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Likewise, there's something to be said for an IT infrastructure designed from standard building blocks -- uniform data center servers, network gear and software stacks -- and limited to a constrained set of end user hardware and operating systems. Such an environment will be easier to manage and secure, and new services can be rolled out fast. In contrast, giving business units carte blanche may deliver better flexibility, drive innovation and precisely meet employee needs.
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Skip to comments.Cuomo Vows to Enact the Toughest Assault Weapon Ban in the Nation, Period!
Posted on 01/09/2013 9:16:05 PM PST by neverdem
One of the most hotly-anticipated elements of Governor Andrew Cuomo's annual State of the State address today was his plan to enact "sweeping" gun control reforms in New York. In his speech, the governor outlined a seven-point gun control plan focused on "high capacity assault rifles" that he promised would be one of the "toughest" in that nation and lead similar laws to spread beyond New York.
"Gun violence has been on a rampage as we know firsthand and as we know painfully," said the governor. "We must stop the madness, my friends. In one word it's just 'enough.' It has been enough. We need a gun policy in this state that is reasonable, that is balanced, that is measured."
The governor continued by saying his gun control proposals are not about "taking away people's guns."
As he has in the past, the governor tried to boost his credibility on the issue by emphasizing the fact he is a gun owner.
"We respect hunters and sportsmen. This is not taking away peoples' guns," Mr. Cuomo said. "I own a gun. I own a Remington shotgun. I've hunted, I've shot. That's not what this is about. It's about ending the unnecessary risk of high-capacity assault rifles. That's what this is about."
To that end, the governor outlined the items on his seven-point gun plan.
"Number 1: Enact the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, period!" he shouted, before ticking off his other new gun control proposals. "Number two, close the private sale loophole by requiring federal background checks. Number three, ban high-capacity magazines. Number four, enact tougher penalties for illegal gun use, guns in school grounds and violent gangs. Number five, keep guns from people who are mentally ill. Number six, ban direct internet sales of ammunition in New York. Number seven, create a state [National Instant Criminal Background Check System] check on all ammunition purchases."
Mr. Cuomo predicted the rest of the country will follow New York's lead and adopt stiffer gun laws.
"New York State led the way on guns once before. It was the Sullivan's law of 1911, which was the first-in-the-nation gun control law. A model law," he explained.
The governor's address was over an hour long and included plans to; pass a "women's equality act," implement "a bar exam-type test that every teacher takes and must pass before we put them in a classroom," raise the minimum wage, decriminalize less than 15 grams of marijuana, reform the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, open casinos around the state (but not in the five boroughs), drive commerce to upstate New York with a marketing push and to bolster infrastructure to be better prepared for natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. In spite of all his other proposals, Governor Cuomo returned to gun control for the grand finale of his speech.
"I know that the issue of gun control is hard. I know that it's political. I know it's controversial," the governor said, his voice rising with every word. "I say to you, forget the extremists! It's simple: no one hunts with an assault rifle! No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer! Too many innocent people have died already! End this madness now!"
By the end of the speech, the governor was shouting.
"Pass safe, reasonable gun control in the State of New York! Make this state safer! Save lives! Set an example for the rest of the nation! Let them look at New York and say, 'This is what you can do! This is what you should do!' This is New York, the progressive capital, you should them how we lead! We can do it! We've done it before and we can do it again."
He left the stage to deafening applause from the assembled lawmakers.
Update (11:10 p.m.): NRA President David Keene responded to Governor Cuomo's gun control proposals in a podcast interview late this evening.
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Will it stop jihadis from flying into buildings? Bombing Synagogues? TRYING to bomb Broadway theaters?
I thought not.
What about the risk of demented feral youths with illegal guns? What are you going to do about that?
The risk of demented BATFE hitting the wrong house?
The demented BATFE enticing regular peeps to do something against the idiotic laws of 1934 and 1968?
How about a hearing protection gun law?
