![]() ![]() Scapple is different in that any note can connect to any other note in any way you need. There are many mind-mapping applications, but almost all of them force you to stick to a particular hierarchy, which can be devastating if your ideas should deviate from that hierarchy. ![]() Instead, Scapple’s beauty lies in its simplicity and ease of use. Now, Scapple isn’t like Scrivener it’s not packed with features and it probably won’t blow you away by revolutionizing how you write. Sometimes, however, you just need to map out a few ideas, and for this purpose Literature and Latte created another app: Scapple. I’ve already written a review of that app so I’ll just sum it up by saying that it’s a fully-featured studio for writers it has virtually everything you’ll need to write and organize any writing project. I use Scrivener by Literature and Latte for all my writing. These articles were originally from my previous blog at My miniature painting articles range from updates concerning what I’m painting to full guides on how to paint. Miniatures Posts about my hobby of painting The Lord of the Rings miniatures from Games Workshop.There’s a lot more to most of the characters and plot elements in the book, and even a twelve-hour masterpiece of a movie just can’t compare. Overall, Tolkien’s books are deeper and more complex than any film adaptation could be. The Lord of the Rings Explained In this series of short articles, I talk about the various ways Tolkien’s books differ from the film adaptations. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Although there is no interior dials listed in the files, the gauges are just variations of dials found in basic aircraft.This writing is also present on the Submersible. On either side of the entrance hatch, there is a mixture of numbers and letters that read "4R53", Leet synonym for "ARSE".The Kraken's headlight beams are not aligned with the actual headlights, as they appear to be projected slightly to the right of the headlight housing.Like its real-life counterpart, the Kraken's glass canopy is completely bulletproof, specially reinforced for underwater environment.It is one of the seven vehicles named after a mythical creature, the other six being the Banshee, the Phoenix, the Hydra, Valkyrie, Chimera and the Leviathan.A Kraken is a legendary sea monster of giant proportions that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.GTA 5 - Wildlife Photography Challenge (Kraken Submarine) PS4 & Xbox One Trivia General The interior features two main consoles with various gauges and two independent sticks. The hatch door is located at the top of the cockpit. On either side of the cockpit are two engine units, with headlights facing forward on each one. ![]() As opposed to its real-life counterpart, the Kraken has its overall shape altered to a more boxy design. The submersible is made up of a main cabin, with a large bubble-shaped glass canopy at the front end. It is based on the Triton line of miniature submersibles, namely the Triton 1000/3. ![]() The Kraken appears to be quite similar to the Submersible, particularly its bright yellow color and construction. ![]() ![]() Later, the player gains access to a device that can create a time recording of their actions, such that they can then interact with this recording to complete tasks, such as having the clone stand atop a switch to keep it activated for some time. ![]() Boxes let the player climb to higher levels or to block the path of drones, among other factors, and large fans that can launch the player or other objects across the puzzle. Portable crystalline refractors allow the player to activate light-based switches. As the player collects sigils and completes more puzzles, new puzzle elements become available. Drones and turrets can be disabled using portable jammer units, which can also disable force-field walls that block the player's path. These include computer-controlled drones that will detonate if they are too close to the player and kill them, and wall-mounted turrets that will shoot down the player if they get close if the player dies this way, they are reset to the start of the specific puzzle. The puzzles require the player to collect tetromino-shaped "sigils" by navigating mazes and overcoming obstacles within them. The player takes the role of a robot with a seemingly human consciousness as they explore a number of environments that include over 120 puzzles.These environments interlock greenery, desert, and stone ruins with futuristic technology. The Talos Principle is a narrative-based puzzle game,played from a first- or third-person perspective. Other names taken from mythology and religion and used in the game include Elohim, Gehenna, Milton, Samsara, and Uriel. It takes its name from Talos of Greek mythology, a giant mechanical man who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. The game features a philosophical storyline. ![]() It was released for Android in May 2015, for PlayStation 4 in October 2015, for iOS in October 2017, and for Xbox One in August 2018. Virtual reality-enabled versions for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were released on 18 October 2017. It was simultaneously released on Linux, OS X and Windows in December 2014. The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle video game created by the Croatian developer Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. ![]() ![]() ![]() This rises inevitably the need for solutions to improve wellbeing, alertness, and cognitive performance in today's modern society where exposure to blue light emitting devices is ever increasing.