1. The document discusses several aspects of human culture including material culture, nonmaterial culture, values, beliefs, norms, and symbolic language.
2. It provides examples of how different human groups and societies possess different cultures, including differences in language, customs, and worldviews.
3. Symbolic language is identified as a key feature distinguishing human culture from other animal cultures, as it allows for the creation and sharing of abstract concepts, ideas, and institutions.
AP Human Geography: Unit 3 - Cultural Geography: Part 1 SampleDaniel Eiland
This sample of Part 1 of the AP Human Geography Unit 3 Powerpoint includes 114 slides of information introducing concepts of culture, popular culture, and folk culture. It includes maps, higher-order thinking questions, vocabulary words, mind-mapping tools, and other resources to help educate your students on all of the necessary concepts for the AP Test.
Topics Covered: Cultural Geography, Cultural Ecology, Cultural Landscapes, Environmental Determinism, Possibilism, Environmental Perception, Cultural Determinism, Cultural Traits, Cultural Complex, Culture System, Culture Region, Cultural Realm, Cultural Hearths, Independent Inventions, Folk Culture Regions, Indigenous Cultures, Folk Music, Folk Architecture, Effects of Popular Culture and many others.
AP Human Geography: Unit 3 - Cultural Geography: Part 1 SampleDaniel Eiland
This sample of Part 1 of the AP Human Geography Unit 3 Powerpoint includes 114 slides of information introducing concepts of culture, popular culture, and folk culture. It includes maps, higher-order thinking questions, vocabulary words, mind-mapping tools, and other resources to help educate your students on all of the necessary concepts for the AP Test.
Topics Covered: Cultural Geography, Cultural Ecology, Cultural Landscapes, Environmental Determinism, Possibilism, Environmental Perception, Cultural Determinism, Cultural Traits, Cultural Complex, Culture System, Culture Region, Cultural Realm, Cultural Hearths, Independent Inventions, Folk Culture Regions, Indigenous Cultures, Folk Music, Folk Architecture, Effects of Popular Culture and many others.
What makes us humans different from animals? Culture? The ability to make tools? The language? Morality? Art? This presentation will show us that these criteria alone are not enough to explain what makes us different from animals.
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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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.
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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/
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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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/
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Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
4. Guugu Yimithirr Culture
• Guugu Yimithirr is an Australian
aboriginal language which does not
possess egocentric coordinates:
• Egocentric coordinates depend on the
your own body: left and right, front
and back.
– This coordinate system moves around
with us.
• Geographic coordinates use fixed
geographic directions, such as North,
South, East, and West.
– These coordinates do not change with
your movements.
5. Culture
• Culture is the knowledge, language, values,
customs, and material objects that are passed
from person to person and from one generation
to the next in a human group or society. (p. 61)
• Features of Human Culture:
1. Behaviors that are learned and not innate
2. Because they are learned, they vary (differ or
change) across space and across time.
3. The use of symbolic Language distinguishes
human from non-human cultures.
6. Material and Nonmaterial Culture
• Material Culture - made up of artifacts.
– Artifacts are by-products of human behavior.
• Related to the word ‘artificial.’
– includes all the things that humans make or adapt
from the raw stuff of nature: computers, houses,
forks, bulldozers, sandwiches, etc.
• Nonmaterial Culture – made up of intangible or
abstract things that influence people’s behavior.
– Five basic categories: symbols, language, norms,
values, and beliefs.
7. Values and Beliefs
Values – general or abstract ideas about what is
good and desirable, as opposed to what is bad
and undesirable, in a society.
– Sometimes values can come into conflict
– Examples of values: work ethic;
equality, freedom, democracy, etc.
Ideas/Beliefs – a belief refers to a person’s ideas
about what is real and what is not real.
8. Norms
Norms- rules about behavior.
– Key point: the way to judge the importance of a norm
(and even whether it exists) is to observe how people
respond to behavior.
Types of Norms: (these are not mutually exclusive)
i. Folkways: Casual norms; violations are not taken very
seriously. (e.g. eating pizza for breakfast)
ii. Mores: important rules (e.g. norms against unjustified
assaults)
iii. Taboos: norms that are so deeply held that even the
thought of violating upsets people. (e.g. eating human
flesh; incest)
iv. Laws: formal, standardized norms enforced by formal
sanctions.
9. Norms
• Norms are enforced by sanctions.
– Positive sanctions = rewards.
– Negative sanctions = punishments
– Formal sanctions = official responses from specific
organizations within society
– Informal sanctions = unofficial responses from
individuals within the group
Types of sanctions:
Positive Negative
Formal 1 2
Informal 3 4
10. Do animals communicate?
(Old View)
• Up until the 1980s, it was widely
believed that communication
among non-human animals was:
1. Not controlled (or ‘selected’) by
the animal; its communicative
behavior was simple a hard-wired
response to an environmental
stimulus, and…
2. Communicated only the
emotional states of the animal, i.e.
its states of ‘arousal’ or
excitement, and did not convey
information about the external
environment.
11. Do animals communicate?
(New Findings)
• Honeybee dance also communicates information about
the environment, but is innate and not learned.
– Decoded by von Frisch (1974)- tail-wagging dance is in the
shape of a figure-eight. The amount of time it takes to
traverse the straight, central portion of the dance indicates
the distance to the food source; the angle of this traverse
gives the angle of the source using the position of the sun
as a reference; the degree of vigorousness of the dances
indicates the quality of the food.
12. Do animals communicate?
(New Findings)
‘Domestic’ Apes
• Koko the Gorilla can
understand more than 1,000
words based in American Sign
Language (ASL)
• Kanzi the Bonobo is believed to
understand more human words
(coded in symbols called ‘lexigrams’) than
any other nonhuman animal in
the world.
13. What makes human symbolic
language so different?
• Several species engage in
referential communication:
they communicate specific
information about their
environment using signs.
– Example: vervet monkeys have
several warning calls depending
on the type of predator.
14. What makes human symbolic
language so different?
• However, most are limited to
using (non-symbolic) SIGNALS:
one-word behavioral
commands like “attack!”, “fire!”
1. Primarily manipulative, not
informative; intended to
influence others immediate
behavior.
2. Context, situation-dependent.
3. Cannot be true or false.
15. SYMBOLS and Language
• SYMBOL: anything that re-
presents something else to more
than one person.
• LANGUAGE: set of symbols that
expresses ideas and enables
people to think and communicate
with one another. (p. 66)
• Symbols and Language both a)
REFLECT reality, and b) CREATE “These Letters
are symbols”
reality.
16. Symbols and Institutions
Symbolic Language is necessary to
create institutions.
‘X counts as Y’
• Examples:
– Money. We can agree that paper
counts as money. But money (Y)
has no existence apart from our
definition of it.
– Rules of chess: the rules of chess
create chess. Chess would not exist
apart from these rules. (vs. rules of
traffic, for example) Rules of chess
In the GuuguYimithirr language, to say that you want someone to move ‘back from the table’ you would instead ask them to move North (insert the appropriate direction) a little. Instead of turning a screw or knob clockwise or counterclockwise, you might say East or West, depending on which way you were facing!When watching television, speakers of GuuguYimithirr will vary their descriptions of the relative position of the people on the screen, based on which way the television is facing! Even the objects of pictures inside a book are described based on the way that the book is facing!Their dreams and even their memories are also encoded in geographic coordinate directions.
The cat and the dog here are clearly communicating something, namely their emotional states, and we can infer what might have caused those emotional states, but they are not engaging in symbolic or referential communication, to be defined below.
The generic categories of predator calls seem to be innate, but the specific vocalizations are learned.Oddly, there seems to be more referential or symbolic vocalizations found in monkeys than in apes, at least in the wild. Little research has been done, however, on gestural communication (like body posture, hand signals, etc.) of apes in the wild.