Jake Mannix, Lucidworks: In this more technical talk, Jake explained how Lucene scores a query, and what classes are instantiated to support the scoring. Jake described, first, at a high level how to do scoring modification to Lucene-based systems, including some “Google”-like questions on how to score efficiently. Then, he went into more details about the BooleanQuery class and is cousins, showing where the Lucene API allows for modifications of scoring with pluggable Similarity metrics and even deep inner-loop, where ML-trained ranking models could be instantiated - if you’re willing to do a little
“Unstoppable” by. Tim Green Furthermore, when Harrison got adopted it was a new start in life,and a new opportunity
Throughout the poem “The Hero’s Journey,” Tony Hoagland highlights the main theme that everyone is a hero to better illustrate the idea that anything done to be of some help can make someone a man or woman of courage. Hoagland states that he “understood that someone had waxed and polished [the floor] all night” to demonstrate that he believes that specific “someone” is a hero and that he or she has acted for the benefit of everyone, not just themselves. He writes to let Gawain, a knight, stay out camping for one hundred nights with nothing to protect him so that the knight will begin to comprehend the fact that every second of his personal glory and fame will only result in another’s sacrifice. Hoagland communicates this by giving the knight
In a world where everything surrounding one is so different and so similar in the exact same time… Imagine a society where everything an individual can mentally and physically do is under the power of the government. Self-difference does not exist. In a futuristic setting of the novel ‘Fahrenheit 451’ written by Ray Bradbury, and the short story ‘Harrison Bergeron’ written by Kurt Vonnegut are both two very eventful and interesting readings that will keep one’s mind running on about the outlook on futuristic life and the governments strict needs and wants throughout a society. These two stories can be compared and contrasted by the strict outlook on the governments control, demand and want over a society, the close relation the two main characters from both stories portray and the similar theme demonstrating loss of individuality.
Do you ever wonder what it takes to be a hair cutter or a waitress and all the things that takes place for them to be successful? In Mind at Work by Mike Rose he explains social and technical intelligence. Rose explores the intelligence required to perform various blue collar jobs successfully. He explains how using social skills are technical skills are two different but so closely related things. He also explains socially and technically what it takes to be a successful waiter or waitress and a successful hair cutter.
Montag is someone who is shy and keeps his thoughts to himself, but thinks many things. He shows that he is distracted instead of being happy throughout the book. At the time, he was walking home from work and was looking at Clarisse. Clarisse is a girl who would roam the streets and was also Montag's neighbor. She walks over to Guy and they start to have a conversation while walking to their houses. They discussing if talking about to see if Montag is really happy or if he was lying. She keeps questioning him. Bradbury explains “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as true state affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run across the lawn with the mask and the way
Contrary to popular belief, unfreedom and slavery was not unheard of in early Canada. In Jacques Viger L 'esclavage en Canada/The Slave in Canada, he presents documentation of "purchase, regulation, and manumissions of Panis (Aboriginal) and Black slaves in early Canada," shining a light on an "often ignored" part of Canadian history . Through his article in the Visions textbook, Brett Rushforth exposes the horrifying ways in which unfreedom was practiced within Indigenous populations in the Pays d’en Haut. While Robin Winks focuses on the reason for the slow emergence of Negro salves within New France, and Kenneth Donovan concentrates on the role and experience of slaves, specifically in Ile Royale. Through their articles, these historians pull back the curtain that shrouds the truth of slavery and unfreedom in early Canada, unmasking the widely accepted deception that Canada was slave free.
A world full a blank expressionless faces connected to even more mindless robotic people. A world where one just breathes and eats, but never truly feels any emotion. Our world is on the way to becoming this, but for Millie and Montag this was a sad, sad, reality in Ray Bradbury’s book Fahrenheit 451. Everything grows with time as did our main character Montag throughout the book. Montag begins as a mindless follower and evolves into a fearless leader. As he grows into this leader his relationship with Mildred goes through multiple changes. Montag and Millie’s story is broken into three parts. Montag first and most briefly believes he and Millie were a fairy tale couple and then Clarisse made him realize that he was in a loveless
“With rebellion, awareness is born,” quoted by Albert Camus. An act of rebellion can cause awareness and open people's eyes to horrendous acts. In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, when Montag realizes that the government wasn’t being fair, he decided he needed to make the society aware. Montag knew a rebellion was the only way to show that the government was not treating citizens right. It is acceptable to rebel when it is believed that the government is being unfair to their citizens because citizens should have the right to freely speak their opinions. People shouldn’t be told what they can or can’t-do for pleasure and they should be able to express their uniqueness.
The book written by Joel Spring was based on the constant derogation and the oppression of the people that were not considered “white”. The constant segregation between races caused many fights for equal rights among Native Americans, African American, Asian and Hispanic people. The conflict was never easy because the United States demonstrated an ethnocentric attitude, which caused the idea of deculturalization for many of the incoming immigrant races. The book demonstrates accuracy in many of the historical struggles between education, language, culture lands, and equal rights for a voice among the people in the United States.
Rick Riordan explains the setting where the characters are in so well. Tartarus for an example. Rick Riordan explained Tartarus as a eternal pit of darkness and it’s true. He said Tartarus was, “A dark gloomy place, with broken glass as beaches for the river.”
This summer I’ve read the book Heat by Mike Lupica. This baseball themed book is a out of the park excitement. It’s about a 12 year old cuban boy named Michael who is newly orphaned but loves to throw killer heat. But everything goes downhill when Michael can't prove his age by a lost birth certificate and gets kicked off the team. Michael tries to do his best by supporting the team by the sidelines. It gets worst, since his brother Carlos is only 17, they have to stay in the shadows so they don't get separated into foster homes.
Response on “The Humans” By Matt Haig “The Humans” written by Matt Haig is one that alters my perspective on career choice. The fiction is set under an extraordinary background, which, as the plot drives on, insightfully reflects human nature and the true meaning of being a human. In particular, I like the idea that humans’ achievements are limited by the lengths of their lives. The author holds a ground that technology explosion must be supported by long-lived people, since the information and knowledge cannot be directly conveyed between brains. Saving the time spent on learning process between generations can significantly impact the outcome in limited amount of time.
The book, Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy named Alex, whose uncle had just died in a car crash (or so they say). He finds out that his uncle was really shot by a man named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, really worked for MI6. He was a spy that was hired by MI6 to figure out the secret behind Herod Sayle and his Stormbreaker computers that he was donating to every school in England. Ian Rider had figured out the secret, but before he could reveal it to MI6, he was shot and killed. Alex’s uncle was the only family he had left, and so it deeply affected him. MI6 decided that they were going to give Alex either the choice of becoming a spy and taking the mission his uncle
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is known as the first dystopian novel and has paved the road for future dystopian novels, like George Orwell’s 1984. Both We and 1984 are scarily relevant to the 21st century and act as warnings against the natural outcomes of totalitarianism. We’s protagonist is numbered D-503, a mathematician and the engineer behind the Integral. He lives under the careful watch of the Guardians and stays loyal to the authoritarian rule of the Benefactor. He lives in a city-state called the One State (or United State), which was created as a result of the 200 Years’ War in which the city won over the country and has protected itself from the ‘primitive world’ by building a wall around itself. This plot greatly influenced Orwell to write his own version of this dystopia in 1984. The novel 1984 by George Orwell leaves its readers thinking whether the world is capable of successfully functioning under a government of extreme totalitarianism. However, ruled by the intangible body called Big Brother, which consists of the ministries of love, war, and truth, the government develops an image of him that is almighty. Though not a physical character, it’s presented to the people of Airstrip One as a supreme figure that has the power to conduct surveillance and watch over everyone. Petrified of a lack of freedom and excessive censorship in the future, Orwell and Zamyatin were among the first to have penned the consequences of an abusive and illogical government. Through the
While doing some of my research, I chose to use Computer Source as my database. The main subject of the database was trends in technology. It allowed me to search trends from any time which was particularly helpful for my topic. The type of search that can be completed using this database is Boolean searching. This type of searching style came in handy because the information I was searching for involved the cyber world, so it made it easier to differentiate which aspect of the cyber world I was researching. For example, differentiating between Cyber Terrorism and Terrorism or Cyber Warfare. Computer Source lets its users search by publication date rather than by scholarship level. Computer Source also showed similarities with Academic Search Complete in that they shared similar fields. But after conducting similar searches, Computer Source provided me with more relevant information. Overall, my search results were more refined and