ġ. THE ADVENT OF THE CIRCADIAN PHOTORECEPTORĬircadian rhythms are biological cycles that have about 24‐hour periods. ![]() While the exposure to blue is important for keeping organism's wellbeing, alertness, and cognitive performance during the day, chronic exposure to low‐intensity blue light directly before bedtime, may have serious implications on sleep quality, circadian phase and cycle durations. Exposure to blue light during the day is important to suppress melatonin secretion, the hormone that is produced by the pineal gland and plays crucial role in circadian rhythm entrainment. The beneficial effect on circadian synchronization, sleep quality, mood, and cognitive performance depends not only on the light spectral composition but also on the timing of exposure and its intensity. Circadian rhythm is important for optimum function of organisms and circadian sleep–wake disruptions or chronic misalignment often may lead to psychiatric and neurodegenerative illness. Short wavelengths, perceived as blue color, are the strongest synchronizing agent for the circadian system that keeps most biological and psychological rhythms internally synchronized. Visible light synchronizes the human biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus to the solar 24‐hour cycle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throw in the occasional trip to the local Starbucks where you also sometimes work, and there are three work-related locations. For example, let's say you work at home two days a week and in an office the other three. At first glance, location-based options seem much less critical on Mac until you realize just how valuable they can become if you move sporadically between various locations. You can also have them kick on whenever you're at a particular location (the local gym) or using a specific app or game. The beginning and end of each Focus Group aren't just time-based. Otherwise, these notifications are kept quiet until the group session expires.Īdding this type of flexibility to receiving notifications saves time and makes it easier to concentrate on the tasks at hand. You can create new groups for fitness, game playing, or anything else in just a few steps.įor each Focus group, you decide who's allowed to contact you and which apps can send you alerts during the specified times. The most apparent Focus groups are those for work hours, driving, and sleep time. ![]() Everything here is controlled by Focus groups, which you can create manually or pick from the canned options. With Screen Time, Apple made it easier for parents to track and restrict what their kids were doing online while keeping track of their online activities and getting a gentle nudge when it was time to take a break.įocus expands on this by making it possible to restrict notifications and communication, depending on the time of day or what we're doing. For Apple, this has meant introducing a Screen Time tool across its many platforms. ![]() You can find the app here at the App Store.The big tech companies have spent the last few years making it easier for us to unplug. People can opt between monthly or yearly subscription plans, and students have a special discount.Īll plans unlock the app on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and feature full synchronization. Ulysses requires a subscription for users to take full advantage of all of its features. And since Ulysses offers feature parity across macOS and iOS, it doesn’t matter where you are or when inspiration hits: All its tools, and all your texts, are always at your fingertips. You can manage projects of all kinds and sizes, be it novels, diaries or study notes – they are always saved, and automatically in sync. you can create ebooks, DOCX, PDFs, and HTML, and publish to WordPress, Ghost, and other blog platforms.Įverything you’ll ever write is stored in Ulysses’ unified library. The app helps you store your texts in the same way across all your devices. Ulysees also brings improved flow for unlocking password-protected texts, better Quick Look sheet previews in Finder and Spotlight, as well as a new keyboard shortcut to duplicate sheets or groups.
