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Ridiculous Raps 4: Forces of Nature
(November 14, 2012)
Continuing in my saga of "writing about whatever people suggest" I bring you the 4th installment of Ridiculous Raps. This song is available for download at in my
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Mike Beucler said: "We need a rap song describing the 4 fundamental forces of nature." I'm not sure WHY we need a rap song describing the 4 fundamental forces of nature, but if we need one we need one. So here it is.
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Even though I've been tracking the Army drawdown as part of my role here at the Association, it still came as a shock when I realized that my family would be affected. I was at work one day when I read an announcement regarding the Captain/Major Involuntary Separation Boards scheduled for this spring. I emailed my husband to ask if anyone we knew was affected. Thirty seconds later the phone rang. It was my husband. "Karen," he said, "That's us. My year group is going before the board."
We remain a Nation at war.
I think my disconnect stems from the fact that our Army community is still so immersed in the war. One of our friends just returned from his fifth deployment. After spending over 5 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, he'll be going before the board in April. Another is deploying to Afghanistan this spring. His wife was in tears at his promotion ceremony as guests discussed his impending departure. Just a few weeks ago, my own husband came home and informed me that his group had been hit with several WIAS (Worldwide Individual Augmentation System) taskers, meaning another potential deployment for him.
On some level I understood a drawdown was inevitable, but I guess I never expected to be simultaneously worried about a deployment to Afghanistan and a pink slip because my husband's service is no longer needed.
One of my biggest concerns is how we are going to continue to meet the challenges of Army life with this additional level of uncertainty. This is not the sort of job you can do with one foot out the door. My husband's Army career, including 3 deployments and 5 PCS moves, has required 100% commitment not only from him, but from our entire family. It is hard for me to imagine tackling similar challenges in the future while also preparing for the possibility of being shown the door.
After adjusting to the shock, I did what I always do when I'm anxious. I kicked into high research gear. I compiled all the information that we've received and briefed our volunteers at Fort Leavenworth, a post with a high population of majors attending Command and General Staff College (CGSC.)
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- Almost 19,000 Army Captains and Majors will be screened for separation and early retirement boards this spring. The boards could select up to 20% (3,800) of the considered population for involuntary separation.
- Officers subject to these boards are Army Competitive Category Captains in year groups 2006, 2007, and 2008 and Majors in year groups 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.
- The Officer Separation Board (OSB) will screen officers with fewer than 18 years of active federal service (AFS). The Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board (E-SERB) will screen officers with 18 or more years AFS.
- Officers selected for separation by the E-SERB will be allowed to serve their 20 years, earning them full retirement benefits.
- Those selected for separation by the OSB are eligible for involuntary separation pay, provided they have at least 6 years AFS.
- Selected officers with at least 15 years AFS on the date of their separation are also eligible to request consideration for early retirement under the Temporary Early Retirement Authority (TERA). It will be the officer's choice to select separation pay or TERA. Please note TERA is discretionary, not an entitlement.
- The boards convene in April/May of 2014.
- Decisions are expected to be released in August 2014.
- There will be no "re-look" or "standby" boards, and a very limited appeals process.
- Actual separation will occur no earlier than the 1st day of the 9th month following release of the boards' results (e.g., if the results are released in August 2014, separation will occur in May 2015)
- Officers in the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) will be considered by the boards. If selected, the separation date will be determined on a case by case basis.
- Officers with non-statutory Active Duty Service Obligations (ADSOs) incurred for military schooling, PCS, etc. will be considered by the board. If selected for separation, the non-statutory ADSO will be waived.
- Officers with statutory ADSOs (e.g., Tuition Assistance, Advanced Civil Schooling, Critical Skills Retention Bonus) will be considered by the board. If selected for separation, the ADSO will be waived and the officer will not be required to repay any unearned portion of the pay or benefit received. As a condition of receiving separation pay, officers who have a statutory ADSO waived must serve in the Ready Reserve for three years.
- Selection for separation will have no impact on GI Bill benefits for the officer's own use. In addition, members who transferred benefits to dependents prior to selection will retain their transfer and not face recoupment if they agree to serve until the mandatory separation date.
Captains and Majors in the affected year groups are encouraged to have their photos updated and to scrub their board files. They should receive guidance from their chain of command in terms of reviewing their official record and preparing it for the board.
Is your family concerned about involuntary separation and drawdowns? Please share your questions and concerns.
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Another literate Haskell post:
I've tried a few times to read various documents on the web about
Monad Transformers in Haskell. I think that in almost every case the
authors are trying to show how clever they are rather than explaining
their use. If I had just seen the simplest possible examples of Monad
Transformers at work I would have been able to figure out what was going
on and that would have given me enough information to bootstrap myself
into Monad Transforming enlightenment.
So to save other people the trouble I went through I'm providing you
with examples of Monad Transformers at work. I'm not even going to
explain in detail how they work, they're close to self-evident once the
main features are pointed out.
> import Control.Monad.State
> import Control.Monad.Identity
Firstly here are two examples of the use of the State Monad. This
code isn't intended as a tutorial on the State Monad so I won't
explain how they work.
> test1 = do
> a <- get
> modify (+1)
> b <- get
> return (a,b)
> test2 = do
> a <- get
> modify (++"1")
> b <- get
> return (a,b)
> go1 = evalState test1 0
> go2 = evalState test2 "0"
Note how evalState 'unwraps' the State Monad and gives you back the
answer at the end.
So the question is: how do I combine both of these states into one
so that I can update or read either the integer or the string state
at will? I could cheat and make a new state of type (Int,String)
but that isn't a general solution.
The idea is that you use a Monad Transformer. A Monad Transformer
if like a layer of onion peel. You start with the Identity monad
and then use Monad Transformers to add layers of functionality.
So to get a two-state monad you take the Identity and add two
layers of stateness to it. To get the answer at the end you need
to unwrap the State layers and then unwrap the Identity layer too.
When you're inside your 'do' expression you need a way to choose
which Monad you're talking to. Ordinary Monad commands will
talk to the outermost layer and you can use 'lift' to send your
commands inwards by one layer.
The following should now be self-evident:
> test3 = do
> modify (+ 1)
> lift $ modify (++ "1")
> a <- get
> b <- lift get
> return (a,b)
> go3 = runIdentity $ evalStateT (evalStateT test3 0) "0"
Note that we use evalStateT to unwrap the State layer instead
of evalState. evalStateT is what you use to unwrap one layer
of the Monad. evalState is what you use when your entire Monad
is just the State monad. When State is a layer, rather than
the whole thing, it's called StateT. (Try :type go3 in ghci.)
What if you want to combine IO and State? For various reasons
the IO monad must form the innermost core of your onion so
there's no need to wrap an IO layer around the Identity,
you can just start with IO. And when you unwrap you don't
need to unwrap the IO layer because the Haskell compiler does
that for you. (Now you can see why you can't layer IO, you're
not supposed to unwrap IO as it's the job of the code that
calls main at the top level to do that.)
So here we go:
> test5 = do
> modify (+ 1)
> a <- get
> lift (print a)
> modify (+ 1)
> b <- get
> lift (print b)
> go5 = evalStateT test5 0
At this point you might be suspicious that IO is being handled
slightly differently from State. So here's a StateT layer
wrapped around State:
> test7 = do
> modify (+ 1)
> lift $ modify (++ "1")
> a <- get
> b <- lift get
> return (a,b)
> go7 = evalState (evalStateT test7 0) "0"
You can probably safely ignore my comments and crib the code above
directly for your own use.
And credit where credit's due: I found the following link to be
more helpful than any other in trying to figure this stuff out
(But I still felt that this link was obfuscating.)
You may now be wondering where test4 and test6 are. So am I.
Update: I just figured out that you don't always need to use the
'lift' operation. Some of the Monad Transformers have been defined
so that the commands will automatically be passed into the inner
Monad (and further) if needed. I think it's slightly confusing to
write code this way, however.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Grok Haskell Monad Transformers
17 comments:
- Pete Kazmier said...
Great post! I've been struggling with the concept of monad transformers. This post was very concise and to the point without obfuscating the reader with unnecessary details. Would it be possible to take the content of your post to one of the more public Haskell wikis (of course with proper attribution)? I wish I had discovered this much sooner!
One followup question related to the "update" at the end of the post. It's not clear to me when you say one doesn't always have to use lift. Could you give a concrete example?
- Tuesday, 15 August, 2006
- sigfpe said...
I was going to post this very example on the Haskell Wiki but I had trouble figuring out how to do this. I'm happy for you to do it. If you want, add a link back to here.
If I remember I'll write an example that doesn't use 'lift' and post it here. Otherwise search for "Looking for basic state transformer example" on USENET where I first posted an example. (The title of the USENET post is wrong, I meant to say "monad" but said "state" by accident.)
- Tuesday, 15 August, 2006
- Luke Plant said...
Thanks, like you I had read about monad transformers and thought "but why on earth would I want to use one?".
- Wednesday, 13 September, 2006
- jto said...
Thanks. Great post.
- Friday, 06 April, 2007
- jto said...
Thanks. I found this quite useful.
- Monday, 09 April, 2007
- kc5tja said...
I STILL can't think of one real-world reason why I'd want to use one. I just don't get it (yet).
- Thursday, 26 April, 2007
- Tim Stewart said...
So, if I wanted two kinds of state, one readable and one readable and writable, I could wrap a StateT in a ReaderT? Or vice versa?
- Friday, 25 May, 2007
- sigfpe said...
Exactly. Except that if you just have two types then one can be an ordinary monad, and the other can be a monad transformer. Or you can use three levels where both the reader and the writer are monad transformers and they are applied to the identity monad. (I do the former in this post.)
- Friday, 25 May, 2007
- yaxu said...
Very helpful post, thanks!
One thing - did you mean to say "Try :type test3 in ghci." rather than :type go3 ?
The latter just yields:
go3 :: (Integer, [Char])
- Monday, 03 December, 2007
- Krzysztof "Tener" S. said...
This post is really great. Thanks!
- Sunday, 23 March, 2008
- chessguy said...
Hmm, do you really need to wrap this around Identity? Can't you just stack StateT on top of State to just get sort of a DoubleState monad?
- Saturday, 21 February, 2009
- sigfpe said...
It's up to you. If you're bothered by the lack of symmetry from having a StateT and a State then you can use the Identitiy monad.
- Saturday, 21 February, 2009
- Sean Kanaley said...
For those wondering why you would want to use this: as an example, I'm trying to implement Ruby Quiz 19 (Yahtzee). How am I supposed to set up an interactive loop with the user and save the current score and random state (for die rolls) throughout the loop? You can't do IO () stuff like putStrLn to show dice rolls while using State (Score,StdGen) x because your return type is no longer IO (). But with something like the test5 example, it's now entirely possible. A terrible workaround would've been to use IO () to read/write the state to a file... Now I can StateT (Score,StdGen) IO () and all is solved.
- Wednesday, 25 March, 2009
- Mitchell said...
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with sigfpe... it's really just up to you how you want to do it. Sometimes multiple solutions stink!
- Tuesday, 30 November, 2010
- 雪夜读书 said...
Can not agree any more with your comments on those egghead's explanation on Monad Transformers. Thanks a lot. Really what I want to know.
- Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
- 雪夜读书 said...
Can not agree more with your comments on those fake tutorials. This is just what I want to know. After using that for few weeks, I will begin to understand what Transformer really is.
- Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
- Michael Roger said...
Here's another nice and thorough and typeset :-) tutorial, posted shortly after sigfpe's original:
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Pace said the plan is doable because last year, the county turned over more than 80 non grant-funded positions.
"This number isn't an exact number for balancing the budget. I think it's a good plan. We're not forcing anything down anyone's throat. We're just asking for their help," Pace said.
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In short: A well run and enjoyable race.Date of review: December 7, 2011
In short: Excellent well organised race. Thank you.Date of review: December 4, 2011
In short: FunctionalIn full: This race is part of our club champ.s and I probably wouldn't do it if it were not. It is flat but quite twisty with much stepping on-and-off-pavements. There is a basic feel to the arrangements - a whistle started us off, without even a "ready" let alone any "set", and it must be one of the last road races still to be without chip timing. On the plus-side: water and a banana is plenty after a five miler. Oh, and the weather was positively mild this year!Date of review: December 4, 2011
Date of review: December 4, 2011
In short: Well organised race, fairly quick course, friendly encouraging marshalls.Date of review: December 4, 2011
In short: Well prepared, with good marshaling & encouragement along the way, with a nice finish in the athletics ground.Date of review: December 4, 2011
In short: Good course and race for a novice like me and a special thanks to all the marshalls who were great at cheering everyone alongIn full: This is only the second race I have run, the first being a 5km and I was towards the back of the pack with a 51-52min finish time. Good distance, flat course, good facilities. I turned up on my own only knowing one other person through work there. As per my summary, a special thanks to the marshalls who really made a good effort to cheer everyone on and who's enthusiasm helped me round.Date of review: December 4, 2011
In short: Great well-organised race with good facilities availableIn full: Being covered with snow & ice, I gather the race was all set to be postponed, however the race organisers did all they could to clear and grit the paths and with a little luck with the weather the ice had thawed out by Sunday morning making for great, quick race conditions. The organisation was great. The stewards were fantastically supportive giving the fact they were standing in almost zero degree temperatures. Nice to finish on an athletics track and even nicer to have a warm, clean changing room with hot drinks available to thaw out in on a cold winter's day. Date of review: December 14, 2010
In short: Excellent race, well organised by ESM - they know what they're doing.In full: So lucky with the weather! Snow and ice gone, and the mildest day in weeks. Great goody bag for a value race. My 5th consecutive year, but my times are going backwards. Next year though....Date of review: December 9, 2010
In full: Who would have thought running down Ruislip Rd East could be so much fun. Seriously though, the course isn't particularly inspiring as it twists and turns half on the pavement and half on park paths. Good finish on the Perivale track. Ealing, Southall and Middlesex is a very friendly club and the organisation and marshaling was excellent. Flat as a pancake so fast times possible despite the twists and turns. Great to have access to clean toilets and showers (and a cup of tea) in the clubhouse before/after. Definitely worth supporting.Date of review: December 6, 2010
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There are at least two in Gainesville.
I'm figuring the construction referred to is interior, because the whole building where an Exxon service station used to be looks nearly complete.
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Should the Boy Scouts of America end its policy against allowing openly gay members?
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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61% for homos 39% against
Apparently CNN viewers ar stupid. Yes has the lead.
I have contacted BSA National by phone and e-mail, my district rep and council CEO.
I have not decided if we will dissolve our troop of which I'm the Scoutmaster but we will not attend any Coucil activities or camps.
64% now . . . not surprising . . . it's a libtard network . . . howzabout' Fox News do the same poll?
Must be sending a thrill up NAMBLA member's legs.
Should the Boy Scouts of America end its policy against allowing openly gay members?
Yes 61% 14248
No 39% 9233
Total votes: 23481
CNN gets no "hits" from me.
Should Foxes be hired to guard henhouses?
They don't have the most reasonable reply, which is, "What business is it of yours? Who the Hell are you to tell the Boy Scouts what to do?"
Eagle Scout (1969), 12 years as a Scouter, consistent contributor to the local Council: All to be undone if this decision is made.
No more contributions.
Scouter uniform will be packed away.
Eagle metal will be returned to BSA National.
Quick voteShould the Boy Scouts of America end its policy against allowing openly gay members?
This is not a scientific poll:
Total votes: 23481
This is not a scientific poll.
@9:58 pst
I believe a yes vote is anti homo and no is pro.
What could be more comforting to a parent of a 13 year old Boy Scout than to know that his 35 year old queer scout master, that is taking the Boy Scout Troop into the woods for a week, wants to blow their son {and vice versa}.
I only got as far as Webelos but have been Den Leader, Asst Cubmaster, Asst. Scoutmaster and Scoutmaster over the last ten years. One son is Life and just got initial approveal for his Eagle project, Son no 2 is Star.
I'm beyond disappointed and upset at an organization I've come to love and respect.
So they lost financial support from UPS and Intel. Big deal. Change happens. Lay off some staff, take a pay cut, raise annual fees a few bucks, go look for financial support from conservative leaning companies. Loud and strong-Stand for your principles. When all else fails-Stand.
One of the last remaining vestiges of decency in this country is about to succumb to the venal and evil that is the gay agenda. It's a sad day.
No more contributions. . .agreed. Pack away Scout uniforms. . .agreed. Return Eagle metal. . rethink that one.
You earned it. . .let it be a memorial of what the Scouts once were. Under no circumstances could I give up mine. . . but I admire the sentiment and agree with it wholeheartedly. Just remember we are all fighting to renew our nation and to fight the Left. . . .I think we all believe that things can change for the better. . .if they do, and the Scouts stand tall again, I think you might regret not having your metal.
Yes, I did earn it. It's value is in the memories of fun, friends made and skils learned. It is just a metal.
I need to decide whether it will serve a better purpose by conveying the severity of what they have done by it's return, or sitting in a dark desk drawer.
Another poll design to achieve the desired, liberal result.
Should have asked if BSA should retain their long standing policy.
Then "Yes" would have meaning.
No. Just the opposite.
When you put it that context. . as a necessary sacrifice to convey a protest that is consummate with the severity of what the Boy Scouts are about to do. . .you may be leading the way for all of us. In fact, it may be necessary. Thanks sup7. . .I'm rethinking.
Its. 5:30 EST and it still says 61% over 39%. Sound suspicious?
We had an idiot editorial in the paper today by Petula Dvorak (Washington Post). In it she has the GALL to say, "Time for the Boy Scouts of America to earn their most important merit badge yet - righteousness.". This is EXACTLY what we know will happen in the end times - they will call good, bad and bad, good. Now, the BSA is going to be considered "righteous" if they permit homosexuals into the scouting programs and as Scout leaders. For the time being, at least, they will still not allow atheists. This is because, they say, Scouts must pledge to "be faithful to God". I wonder how this will be possible when something God calls an "abomination" is no longer shunned and must, instead, be thought "righteousness"? The Gay Mafia has struck again!
The new BSA will become the Brown-shirted SA to fulfill Obama's dream of the National Civilian Security Force he so desires!
They already have the correct color shirt with the only thing missing is the proper indoctrination and sodomization!
It will be now more militant and look even more fabulous!
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Today marks Day 7 of Secretary Rice's latest diplomatic mission abroad. Her efforts in Europe and the Middle East are coming to a close for now, giving those that she met with time to consider what was discussed during her recent visits with various government leaders. As I pack my bags to begin the westward journey home, I've gathered a few funny stories to bring back to DC.
For starters, we've got some die hard Red Sox baseball fans in the traveling party. I won't say who these people are, but one devotee's name rhymes with "dawn"…which is the time of day that this person had to wake up in Moscow to see his beloved team play in the playoff series. Never before have I seen such a crowd of people—ladies and gents—so mesmerized by a live TV stream on a laptop in the middle of the night. Technology can be a beautiful thing sometimes.
Secondly, the Secretary's squad of travelers is quite the athletic bunch. We start our days extremely early, but many of us are in the gym at the crack of dawn to squeeze in a workout. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that even those who I thought were the most stern and straight-and-narrow amongst us have unexpectedly modern taste in music. Never would I have thought that one of the Secretary's advisers, a 3-star general, would listen to some of today's most popular acts such as The Black Eyed Peas' Fergie, Maroon 5, and Rihanna during his daily exercise regimen. Moral of the story: Never judge a general by his exterior.
Lastly, I must share with the blogosphere how fortunate the DC-based traveling team is to work with such capable Embassy and Consulate staff based in the regions to which we traveled this week—namely Moscow, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Cairo, and London. These extensions of the State Department know the lay of the land and have the expertise to organize a Secretarial visit in a matter of weeks (and in the case of this trip, sometimes days).
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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- For better or worse, in these nutty days, you just can't judge Facebook(FB) by its cover.
On the downside, the social media giant is finally sobering up to reality after its pre-IPO crack high. Investors are figuring out that a business with Harvard, Goldman Sachs (GS) and a major motion picture behind it actually might not be much of a business at all. Instead of headlines and widely quoted figures about Facebook being magically worth $50 billion, as was the case when Goldman placed its Facebook bet in January 2011, now the headlines say that this book has lost $50 billion in value since it went public.
And the howling chorus of questions about the firm is on the rise.
Rob Cox, who reliably writes about digital investments over at Reuters' Breakingviews , noticed that while sales and subscribers sound cool, costs matter too. Revenue may be up $2.4 billion in the first six months of 2012, as he wrote last week, but costs rose even higher -- to $2.6 billion in the same period.
Even the gritty issues of social media click fraud and ad effectiveness are finally dinner table conversation for investors. Manorville, N.Y.-based Limited Run , which offers a Web retail sales service for bands and artists, was widely reported to have deleted its Facebook page due to nonhuman bots that sapped value.
To be fair -- which is most definitely getting overlooked in this ugly din -- Facebook is taking these issues seriously. Limited Run said in a follow-up post that the company is investigating its problems. And the social media giant is conducting industry outreach. It worked with a metrics shop, Reston, Va.-based comScore, on a white paper called The Power of Like 2 to spell out the argument for social media as an ad medium.
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Ranking something is always very much relative to one's own expectations and experiences.
I'm sure I have rated some teas very highly in the past that I might only rate as "good" now (while some stay perpetual favorites). Sometimes you just come along something that redefines the levels of quality for you.
So even for the same person, a 10/10 may only be a 7/10 a few months or years later. I don't think that should discourage us from trying to give some sort of ranking at all, though.
Maybe we should rank a specific tea sample within an OTTI in relation to the other samples and give each tea an additional "personal" 1-10 score.
This might get a little more difficult if the samples are from different types of tea or in general very different from one another.
However, one could still do the ranking just to see which tea on average was liked best and how it is being rated by the participants.
I definitely do like to see people give some sort of rating and a scoring system (1-10, 1-5, A-F, whatever) is an easy understandable way of doing this. It's not an exact science and cannot be (which is why I think 1-10 is a good system, because it lets you see a tendency very easily).
Each participant should probably wait until they have tasted all samples within the OTTI before they start rating a sample (especially if we're rating in relation to the other samples). That doesn't mean they shouldn't be talking about what they have tried so far and what they thought of it, though!
That way, we can have sort of a conclusion at the end of the OTTI, which I think is nice just to see how your own estimation and experience compares to that of the other participants.