Waldo Jaquith, head of the U.S. Open Data Institute, leads off the day at Open Data NJ with a primer on what open data is -- and is not -- and an explanation of why it's important.
Satellites are becoming as useful as any other global infrastructure. The main three application: imaging, communications and navigation are expanding very fast paving the way for the "New Space" firms bringing space tourism, space minerals excavation and space fueling to become a reality for humanity
This document summarizes the potential impacts of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck near Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti. It estimates that over 11,000 people may have been exposed to strong or violent shaking (VI or higher on the Mercalli intensity scale). Several cities including Les Cayes (population 126k) and Port-au-Prince (population 1,235k) likely experienced shaking of VII or higher. The document issues a "red alert" for potential shaking-related fatalities and economic losses, noting that losses could be 6-70% of Haiti's GDP based on historical quakes in the region.
Mark Headd, technical evangelist for Accela, Inc and former chief data officer for the City of Philadelphia, gives an overview of the open data movement and Open Data NJ, May 15, 2015
49960 lbu 2014 catch the vision brochureMark Crook
Louisiana Baptist University trains hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year, many of whom are bi-vocational or small church pastors unable to attend expensive seminaries. It also operates tuition-free Bible institutes in 25 countries through its INSTEP program, training hundreds of national pastors. Additionally, LBU has a prison ministry and provides training to Hispanic students in America, Mexico, and South America, being one of few schools offering full degrees in Spanish. Over the past 40 years, it has trained thousands of pastors, missionaries, educators, and businesspeople serving worldwide. Its vision is to honor God by equipping Christians with skills to fulfill the Great Commission.
This document discusses strategies for building audience engagement beyond just content from a panel at the Innovating the Local News Ecosystem Conference. The panelists were from WFMU, WNYC, ProPublica, and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. They discussed how engaging audiences through opportunities for action and involvement can inform journalism, elevate community voices, and build audiences. ProPublica examples showed how crowdsourcing helped uncover dark money spending through patient reviews and document reviews.
This document provides an overview and review of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles.
The Xbox One is described as a larger console that blends into the home entertainment center but lacks visual flair. Improvements are noted to the controller but the bumpers received mixed reviews. Microsoft's vision focuses on entertainment, apps, and Kinect, which some see as diverting from gaming. The PS4 is praised for its attractive design and the improved DualShock 4 controller. Sony's focus remains on gaming performance over multimedia, but the system lacks compelling launch games. Both consoles show promise but will need strong software libraries to realize their potential.
Satellites are becoming as useful as any other global infrastructure. The main three application: imaging, communications and navigation are expanding very fast paving the way for the "New Space" firms bringing space tourism, space minerals excavation and space fueling to become a reality for humanity
This document summarizes the potential impacts of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck near Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti. It estimates that over 11,000 people may have been exposed to strong or violent shaking (VI or higher on the Mercalli intensity scale). Several cities including Les Cayes (population 126k) and Port-au-Prince (population 1,235k) likely experienced shaking of VII or higher. The document issues a "red alert" for potential shaking-related fatalities and economic losses, noting that losses could be 6-70% of Haiti's GDP based on historical quakes in the region.
Mark Headd, technical evangelist for Accela, Inc and former chief data officer for the City of Philadelphia, gives an overview of the open data movement and Open Data NJ, May 15, 2015
49960 lbu 2014 catch the vision brochureMark Crook
Louisiana Baptist University trains hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year, many of whom are bi-vocational or small church pastors unable to attend expensive seminaries. It also operates tuition-free Bible institutes in 25 countries through its INSTEP program, training hundreds of national pastors. Additionally, LBU has a prison ministry and provides training to Hispanic students in America, Mexico, and South America, being one of few schools offering full degrees in Spanish. Over the past 40 years, it has trained thousands of pastors, missionaries, educators, and businesspeople serving worldwide. Its vision is to honor God by equipping Christians with skills to fulfill the Great Commission.
This document discusses strategies for building audience engagement beyond just content from a panel at the Innovating the Local News Ecosystem Conference. The panelists were from WFMU, WNYC, ProPublica, and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. They discussed how engaging audiences through opportunities for action and involvement can inform journalism, elevate community voices, and build audiences. ProPublica examples showed how crowdsourcing helped uncover dark money spending through patient reviews and document reviews.
This document provides an overview and review of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles.
The Xbox One is described as a larger console that blends into the home entertainment center but lacks visual flair. Improvements are noted to the controller but the bumpers received mixed reviews. Microsoft's vision focuses on entertainment, apps, and Kinect, which some see as diverting from gaming. The PS4 is praised for its attractive design and the improved DualShock 4 controller. Sony's focus remains on gaming performance over multimedia, but the system lacks compelling launch games. Both consoles show promise but will need strong software libraries to realize their potential.
This document discusses Monmouth County's efforts to create online portals to improve records management and public access to information. It summarizes the Records Inventory Management system (RIM) that stores electronic records, the Open Public Records System (OPRS) that provides public access, and an Appeal Filing System used by multiple counties. It proposes a Forms Portal to allow electronic submission of records, reducing costs compared to manual scanning and indexing of paper records. The Forms Portal would integrate with RIM for records storage and OPRS for public access, completing Monmouth County's transition to electronic records management.
The document discusses information design for online courses. It defines information design as defining, planning, and shaping message content and presentation to meet recipients' needs. Well-designed information can create consistency, a seamless layout, and focus on instructional content, without watering down content or reinforcing passive learning. Examples show how integrating related course elements and using visual elements like formatting, icons and spacing can improve user understanding.
The document discusses the Election Law Enforcement Commission's (ELEC) website, which went live in 1997 and contains searchable information on contributions to political candidates and parties, lobbying reports, campaign finance trends, and other public records. It provides a comprehensive source for information on New Jersey elections and was named the best state website in 2010, though the document notes there is still room for improvement, such as enabling full electronic filing and upgrading the 15-year-old software.
Serial Cut is a Spanish design studio founded in Madrid by Sergio del Puerto. It specializes in art direction for international advertising projects. The studio creates slick, bold graphic images using real sets and 3D elements. Typography plays an important role in their work. Serial Cut combines pop culture, luxury, and surrealism in their iconic images that are open to multiple interpretations. They have attracted high-profile clients like Toyota, Nike, and Sony.
The first few times you teach online, its more about survival rather than anything else. Surviving the communication breakdowns. Surviving the technical problems. Surviving student challenges.
This workshop is a survival guide for your adventures in online teaching. First-aid kit is included.
1) O documento discute minerais, incluindo sua definição, origem, propriedades e classificação. 2) Existem vários tipos de minerais, classificados de acordo com sua composição química, como carbonatos, fosfatos, sulfetos e óxidos. 3) Os minerais silicatados são particularmente importantes e incluem classes como nesossilicatos, sorossilicatos e tectossilicatos.
The document discusses hybridizing a class by integrating both online and face-to-face activities and content. It defines hybrid courses as those that use online technology to transform and improve the learning process rather than just supplementing traditional face-to-face classes. The benefits of hybrid courses include providing more time for active engagement with content, allowing students more flexibility, and freeing up classroom space. The document outlines steps for designing a hybrid course, including establishing goals, creating an instructional framework, identifying technologies, and communicating expectations to students.
This document discusses fitness during pregnancy and the postpartum period. It covers the physiological, biomechanical, and emotional changes that occur during each trimester of pregnancy, labor, and the postnatal period. It provides goals and guidelines for exercise during each stage to promote health and wellness. Exercise recommendations include walking, swimming, and stationary cycling. The document also discusses managing common discomforts like back pain, pelvic pain, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Relaxation techniques to reduce stress are also covered.
International classification of functioning, disability and healthHetvi Shukla
The document provides an overview of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). It describes the ICF as a WHO framework for classifying health and health-related domains to establish a common language for disability. The ICF classification includes components on body functions, structures, activities, participation, and environmental/personal factors. The document outlines the development, aims, applications and coding guidelines of the ICF to provide a standardized system for assessing functioning and disability.
The document discusses several studies that analyzed biomechanics during stair climbing. SAMANTHA M. REID et al. (2007) found that alternate stair ambulation patterns like step-by-step lead-leg and trail-leg had higher knee loads than traditional step-over-step. M. Spanjaard et al. (2008) examined how increasing step-height and body mass influenced lower limb biomechanics during descent. Centro di Bioingegneria et al. (2002) investigated biomechanics at different stair inclinations. Additional studies analyzed kinematics of ascending and descending, differentiated patterns between young and older adults, and identified normal parameters in young individuals.
The document discusses upper limb orthosis, devices used to modify the structural and functional characteristics of the upper limb. It covers the objectives of upper limb orthosis including protection, correction, and assistance. It also discusses the classification, biomechanics, principles, and assessment of upper limb orthosis and provides descriptions and examples of specific upper limb orthoses including shoulder orthoses, arm slings, arm abduction orthoses, elbow/forearm/wrist orthoses, and elbow or wrist mobilization orthoses.
4th Modern Marketing Reckoner by MMA Global India & Group M: 60+ experts on W...Social Samosa
The Modern Marketing Reckoner (MMR) is a comprehensive resource packed with POVs from 60+ industry leaders on how AI is transforming the 4 key pillars of marketing – product, place, price and promotions.
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
STATATHON: Unleashing the Power of Statistics in a 48-Hour Knowledge Extravag...sameer shah
"Join us for STATATHON, a dynamic 2-day event dedicated to exploring statistical knowledge and its real-world applications. From theory to practice, participants engage in intensive learning sessions, workshops, and challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of statistical methodologies and their significance in various fields."
This document discusses Monmouth County's efforts to create online portals to improve records management and public access to information. It summarizes the Records Inventory Management system (RIM) that stores electronic records, the Open Public Records System (OPRS) that provides public access, and an Appeal Filing System used by multiple counties. It proposes a Forms Portal to allow electronic submission of records, reducing costs compared to manual scanning and indexing of paper records. The Forms Portal would integrate with RIM for records storage and OPRS for public access, completing Monmouth County's transition to electronic records management.
The document discusses information design for online courses. It defines information design as defining, planning, and shaping message content and presentation to meet recipients' needs. Well-designed information can create consistency, a seamless layout, and focus on instructional content, without watering down content or reinforcing passive learning. Examples show how integrating related course elements and using visual elements like formatting, icons and spacing can improve user understanding.
The document discusses the Election Law Enforcement Commission's (ELEC) website, which went live in 1997 and contains searchable information on contributions to political candidates and parties, lobbying reports, campaign finance trends, and other public records. It provides a comprehensive source for information on New Jersey elections and was named the best state website in 2010, though the document notes there is still room for improvement, such as enabling full electronic filing and upgrading the 15-year-old software.
Serial Cut is a Spanish design studio founded in Madrid by Sergio del Puerto. It specializes in art direction for international advertising projects. The studio creates slick, bold graphic images using real sets and 3D elements. Typography plays an important role in their work. Serial Cut combines pop culture, luxury, and surrealism in their iconic images that are open to multiple interpretations. They have attracted high-profile clients like Toyota, Nike, and Sony.
The first few times you teach online, its more about survival rather than anything else. Surviving the communication breakdowns. Surviving the technical problems. Surviving student challenges.
This workshop is a survival guide for your adventures in online teaching. First-aid kit is included.
1) O documento discute minerais, incluindo sua definição, origem, propriedades e classificação. 2) Existem vários tipos de minerais, classificados de acordo com sua composição química, como carbonatos, fosfatos, sulfetos e óxidos. 3) Os minerais silicatados são particularmente importantes e incluem classes como nesossilicatos, sorossilicatos e tectossilicatos.
The document discusses hybridizing a class by integrating both online and face-to-face activities and content. It defines hybrid courses as those that use online technology to transform and improve the learning process rather than just supplementing traditional face-to-face classes. The benefits of hybrid courses include providing more time for active engagement with content, allowing students more flexibility, and freeing up classroom space. The document outlines steps for designing a hybrid course, including establishing goals, creating an instructional framework, identifying technologies, and communicating expectations to students.
This document discusses fitness during pregnancy and the postpartum period. It covers the physiological, biomechanical, and emotional changes that occur during each trimester of pregnancy, labor, and the postnatal period. It provides goals and guidelines for exercise during each stage to promote health and wellness. Exercise recommendations include walking, swimming, and stationary cycling. The document also discusses managing common discomforts like back pain, pelvic pain, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Relaxation techniques to reduce stress are also covered.
International classification of functioning, disability and healthHetvi Shukla
The document provides an overview of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). It describes the ICF as a WHO framework for classifying health and health-related domains to establish a common language for disability. The ICF classification includes components on body functions, structures, activities, participation, and environmental/personal factors. The document outlines the development, aims, applications and coding guidelines of the ICF to provide a standardized system for assessing functioning and disability.
The document discusses several studies that analyzed biomechanics during stair climbing. SAMANTHA M. REID et al. (2007) found that alternate stair ambulation patterns like step-by-step lead-leg and trail-leg had higher knee loads than traditional step-over-step. M. Spanjaard et al. (2008) examined how increasing step-height and body mass influenced lower limb biomechanics during descent. Centro di Bioingegneria et al. (2002) investigated biomechanics at different stair inclinations. Additional studies analyzed kinematics of ascending and descending, differentiated patterns between young and older adults, and identified normal parameters in young individuals.
The document discusses upper limb orthosis, devices used to modify the structural and functional characteristics of the upper limb. It covers the objectives of upper limb orthosis including protection, correction, and assistance. It also discusses the classification, biomechanics, principles, and assessment of upper limb orthosis and provides descriptions and examples of specific upper limb orthoses including shoulder orthoses, arm slings, arm abduction orthoses, elbow/forearm/wrist orthoses, and elbow or wrist mobilization orthoses.
4th Modern Marketing Reckoner by MMA Global India & Group M: 60+ experts on W...Social Samosa
The Modern Marketing Reckoner (MMR) is a comprehensive resource packed with POVs from 60+ industry leaders on how AI is transforming the 4 key pillars of marketing – product, place, price and promotions.
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
STATATHON: Unleashing the Power of Statistics in a 48-Hour Knowledge Extravag...sameer shah
"Join us for STATATHON, a dynamic 2-day event dedicated to exploring statistical knowledge and its real-world applications. From theory to practice, participants engage in intensive learning sessions, workshops, and challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of statistical methodologies and their significance in various fields."
Enhanced Enterprise Intelligence with your personal AI Data Copilot.pdfGetInData
Recently we have observed the rise of open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that are community-driven or developed by the AI market leaders, such as Meta (Llama3), Databricks (DBRX) and Snowflake (Arctic). On the other hand, there is a growth in interest in specialized, carefully fine-tuned yet relatively small models that can efficiently assist programmers in day-to-day tasks. Finally, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures have gained a lot of traction as the preferred approach for LLMs context and prompt augmentation for building conversational SQL data copilots, code copilots and chatbots.
In this presentation, we will show how we built upon these three concepts a robust Data Copilot that can help to democratize access to company data assets and boost performance of everyone working with data platforms.
Why do we need yet another (open-source ) Copilot?
How can we build one?
Architecture and evaluation
State of Artificial intelligence Report 2023kuntobimo2016
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science and engineering whose goal is to create intelligent machines.
We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around us today, ranging from culture to consumer products, is a product of intelligence.
The State of AI Report is now in its sixth year. Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen with a goal of triggering an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.
We consider the following key dimensions in our report:
Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
Industry: Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Safety: Identifying and mitigating catastrophic risks that highly-capable future AI systems could pose to us.
Predictions: What we believe will happen in the next 12 months and a 2022 performance review to keep us honest.
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Database
Waldo Jaquith at Open Data NJ
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2. Open Data Is
1. accessible publicly
2. readable by software
3. without cost
4. reusable and redistributable, without restriction
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the military stations in the interior of the continent and
at other points in the States and Territories...and for
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the approach and force of storms.”