![]() ![]() Like a baby, it has a blank slate, of sorts, to learn. ![]() Here, the AI isn’t trying to precisely model its opponent’s behavior. In Statego, this brings about a zero-sum game: any gain a player makes results in a loss for their opponent.īecause of Stratego’s complexity, DeepNash took a model-free approach to their algorithm. Put simply, in each game, players can tap into a set of strategies followed by everyone, so that no single player gains anything by changing their own strategy. A pioneer in game theory, Nash won the Nobel Prize for his work for the Nash equilibrium. Instead, the magic touch for DeepNash came from the mathematician John Nash, portrayed in the film A Beautiful Mind. Dubbed the Monte Carlo tree search, a “stalwart approach to AI-based gaming,” the technique plots out potential routes-like branches on a tree-that could result in victory. ![]() Stratego’s complexity means that the usual strategy for searching gameplay moves is out of the question. The challenge is “what excited us,” he said. “The sheer complexity of the number of possible outcomes in Stratego means algorithms that perform well on perfect-information games, and even those that work for poker, don’t work,” said study author Dr. Stratego’s game tree, the sum of all potential moves in the game, totals a staggering 10 535. Stratego has over 10 66 possible starting positions-far more than all the stars in the universe. The number of potential game plays is mind-blowing. But that strategy faltered for Stratego, largely because of the length of game, which unlike poker, normally encompasses hundreds of moves. Stratego, in contrast, has a touch of Texas Hold ’em, a poker game DeepMind previously conquered with an algorithm. ![]() Even the most successful game-play algorithms, such as AlphaGo and AlphaZero, rely on complete information. This level of uncertainty is partly why Stratego has stumped AI for ages. Players must “balance all possible outcomes” any time they make a decision, the authors explained. Unlike chess or Go, in which each piece and movement is in view, Stratego is a game with limited information. Stratego is especially challenging for AI because players can’t see the location of their opponents’ pieces, both during initial setup and throughout gameplay. The goal is to eliminate the opposition and capture their flag. Each piece has a different name and numerical rank, such as “marshal,” “general,” “scout,” or “spy.” Higher ranking pieces can capture lower ones. Each side has 40 pieces they can place at any position on the board. The game is essentially capture the flag. In terms of complexity, Stratego is a completely different beast compared to chess, Go, or poker-all games that AI has previously mastered. As AI gains more flexible reasoning, becomes more generalized, and learns to navigate social situations, it may also spark insights into our own brains’ neural processes and cognition. Noam Brown at Meta AI, who wasn’t involved in the research.ĭeepNash’s triumph comes hot on the heels of another AI advance this month, where an algorithm learned to play Diplomacy-a game that requires negotiation and cooperation to win. “If you’re making a self-driving car, you don’t want to assume that all the other drivers on the road are perfectly rational, and going to behave optimally,” said Dr. AI systems that can easily maneuver the randomness of our world and adjust their “behavior” accordingly could one day handle real-world problems with limited information, such as optimizing traffic flow to reduce travel time and (hopefully) quenching road rage as self-driving cars become ever more present. With DeepNash, “game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier.” “Unlike chess and Go, Stratego is a game of imperfect information: players cannot directly observe the identities of their opponent’s pieces,” DeepMind wrote in a blog post. A notoriously difficult game for AI, Stratego requires multiple strengths of human wit: long-term thinking, bluffing, and strategizing, all without knowing your opponent’s pieces on the board. The result, DeepNash, toppled human experts in a highly strategic board game called Stratego. The trick was to interweave game theory into an algorithmic strategy loosely based on the human brain called deep reinforcement learning. Yet to navigate our unpredictable world, it needs to learn to make choices with imperfect information-as we do every single day.ĭeepMind just took a stab at solving this conundrum. ![]() ![]() ![]() The results speak for themselves - see for info.ĭISCLAIMER: Material presented on the 911METALLURGIST.COM FORUMS is intended for information purposes only and does not constitute advice. Now this really is a major step forward and, frankly, blows away anything that came before it. ![]() We pioneered all of these products and continue to learn from them with new innovations, the latest one being the Progradex Sampling System. That said, cone splitters have now had their day as well, including the rotary/rotaport design that followed the original. That is one of the many reasons why cone splitters exposed riffle splitters for what they are flawed, flawed, flawed. At best, it will just confuse you into a false sense of security. It is not therefore a "duplicate" sample at all and should not be used for any kind of QAQC. A tiered riffle splitter, on the other hand, takes a primary sample ONLY and then splits it in half at the end for a duplicate. Perhaps a better way of explaining the above is that a cone splitter will take a primary and duplicate split from the bulk sample. And it was the Metal Craft Cone Splitter that was used in the paper mentioned above. And then the duplicate is supplied from simply splitting the material from the final tier in half after bulk bias has occurred but the real joke is that and even with this flaw in its favour, it still can't provide a repeatable sample (tending to bias to the duplicate side on the graph.