty, the talent and the creativity of farmers while advantage of the power burst, rebound, compression, thrust of wind, water, fire, smoke, sound rhythm, color of light, the inertia of the movement to make art.
On the other hand the water puppet show ingenious ability to create art of creating confusion. These objects are puppets create art products from the summary, take advantage of what is available in nature. It is wood, iron, steel, rope, ropes, bamboo, cloth, wire, foam, rubber, etc., were what seemed normal in everyday life, through the hands of artists and farmers, has become a cosmetic product take the breath and soul of the Vietnamese countryside. This is a value creating art is very much appreciated.
And the art of water puppetry, this creation is a product of the imagination rich, witty way of building dynamic art image and open, has built strong relationships and continuity between art and audience.
Image folk puppet like duvets duck, buffalo, weaving …. went on integrated water puppetry as a unique aesthetic values of local coloring, building appearance typical of rural Vietnam.
Showing the Job in Vietnam
The human, the animal in the water puppet carved create the aesthetic of the working people, and consistent with all the scenes puppet mentioned. Most of us are carrying look rustic, primitive, simple, not sophisticated art, broaching chau. Visual lines to colors, shapes for long, awkward, naive, but it achieved very own artistic spirit of rural people, it is the foot
real, innocent expression, which is observant and very subtle sense of humor, which is rich imagination and creativity … All ingenious removable objects as well up the voice of the soul, emotional, aesthetic lifestyle concept with the spiritual power of the working people.
Features in controlling the operation of the puppets, with just a few simple movements, funny but full of nature logo that people can understand the puppet character are boating, battle, are rice or are breeding ducks …… However the success of the art of water puppetry is shown in that it does not just stop at what puppets do is always pondering to understand why it is like so. The question always arises experiencing the journey of each puppet. It can be said that in this respect the art of water puppetry highly symbolic.
Source – www.vietnamtraveltour.net – vietnam tour by Antony Dong
Whoever lives in Grindlow must know that this green lane out of the village gets flooded at times so at some point a line of flags were laid against the wall to allow dry passage.
Goddard interns visited the Wallops Flight Facility on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
They explored launch sites, visited the range control center, gained knowledge of the launch operations, learned about the various types of rockets and missions conducted at Wallops, and viewed the research facilities dedicated to scientific balloons. (Photo Credit: NASA/Valerie Chu)
Alt: Interns walk toward two large green signs at the Wallops Flight Facility. They are standing on grass, with an empty road and scaffolding behind them. The sign on the left reads, “International Space Station, On-Ramp.” The sign on the right reads, “Moon Ahead.”
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Carte de visite by unidentified photographer. This simple pencil inscription is the lone text clue to the identities of these men. Visual clues include the first lieutenant seated on the left, who wears a forage cap with a brass infantryman's horn, and the soldier seated on the right, who smokes a pipe and appears to be wearing a colonel's shoulder straps.
Mike Musick of the Harper Ferry Civil War Round Table suspects, "that they were POWs at Camp Ford, Texas. Thus Western troops are a possibility - maybe some place like Iowa."
UPDATE
On March 12, 2013, during a visit to the DC Photo Show, I caught up with Roger Hunt, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of Civil War images, particularly Union colonels. His multi-volume series, "Colonels in Blue," is well-known to many researchers. I emailed Roger later that day to let him know that it was good to see him, and took the opportunity to send him about a dozen links to unidentified Union officers on my Flickr photostream.
This image caught Roger's attention.
Here is what he wrote: "I believe the seated officers were recently released from Camp Ford Prison, Tyler, Texas. From a book in my library containing a complete list of the officers held at Camp Ford, I learned that the only colonels held there were Colonel Isaac S. Burrell of the 42nd Massachusetts and Colonel Charles C. Nott of the 176th New York. Since the colonel seated on the right in your image is (in my opinion) obviously not Colonel Burrell, my conclusion is that he is Colonel Nott. Unfortunately I can't guarantee this identification since I have never seen a wartime image of Colonel Nott. The only image of him that appears in my New York Colonels in Blue volume is one of him as a judge in old age."
At his enlistment in 1861, Charles C. Nott was a 31-year-old lawyer. Isaac Sanderson Burrell was a 42-year-old wheelwright when he joined the army in 1862.
The colonel in the "Ford men" image looks closer in age to Nott than Burrell.
If you have additional information that might lead to an airtight identification, please be in touch!
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Oil on wood, plaster, gold leaf About 3.5 feet tall and 2 feet wide.
Detail of: flickr.com/photos/21702692@N05/2102534758/
As part of the required course knowledge pupils need to be able to outline the process involved in taking a square wooden blank and preparing it for turning between centres. These pictures depict that process chronologically.
Stage 1 * Preparation of wooden blank. Cut to size. Sand square. Mark across diagonals. Centre punch the centre point. Use spring dividers to mark circumference. Repeat on other end.
Stage 2 * Plane off corners down to circumference line. This takes cross section from square to octagon. This reduces force on cutting toll in initial prep of blank. Mount between fork [driven] centre and dead [or live ] centre at tailstock end. Apply grease a dead centre end. apply force from tailstock end to force fork into material at driven end. Adjust toolstock height to suit. Check for clearance.
Stage 3 * Roughout using scraper to diameter. Use combination of gouges and skew chisels to add beads and other decorative detailing as required. Ensure spindle speed is appropriate for material and cross section under consideration. Obey all safety instructions.
Diploma in Construction and Building Engineering is a course that provides students with knowledge in civil engineering within the context of a construction environment. The theories and concepts of civil engineering are taught from the fundamental level to understand the range of subjects from civil engineering technology, construction cost control to professions in context. Students will attain the width and depth of knowledge in Construction Management Courses.
Northern Rough-winged Swallow. The swallows disappeared from our local ponds several weeks ago so I was surprised when I found a number of swallows feeding over the water at John Heinz NWR.
I suspected that at least some of the swallows were northern rough-winged swallows, but most swallows at this time of year have lost their breeding plumage and are brown. I did not have the knowledge or references to verify this in the field, so I took nearly 500 flight shots despite the distance and bad light. Examining these photos at home I found that I had captured four species of swallows (northern rough-winged, bank, tree and barn) and also chimney swifts in flight. The northern rough-winged and bank swallows and chimney swifts are all lifers for me, as I have seen them in flight before but never photographed them.
I have included a collage of the four swallows in comment box. Clockwise from top left are: northern rough-winged swallow showing the dark throat and breast and also the unusual almost biplane like primaries, the tree swallow with the white underneath and some still had flecks of blue, the bank swallow with the dark collar and the barn swallow with the forked tail and orange throat.
Further down the path I came across rough-winged perched rough-winged swallow - the photograph above. As this is a lifer I have included another photo in the comment box, showing the definitive ID of the brown throat and breast.
I will be away for about a week so apologize in advance for possibly not commenting on your postings.
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As part of the required course knowledge pupils need to be able to outline the process involved in taking a square wooden blank and preparing it for turning between centres. These pictures depict that process chronologically.
Stage 1 * Preparation of wooden blank. Cut to size. Sand square. Mark across diagonals. Centre punch the centre point. Use spring dividers to mark circumference. Repeat on other end.
Stage 2 * Plane off corners down to circumference line. This takes cross section from square to octagon. This reduces force on cutting toll in initial prep of blank. Mount between fork [driven] centre and dead [or live ] centre at tailstock end. Apply grease a dead centre end. apply force from tailstock end to force fork into material at driven end. Adjust toolstock height to suit. Check for clearance.
Stage 3 * Roughout using scraper to diameter. Use combination of gouges and skew chisels to add beads and other decorative detailing as required. Ensure spindle speed is appropriate for material and cross section under consideration. Obey all safety instructions.
Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, and had a 2011 population of 72,366. It is the largest city on Lake Huron and in Lambton County. Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes where Lake Huron flows into the St. Clair River, which forms the Canada-United States border, directly across from Port Huron, Michigan. The city's natural harbour first attracted the French explorer La Salle, who named the site "The Rapids" when he had horses and men pull his 45 tonnes (50 short tons; 44 long tons) barque "Le Griffon" up the almost four-knot current of the St. Clair River on 23 August 1679.
This was the first time anything other than a canoe or other oar-powered vessel had sailed into Lake Huron, and La Salle's voyage was thus germinal in the development of commercial shipping on the Great Lakes. Located in the natural harbour, the Sarnia port remains an important centre for lake freighters and oceangoing ships carrying cargoes of grain and petroleum products. The natural port and the salt caverns that exist in the surrounding areas, together with the oil discovered in nearby Oil Springs in 1858 led to the massive growth of the petroleum industry in this area. Because Oil Springs was the first place in Canada and North America to drill commercially for oil, the knowledge that was acquired there led to oil drillers from Sarnia travelling the world teaching other nations how to drill for oil.
The complex of refining and chemical companies is called Chemical Valley and located south of downtown Sarnia. While in 2011, the city had the highest level of particulates air pollution of any Canadian city, it has since dropped down to 30th. About 60 percent of the particulate matter, however, comes from the neighboring United States. Lake Huron is cooler than the air in summer and warmer than the air in winter; therefore, it moderates Sarnia's humid continental climate, which makes temperature extremes of hot and cold very rare. In the winter, Sarnia experiences lake-effect snow because Arctic air blows across the warmer waters of Lake Huron and condenses to form snow squalls once over land.
Culturally, Sarnia is a large part of the artistic presence in Southern Ontario.
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Rare in use is my Nikon F100 especially with black and white film and ambient light!
Accidental shot during great coffe chat with a friend of mine!
All this info is basic and reflects my current knowledge. I am largely self taught, but flickr has helped immensely. Feel free to point out flaws in what I say. I am by no means an authority on the subject.
I took this before I started to really appreciate what good equipment can achieve. The photo is of a spectacular sunset from my Lincoln Ridge Apartment. The clouds were scattered around the sky in a nice pattern and the light from the setting sun was still visible. I had to capture this picture...and this was the best my SD550 could do. How did I take it and a similar vertical shot?
I used the balcony as a tripod, used vivid colors (to boost the saturation bascially) and the slow synchro mode. Turning up the ISO on these camera typically results in lots of noise (and besides I barely knew what ISO was in August last year).
What is wrong with this picture you ask? Besides the exaggerated saturation, the picture only works in medium size. Try looking at the large or original sizes and the lack of detail becomes apparent. If you want to frame this, forget about it. It is not a good picture, but of course better than no picture...
What would I do today? First, I'd run and get my tripod. Tripods are a must for crisp low light shots, and it works especially well from the no-hassle environment of your balcony. The tripod provides absolute stability for the shot (assuming you don't kick it). That being said make sure to use remote release other the mere act of pressing the button may shake the camera. There are two options to avoid this: (1) use a timer or (2) buy a remote release device that plugs into the camera. Since your camera is firmly attached to the tripod and therefore stable, you can reduce the ISO to 100 and avoid noise/grainy issues (seeing pixels when you see the picture big basically).
Then I'd start playing in the Tv mode and have the camera automatically select an appropriate Aperture. However, the camera frequently selects inadequate aperatures so make a mental note of your Tv setting and move to Manual mode and use this as a starting point. I'd also experiment with cloudy WB and higher saturation. Finally, I'd play with my zoom to frame the picture differently. Not only did my SD550 have poor zoom range, but zoomed picture quickly get blurry without a tripod.
An advanced point and shoot can achieve all this. The only problem with the S3 IS is that it has limits on aperature, and these limitations make low light shoots hard in certain situations. For instance the S3 IS had a limit of f/8 aperature (the amount of light the camera allows into the lense). This is a problem if you want to shoot objects that are very dark or take traffic shots. It is also a problem with flare (since the lights get way to bright). But I'd probably be fine in this shot. So why bother getting a dSLR like my Rebel XTi?
First, the images are much higher quality even if you select the same setting. To see this try looking at one of my night images in original size shot with the S3 IS and the Rebel. Even shots that I consider high quality with the S3 IS do not even come close in detail. Why? The Rebel has a much bigger sensor and much higher quality lenses. This holds for all shots, but it most noticable in difficult light settings.
Second, what if I did not have my tripod? The remedy is then to increase the ISO, however, if you do this on a S3 IS the shot gets extremely grainy (i.e. pixelated). Sure, the S3 IS is a IS camera i.e. image stabilization, but in practice this does not buy you much. In contrast, the Rebel XTi does an excellent job of controlling noise at high ISO so I would simply go to ISO 800 or ISO1600 and try to stabilize against the wall of the balcony. You can also buy IS lenses for the Rebel (which sadly I don't have....to $$$ basically) or lenses with wider aperature (like my f/1.4 lense) - more on that later.
Why is an IS lense useful? Basically you can only handhold a shot at say 50 mm (how much you zoom) at a shutter speed of 1/50. In a low light shot you need to open the shutter long enough to allow enough light in so that your shot is not dark, but you are handholding and if you need to handhold for more than 1/50 you will get a blurry and useless shot (it is just impossible to hold the camera steady for that long). With a IS lense the lense adjusts for the movement and you may be able to get a crisp shot at a much slower shutter speed (which allows more light to enter). People say that you can improve 3-4 steps, that is from 1/50 to 1/20-1/15.
What does high ISO do? It increases the sensitivity of the camera to light and allows you to absorb more light all else constant. The benefit of this is that you can use a faster shutter speed and this increases the likelihood of getting a sharp shot. Examples tend to help so I will give one. Lets say I want to shoot the wall in my room. I put the camera in Av mode (to keep the aperture fixed) and it says 1/13 @ f/2.8 at ISO 100. This lense is 50mm fixed so using the rule of thumb I mentioned above, 1/13 will not result in a crisp shot (you can try using the continuous mode and snapping about 10 and keeping the crispest). An IS lense would help improve the shot, but my lense is (sadly not IS). So I increase the ISO to ISO 400 and down to 1/125 @ f/2.8. Now I can easily get a crisp shot. The downside is more noise; an easy way to notice this is do look at the sky in a night shot. However, with the Rebel graininess is negligible at ISO400.
What does a wider aperture do (lower f/stop)? It allows more light to enter and thereby reduces the time the shutter needs to be open (and increases the chance of getting a crisp shot). In example above I could reduce the f/stop further. For instance, at f/1.4 and ISO 100 I get a shutter speed of 1/50; the higher aperature (annoying aperature and f/stop go in different directions) allows me to avoid increasing the ISO.
The problem is that the basic lense on a Rebel XTi is cheap and is neither IS nor has a particulary low f/stop (3.5 with no zoom). It is easily overwhelmed in low-light shots. However, as you start decreasing the f/stop and move below f/2.2ish your DOF (depth of field - baiscally your lense will focus on some object and blur the background). So whereas my f/1.4 lense helps with low-light (especially indoor shots) to is key to pick the right place to focus (I now fondly refer to this lense as 'el lente loco' :))
So if you want to take high quality night shots or shots in low light get a dSLR like the Rebel XTi. You may be thinking, when do I really need these capability? Think about indoor shots. Often flash fails (and the flash on P&S's like my SD500 is poor in any event) and often it washes out the subtle natural light. Note! Flash would do nothing in the shot above (why? the range of the flash is very limited). Think about the time around dusk and dawn or if its overcast or what about shots inside a store. What if you zoom a lot especially in less than ideal light? There are so many shots I can now take with the Rebel that I could not even dream about with either the SD550 or the S3 IS (which is way better than the SD550) The only downside I see is price and the bulky size. You don't need to know much; just stick it in the auto mode (P is better) and start shooting and then learn by experimeting.
To make a long story longer: consider an example. I've always been a car freak and car photos - especially shot of moving cars - have always fascinated me. One experiment I had recently was taken shot of a moving car at night. This is hard given the low light and the motion of both cars. Increasing the ISO to 1600 (max for the Rebel) and reducing the f-stop to f/1.8 allowed me to get a decent shot at 1/60 (just right for a 50mm lense; I snapped about 4 as the Chysler 300C sped past and one was crisp). Given the high aperture it was also important to manual select the focus point and point it at the car.
There was one problem (and I had figured this out by testing on other cars). The shot was too dark. One solution was to increase the exposure to +1. This increases the demands for light and all else constant reduces the shutter speed (and the chance of getting a crisp shot). Check out the graininess of the shot. The is pretty crisp and sharp, but you can see the noise even in the large size. Try this shot with a point and shoot once....it is illustrative and you will not get close. Even the lense that came would the Rebel would be out of luck.
by George di Caprio, Jim Himes, Rich Chidlaw, Matt Golden, Milt Gray, Berent Boates, Art Vitello, Dennis Ellison & Chris Lane
Published by The last gasp publishing Co.
1975
(From left to right:) Major. Khalifa Ali Al Zidi, Traffic Systems Supervisor, DGIT, Royal Oman Police (ROP), Sultanate of Oman, Dr. Salim Sultan Al-Ruzaiqi, Chief Executive Officer, Information Technology Authority (ITA), Sultanate of Oman and Mr. Hassan Fida Al-Lawati, Team Leader – Projects, Digital Society Development Division, Information Technology Authority (ITA), Sultanate of Oman
Improving Penetration: a Success Story of Augmenting National Knowledge Society Through En-Massing Digital Devices and Enabling Citizens (National PC Initiative – Information Technology Authority)
His Majesty, the Sultan has directed for a Royal Grant bestowing one free PC targeting specific segments in society in order to make the PCs ownership affordable by subsidizing their costs. The government represented by ITA executed this task through approved retailing outlets targeting the specific segments in order to bridge the digital divide and enhance the local capabilities and increase the PC and internet penetration rate as part of its e.Oman strategy.
Day 1
13 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas