This document discusses the history of California across several topics:
- Geology and conservation efforts in the 1800s included geological surveys and the establishment of Yosemite National Park.
- Technology development included advances in electronics, computing, aviation, astronomy, film, and other areas, with many innovations originating in California.
- California's population became highly diverse due to immigration during the Gold Rush and later waves from Asia, Latin America, and other regions. However, racial tensions and policies of exclusion persisted for decades.
- Music, art, literature, outdoor recreation and other cultural aspects were shaped by the environment and demographic changes in California.
Outlining the process, and background toward the revisioning of school to AUthenitc deep learning and a global thinking environment for secondary students. One schools journey.
This powerpoint was presented to staff with discussion around building our Narrative and how we want to look in 3 years time. What we need to do. Project Based Learning as an integral part of that narrative.
I gave this presentation at our Strategies for Business lunch February 3rd at Le Chambertin. Our lunch was well attended with over 25 entrepreneurs and professionals and many asked to get a copy for review. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
2. New World: Geology and Conservation
Geology
1847 Yale founded Sheffield Scientific
School, brought talented geologist to
California
California Academy of Sciences, goal to
survey state and collect rare and rich
productions
Geological Survey, measuring heights
and land formations
Mining, brought about invention of the
Pelton turbine
Lester Pelton 1880 patent water
turbine, multiplied power of running
water
Premise for hydro electrical generation
Conservation
Transfer of Yosemite Valley to federal
jurisdiction 1890
Advocated creation of national park
system
3. New World: Technology
Electronics
Transcontinental phone
calls, radio, television, and high speed
electrons
Semiconductor- replace vacuum tube
with nonmetallic solid material
Bardeen and Brattain used crystal
germanium
William Shockley, Palo Alto, 1956
founded Shockley Semiconductor
Laboratory
Goal to produce silicone
transistor
Intel Corporation, invented microchip
processor intelligence programmed via
software
Jobs and Wozniak
Mission make computers available to
millions of Americans
Apple I prototype
Biotechnological research
40% in the US within California
Lewrence Laboratory at Berkley, epicenter
for futher nuclear research. 7 won nobel
prizes.
4. New World: Fight and Astronomy
Flight- metaphor of the dream of California
James Montgomery, experiments heavier-than-air air glider
August 1883 altitude of fifteen feet, glided for six hundred feet,
and safely landed
Wright brothers heavier-than-air craft December 17, 1903 in
North Carolina
California capitalize on invention
January 1910, Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce,
air show
Right climate, engineering, technology, entrepreneurial
sprit and capital
Names associated with aviation in California synonymous with
flight itself
Astronomy- penetration of space
James Lick, died October 1876, left funs to build observatory for
most powerful telescope on the planet
The Lick Observatory, mount Hamilton Santa Clara County
Turned over to University of California
The Hooker telescope, Pasadena December 1908, increased
observable universe by 300 percent
George Ellery Hale, 200 inch disk upgrade of Throop
Polytechnic Institute into a first rate center of scientific research
5. An Imagined Place: Film and Literature
Film
Industrialization of film production in Hollywood in the 1920’s
Reliably good weather, distance from subpoena servers with suits against producers
not willing to pay what they thought was fair for licensing and reel footage fees
Americans caught glimpses of life in California
Mid 30s takeover of Germany by National Socialism
Mass emigration of talented Europeans
Southern California provided opportunities for employment in the film industry,
climate, and distance from conflict
Cold War, testimonies naming produced blacklist of members of the Communist Party
High point of social commentary, dark, drama, political tensions, race, class, mistrust
of separated men and women, and distrust of government sending soldiers to war
Writing, inspiration of 1940s film, with detective stories, preoccupation with California themes
of nature, naturalism, and bohemia with added politicized community resistance
Simplistic relationship to nature, urban matters, with solipsistic drama of self against
society
California as a emotionally empty place, bleakness, disconnect, fake promise of youth,
impending doom
The Beats of 1950- anguish of postwar generation oppressed by materialism, refuge in
sex, drugs, and rebellion
6. An Imagined Place: Painting, Photography, and Architecture
Painting
1920’s Landscapes in Postimpressionist style
Social Realism to California brought by the
depression
Daily life, backyard bbq, suburbia, Sunday
afternoon
1930’s popularity of mural, capacity for
political statement
Expressive and figurative paintings flourished in
1940s
Photography, Depression brought true
photographic realism. Attention turned to social
turmoil
Architecture
Arts and crafts inspired style first two decades
Modernism appeared pre-World War I era,
clean lines, surfaces, minimalist presentation
Characterize high end architecture
1950s postwar building boom, domestic
tradition, California Ranch style
7. An Imagined Place: Music and the Outdoors
Music- shirt from conservative to the avant-garde
Sound in motion pictures, composers 1930s,
took musical modernism to new heights
Jazz orchestra, progressive modes
Fusing of pop and modernism
Intensification of country music with the migration
from Dust Bowl states during the depression
Outdoor life
Middle class Californians opportunity to recreation
typically for upper class
San Francisco Bay Area 1860s, German immigrants
founded Olympic Club
Swimming, free public surf, rough water swimming,
swimming and boating clubs
California 1907 Anglo-Hawaiian brought surfing
Affordable. Widespread, became icon of
the California lifestyle
Baseball in California flourished in 1859
Mountaineering, skiing, rock climbing, windsurfing
and hang gliding
8. Forging a World Society
Gold rush “world rushed in” nearly every country sent
people to California, diversity
California founded on racial distinctions and repression
Disenfranchisement of blacks and Asians
Aggression against Mexican land titles
Lynching and Chinese must go crusade
Anti Japanese “white California” segregation of
school children, barring from land ownership,
incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWI
White “okies”, ethnic prejudice, despised in physical
selves, slack-jawed and incestuous
LA emerged as one of most important centers of
Jewish civilization
Anti-Semitism swept California between WWI and
WWII
Early 1900 SF more foreign born residents relative to
population than any other city in US
Korean immigrants, second influx of Mexicans,
Filipinos, Japanese, Sikhs
Armenians, fleeing Ottoman Turkish persecution
WWII more African Americans to California to work
9. Forging a World Society
1965 Immigration and Nationality Acts- reforming
immigration laws
Excluded groups now equal
immigrations, favored reuniting families
Refugees from Southeast Asia and Bangladesh
Racial, ethnic, and religious covenants of exclusion
in real estate
Continuing divide between blacks and whites
Watts riots of 1965
Los Angeles riots of 1992
O.J. Simpson trial of 1995
Illegal Immigration
1993 ranked one of three major problems in
California; along with crime and the
economy, both related to that issue
“Save Our State” Prop 187, November
1994, withdrawal of public support for
undocumented Californians
Passed but never implemented, states
cant regulate immigration
Create opinion, call to focus, illegals
costing great deal of money
10. Forging a World Society
Affirmative action
Keeping Asian 4.0 gpa from top UC and
admitting 3.0 gpa African American or
Latino
1998 race and gender based
preferences at UC ended
California Civil Rights Initiative, Prop
209, November 1996, outlawing
affirmative action
1998 Prop 227 disestablishment of California
bilingual education program, replaced with
one year immersion in English language
proficiency
Economy of California reliant on
undocumented workers
Gov. Davis bill authorizing issuance of drivers
licenses to undocumented workers
Struck opposition, repealed once
Schwarzenegger became governor
Californians becoming more like each other.
Common culture of California