Īs for the cone splitter, don't know without more information, other than to say, there are a lot of poor copies from the original Metal Craft Cone Splitter around now. In other words, any bias from tier to tier, of which there will be a lot, is not represented in the primary or duplicate sample. ![]() The riffle splitter's "apparent" repeatability can't be relied upon because the duplicate is taken from the last tier only (the final part of the split), not all the way through the individual tiered splits. Could do with seeing Q-Q Plots to establish systemic bias and photos to establish set up - photos will probably explain most things. It’s difficult to make a final judgement without more information. ![]() ![]() When installing your electric car charging station, look for the right location. It also increases grid reliability and supports EV adoption, which is essential for organizations looking to enhance driver satisfaction and reach sustainability goals. Built on the universal J1772 charging standard, JuiceBox is a Level 2 charging station (240V required) that can power all electric vehicles on the market. Outdoor-rated (built to NEMA 4 standards) and UL listed, the JuiceBox electric vehicle charger features a waterproof and durable case. Based on the J1772 standard, it’ll even work with Tesla and all you need is a NEMA 14-50 240V outlet to power it. The JuiceBox 40 is a high power, fast and compact electric car charger with advanced WiFi internet control and smart grid features. It helps you optimize energy costs by controlling charging times and demand charges, which allows you to conveniently monetize your EV charging. Right now you can get the JuiceBox Pro 40 level 2 smart electric home charging system for 400, which is perfect for plugging in just about any EV on the market. JuiceBox Pro 48 offers your customers, employees, and tenants access to best-in-class smart charging solutions. Enhances driver satisfaction and helps reach sustainability goals.Increases grid reliability and supports EV adoption.Monetization of EV charging for energy cost control.JuiceNet® software platform for direct administrator control and smart grid optimization.now a growing array of Level 2 EV chargers, including the JuiceBox 40 and. Level 2 charging station with all the safety and charging features needed for businesses and organizations The Tesla Wall Charger is the most popular Level 2 charger on the market for a good reason. A home charger is usually referred to as a Level 2 charger (versus Level 1.At 649.00, its priced higher than comparable 40-amp smart charging stations like the Enel X Juicebox 40. ![]() Powered by the JuiceNet® software platform, JuiceBox offers direct administrator control and smart grid optimization. Ease of Use: The Level 2 charger can be installed indoors or outdoors. The Enel X JuiceBox Pro 48 Hardwired Wall Mount Level 2 Commercial EV Charging Station is a Level 2 charging station designed for cost-conscious businesses and organizations that want to maximize their EVSE investments. ![]() Description Enel X JuiceBox Pro 48 Hardwired Wall Mount Level 2 Commercial EV Charging Station The Enel X JuiceBox 48 EV charger comes with a load of smart features like WiFi, real-time charging data, an intuitive app, and the ability to power share. ![]() ![]() Find and Disable the service that causes the "svchost" high CPU usage problem. So, before you continue to troubleshoot the Svchost.exe high CPU usage problem, use this Malware Scan and Removal Guide to check and remove viruses or/and malicious programs that may be running on your computer. Many viruses or malicious programs can cause the svchost.exe high CPU/memory usage problem. Latest updates and solutions to fix the "svchost" high usage issue. Solution 4: Troubleshoot Windows Updates problems. Find and Disable the service that cause the "svchost" high usage problem. How to solve 100 % Svchost.exe (netsvcs) High Memory or CPU usage problems. In this tutorial you can find detailed instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve memory leak or high CPU usage problems caused by svchost. In the rest of the cases, the Svchost.exe (netsvcs) high CPU or Memory leak problems, can be caused by a Windows Update, or by a full Event log file or by other programs or services that start many processes during their execution. In many occasions, I have troubleshooted the Svchost.exe (netsvcs) problem by using different solutions to resolve the problem depending on each situation.įrom my experience, the Svchost.exe high usage problems – in most cases – occur on computers that are infected by a virus or a malware program. at moments when the user doesn't run any programs. ![]() But in several cases users are complaining that Svchost.exe is hogging their CPU or Memory resources without obvious reasons e.g. Svchost.exe is a generic and legitimate Windows process that loads several other critical services for proper Windows operation. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you first start looking for a YouTube video downloader, you’re probably just hoping to store a few videos for your personal use. Note: None of the developers mentioned in this review have provided me with any compensation for writing this article, and they have had no editorial input or review of the final content. I bring this constant pursuit of the best software to all my reviews, which saves you the time of having to test every program yourself! All of my work takes place in the digital world, so I rely heavily on having the best program for the job, whether it’s a hacked-together open source project or an industry-standard software suite. In terms of software, I spend a great deal of time experimenting with new programs in the search for better solutions. Those projects didn’t pan out because the technology just wasn’t ready, but they did give me a great deal of insight into the world of online video from both a content producer and a content consumer perspective. I have eagerly watched the rise of online video from the early days of broadband internet access, and I worked on designs for online TV websites back in the early 2000s. Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve got extensive experience with the website and software industries. How We Tested These Youtube Downloader Apps.Best Youtube Downloader: The Paid Competition.Best Paid Choice: Wondershare AllMyTube.Best Youtube Video Downloader Software: Top Picks.The best part about Folx is that you can define the video output quality and file format so you save time by not having to run your videos through a separate conversion program. You can then watch the videos when your Mac is offline, or transfer them to your iPhone or iPad via AirDrop. The app allows you to download almost anything (including YouTube videos, direct downloads, and torrents) from the Internet to your Mac. If you are on a Mac and prefer the sleek app experience, Folx is a great option worth considering. If you’re just looking for the best free Youtube downloader, that’s all you need! But because of this simplicity, it is extremely easy to use, and you can’t argue with the price. You can’t convert videos, download entire playlists or anything like that, you just download one by one in the native Youtube format. Created by a company named Open Media LLC, it does more or less exactly what it says on the tin: you can download videos from Youtube, and that’s about it. The best free YouTube downloader I found is the unimaginatively named 4K Video Downloader. You can also convert your downloaded videos to different formats based around a range of mobile device profiles, saving you from having to memorize which format is compatible with which device. It comes with a browser extension for quick saving, and it supports playlist downloading which makes it much simpler to download a number of videos at once. It allows you to download from a number of different video sources such as Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo and more, in a range of resolutions (including 4K). Wondershare has a great history of producing user-friendly video creation and editing apps, and they don’t disappoint with AllMyTube. The best paid Youtube downloader I found during this roundup review was Wondershare AllMyTube. ![]() There are a number of apps designed to help you save online videos, and we’ve sorted through the options to pick out the best Youtube video downloading software. Whether you’re a casual viewer or a video creator, you’ve probably wanted to save some of the videos you come across for times when you can’t watch them on Youtube directly. ![]() It’s not as though you can simply pop in a DVD containing your Youtube content, kick back and relax – but there is a way around this problem. In a world of slow mobile data and monthly bandwidth caps, it’s not always possible to watch what you want whenever you want it. Youtube finally came along to check all of those boxes, and as a result, it has taken over the digital video market and almost completely dominates the space.īut Youtube comes with a basic, obvious, and fairly major flaw: it’s only useful with a high-speed internet connection. Many people had been claiming that this change was just around the corner since the first days of the internet, but we needed a combination of high-speed internet access, plenty of content, and a stable, reliable platform to make it a success. It hardly seems possible, but even as recently as 10 years ago, nobody would have believed that online video was a serious challenge to the supremacy of broadcast television. ![]() |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |