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Erlang and Neural Networks
by Wilhelm
This is a concatenated version of a series of blog posts on my blog, which is why it's rather long. Therefore, I've done some editing to make sure it flowed nicely as one piece.
I assume that most of my audience are programmers that didn't much like math. If they did, they probably wouldn't be reading this, and would have read it themselves from a textbook. Therefore, I will go into explaining some implications of the math, but I don't actually do any proofs. If you liked math, feel free to make any corrections or notify me through the wiki's messaging system for errors.
I wrote this as I was learning Erlang. I hope this article will be informative.
How Erlang and neural networks fit together
It started with an article about how the free lunch is over for software engineers that a friend sent to me about two years ago. It basically stated that developers have been riding on the wave of Moore's law to save their butts, and it's not going to last forever. In addition, it's been known for a while that chip manufacturers are moving towards multi-core processors to increase performance. If developers are going to take advantage of hardware like they have been, they're going to have to learn how to program concurrent programs.
The problem is, programmers suck at it. It's well known that concurrent programming, as it stands, is not easy for humans. Even Tim Sweeney, the guy that architected the Unreal Engine (no mere programming mortal), thought it was hard. It was when I started looking beyond threads as a concurrency abstraction that I tripped over a programming language developed specifically for concurrency.
Yet Another Programming Language
I had always thought that I should learn more about functional programming. It seemed like an odd beast to me, especially since you don't change state through side-effects. "How do you get anything done?" It's kinda like when you first learned that you don't need GOTO, and subsequently, when you learned that FOR loops suck.
And yet, I never really found a need or a small project I could do with functional programming that might prove to be satisfying. It was only due to the search for better concurrency abstractions that I ran across Erlang, a functional programming language that is used explicitly because it's good at concurrency. In fact, it's pretty much the only one out there that touts concurrency as its strength.
It uses the actor model, where processes share no data and just pass messages around. Because there's nothing shared, there's no issue of synchronization or deadlocks. While not as sexy-sounding as futures or software transactional memory, the actor model falls nicely along the lines of complex and emergent systems--systems that have locally interacting parts with a global emergent behavior. Could one of these systems be good for a small side project to do in Erlang?
A quick detour in neural networks
Artificial neural networks seemed to be the perfect thing actually. A quick, quick diversion into what they are.
A feed-forward artificial neural network is basically a network of perceptrons that can be trained to classify (recognize) patterns. You give the network a pattern as an input, it can tell you the classification of that input as an output.
You can think of a perceptron much like a neuron in your brain, where it has lots of inputs and one output. It's connected to other perceptrons through these inputs and outputs and there are weights attached to the input connections. If there is a pattern of input, and it passes a threshold, the perceptron 'fires' (i.e. outputs a value). This in turn might activate other perceptrons.
Even simpler, a perceptron is modeled as a function that takes a vector x as an input and outputs a number y. All it does is take the dot product (ie. weighted sum) of the input vector x with weights vector w, and pass it through a non-linear and continuous thresholding function, usually a sigmoid function. When you connect them up in layers, you get an artificial neural network that can learn to classify patterns if you train it with examples.
It has to learn patterns by adjusting the weights between perceptrons in the network after each training example, and you tell it how wrong it was in recognizing the pattern. It does this by an algorithm called back propagation. It's the same page I lifted all these pictures from. I put all their pictures in an animated gif to illustrate:
File:Animate ANN.gif
In the first part, the example propagates forward to an output. Then it propagates back the error. Lastly, it propagates forward the adjusted weights from the calculated error. This is not the only type of neural network that exists, but we're going to be building this type.
A good fit for Erlang
Why would this be a good fit as a subject to play with Erlang? Well, if you'll notice, each perceptron only takes input from its neighboring perceptrons, and only outputs to its neighbors. This is very much in line with the actor model of concurrency. Each process would be a perceptron, and would act as an autonomous agent that only interacts with other processes it comes into contact with--in this case, only other perceptrons it's connected to.
In addition, you'll also notice that in the animation, the perceptron values are calculated neuron by neuron. In a concurrent system, there's no reason to do this! You can actually do the calculation layer by layer, since the calculations of any individual perceptron only comes from the outputs of the perceptrons in the layers before it. Therefore, all outputs for perceptrons in a layer can be calculated in parallel.
Notice, however, that layers need to be calculated serially. I had originally thought that with the learning process propagating back and forth, maybe it could be pipelined. On closer examination, however, the best one can do is to feed-forward the next input one layer behind the adjusting of weights, to make the learning process go faster.
State of the Purely Functional
Erlang is a purely functional programming language. Functional style programming is nothing new--it's just been lurking in the more academic corners of computer science. In the transition from imperative/procedural/OO programming to functional programming, there are new concepts to grok. You'll hear this from people just learning functional programming for the first time (myself included). The hardest thing for me to get over in a pure functional language is the absence of state. My first reaction was, "Well, how do you get anything done?"
Not having state has its advantages, and you'll hear stuff about side-effects and referential transparency. But I'd like to think of it as, things that don't have state can't be broken--they just exist. However, state is useful in computation, and different languages have different ways of getting around it. With Haskell, you use monads. At first, I figured it was the same with Erlang. But in this short tutorial on Erlang, it simply states that Erlang uses the threads to keep state.
This maps pretty well with what we're trying to do. Each perceptron has state: its weights. In an object-orientated language, you may keep the weights as attributes in an object. In Erlang, each perceptron will be a thread. It will "keep its state" by calling itself recursively and passing itself back the necessary state information. Any communication between perceptrons will be by send messages back and forth as they fire and stimulate each other.
Building a perceptron
Enough intro on Erlang and Neural Networks. Let's get to building a perceptron.
The essence of a perceptron
So once again, this is a perceptron. It's a weighted sum (a dot product) of the inputs, which is then thresholded by f(e). So we'll write a thresholding function and a weighted sum in Erlang.
We start by declaring the name of the module, and the functions to export from the module.
-module(ann). -export([perceptron/3, sigmoid/1, dot_prod/2, feed_forward/2, replace_input/2, convert_to_list/1]).
I exported most of the functions, so I can run them from the command line. I'll remove them later on.
First we write our thresholding function. We will use the sigmoid function as our thresholding function. It's pretty easy to explain. A value, X goes in, another value comes out. It's a math function.
sigmoid(X) -> 1 / (1 + math:exp(-X)).
Since I wasn't as familiar with all the libraries in Erlang, and I wrote a dot product function, and it wasn't too bad. Erlang, for the most part, doesn't use loops. The common way is to use library functions for list processing, list comprehensions, or recursion. I just decided to try my hand at writing a recursive function. It's been a while. The first part is the base case, and the second part is what you'd do if the "recursion fairy" took care of the rest.
dot_prod([], []) -> 0; dot_prod([X_head | X_tail], [Y_head | Y_tail]) -> X_head * Y_head + dot_prod(X_tail, Y_tail).
Simple, so far, right? So to calculate the feed forward output of a perceptron, we'll do this:
feed_forward(Weights, Inputs) -> sigmoid(dot_prod(Weights, Inputs)).
The body of a nerve
So far, so good. But we still need to create the actual perceptron! This is where the threads and state-keeping comes up.
perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Output_PIDs) -> receive {stimulate, Input} -> % add Input to Inputs to get New_Inputs... % calculate output of perceptron... % stimulate the perceptron my output is connected to perceptron(Weight, New_inputs, Output_PIDs) end.
This is a thread, and it receives messages from other threads. Currently, it only accepts one message, stimulate(Input) from other threads. This is a message that other perceptrons will use to send its output to this perceptron's inputs. If a perceptron is stimulated, we should update our list of inputs, then calculate the new output of the perceptron, and then stimulate the perceptron my output is connected to.
Notice that at the end of the message, we call the thread again, with New_Inputs. That's how we will maintain and change state.
Note this won't result in a stack overflow, because Erlang knows it doesn't have to keep the stack around. This is because no state is ever kept between messages calls and everything you need to know is passed into the function perceptron, so we can throw away the previous instances of the call to perceptron.
We do come to a snag though. How do we know which other perceptron the incoming input is from? We need to know this because we need to be able to weigh it correctly. My solution is that Input is actually a tuple, consisting of {Process_ID_of_sender, Input_value}. And then I keep a list of these tuples, like a hash of PID to input values, and convert them to a list of input values when I need to calculate the output. Therefore, we end up with:
perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Output_PIDs) -> receive {stimulate, Input} -> % add Input to Inputs to get New_Inputs... New_inputs = replace_input(Inputs, Input), % calculate output of perceptron... Output = feed_forward(Weights, convert_to_list(New_inputs)), perceptron(Weights, New_inputs, Output_PIDs) end. replace_input(Inputs, Input) -> {Input_PID, _} = Input, lists:keyreplace(Input_PID, 1, Inputs, Input). convert_to_list(Inputs) -> lists:map(fun(Tup) -> {_, Val} = Tup, Val end, Inputs).
If you're not familiar with the map function, check out Joel's explanation on it. The map function you see in convert_to_list() is the same as the map function in ruby that would go:
def convert_to_list(inputs) inputs.map { |tup| tup.last } end
Now, there's one last thing that needs to be done. Once we calculate an output, we need to fire that off to other perceptrons that accept this perceptron's output as its input. And if it's not connected to another perceptron, then it should just output its value. So then we end up with:
perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Output_PIDs) -> receive {stimulate, Input} -> % add Input to Inputs to get New_Inputs... New_inputs = replace_input(Inputs, Input), % calculate output of perceptron... Output = feed_forward(Weights, convert_to_list(New_inputs)), % stimulate the perceptron my output is connected to if Output_PIDs =/= [] -> lists:foreach(fun(Output_PID) -> Output_PID ! {stimulate, {self(), Output}} end, Output_PIDs); Output_PIDs =:= [] -> io:format("~n~w outputs: ~w", [self(), Output]) end, perceptron(Weights, New_inputs, Output_PIDs) end.
We know which perceptrons to output to, because we keep a list of perceptron PIDs that registered with us. So if the list of Output_PIDs is not empty, then for each PID, send them a message with a tuple that contains this perceptron's PID as well as the calculated Output value. Let's try it out in a test drive
Test Drive
1> c(ann). {ok,ann} 2> Pid = spawn(ann, perceptron, [[0.5, 0.2], [{1,0.6}, {2,0.9}], []]). <0.39.0> 3> Pid ! {stimulate, {1,0.3}}. <0.39.0> outputs: 0.581759 {stimulate,{1,0.300000}} 4>
So you can see, we got an output of 0.581759. We can verify this by doing this on our TI-85 calculator:
x = 0.5 * 0.3 + 0.2 * 0.9 Done 1 / (1 + e^-x) .581759376842
And so we know our perceptron is working feeding forward! Next, we have to figure out how to connect them up to each other.
Interconnecting Perceptrons
We see that neural network is basically made up of interconnected perceptrons (or neurons), and they are basically modeled as a linear combination of inputs and weights with a non-linear function that modifies the output.
Drawing a line in the sand
Classifiers often do very well strictly on probabilities, such as Bayesian Spam Filters. But often times, we don't know what the underlying probabilities are for the data, and not only that, we don't have lots of training data to build accurate probability densities. One way around that is to draw a line in the data space that acts as the decision boundary between two (or more) classes. That way, you only have to find the parameters (i.e. weights) of the line, which is often fewer in number than the entire probability space.
This is exactly what a perceptron does. It creates a decision boundary in data space. If the data space is a plane (2D, or having two inputs), then it draws a line. In 3D, it draws a plane. For higher data space dimensions (4D or more), it draws a hyperplane.
Why not just one?
The problem with just using a perceptron is that it can only classify data that is linearly separable--meaning data you can separate with a line. The XOR problem is a simple illustration of how you can't draw a line that separates between on and off in an XOR. Minsky and Papert wrote a famous paper that kinda killed off research in this field for about a decade because they pointed this out.
So to get around this linearity, smart people eventually figured out that they can chain perceptrons together in layers, and that gives them the ability to express ANY non-linear function, given an adequate number of hidden layers.
Shake my hand and link up to form Voltron
Let's try linking our perceptrons together. We're going to add two more messages to our perceptrons:
perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Output_PIDs) -> receive % The other messages from previous parts {connect_to_output, Receiver_PID} -> Combined_output = [Receiver_PID | Output_PIDs], io:format("~w output connected to ~w: ~w~n", [self(), Receiver_PID, Combined_output]), perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Combined_output); {connect_to_input, Sender_PID} -> Combined_input = [{Sender_PID, 0.5} | Inputs], io:format("~w inputs connected to ~w: ~w~n", [self(), Sender_PID, Combined_input]), perceptron([0.5 | Weights], Combined_input, Output_PIDs) end. connect(Sender_PID, Receiver_PID) -> Sender_PID ! {connect_to_output, Receiver_PID}, Receiver_PID ! {connect_to_input, Sender_PID}.
We would never call connect_to_output() or connect_to_input() directory. We'd just use connect(). It basically just adds the perceptron's process ID to each other, so they know who to send messages to when they have an output.
Note that the last message connect_to_input() isn't followed by a semicolon. That means every message before it in perceptron needs to end with one. So if you've been following along, the stimulate() message from part II needs a semicolon at the end of it now.
We can now connect up our perceptrons, but with the way it is, currently, we'd have to send a separate message to each perceptron connected to an input to the network. This is tedious. We are programmers and we are lazy. Let's make a perceptron also double as an source node. As source node simply passes its input to to its outputs.
perceptron(Weights, Inputs, Output_PIDs) -> receive % previous messages above and in part II {pass, Input_value} -> lists:foreach(fun(Output_PID) -> io:format("Stimulating ~w with ~w~n", [Output_PID, Input_value]), Output_PID ! {stimulate, {self(), Input_value}} end, Output_PIDs); end.
Now we can start creating perceptrons.
64> N1_pid = spawn(ann, perceptron, [[],[],[]]). <0.325.0> 65> N2_pid = spawn(ann, perceptron, [[],[],[]]). <0.327.0> 66> N3_pid = spawn(ann, perceptron, [[],[],[]]). <0.329.0>
Note that we get back three process IDs of the three perceptrons we created. Then we start connecting them.
67> ann:connect(N1_pid, N2_pid). <0.325.0> output connected to <0.327.0>: [<0.327.0>] <0.327.0> inputs connected to <0.325.0>: [{<0.325.0>,0.500000}] {connect_to_input,<0.325.0>} 68> ann:connect(N1_pid, N3_pid). <0.325.0> output connected to <0.329.0>: [<0.329.0>,<0.327.0>] <0.329.0> inputs connected to <0.325.0>: [{<0.325.0>,0.500000}] {connect_to_input,<0.325.0>}
We used N1 as an input node connected to perceptrons 2 and 3. So if N1 is passed a value, N2 and N3 should be stimulated with that value.
69> N1_pid ! {pass, 0.5}. Stimulating <0.329.0> with 0.500000 {pass,0.500000}Stimulating <0.327.0> with 0.500000 <0.329.0> outputs: 0.562177 <0.327.0> outputs: 0.562177
Hurray! So now, the network's got tentacles, that we can connect all over the place, writhing, and wiggling with all its glee. However, this is currently a DUMB network. It can't classify anything because we haven't told it how to learn anything yet. How does it learn to classify things? It does so by adjusting the weights of the inputs of each perceptron in the network. And this, is the crux of neural networks in all its glory.
Getting your learn on
In the last part, we were able to connect the perceptrons to each other. This time, we're going to look at how you'd actually learn.
The ways of learning
There are many types of neural networks. But this one that we're building is a classic feed-forward neural network. A feed-forward neural network is a linear classifier, and the way it learns is to adjust the hyperplane that separates different classes in multi-dimensional space to minimize classification error, according to what it has seen before. The way that one would adjust the hyperplane is to change the value of the weights in the neural network. But how much to adjust it?
The classic way is to use back propagation, which we'll explore here. Back propagation at its heart is just gradient descent. The layman's term of gradient descent is "pick the direction that gives me the steepest change". Gradient descent is known to get stuck at local minima(or maxima). But doing gradient descent in a high dimensional space like neural networks, it seems like it's hard to get stuck in a local minima, because there's always another "dimension" to escape.
People since used other methods to calculate the weights, such as genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization. You can basically use any type of optimization algorithm to adjust the weights. Since back propagation is commonly associated with feed-forward neural networks, we'll concentrate on that.
Carrying the Error Backwards
To figure out the error at the output node is easy. You simply subtract the output from what the output was suppose to be, and that's your error (not exactly, but that's the idea). Given that error, it's relatively easy to adjust the weights of the output node. The problem is, how do you adjust weights in the hidden layers when you can't directly see their output? Even if you could, how would you know which way to adjust it, since it would affect other nodes?
The basic idea of back propagation is to get the output of the network and compare its decision with the decision it should have made, and more importantly, how far off it was. That is the error rate of decision. We'll take that error and propagate it backwards towards the input so we will know how to adjust the weights, layer by layer.
I'm not going to go too much into the hows and whys back propagation, since I feel like there's a lot of tutorials out there that do it justice. And I won't go into the proof either. It's mainly just multi-dimensional calculus that first or second year undergrads should have taken. It's not too hard to follow, actually. It's really just a matter of keeping the variables straight, since there are so many. But I will show and explain the result, since it makes understanding the code a lot easier.
Starting from the back of the bus
Calculating the change in weights for the output node isn't too bad. Using my awesome GIMP skillz...it looks like this:
File:Ann labels.png
We'll start from the back. I color coded it to make it easier to figure out what the equations are saying. (If a variable is bolded, that means it's a vector) The error of output of the training input is:
(1) J(w) = ½ ∑ (tk - zk)2 = ½ * ||t - z||2
where t is what the output should have been, and z is what we actually got from the neural network. J(w) is basically a sum of all the errors across all output nodes. You'd want a square of the differences because you want to make all differences positive before you sum them, so the errors don't cancel each other out. The double lines stand for norm. You can think of norm as "length of vector". Norm is just a convenient way to write it.
If you wanted to derive back propagation, you'd take the derivative of J(w) with respect to w, and try to minimize J. Remember what I said about going in the direction of steepest change in error? Well, to calculate change, you calculate the derivative (since derivative means change), and that's why you'd do it in the proof. If you want to follow the proof, check out page 290-293 of Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart, and Stork.
The hyperplane
Skipping all the proof, you'd get two equations by deriving from J(w). One for calculating the adjustment of weights in the output layer (red layer), and the other for calculating the adjustment in weights of the hidden layer (yellow), and the input layer (green).
(2) ∆wkj = ɳ * (tk - zk) * f'(netk) * yj
This is the equation to adjust the input weights (purple) of the output layer. It's not too bad, and I'll go through each part.
- ɳ - The eta (funny looking 'n') in the beginning is the learning rate. This is a variable you tweak to adjust how fast the neural network learns. I'll talk more about that some other time, but don't think that you'd want to set this as high as possible.
- (tk - zk) - Next, note that tk - zk aren't bolded, so they are two numbers: 1) what the output was suppose to be 2) and the output of the neural network of the kth output node. For us, we only have one output node.
- f'(netk) - Remember back in part II, where we were talking about the sigmoid function? f'(x) is the derivative of the sigmoid function. If I haven't forgotten my calculus, it should be:
(3) f'(x) = - e-x ln(1 + e-x)
- netk is the dot product of the output node weights with the inputs (yj) of the output node. Note that yj is also the outputs of the hidden layer, and it is calculated by f(netj)--note that this is a regular sigmoid.
(4) δk = (tk - zk) * f'(netk)
The second equation dictates how to adjust all hidden layers. Note that it uses the sensitivity variable:
(5) ∆wji = ɳ * [∑k=1 to c wkjδk] * f'(netj) * xi
- As you can see, this is more of the same. The only difference is the second term, which is the dot product of all the output node input weights (wkj) from a hidden node and the sensitivities (δk) across all output nodes the hidden node is connected to.
- netj is like as before--it's the dot product of the inputs xi with the inputs weights of the hidden nodes.
If your eyes glazed over
If your eyes glazed over in the last part, pay attention here, because this is the important part.
From equation (5), it tells us what we'll need to code. It tells us that from the perspective a single hidden node, the adjustment of its input weights depends on:
- From the 2nd term: the set of sensitivities and the associated weights of the output layer from the next layer that the hidden node is connected to.
- From the 3rd term: the set of inputs from the previous layer (because we calculate f'(netj), since it is the dot product of xi and wji for all i.)
You can better see this in a picture. GIMP again.
File:Single node.png
I know we don't have 3 output nodes and 4 input nodes. It's just to illustrate that from the perspective of the hidden node, this would be the information it needs from the layers surrounding it to adjust its input weights.
In the code base we've written so far, the input weights are contained as in the perceptron. So wji would belong to the hidden layer, and wkj would belong to the output layer. Therefore, the output layer would need to send both the sensitivity and the output layer input weights back to the hidden node.
This perspective is important, because Erlang follows an Actor model, where you model the problem as individual agents that pass messages back and forth to each other. We have now written how each individual node adjusts its weights, and that will help us in our coding.
This also means that as the current implementation is headed, I am assuming an asynchronous model of the neural network. Each perceptron will update when any of its inputs change. That means, like a digital circuit, there will be a minimum time that it takes for the output to reach a correct steady state and for the weight adjustments to propagate back. What this minimum time will be, will probably depend on the number of hidden layers. We'll see if it'll work. I have a hunch it should be ok, as long as the inputs are throttled to wait until the minimal time passes before feeding it a new set of inputs. It might result a lot of unnecessary messages, but if we can get away with it while keeping the code simple, I think it's probably worth it.
Next time, we'll get to the code. I had intended to get to it this installment, but the code will make a lot more sense if you know what the math is saying about it.


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He played a decent game yesterday, but theres def room for improvement. Im still not sure if he can be the guy to take us to a Super Bowl. I think he still is staring down his receivers a lil bit and he didnt throw to many yesterday but he does make bad decesions more than I would like. What do you think?
E erything you stated is true but he did not do any of that yesterday. I really can't pick any throw he made that was a poor decision. He was on the money with his throws throughout the game and when it wasn't there it was either a check down or placed where it was his guy or incomPletion.
He really did a good job scanning the field and stepping up into the pocket. Watch that TD pass to Williams. He moved the lb with his eyes that freed up Williams to become that open. He did a nice job scanning the field.
Yeah his stats weren't gaudy but the play calling went too conservative. But if Freeman keeps this up and continues to improve he is the right qb for this team. He needs to keep progressing though.
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One game doesn't say anything... but he looked good.
I'm glad these threads are kept within our own forum.
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He scanned the field well, footwork was better and more consistent, was not frustrated, and looked good scrambling/making things happen when pocket broke down.
No complaints from me, but obviously you'd love to see us try and let the offense attack to see if Freeman can put it together for a whole game. But I thought he looked impressive yesterday. His pocket presence, poise, and scrambling ability were big factors in his sophomore success and he looked like he is back to that, and even improved in those areas. His most impressive throw was when the pocket collapsed, he stepped up and threw a dart to Jackson for a 30 yardish gain - brought back due to a holding call. I have always been a big believer in that he can be a Superbowl QB in this league. Hopeful he can be consistent and stay focused.
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Freeman was cash $ on that first drive, making all the throws he had to. Even on that second drive he was solid. I think once Tampa was up 13 the offense went into vanilla mode and the coaches werent calling anything down field. Also Vjax had 2 really bad drops that could have extended drives.
Next week will be a huge test vs that excellent Gmen d-line but suspect secondary
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One game doesn't say anything... but he looked good.
I'm glad these threads are kept within our own forum.
Yeah it's too soon to say if he is back to form, but yesterday was encouraging. I got high hopes for Free. Glad no threads were made in General, too early for that. I saw a Jags fan make a thread about how great Gabbert was..... during preseason
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He looked good out there. More mechanically sound and more decisive. He didn't force the issue...a couple times he would pump it and hold the ball because the throw wasn't there. The dreaded tunnel vision wasn't nearly as much of a problem as it has been in the past. It was an encouraging showing.
I wish that we didn't go into a conservative shell because Freeman has always been a rhythm passer and with his start I felt like he could have thrown for 300+ and complete over 70% of his passes, but at the end of the day he didn't turn the ball and he made good decisions.
I can't wait to see how he does when we open up the offense.
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If we didn't go conservative in the 2nd quarter on, I believe he could have thrown for at least 250 yards and another touchdown or two. He looked laser sharp that first few drives.
He did next to nothing the rest of the game, but he didn't make any mistakes either, which is basically the best he could do with the offense given to him.
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He looked good, but yes there is a lot of room for improvement. If this coaching staff does what they did week 1 I think we should be fine. We need to build his confidence back up and if we do that by unleashing him little by little each week I think that is going to be the best for his confidence and improvement.
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I believe it really isn't a fair question whether Freeman can lead the team to a Super Bowl. Can Alex Smith lead his team to a Super Bowl? Got his team to OT of an NFC Championship and just beat the Pack in GB in week 1. Certainly it helps that Smith has a great defense behind him ( a little more on this point later).
The last six years has proven, any team that gets into the playoff tournament can make a run to the Super Bowl. Do I believe Freeman with a top 12 defense, qualify for the playoffs? Absolutely "yes".
The implication that every Super Bowl winning team needs an elite QB really isn't an absolute. For every Tom Brady and Drew Brees there is Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson who have won Super Bowls.
I believe Freeman is already a better QB then Dilfer, King, and the combo of Griese/Simms. Those QBs had very good defenses (even great) and made the playoffs. I think he is on par with Jeff Garcia.
I don't believe the question of whether Freeman can be considered elite just can't be answered. When Drew Brees was in SD, was he considered elite? Some would argue he was very good because he had the best RB in the league in LT. If Brees would have signed with Miami, would he have become the elite QB he is today under Nick Saban?
I believe an elite QB not only has to be talented, but certainly have excellent coaching also. Certainly I wouldn't consider the coaching staff in Freeman's first three years as elite. It is not an excuse, that is why I need to see him throughout the entire year this year to get a better idea.
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Josh looked great out there, and we know he is capable of winning us games in the clutch.
I'm really excited to see the Defense in the back field, and the DB's making plays.
If the Defense can find it's glory days, this team could be a perennial Super Bowl contender. Josh Freeman with a Top 5 defense is money, and NO team in the NFL has as much young talent on D than the BUCs.
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Josh did alot of things that reminded me of Free of 2010...on top of that did more....DRD hit on it, he moved people with his eyes, probably the BIGGEST problem he's had since being in the NFL, staring down receivers
I really think we shut it down early and coasted offensively through the game. The giants have a beat up secondary, just gotta give Freeman enough time. V-Jax is gonna have a HUGE game this week w/Free...I just feel it
My feelings totally on Free as of right now, is Roethlisberger at this same age. Back when he first came in, he didnt have big stats, but led his team to victories.
If Free can do what he did sunday every week, im happy. You'll see more from him throughout the year
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At the end of Act I in the Grand Theatre's knockout production of "Death of a Salesman," director Mark Fossen creates an iconic stage picture. Willy Loman stares out the window stage right; his wife, Linda, sits bewildered on their bed; son Happy is alone in the upstairs bedroom; and son Biff sits at the kitchen table holding the rubber pipe Willy plans to use to kill himself.
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Hyperbolic quadratic matrix polynomials $Q(\lambda) = \lambda^2 A + \lambda B + C$ are an important class of Hermitian matrix polynomials with real eigenvalues, among which the overdamped quadratics are those with nonpositive eigenvalues. Neither the definition of overdamped nor any of the standard characterizations provides an efficient way to test if a given $Q$ has this property. We show that a quadratically convergent matrix iteration based on cyclic reduction, previously studied by Guo and Lancaster, provides necessary and sufficient conditions for $Q$ to be overdamped. For weakly overdamped $Q$ the iteration is shown to be generically linearly convergent with constant at worst 1/2, which implies that the convergence of the iteration is reasonably fast in almost all cases of practical interest. We show that the matrix iteration can be implemented in such a way that when overdamping is detected a scalar $\mu<0$ is provided that lies in the gap between the $n$ largest and $n$ smallest eigenvalues of the $n\times n$ quadratic eigenvalue problem (QEP) $Q(\lambda)x = 0$. Once such a $\mu$ is known, the QEP can be solved by linearizing to a definite pencil that can be reduced using already available Cholesky factorizations to a standard Hermitian eigenproblem. By incorporating an initial preprocessing stage that shifts a hyperbolic $Q$ so that it is overdamped, we obtain an efficient algorithm that identifies and solves a hyperbolic or overdamped QEP maintaining symmetry throughout and guaranteeing real computed eigenvalues.
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X rays. In x-ray images, bones affected by Paget's disease have a particular appearance that is different from other bones. Accordingly, a doctor will use x rays, alone or with a blood test or bone scan, to confirm whether or not a person has Paget's disease of bone.
Blood test (measurement of serum alkaline phosphatase). Sometimes blood test results are what first alert doctors to the possibility that a person has Paget's disease. When blood contains a higher-than-usual level of a chemical substance called serum alkaline phosphatase (SAP), it is a sign that the disease may be present.
SAP is a type of enzyme made by bone cells that is overproduced by pagetic bone. The SAP level for someone age 60 or older typically ranges from 20 to 120 units, depending on the testing laboratory used.
A mild increase in SAP, up to twice the usual level, may indicate Paget's disease or another condition, such as liver disease or a bone fracture that is in the process of healing. However, a SAP level greater than twice the usual level strongly suggests Paget's disease, especially if the person's serum calcium level, phosphorus level, and kidney function are normal.
Siblings and children of someone with Paget's disease may decide to have a SAP test annually after the age of 40 to rule out the possibility that they have inherited the disease. In addition, after diagnosis, measurements of SAP levels are used to track how well a person with Paget's disease is responding to treatment.
Bone scan. A bone scan is a test that helps identify which bones have been affected by Paget's disease. The procedure is also a useful way to determine the extent and activity of the disease. In a bone scan, a safe amount of a radioactive substance is injected into the person's vein. The substance circulates through the bloodstream and "highlights" places in the skeleton where Paget's disease may be present. If the scan suggests that the person has the disease, the affected areas usually are x rayed to confirm the diagnosis.
Bone biopsy. In rare cases, a biopsy (a small sample of tissue removed for analysis) is taken from bone that is suspected of having Paget's disease. Bone biopsies are done when x-ray images do not confirm the presence or absence of the disease.
Urine test. Although urine tests are not used to detect or diagnose Paget's disease, they may be used to monitor a person's response to treatment for the disease. In this test, a sample of the person's urine is analyzed for the presence of substances called bone markers. These substances provide information about bone resorption—the process of breaking down and taking up of bone by the body. One such substance is N-telopeptide.
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By John Parker / MiLB.com
If Mark Appel gave himself "a B-minus or a B" in his pro debut Friday, but his grade point average went up on Tuesday morning.
The top overall pick in last month's Draft tossed three shutout innings for Tri-City, striking out five, but the ValleyCats fell to visiting Aberdeen, 8-2, in 10 innings. Appel allowed three hits and did not walk a batter.
"All three pitches were working pretty well today," he said. "I got some good swings-and-misses on the slider and changeup, and my fastball was better down in the zone than the other night. I even got a couple guys to chase the fastball up out of the zone.
"The big difference for me was that there was less adrenaline. It wasn't a big deal like my first start, it was more businesslike, and I think that's part of the reason it turned out better."
Asked when he'd last made an 11:00 a.m. start, Appel laughed.
"I don't know, but it's been a while. It's all good preparation though, and there were a lot of kids in the crowd so it was fun."
The 6-foot-5 right-hander cruised through the first two frames, allowing a two-out single to Aberdeen first baseman Trey Mancini before retiring the side in the second. Appel fanned two batters in both innings.
Appel ran into some trouble in the third, however. IronBirds second baseman Jeff Kemp led off with a line-drive double to left. After Scott Kalush went down on strikes, Aberdeen shortstop Jared Breen singled to center, sending Kemp to third. Appel uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Breen to move to second while Kemp remained at third.
With men on second and third, Aberdeen's Mike Yastrzemski (grandson of the Hall-of-Famer) flew out to left. ValleyCats left fielder D'Andre Toney made the catch and threw out Kemp, who was tagging from third, at home plate to end the threat.
"The ball wasn't hit extremely deep -- I think D'Andre took a step or two in -- and I wasn't sure whether the runner would try to score or not," Appel said. "The throw was right on the mark and he was out by three or four steps. Our outfielders have got great arms, and that was a really nice play."
That was all for Appel, whom the Astros are easing into a professional pitching schedule, though they announced Tuesday that his second Tri-City appearance will be his last for now, as the Stanford product is heading to the Astros' full-season Class A affiliate in Quad Cities. Appel joins 2013 top overall pick Carlos Correa, marking the first time in Minor League history that consecutive No. 1 overall picks have been on the same roster, according to Quad Cities. He's penciled in to start Sunday at 1 p.m. CT vs. Dayton (Tickets). Appel could conceivably rise as high as Double-A Corpus Christi before the end of the season.
"I think by the end of the summer we're trying to get up to five or six innings, but I'm taking it day-by-day. It depends on what the coaches and front office want. I have faith in the Astros' development team, and I know they don't want to be overly aggressive or try to rush things prematurely."
Tri-City got on the board in the fourth with Michael Martinez's third homer of the season, a two-run shot, but Aberdeen answered with a pair of runs on sacrifice flies in the seventh.
The ValleyCats had men on first and second with one out in the ninth, but the inning ended as Anthony Kemp struck out and Ryan Dineen was nabbed trying to steal third base.
Aberdeen took advantage of the reprieve by bringing 10 men to the plate and scoring six times in the 10th to claim the rubber match of the three-game series.
Tri-City's Kevin Comer (2-2), a supplemental first-round pick in 2011, suffered the loss after allowing four runs on three hits, two walks and a wild pitch over 3 2/3 innings. He struck out three. David Richardson improved to 2-1 for Aberdeen with a pair of scoreless frames.
Kemp, center fielder Anthony Vega and designated hitter Connor Bierfeldt each had three hits for the IronBirds, who out-hit the ValleyCats, 14-8.


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Economical and capable, the Ford Explorer proved an attractive alternative to minivans. In 1998, the Ford Explorer was available as a three-door and more popular five-door variant. The three-door body style was discontinued from the Ford Explorer line-up after the 2003 model year. Starting in the 2001 model year, the Ford Explorer was available with an open pickup bed box version called the Sport Trac. The Ford Explorer Sport Trac model was produced through to 2010. Originally powered by a 4-liter V-6 engine, the 1996-model year revamp of the Ford Explorer provided a 5.0-liter V-8 option for consumers.
In 2000, the Ford Explorer was the subject of a highly publicized safety concern regarding its factory-equipped Firestone tires and rollover risk. Electronic stability control (a function designed to improve a driver's ability to handle a vehicle through turning) was added standard throughout the Ford Explorer line during the 2006 model year. A third-generation Ford Explorer was introduced in 2002 with a major change coming with the replacement of a live rear axle suspension with a fully independent type. Between 1998 and 2002, the Ford Explorer accounted for over 400,000 per year in sales.
Due to increased competition from crossover vehicles, the Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles sales plummeted to 52,190 in 2009. In 2011, a dramatic change came to the Ford Explorer. The truck-based frame was replaced by a unibody frame, making it a large crossover, the truck-based frame was replaced by a unibody frame effectively making it a large crossover. From 2011 to 2014, seven-passenger capacity and EcoBoost power has been available on the Ford Explorer.
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The Piano Festival, co-sponsored by EMU and the Harrisonburg Music Teacher's Association (HMTA), is an annual event hosted by EMU. One hundred piano students from various locations throughout the Shenandoah Valley (ages 5-17) perform two contrasting memorized pieces before judges in a recital format. The recitals, scheduled by level, take place at several times on Saturday, March 23rd and are open to the general public. Each student receives written comments and a general rating. An Honors Recital will be held on Sunday, March 24 at 4:00 pm in Martin Chapel for those receiving superior ratings.
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The colonnade across the front of this house-like building spells out its "official administration" function. The style here is Colonial Revival, an adaptation of 17th and 18th century, eastern U.S. homes. This style was popular for residences in the 1920s and 30s. J. Edwin Kopf and Deery were the architects for a 1927 remodeling of this building – it is possible that one of the original 1890s fair buildings survives under the 1920s brick. This year, the Fair Commission rehabbed the building, including restoration of several of the original entryways, and restoration of the flagpoles along the roofline balustrade.


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Brevard, N.C. - Rebecca Schoonover has received Honorable Mention recognition by the Athletes for a Better World committee for the sixth annual Coach John Wooden Citizenship Cup, an award given to the most outstanding role model among athletes, according to Fred Northup, President of Athletes for a Better World.
The ABW is a nonprofit organization that uses sports to develop character, teamwork and citizenship through commitment to help athletes make a difference in the lives of others. Nominations for the Wooden Cup come from every conference and level in the NCAA and the Cup itself, with notable alumni such as Peyton Manning, John Smoltz, John Lynch, Andrea Yaeger and Cal Ripkin, Jr., is given to both a collegiate and professional athlete who has made the greatest positive influence in the lives of others. Recipients of this honor are considered role models and athletes of excellence both on and off the field.
Schoonover has been an active member in the development of IWIL (Institute of Women in Leadership) on campus at Brevard College, having helped in the campaign of Campus Voters Registration and in the Women of Domestic Violence Awareness Program. IWIL is a program on the campus of Brevard developed to provide female students with a program that focuses on the development of leadership through enrichment experiences, specific educational opportunities and service. For the past 11 years, Schoonover has also been active in Meals on Wheels during the holidays in Martin County, Stuart, Florida. During the offseason, she also serves as a volunteer and a peer coach in the Rosman and Brevard High School volleyball teams and the Transylvania Club Volleyball programs in the development of young student-athletes who want to learn the game and play at the next level.
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You will never live it down and rather than get away from the Waugh thing you will be forever branded by it.
Did Waugh intend, in his short story "The Balance," to draw portraits of two sides of his own nature in two separate characters?
Waugh, the accountant protagonist of the metanovelist Coover's strange fiction, might have gotten along with Gould.
Thorpe was acquitted of all wrongdoing, and here is what Waugh had to say about that acquittal in the introduction to his book.
My first book was my undergraduate essay on Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley.
And more recently Waugh has lifted up his senile slobber against Mr. Eliot.
A "Waugh," which might be translated "Hear, hear," greeted this statement of opinion.
Lieutenant Crow has delivered them over to Captain Waugh, and returns to you in a day or two.
This statement was received with a "Waugh" of satisfaction from several of the warriors.
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SANTA ANA - A former dance instructor for the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana was arrested Wednesday on a warrant for misdemeanor child annoyance for allegedly sending sexually suggestive text messages to a 15-year-old student, police said.
John Juul Nielson, 53, of Cerritos, was arrested at his home and was booked at the Santa Ana city jail, with bail set at $15,000 bail, according to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.
Nielson started working at the high school part-time in September 2010 and was fired Jan. 13, according to a school spokeswoman.
"Be assured that the Orange County High School of the Arts takes all student safety issues very seriously and is fully cooperating with law enforcement," a school statement says.
Nielson sent numerous text messages to the girl between Oct. 15 and Jan. 11, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office. The texts contained "revealing information about his personal life, including details about his current and past relationships," prosecutors allege.
Nielson is also accused of having "sexually inappropriate conversations" with the girl, according to the District Attorney's Office and police.
"He stated that he fell in love with this 15-year-old, and he was coming on to her" in the text messages, Bertagna said. "So she went to him and said, `Stop it.' He continued, so she confided in a friend, who went to a counselor, who investigated and notified school officials."
The married father of three could face up to a year in jail and be forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life if convicted.