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Made this in basically a day, lol. I rendered something today, and really liked the render and started to work on this. Notthing big really, just a normal abstract piece, it was done in cinema 4d and photoshop as usual.
Comments and favs are appreciated
Comments and favs are appreciated
wow amazing.. so much depth in it that the viewer can be lost in a trance by staring at it.
...Intensity of the color......i like it! ^-^=
It's very,very beautiful!!!
I like it!
I like it!
Really nice render, and I like the color scheme very much(;
great work man. Lovin the center piece. Ur getting better at those shapes. Keep it up man.
Oh man that is great. I love the piece. Great work Arora. Love the shapes u got and the center is great. And using an unusuale size to work in is another plus.
looks good just get rid of the brushing piece at the lower right
Very nice job, however it looks a little oversharpend in some places
wow that's awesome
very lovely
very nice, i love the brushing and the material on the render, keep it up ^_^
Holy cow man!!!
Thats my fav of yours yet bro..Awesome!!!!
Thats my fav of yours yet bro..Awesome!!!!
Great man, awesome brushing.
your shapes are getting more impressive looking everytime you submitt them..this is awesome..love the tentaclesss swirling in the middle of the image..and the colors rockss...!!
Visually Sound
The Colors Flow
For Basic Abstract, you've more than graduated
This is quite advanced without getting overly detailed
not bad
The Colors Flow
For Basic Abstract, you've more than graduated
This is quite advanced without getting overly detailed
not bad
VERY nice.
Purple is a pretty unused color, but it's amazing when used with black.
Lots of action in this, but not overdone
Purple is a pretty unused color, but it's amazing when used with black.
Lots of action in this, but not overdone
I like the colors...dunno why, but I think they're the perfect colors for such a piece
Looks impressive.
sweet work bro! loving it
simple render but all in one looks good !!
wow... but why didn't you use more 2D ?
very cool but i agree on the typo
awesome, but the typo is ugly :/
awesome, but the typo is ugly :/
Damn, really nice energetic piece.
FREAKING COOL. everything about it is awesome. good work.
very intense im liking the colors and the renders..the only downfall, in my opinion, is the text..but anyways overall its another decent graphic from you good work..keep it up man!
Colors, render, brushing. OMY!! +fav great stuff bro.
thats cool i like the bg the details and glows look great
One of your best.. I like it alot.. nice job!!
Controlled chaos! Beautiful design and colors.
that is really cool man, loving it


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Russell Pearce Sues in Bid To Rig Redistricting
Pearce wants to call the shots on the "independent" redistricting panel, and is suing to get his way
Well that didn't take long. As anticipated, state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce and his so-far compliant wingman state House Speaker Kirk Adams, are taking to court their bid to rig Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission.
After being shot down yesterday by the Commission on Appellate Court Appointments, which showed some backbone and refused to remove three nominees to the IRC as Pearce and Adams had demanded, Pearce and Adams have asked the Arizona Supreme Court to weigh in and force the Commission to do the pair's bidding.
It's a move that has all the subtlety of a South American coup.
The Commission has submitted a list of 25 nominees from which Adams, Pearce and their Democratic counterparts in the state legislature must choose four IRC members. These four will in turn choose a fifth, an Independent, to chair the IRC.
But Republicans Pearce and Adams claim that three nominees are not qualified because they hold "public office," contrary to constitutional dictates.
Two of the GOPers sit on, ahem, irrigation districts. And the third, Independent Paul Bender, the main object of Pearce's ire, is a tribal judge. ("Tribal," as in sovereign Indian lands.)
Bender, you see, has been an outspoken critic of Pearce's legislative babies: SB 1070, and the upcoming effort to gut the 14th Amendment. So for Pearce, it's payback time.
The two Republicans -- cover for the move to oust Bender -- resigned under pressure from Adams and Pearce, but Bender, dean emeritus of ASU's law school, will not bend.
In Wednesday's Commission hearing, the panel, which is currently comprised of a voting majority of eight Republicans, rejected Pearce and Adams' ploy to influence them. They voted to keep all three disputed nominees on the list, declining to accept the resignations of the two Republicans, as they were given under duress.
You can read the entire Pearce-Adams petition, here. But the gist of it is below.
Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch, who chairs the Commission as a non-voting member, has recused herself from the case. Wednesday, she predicted that a legal challenge was "likely."
Indeed, I suspect this lawsuit was ready to go yesterday, and all the Pearce-Adams junta had to do was rewrite a few details.
The state Attorney General's Office is the attorney of record for the Commission, and would defend it against the action. Even if the new Republican AG Tom Horne agrees with Pearce and Adams, his office would still be obliged to represent its client.
All of this should occur very quickly. Adams and Pearce's lawyers have asked for an expedited hearing, and as their picks to the IRC are supposed to be in by January 31, according to the state constitution, they will get it.
The question I have is how long will the public stand for this outright meddling in a process that's meant to exclude such attempts at gerrymandering?
Both Pearce and Adams have plenty of names to choose from. So what if every nominee doesn't meet with their approval? Their selfish, partisan concerns should not be a factor in the makeup of the IRC, which will wield enormous power in establishing the boundaries of Arizona's legislative and congressional districts.
From Pearce, this sort of chicanery is to be expected, but from Adams, it's disappointing. Is the Speaker of the House planning to carry water (or Kool-Aid) for bullyboy Pearce for the next two years? If so, this is merely a prologue to the Andrew Thomas-like chaos that will envelop this state as a result.
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Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Human Fossils from Moravia and Bohemia (Czech Republic): Some New [sup.14]C Dates. (News & Notes)
Svoboda, Jiri A., van der Plicht, Johannes, Kuzelka, Vitezslav, Antiquity
Traditionally, the territories of Moravia and Bohemia (Czech Republic) are considered rich in human fossils from Upper Pleistocene and Early Holocene contexts. However, the fossil lists, as included in the available Catalogues and other reviews (Vldek 1971; Valoch 1996; Svoboda et al. 1996; Jelinek & Orvanova 1999; Wolpoff 1999) are constantly being supplemented and modified by new discoveries both in the field (Matousek 2000; Svoboda et al. 2000a) and in the collections (Trinkaus et al. 1999; 2000), by rediscovering old fossils believed to be lost (Svoboda 2001b; Drozdova 2001), and by new dates improving both the chronologies and the archaeological contexts (Pettitt & Trinkaus 2000).
We review here [sup.14]C dates for the region, obtained from materials such as bone, charcoal and calcite. The bone samples provide direct dates, whereas charcoal and calcite yield associated dates. The dates are all shown in TABLES 1 & 2. The samples received the standard [sub.14]C pretreatment to remove contaminants. Large samples were measured by the conventional method (GrN, Groningen; ISGS, Illinois), and small samples (mg size) by AMS (GrA, Groningen; OxA, Oxford). For ages beyond 20,000, there are inconsistencies in published `calibration' records and thus in absolute chronology, so that we use the [sub.14]C chronology in this text. The measurements are all corrected for isotopic factionation, and are reported in BP (Mook & Streurman 1983).
In addition to a previous paper on the depositional context of the human fossils from Mladec and Koneprusy-Zlaty kun (Svoboda 2000), we focus in this paper on new [sub.14]C dates, obtained recently from four Moravian and Bohemian sites: Mladec, Koneprusy-Zlaty) kun, Svitavka and Obristvi, and discuss them in the chronological framework of the human fossils from Moravia and Bohemia. It appears that the Mladec dates confirm the expectations very well, whereas dates from the other three sites make a revision and reclassification of the contexts of these human fossils necessary.
New dates from the four Czech sites
Mladec I (Central Moravia)
Sites I-II from Mladec are characterized by a multi-floor karstic system in the Tresin Hill. It is penetrated by vertical fissures and chimneys, where more than 100 specimens of anatomically modern human fossils were found at various locations between 1881 and 1922 (Szombathy 1925; Bayer 1925; Smycka 1922; Skutil 1938; Jelinek 1983; Oliva 1993; Wolpoff 1999). The aim of our present project was the reconstruction of the depositional context, as it was before removal of sedimentary cave fillings, by combining the early reports with evidence from sediment relicts still present in the cave, using a Surfer programme graphic presentation (Svoboda 2000). It appeared that all human fossils were related to debris cones accumulated under the chimneys, the largest being the so-called Chimney of the Dead at site I. The majority of the cone deposits are of Middle Pleistocene age; the dating of the anatomically modern human fossils found in their uppermost parts was based primarily on the presence of the Mladec, points, i.e. bone projectiles considered culturally diagnostic for the Early Upper Palaeolithic in general and the Aurignacian in particular (Albrecht et al. 1972; Svoboda 2001a). Dating the human bones directly was unsuccessful thus far. Through the courtesy of Drs Szilvassy, Wolpoff and Frayer, a human rib fragment from the main cave, chamber D, locus d, associated with Mladec crania 1,2 and 4, was submitted to the Oxford Accelerator for dating in 1987 by C. Stringer (pers. comm.). Unfortunately it contained insufficient collagen to produce a radiocarbon date (R. Housley pers. comm.).
Our dating efforts Concentrated on site I, Szombathy's find-spot `a' in the so-called Dome of the Dead. The graphic reconstruction shows that before removal of the sediments this spot lay at the foot of the large debris cone under the Chimney of the Dead (Svoboda 2000: figure 5). …


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This is fantastic! Instant favourite!
This is very cool I like that it is not a straight on view but that the mirror is from top to bottom.
I love this
Fantastic capture You show a great eye
It looks very good!
Nice work
Nice work
wow! cool shot!
a good fractal
this is so trippy i love it!
The fact that theyre all very similar in colour gives it an even more intense optical illusion feel to it.
great work!!
The fact that theyre all very similar in colour gives it an even more intense optical illusion feel to it.
great work!!
awesomely done!
This is really cool! I like the perspective!
That is....yeah, I'm still trying to figure this out, great shot.
Love the angle! Great shot!
I love this photograph! Nice color and composition!
I like this kind of photo. Good work!
Wow! You did a very good job on this one! Keep up the good work
Really interesting and awesome
Made with a mirror or just mirrored in photoshop?
beautiful photograph! Getty always inspires! <3
Great job
Interesting work, but in my opinion, it looks too symetrical . There would need to be more differences between the two sides. But very nice work anyway ^^
It looks very nice!
Good work
Good work
This is great. It really makes the viewer think
Did you shoot this from a mirror or something? It kinda reminds me of a M.C. Escher picture.
Quite a unique shot
Very interesting piece!
wonderful work!
Awe, man!
The angle and dimension makes this a very interesting piece...nice composition.
Very nice.
Nice shot!
Would like to go upstairs ;D
thats nice, i like it very interesting
good job !!
good job !!
Wow. How did you get this shot? Was it a reflection? Or did you just edit it to make it look like that ?
somehow... very interesting
Very neat perspective!
This is a really interesting shot. The ghetty center is such a cool place!!
Wow that's very interesting. Mysterious shot too.
wow, I really like this blurry effect and the organic shapes here was it decorations of the ceiling of a big room?
I can't really figure out what I'm seeing, I know they're stairs, but from which angle? Really creative I must say!
nice click
So abstract, it makes for a very interesting image to look at. Nice work.
Great work.
Great job! Nice abstract feel!
Wonderful work! Brilliant!
Very interesting image. I love it!
abstract, i love it


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Funny Bear Acts Like Crazy Human
You gotta see this to believe this!
You gotta see this to believe this!
Cats be human…some of those cats need to go on a diet!
"Harley, how am I going to get you home?"
Mirror, mirror on the wall…who's the fairest of them all? Me!!!
Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song "as you've never heard it!
Before the first snow flake falls this year, I'd like to say for the record:
You've got them all in this video…dogs, cats, bears, horses, goats, squirrels…and they all have one thing in common…they fail horribly! …
"You gonna run to Piggly Wiggly 'cause you gotta git me some Skittles, cigarettes and a big …
Bears just wanna have fun!!!
Crazy Stupid Cat Fails…Too Funny!
These crazy husbands never listen to their wives!
The absolute best is at the 1:18 mark when he segues from crazy to serious and waves! …
These crazy people don't know their own strength!
Hope you fall . . . on your burger and fries …the bullfrog hates you …


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ABSTRACT: In this paper, we address issues in situated language understanding in a moving car, which has the additional challenge of being a rapidly changing environment. More specifically, we propose methods for understanding user queries regarding specific target buildings in their surroundings. Unlike previous studies on physically situated interactions, such as interactions with mobile robots, the task at hand is very time sensitive because the spatial relationship between the car and target changes while the user is speaking. We collected situated utterances from drivers using our research system called Townsurfer, which was embedded in a real vehicle. Based on this data, we analyzed the timing of user queries, the spatial relationships between the car and the targets, the head pose of the user, and linguistic cues. Based on this analysis, we further propose methods to optimize timing and spatial distances and to make use of linguistic cues. Finally, we demonstrate that our algorithms improved the target identification rate by 24.1% absolute.
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ABSTRACT: In spoken dialog systems, dialog state tracking refers to the task of correctly inferring the user's goal at a given turn, given all of the dialog history up to that turn. The Dialog State Tracking Challenge is a research community challenge task that has run for three rounds. The challenge has given rise to a host of new methods for dialog state tracking and also to deeper understanding about the problem itself, including methods for evaluation. © 2014,Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved.
Conference Paper: Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we address issues in situated language understanding in a rapidly changing environment – a moving car. Specifically, we propose methods for understanding user queries about specific tar-get buildings in their surroundings. Unlike previous studies on physically situated interactions such as interaction with mobile robots, the task is very sensitive to timing because the spatial relation between the car and the target is changing while the user is speaking. We collected situated utterances from drivers using our research system, Townsurfer, which is embedded in a real vehicle. Based on this data, we analyze the timing of user queries, spatial relationships between the car and tar-gets, head pose of the user, and linguistic cues. Optimized on the data, our algorithms improved the target identification rate by 24.1% absolute.
Conference Paper: Situ- Ated multi-modal dialog system in vehicles[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we address Townsurfer, a situated multi-modal dialog system in vehicles. The system integrates multi-modal inputs of speech, geo-location, gaze (face direction) and dialog history to answer drivers' queries about their surroundings. To select appropriate data source used to answer queries, we apply belief tracking across the above modalities. We conducted a preliminary data collection and an evaluation focusing on the effect of gaze (head irection) and geo-location estimations. We report the result and analysis on the data.
Conference Paper: Driver familiarity modeling for generating navigation directions[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Current and future in-vehicle personal assistant systems stand to benefit from knowledge of the level of familiarity that the driver has with different parts of the current route. Such systems could use this information to adapt driving directions to be more succinct, understandable and personalized. However accumulating evidence of familiarity by direct experience alone could take many months and still be incomplete. Instead, we propose building predictive models of driver familiarity with road networks by generalizing intelligently from a small sample of data. Inspired by psychology studies that suggest a variety of cognitive models of route familiarity in humans, we present an ensemble of familiarity models using different machine learning methods on GPS time series data collected during normal driving by a volunteer pool of 22 drivers from San Francisco Bay area. We validate the models' predictions through an extensive questionnaire administered to the subjects about route familiarity and need for directions along select routes. Our results indicate that a significant component of driver familiarity can be predicted from unobtrusively collected driving data. We conclude with a proposed approach for integrating such models with a generator of driving directions.
Conference Paper: Landmark-based location belief tracking in a spoken dialog system[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Many modern spoken dialog systems use probabilistic graphical models to update their belief over the concepts under discussion, increasing robustness in the face of noisy input. However, such models are ill-suited to probabilistic reasoning about spatial relationships between entities. In particular, a car navigation system that infers users' intended destination using nearby landmarks as descriptions must be able to use distance measures as a factor in inference. In this paper, we describe a belief tracking system for a location identification task that combines a semantic belief tracker for categorical concepts based on the DPOT framework (Raux and Ma, 2011) with a kernel density estimator that incorporates landmark evidence from multiple turns and landmark hypotheses, into a posterior probability over candidate locations. We evaluate our approach on a corpus of destination setting dialogs and show that it significantly outperforms a deterministic baseline.
Conference Paper: HRItk: the human-robot interaction ToolKit rapid development of speech-centric interactive systems in ROS[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Developing interactive robots is an extremely challenging task which requires a broad range of expertise across diverse disciplines, including, robotic planning, spoken language understanding, belief tracking and action management. While there has been a boom in recent years in the development of reusable components for robotic systems within common architectures, such as the Robot Operating System (ROS), little emphasis has been placed on developing components for Human-Robot-Interaction. In this paper we introduce HRItk (the Human-Robot-Interaction toolkit), a framework, consisting of messaging protocols, core-components, and development tools for rapidly building speech-centric interactive systems within the ROS environment. The proposed toolkit was specifically designed for extensibility, ease of use, and rapid development, allowing developers to quickly incorporate speech interaction into existing projects.
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ABSTRACT: Even as progress in speech technologies and task and dialog modeling has allowed the development of advanced spoken dialog systems, the low-level interaction behavior of those systems often remains rigid and inefficient. Based on an analysis of human-human and human-computer turn-taking in naturally occurring task-oriented dialogs, we define a set of features that can be automatically extracted and show that they can be used to inform efficient end-of-turn detection. We then frame turn-taking as decision making under uncertainty and describe the Finite-State Turn-Taking Machine (FSTTM), a decision-theoretic model that combines data-driven machine learning methods and a cost structure derived from Conversation Analysis to control the turn-taking behavior of dialog systems. Evaluation results on CMU Let's Go, a publicly deployed bus information system, confirm that the FSTTM significantly improves the responsiveness of the system compared to a standard threshold-based approach, as well as previous data-driven methods.
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ABSTRACT: This special issue or AI Magazine on dialogue with robots brings together a collection of articles on situated dialogue. The contributing authors have been working in interrelated fields of human-robot interaction, dialogue systems, virtual agents, and other related areas and address core concepts in spoken dialogue with embodied robots or agents. Several of the contributors participated in the AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, held in November 2010, and several articles in this issue are extensions of work presented there. Others include invited contributions. The articles in this collection address diverse aspects of dialogue with robots, but are unified in addressing opportunities with spoken language interaction, physical embodiment, and enriched representations of context.
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ABSTRACT: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the 2010 Fall Symposium Series on November 11-13, 2010. The eight symposia included Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, Commonsense Knowledge, Complex Adaptive Systems: Resilience, Robustness, and Evolvability, Computational Models of Narrative, Dialog with Robots, Manifold Learning and Its Applications, Proactive Assistant Agents and Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social, and Semantic Processes. Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems aimed to provide a comprehensive definition of metacognitive educational systems that is inclusive of the theoretical, architectural, and educational aspects of this field. The AAAI Commonsense Knowledge Fall Symposium had the goal of bringing together the diverse elements of this community whose work benefits from or contributes to the representation of general knowledge about the world. One of the specific goals of Proactive symposium was to gather the researchers from various projects in assistant agents to share their wisdom in retrospect.
Conference Paper: Efficient Probabilistic Tracking of User Goal and Dialog History for Spoken Dialog Systems.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we describe Dynamic Probabilistic Ontology Trees, a new probabilistic model to track dialog state in a dialog system. Our model captures both the user goal and the history of user dialog acts using a unified Bayesian Network. We perform efficient inference using a form of blocked Gibbs sampling designed to exploit the structure of the model. Evaluation on a corpus of dialogs from the CMU Let's Go system shows that our approach significantly outperforms a deterministic baseline, exploiting long N-best lists without loss of accuracy.
Conference Paper: The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In spoken communications, correction ut- terances, which are utterances correct- ing other participants utterances and be- haviors, play crucial roles, and detecting them is one of the key issues. Previ- ously, much work has been done on au- tomatic detection of correction utterances in human-human and human-computer di- alogs, but they mostly dealt with the cor- rection of erroneous utterances. How- ever, in many real situations, especially in communications between humans and mo- bile robots, the misunderstandings man- ifest themselves not only through utter- ances but also through physical actions performed by the participants. In this pa- per, we focus on action corrections and propose a classification of such utterances into Omission, Commission, and Degree corrections. We present the results of our analysis of correction utterances in dialogs between two humans who were engaging in a kind of on-line computer game, where one participant plays the role of the re- mote manager of a convenience store, and the other plays the role of a robot store clerk. We analyze the linguistic content, prosody as well as the timing of correction utterances and found that all features were significantly correlated with action correc- tions.
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ABSTRACT: We introduce a new framework employing statistical language models (SLMs) for spoken dialog systems that facilitates the dynamic update of word probabilities based on dialog history. In combination with traditional state-dependent SLMs, we use a Bayesian Network to capture dependencies between user goal concepts and compute accurate distributions over words that express these concepts. This allows the framework to exploit information provided by the user in previous turns to predict the value of the unobserved concepts. We evaluate this approach on a large corpus of publicly available dialogs from the CMU Let's Go bus information system, and show that our approach significantly improves concept understanding precision over purely state-dependent SLMs.
Conference Paper: Probabilistic Ontology Trees for Belief Tracking in Dialog Systems.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We introduce a novel approach for robust belief tracking of user intention within a spoken dialog system. The space of user intentions is modeled by a probabilistic extension of the underlying domain ontology called a probabilistic ontology tree (POT). POTs embody a principled approach to leverage the dependencies among domain concepts and incorporate corroborating or conflicting dialog observations in the form of interpreted user utterances across dialog turns. We tailor standard inference algorithms to the POT framework to efficiently compute the user intentions in terms of m-best most probable explanations. We empirically validate the efficacy of our POT and compare it to a hierarchical frame-based approach in experiments with users of a tourism information system.
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ABSTRACT: This paper introduces the Finite-State Turn- Taking Machine (FSTTM), a new model to control the turn-taking behavior of conversa- tional agents. Based on a non-deterministic finite-state machine, the FSTTM uses a cost matrix and decision theoretic principles to se- lect a turn-taking action at any time. We show how the model can be applied to the problem of end-of-turn detection. Evaluation results on a deployed spoken dialog system show that the FSTTM provides significantly higher respon- siveness than previous approaches.
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ABSTRACT: This paper describes a novel algorithm to dy-namically set endpointing thresholds based on a rich set of dialogue features to detect the end of user utterances in a dialogue system. By analyzing the relationship between silences in user's speech to a spoken dialogue system and a wide range of automatically extracted fea-tures from discourse, semantics, prosody, tim-ing and speaker characteristics, we found that all features correlate with pause duration and with whether a silence indicates the end of the turn, with semantics and timing being the most informative. Based on these features, the pro-posed method reduces latency by up to 24% over a fixed threshold baseline. Offline evalu-ation results were confirmed by implementing the proposed algorithm in the Let's Go system.
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ABSTRACT: The CMU Let's Go Spoken Dialogue System has been used daily for about three years to answer calls to the Pittsburgh Port Authority for bus information in the evening and on weekends. This has resulted in a database of over 50 000 spoken dialogues as of January 2008, one of the largest publicly available sets of this type of data. While retraining the system with part of this data, it became apparent that there are times of the day, of the week and of the year when the average number of successful calls is significantly higher. We will present evidence, using these three measures of time (hour, day of week, month of year) and criteria such as signal-to-noise ratio, estimated success rate, number of turns per dialogue, number of non-understandings per dialogue, and barge-in rate to detect the regular, predictable appearance of high and low success rates and to suggest methods for palliating this effect in order to increase overall dialogue success rates.
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ABSTRACT: We present a new architecture for spoken dialogue systems that explicitly separates the discrete, abstract representation used in the high-level dialogue manager and the continuous, real-time nature of real world events. We propose to use the concept of conversational floor as a means to synchronize the internal state of the dialogue manager with the real world. To act as the interface between these two layers, we introduce a new component, called the Interaction Manager. The proposed architecture was implemented as a new version of the Olympus framework, which can be used across different domains and modalities. We confirmed the practicality of the approach by porting Let's Go, an existing deployed dialogue system to the new architecture.
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ABSTRACT: This tutorial will give a practical description of the free software Carnegie Mellon Olympus 2 Spoken Dialog Architecture. Building real working dialog systems that are robust enough for the general public to use is difficult. Most frequently, the functionality of the conversations is severely limited - down to simple question-answer pairs. While off-the-shelf toolkits help the development of such simple systems, they do not support more advanced, natural dialogs nor do they offer the transparency and flexibility required by computational linguistic researchers. However, Olympus 2 offers a complete dialog system with automatic speech recognition (Sphinx) and synthesis (SAPI, Festival) and has been used, along with previous versions of Olympus, for teaching and research at Carnegie Mellon and elsewhere for some 5 years. Overall, a dozen dialog systems have been built using various versions of Olympus, handling tasks ranging from providing bus schedule information to guidance through maintenance procedures for complex machinery, to personal calendar management. In addition to simplifying the development of dialog systems, Olympus provides a transparent platform for teaching and conducting research on all aspects of dialog systems, including speech recognition and synthesis, natural language understanding and generation, and dialog and interaction management. The tutorial will give a brief introduction to spoken dialog systems before going into detail about how to create your own dialog system within Olympus 2, using the Let's Go bus information system as an example. Further, we will provide guidelines on how to use an actual deployed spoken dialog system such as Let's Go to validate research results in the real world. As a possible testbed for such research, we will describe Let's Go Lab, which provides access to both the Let's Go system and its genuine user population for research experiments.
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ABSTRACT: This short paper is intended to advertise Let's Go Lab, a plat- form for the evaluation of spoken dialog research. Unlike other dialog platforms, in addition to example dialog data and a portable software system, Let's Go Lab affords evaluation with real users. Let's Go has served the Pittsburgh public with bus schedule information since 2005, answering more than 52,000 calls to date. Index Terms: spoken dialog systems, evaluation
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Rev Andrew Malcolm, 59, was only 100 yards from home in Simonstone when a green car collided with him, knocking him to the ground, before fleeing the scene.
The father-of-two was returning from cycling around the borough with his son James who works at Coventry University when the incident happened on Friday.
Rev Malcolm, has been in charge of St Leonard's CE Church in Langho for almost three years after serving as a police inspector in Burnley.
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Rev Andrew Malcolm said: "I'm angry and disappointed that someone has done this.
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"My son, who I had been on a ride around the Ribble Valley with, had stopped to pick up something for lunch and if he hadn't then he could have been taken out as well.
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Rev Malcolm is planning to take his battered cycle helmet into St Leonard's CE Primary School to show them the importance of being safe on a bike.
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So I got my Fitbit in the mail Saturday, charged it up and put it on. I put it on around 1 in the afternoon and when I looked at it again that night, I was amazed. I'm a stay at home mom and am on my feet most of the day, up and down the stairs,... Read more
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AmongulTajikistanAgricultureFunding via CSC MDO "IMON International"
ShoirakhonTajikistanAgricultureFunding via CSC MDO "IMON International"
Update on UgulUgul is a widow and has two children. Ugul is a person who always tries to earn money and provide a better life for her family. She began her own business dealing in animal husbandry six years ago. She also has a dried fruit selling business. Little by little she has developed her businesses. Now, her businesses are going well.
Ugul requested a loan in the amount of 5000 somoni to buy feed for her cattle. From the profit from her business, she is going to improve her living conditions. She hopes for Kiva's cooperation in this loan since it will be used to improve her family's income.
Previous Loan DetailsUgul is a widow and has two children. She always wanted to provide them with good living conditions and since her husband died, Ugul decided to start a new business buying and selling dried fruits in order to generate an income to contribute to her home's finance. She has some cows but her income... More from Ugul's previous loan »
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About IMON InternationalIMON International (IMON) is a micro-deposit organization in Tajikistan that provides entrepreneurs with access to high quality financial products and services, including business loans, agriculture loans, consumer loans and micro-leases. Aiming to alleviate poverty, the organization helps unbanked individuals establish businesses in different sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture and service. Kiva lenders' funds will help the organization to expand its outreach to even more entrepreneurs, farmers and traders in Tajikistan.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Silicon is attractive as substrate since Cost efficient Sapphire is still not available above 4" diameters. Problems of lattice mismatch seems to be have been overcome atleast in localised spots.
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In India Kwality Photonics will be packaging LEDs built on Si at wafer level soonest.
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Article: Self-assembly and nanostructure formation of amphiphilic 4,5-bis(2-pyridylethynyl)tetrathiafulvalenes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Amphiphilic tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) having both long alkylthio chains and pyridylethynyl groups was synthesised, and its nanostructure and redox properties were investigated. The bis(pyridylethynyl)TTF formed 1D flat and helical tapes. Since these tapes were of micrometre size, the conductivities of neutral and I2-doped tapes could be measured by directly attaching gold wires to the tape. After doping with I2, the colour of the tape changed from purple to black, and the tape behaved as a semiconductor up to 2.6 × 10− 4 S cm− 1.
Article: Synthesis and electrical conductivity of perchlorate-doped TTF–diamide nanofibers with double and triple helix structures[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We synthesized 4,5-bis(octadecylthio)-4′,5′-bis(ethylcarbamoyl)tetrathiafulvalene and measured the electrical conductivity of its perchlorate (ClO4−)-doped nanofibers, which have double and triple helix structures. The nanostructure of the bis(octadecylthio)-TTF–diamide and its ClO4−-doped fibers in a 3:1 ratio was deduced in relation to the X-ray crystal structure of bis(methylthio)-TTF–diamide. The doubly coiled nanofibers form when initially formed spiral ribbons of lamellarly arranged TTF–diamide perchlorate split in the middle, and a further split of the double helix produces the triplex structure. Temperature-dependent conductance and current–voltage (I–V) characteristics of the coiled fibers were measured in the temperature (T) range of 70–300 K. The conductance decreased with a decrease in T, and the I–V characteristics were nonlinear over the entire T range. The results were analyzed by using a modified fluctuation-induced tunneling conduction model, where the barrier height and width were linearly dependent on the electric field.
Article: Structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Cu(II) complexes of 2-substituted tropones bearing a ferrocenylgroup at 5-position[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Heterotrinuclear Fe(II)-Cu(II)-Fe(II) complexes [Cu(FcTropOMe)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](OTf)(2) (FcTropOMe = 5-ferrocenyl-2-methoxytropone) (1), [Cu(FcTropNEt(2))(2)](OTf)(2) (FcTropNEt(2) = 2-(N,N-diethylamino)-5-ferrocenyltropone) (2) and [Cu(FcTropNEt)(2)] (FcTropNEt = 2-(N-ethylamino)-5-ferrocenyltroponate) (3) were synthesized. In addition, a hexafluorophosphate salt of heterotrinuclear Fe(III)-Cu(II)-Fe(III) complex [Cu(FcTropNEt)(2)](2+) (3(2+)) was successfully obtained as single crystals by electrochemical oxidation of 3. By comparing the X-ray structures and absorption spectra of dicationic complexes 1 and 2, the 2-(diethylamino)tropone ligand was found to induce a greater intramolecular charge transfer (CT) from ferrocenyl to tropone-Cu(II) moieties than the 2-methoxytropone ligand. On the other hand, 3(2+) showed a broad CT band in the near-infrared (NIR) region similar to 2, which can be assigned to a transition from troponato-Cu(II) to ferrocenium moieties. As for the magnetic properties of 3(2+)(PF(6)(-))(2), measurements of temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility and ESR on the solid state and in solution revealed the presence of a strong ferromagnetic interaction (J(Fe-Cu) = +12.0 cm(-1)) between the low spin Fe(III) ion with S = 1/2 and Cu(II) ion with S = 1/2 despite a long distance pathway via the aminotroponato and cyclopentadienyl moieties. DFT calculations supported this intramolecular ferromagnetism, which is induced by a spin polarization mechanism through the pi-spacers.
Article: Synthesis of bitetrathiafulvalenes with FeCl 3-mediated homo-coupling of tetrathiafulvalenylmagnesium bromide and formation of nanostructures from bitetrathiafulvalenes having long alkylthio chains[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The FeCl3-mediated homo-coupling of 4,5-bis(alkylthio)-4′-tetrathiafulvalenylmagnesium bromide 5 produced the corresponding bitetrathiafulvalene derivatives 2a–d in moderate yields (25–51%). Bitetrathiafulvalenes 2c and 2d having long alkylthio chains formed nanostructures and showed bulk electric conductivities (σrt=2.6−8.0×10−5Scm−1) in the neutral state owing to the fastener effect. Interestingly, the nanofiber of tetrakis(dodecylthio)bitetrathiafulvalene 2d exhibited a p-type semiconductivity as detected by AFM.
Article: Magnetic Alignment in Solid State and Temperature Hysteresis in Aqueous Tetrahydrofuran Solution for Tetrathiafulvaleno[18]annulenes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Tris(tetrathiafulvaleno)dodecadehydro[18]annulene-hexaesters have a multi-functionality that is very sensitive to small differences in the ester side-chain. Self-aggregation of the [18]annulenes in amphiphilic media such as THF-H(2)O (v/v, 1:1) either produce a fibrous structure or result in temperature hysteresis of the color and (1)H NMR signals. This temperature hysteresis in solution is due to both strong self-aggregation behavior and unique cluster formation in a binary solution of THF and water.
Article: Synthesis and properties of 4′,5′-bis(methylthio)-4,5-bis(2-pyridylethynyl)tetrathiafulvalene and its copper complexes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Synthesis of redox-active bis-pyridine ligand, 4′,5′-bis(methylthio)-4,5-bis(2-pyridylethynyl)tetrathiafulvalene (1) has been carried out in moderate yield starting from the corresponding diiodide. Bis(pyridylethynyl)–TTF 1 forms 1:1 complexes with Cu(I) and Cu(II) salts. Occurrence of the charge transfer from the TTF moiety to the copper atom was found to depend on the environment of copper atom.
Article: Short-step syntheses and complexation properties of Z, Z-tribenzodidehydro- and all- Z-tribenzo[12]annulenes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Syntheses of all-Z-tribenzo[12]annulenes (1a–c) and Z,Z-tribenzodidehydro[12]annulenes (2a–c) by the reduction of the corresponding tribenzohexadehydro[12]annulenes 3a–c were carried out using a low valent titanium complex generated from Ti(O-i-Pr)4 and i-PrMgCl. The unique structure of the first reduction products 2a–c as well as 1a–c was fully characterized. Complexation of these annulenes with silver(I) ions produces the corresponding silver complexes. Among them, the silver complexes of 2a–c exhibit interesting monomer–dimer equilibrium.
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ABSTRACT: The iridium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of alkynes in the presence of 4,4,5,5'-tetramethylbiphosphinine (tmbp) has been explored. The hydrosilylation of alkynes in the presence of tmbp proceeds effectively to give beta-(E)-vinylsilanes highly selectively in moderate to high yields, whereas a similar hydrosilylation in the absence of tmbp produces beta-(Z)-vinylsilanes selectively. The stereoselectivity of these reactions suggests the importance of the electron-withdrawing properties of tmbp coordinated to iridium.
Article: 195Pt NMR Spectra of Head‐to‐Head and Head‐to‐Tail Amidato‐Bridged Platinum(III) Dinuclear Complexes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: 195Pt chemical shifts and 1JPt–Pt coupling constants were measured for a series of head-to-head (HH) and head-to-tail (HT) amidato-bridged cis-diammineplatinum(III) dinuclear complexes involved in the axial water substitution reactions with halide ions (X– = Cl–, Br–): HH-[Pt2(NH3)4(μ-amidato)2L1L2]n+ ≡ [L1–Pt(N2O2)–Pt(N4)–L2]n+ (amidato = α-pyridonato, α-pyrrolidonato, and pivalamidato) and HT-[Pt2(NH3)4(μ-α-pyridonato)2L1L2]n+ ≡ [L1–Pt(N3O)–Pt(N3O)–L2]n+; the diaqua (L1, L2 = H2O, n = 4), the aquahalo (L1 = X–, L2 = H2O, n = 3), and the dihalo complexes (L1, L2 = X–, n = 2). The 195Pt NMR spectroscopic data were considered in relation to the lability in the axial ligand substitution reaction and the electron distribution along the Pt–Pt bond. The NMR spectroscopic data suggested different electron distributions along the Pt–Pt bonds in all the HH dimers and in the HT aquahalo dimers, such as [L1–PtIV(N2O2)–PtII(N4)–L2]n+ and [X–PtIV(N3O)–PtII(N3O)–OH2]3+, respectively. Relative shifts of the 195Pt NMR signals for each substitution step indicate that the replacement of the axial water ligand by X– affects more effectively the electron density of the opposite Pt atom than that of the substituted one. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006)
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Can you configure rails to only run an initializer under certain environments? In my case I had to hack paperclip to work with Imagemagick on my dev box, so I have monkeypatched code I want only to apply to the development environ, not the production environment. That monkeypatch is saved as a file in config\initializers.
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