If assault weapons are banned only criminals and government thugs will have assault weapons.
Andy Cuomo is a loudmouthed fraud.
Criminals don't obey laws. Damn leftists have a god complex.
So now anyone who kills people with a gun is really going to be in trouble.
Here come the crazies (Cuomo, Obama, to release more mental patients)
If Cuomo wants a pissing match to see which governor can be the biggest traitor. HE WINS. Thus far.
They definitely won't make it past the third one.
The second amendment is not about hunting. end of story.
anyone who says so is an idiot.
***It has been enough. We need a gun policy in this state that is reasonable, that is balanced, that is measured.***
But, would it have stopped 19 moslem arabs with boxcuttersfrom killing 3000 people on 9-11-201?
If these new laws would not have stopped that, then the Governor is just pi$$ing into the wind.
You got that right.
He's pissin on his boyfriend Ohomo. Like all the Obomunist zombies.
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Four years to go until 2016 and Cuomo is already launching his presidential campaign. "The rest of the country" is worried about whether they'll still have a job a week from now.
I assume the cops and the military are going back to 6 shooters too /s
Homeland security and TSA will have muzzle loaders right?
And Al Queda will just have rocks, right? /s
Mexican Drug cartels will be armed with Mexican jumping beans.../s
One suspects that the financial loss to New York state from out-migrating legal firearm owners will be swift and staggering in magnitude.
Oh, and violent criminals? Guess where they are headed.
IMO this will be a test for the Communists/Progressives to test the waters of the electorate in the US. If it flies there they will likely try it soon in over half of the States. I wonder if New Yorkers will roll over and take it willingly without a fight?
There's always bio weapons, chemical weapons.
Since most mass murderers usually end up killing themselves, suicide bombings are the most likely replacement if assault weapons are harder to obtain. soft targets are still likely targets.
You got that right.
Sigh, stupid gun grabbers made me swear. Apologies for that.
Vote for Cuomo, he's the homo?
Good, so when Texas decides to take over New York, we will not have to fire a single shot to do it. We will then take the statue of Liberty into protective custody and move it to Texas, since there is no more liberty in New York. We will use New York as our export market for illegal aliens booted out of our restored and Free Republic.
Wait, you mean the 2nd Amendment isn't as follows??
"A heavily controlled citizenry, being necessary to the subservience of an ignoble serfdom, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be allowed."
Andrew Cuomo is too stupid to be an idiot.
Right up there with tough drug laws, child abuse, automobile fatalities, and murder.
Good thing there's none of these anymore.
Just hyperbole and drivel to pander to his lapdogs.
"Stop the madness"
First, drugs then illiteracy, now guns. Cuohomo sure has an ear for worn-out figures of speech.
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This nut job needs to be in prison.
I had decided I didn't like being a "Registered" Assault Weapon Owner in CA, so I got rid of the AK and bought a CA Legal AR-15. It has the silly 10 Round Magazine with a "Bullet Button".
Thank goodness a relative of mine in the Midwest is babysitting four 30 round Magazines for me.
I am through "Registering" anything with the CA and D.C. Nazis currently ruling us. The line has been drawn.
I never thought I might end up as a Political Prisoner in an American Gulag, but it isn't beyond the realm of possibility. We are now living in a Twilight Zone episode.
Well Governor guns are not the problem your state has...
The Empire State is being drained of an invaluable resourcepeople. From 2000 to 2008, in both absolute and relative terms, New York experienced the nation's largest loss of residents to other statesa net domestic migration outflow of over 1.5 million, or 8 percent of its population at the start of the decade
I wonder what that vermin is trying to distract us from.
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fear local swat more than batfe, let's get clear on this.
I don't know how stupid he is. Intellectually lazy, an unprincipled demagogue and an ambitious self-promoter, most certainly.
I don't know how stupid he is. Intellectually lazy, an unprincipled demagogue and an ambitious self-promoter, most certainly.
And in other parts of the nation we have communities swearing to abide by the Second Amendment and are agreeing to elect their local militia leader, organizing a depot and training area.
Whole towns heading to some form of staging area for instructions of strategy, communication and general military procedures. All across America, it could be at a fairgrounds or convention center. Food supplies are being gathered and emergency shelters prepared plus any logistics needed to transport that areas militia to a strategic area.
Of course we don't think this is happening because its not hitting the news, it is somewhere, right now. And if it hasn't started in your area start asking why not.
Somebody in the know, please tell me the political party make up of the N.Y. House and Senate.
If it's anywhere near 50/50 either way, this political bloviating bastard doesn't stand a chance. Democrats are gun owners too. It's the very far wacked out left that support these laws, not many of the law abiding democrats do.
Liberal insane bastard gov Pat Quinn just found this out in Illinois.
The more liberal states that voluntarily disarm themselves the better. That will make it easier if and when the shooting starts.
All this will accomplish is to turn law-abiding citizens into felons.
These will be the new zombies in America and we need high-capacity magazines to fight them.
He's correct - it's the prelude to taking away the People's guns...
You are correct. My family would be among those who will not comply and will leave ASAP instead.
Cuomo is a shameless grandstanding demongogue. Always has been, always will be. He's cut from the same crappy cloth a la Schumer & his mini-me Gillibrand. Too bad we can't do a barkectomy on this mutt!
Yes, make it illegaler than it already is! That'll show 'em.
Remember...Andrew Cuomo is the only positive story for the Democrat party from the 2010 election cycle and since the the Democrats have lost ever more governorships. Of coarse, the mainstream media has lionized him and will continue to do so ever though he has no real accomplishments. His phony tax cap is a prime example.
Cuomo wisely co-opted his greatest likely critic in Fred Dicker (NY Post) by giving him an exclusive book deal to do a biography.
Cuomo is all about image management.
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Spin wrote:The report includes emails between the four, and other evidence. I'm leaning toward it being accurate. Setting aside Buckeye bias and "other schools have covered up XYZ", the evidence is still damning IMHO.
More specifically my point is were conclusions drawn from preconceived opinions, or even the fact that Sandusky was found guilty, as opposed to founded evidence?


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by motherscratcher » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:03 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:51 pm
Motherscratcher wrote:The ACLU will sue to protect CDT's right to PM Orenthal and wear a tux while doing it.
by stonepm » Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:45 am
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:18 am
stonepm wrote:Here's my thing. The school has rules established and whether they are stupid or not is irrelavant This girl approached the school about "breaking" the rules, when in reality she should have followed the proper channels to actually "change" the rules. They said 'no', she sued. this makes her as big an idiot as the the school. But the tux thing I side with the school on. Since when has a tuxedo been elevated to the status of "political statement" that her not wearing one is violating her 1st Ammendment. They have a dress code, as lots of places do.
by waborat » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:42 am
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Christ..... People act like she wanted to hold a lesbian orgy on the dance floor.
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:48 am
waborat wrote:Cerebral_DownTime wrote:Christ..... People act like she wanted to hold a lesbian orgy on the dance floor.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9twNz0ta4U
by stonepm » Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:28 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:A school cannot have rules that discriminate against one group. How can she have them change the rules, when those rules are bullshit in the first place? She's not an idiot, she was well within her rights. As for the dress code stuff, are girls who wear jeans, t-shirts, and tennis shoes to schools on a daily basis making a "political statement"? Those are mens' clothing. Maybe they should only wear feminine clothing, so things aren't politcal in how they choose to dress. Best not to make waves in this country.Christ..... People act like she wanted to hold a lesbian orgy on the dance floor.
by Cerebral_DownTime » Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:45 pm
She should have done whatever it takes to rewrite the rule (ie. petition the board of ed, write her congressman, whatever). Not just get pissed and sue because they won't let her be the exception
Would you be making the same argument for them? Answer honestly and don;t just say it's a differnt situation.
And as for the tux...she is the one making a mundane tuxedo a political statement by claiming that that they are violating her freedom of expression by not letting her wear one
Try wearing a dress to work tomorrow and let me know how that works out for you.
by jfiling » Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:38 pm
by aoxo1 » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:21 pm
by motherscratcher » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:07 am
by stonepm » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:30 am
by Ziner » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:09 am
stonepm wrote:I think you guys are missing my point. 1st off, I side with the girl here. I don't really care who she takes to the prom. My point is she is suing them because they wouldn't let her break the rule, not because they wouldn't change the rule, even if it is stupid and outdated.
The district's decision Wednesday came after the ACLU demanded that officials change a policy banning same-sex prom dates because it said it violated students' rights.
stonepm wrote:Now, regardless of the outcome, all this is doing is costing the district (read:TAXPAYERS) shitloads of money.
stonepm wrote:Nowhere did I read where she made any attemp to get the rule changed, only that she approached them about taking her girlfriend to the prom and wearing a tux, they said 'no'. She was aware the rule existed because she said that they had denied people in the past. Now, she should have garnered public support and then pursued whatever avenue she had to (I don't know what the process is, but if it was me, I would have found out)to change the rule. Instead. she went right to the ACLU and the nuclear option. Which would be fine if the other stuff didn't work.
stonepm wrote:Does this make more sense?
by stonepm » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:16 pm
by Cerebral_DownTime » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:30 pm
by motherscratcher » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:45 pm
by Ziner » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:51 pm
by stonepm » Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:34 pm
The whole point of the ALCU is use tax payer money to protect the rights of said tax payers, no?Stone, show me where it's written that she has to exhaust all other methods before bringing in the ALCU. It's no a waste of tax payer money, it's exactly why the ALCU exists. If the school is so stupid that they think it's ok to bar people from prom based on who they date, then they should be sued.
This shit isn't that complicated."Excuse me Mr. Superintendent, could you please change your homphobic rule that never should've been in place to begin with?"
by stonepm » Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:42 pm
Motherscratcher wrote:stonepm - It really sounds like you're saying that you think there was a good chance that the board would have changed the rule if she had just written a nice letter or something. AND, the board only refused to change the rule and cancelled the prom to spite the ACLU, not because they are homophobic A-holes. In short, the school board doesn't necessarily have anything against this girl and her lifestyle, they just don't like the ACLU. Is that what you're saying?
by exiledbuckeye » Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:57 pm
by Orenthal » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:47 pm
jfiling wrote:To anyone who wants to decry to movement away from "traditional values", you can expect a hearty "fuck you". People living in a lifestyle that you don't approve of doesn't harm you. You trying to make people live according to your values makes you an asshole.
by jfiling » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:41 am
exiledbuckeye wrote:Stonepm, you have your facts slightly wrong. The girl talked to the school principal back in December about bringing her girlfriend as a date, they refused to allow it, all that stuff. So the ACLU sent a letter to the school on her behalf asking that she be allowed to bring her girlfriend, and in response to the letter the school district cancelled prom. The ACLU is now suing to force the district to hold the prom and allow the same-sex couple to attend.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/ ... 2120.shtml
At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which says that prom dates must be of the opposite sex.Also, when McMillen expressed a desire to wear a tuxedo to the prom, the district superintendent told her only male students were allowed to wear them, according to court documents.
"We are determined to get the prom back on the calendar and open to all students," said ACLU lawyer Christine Sun. "What this case comes down to is the school taking the extraordinary measure of canceling the prom, rather than live up to its legal obligation to fairly treat all students who want to come to it."
by stonepm » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:51 am
by jfiling » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:03 am
stonepm wrote:I stand corrected. The principal sounds like a dick knuckle. On a side note: That was a terrible interview. That girl did a phenomenal job of not falling for Behar's baiting. Kudos to her.
by jb » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:04 pm
by motherscratcher » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:23 pm
JB wrote:This sounds like a job for Ren McCormack.
by jfiling » Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:14 am
To avoid Constance McMillen bringing a female date to her prom, the teen was sent to a "fake prom" while the rest of her class partied at a secret location at an event organized by parents.
by Ziner » Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:10 am
by exiledbuckeye » Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:24 am
by motherscratcher » Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:42 am
by mattvan1 » Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:54 am
by Cerebral_DownTime » Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:18 pm
mattvan1 wrote:In most of the US, the calendar year is 2010.In Mississippi, it's sometime in the late 1960's. The state flag tells you all you need to know.
by jb » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:05 pm
by jb » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:07 pm
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:mattvan1 wrote:In most of the US, the calendar year is 2010.In Mississippi, it's sometime in the late 1960's. The state flag tells you all you need to know.Fucking Rebel flags....... Do they not realize that they lost the war? Confederate Flags are for losers..... Literally.
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A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.
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So it is also that the Mestizos and white Yucatecans that lived in the South of Quintana Roo, in Bacalar and the surrounding area, went to repopulate what today is known as Belize, specifically Orange Walk, Corozal and Ambergris. Most of these settlers returned to Mexico at the end of the 19th century and populated Payo Obispo (Chetumal), Bacalar and Xcalak. The north was repopulated with emigrants from Valladolid, Espita, Tizimin and other villages. From that point on, the islands of
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During this same period of time newly authorized officials divided up sections of Cozumel Island and distributed lots among the island's new settlers. These first citizens were Spanish descendants, some of whose surnames were: Novelo, Angulo, Alcocer, Cardenas, Rivero, Vivas, Aguilar, Anduze, Ezquivel, Vega, Martin and Coral. One of the elements that unified the group was their Catholic faith, which was the dominant religion among Yucatecos. One of the immigrants, a Catholic priest, had brought an image of Saint Michael with him, and San Miguel quickly became the patron saint of the island. The power of the church also worked well in controlling the Mayan farmers who had settled in El Cedral because they too were profoundly Catholic.
Once political and religious power had been established and the land distributed, the citizens set about establishing occupational specialization between ranchers, artisans and merchants. It would be the merchants who would consolidate the island's interior market, which initially grew out of the necessity for bartering between the citizens of San Miguel and the residents of El Cedral; and between the Cozumeleno merchants and seasonal fisherman from Cuba and Belize. The Cuban fisherman exchanged manufactured products from Havana for fresh food and drinking water.
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The mestizos that formed the dominant group of the newly born society had a European-Mayan culture, were bilingual and dressed like white Yucatecans. Their experience in the market economy would be determined by events that had taken place as the island was first repopulated.
The best land was appropriated in parcels of 10 to 200 hectares and the village of San Miguel was divided into lots for building homes.
The field workers, who had arrived in the second wave of immigrants, were relocated in the El Cedral area and given excellent agricultural land. They, in turn, organized their own disbursement system that tended to parcel out land based on the individual's ability to work.
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For the longest time, people thought that humans could not run a mile in less than four minutes. Then, in 1954, [Sir Roger Bannister] beat that perception, and shortly thereafter, once he showed it was possible, many other runners were able to achieve this also. The same is being said now about the IBM Watson computer which appeared this week against two human contestants on Jeopardy!
(2014 Update: A lot has happened since I originally wrote this blog post! I intended this as a fun project for college students to work on during their summer break. However, IBM is concerned that some businesses might be led to believe they could simply stand up their own systems based entirely on open source and internally developed code for business use. IBM recommends instead the [IBM InfoSphere BigInsights] which packages much of the software described below. IBM has also launched a new "Watson Group" that has [Watson-as-a-Service] capabilities in the Cloud. To raise awareness to these developments, IBM has asked me to rename this post from IBM Watson - How to build your own "Watson Jr." in your basement to the new title IBM Watson -- How to replicate Watson hardware and systems design for your own use in your basement. I also took this opportunity to improve the formatting layout.)
Often, when a company demonstrates new techology, these are prototypes not yet ready for commercial deployment until several years later. IBM Watson, however, was made mostly from commercially available hardware, software and information resources. As several have noted, the 1TB of data used to search for answers could fit on a single USB drive that you buy at your local computer store.
But could you fit an entire Watson in your basement? The IBM Power 750 servers used in IBM Watson earned the [EPA Energy Star] rating, and is substantially [more energy-efficient than comparable 4-socket x86, Itanium, or SPARC servers]. However, having ninety of them in your basement would drive up your energy bill.
That got me thinking, would it be possible to build your own question-answering system, something less fancy, less sophisticated, scaled-down for personal use? John Pultorak explained [how to build your own Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) in your basement]. Jay Shafer explains [how to build your own house for $20K]. And a 17-year-old George Hotz figured out a [hack to unlock your Apple iPhone] over the summer in his basement.
It turns out that much of the inner workings of IBM Watson were written in a series of articles in [IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3]. You can also read the [Wikipedia article]. Eric Brown from IBM Research will be presenting "Jeopardy: Under the Hood of IBM Watson Supercomputer" at next month's [The Linux Foundation End User Summit].
Take a look at the [IBM Research Team] to determine how the project was organized. Let's decide what we need, and what we don't in our version for personal use:
|Do we need it for personal use?
|Team Lead
|Yes, That's you. Assuming this is a one-person project, you will act as Team Lead.
|Yes, I hope you know computer programming!
|Game Strategy
|No, since this version for personal use won't be appearing on Jeopardy, we won't need strategy on wager amounts for the Daily Double, or what clues to pick next. Let's focus merely on a computer that can accept a question in text, and provide an answer back, in text.
|Yes, this team focused on how to wire all the hardware together. We need to do that, although this version for personal use will have fewer components.
|Speech Synthesis
|Optional. For now, let's have this version for personal use just return its answer in plain text. Consider this Extra Credit after you get the rest of the system working. Consider using [eSpeak], [FreeTTS], or the Modular Architecture for Research on speech sYnthesis [MARY] Text-to-Speech synthesizers.
|Yes, I will explain what this is, and why you need it.
|Information Sources
|Yes, we will need to get information for personal use to process
|Question Parsing
|Yes, this team developed a system for parsing the question being asked, and to attach meaning to the different words involved.
|Search Optimization
|No, this team focused on making IBM Watson optimized to answer in 3 seconds or less. We can accept a slower response, so we can skip this.
|Project Management
|Yes, even for a one-person project, having a little "project management" never hurt anyone. I highly recommend the book [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity] by David Allen].
(Disclaimer: As with any Do-It-Yourself (DIY) project, I am not responsible if you are not happy with your version for personal use I am basing the approach on what I read from publicly available sources, and my work in Linux, supercomputers, XIV, and SONAS. For our purposes, this version for personal use is based entirely on commodity hardware, open source software, and publicly available sources of information. Your implementation will certainly not be as fast or as clever as the IBM Watson you saw on television.)
- Step 1: Buy the Hardware
Supercomputers are built as a cluster of identical compute servers lashed together by a network. You will be installing Linux on them, so if you can avoid paying extra for Microsoft Windows, that would save you some money. Here is your shopping list:
Three x86 hosts, with the following:
- 64-bit quad-core processor, either Intel-VT or AMD-V capable,
- 8GB of DRAM, or larger
- 300GB of hard disk, or larger
- CD or DVD Read/Write drive
- 1GbE Ethernet
- Computer Monitor, mouse and keyboard
- Ethernet 1GbE 4-port hub, and appropriate RJ45 cables
- Surge protector and Power strip
- Local Console Monitor (LCM) 4-port switch (formerly known as a KVM switch) and appropriate cables. This is optional, but will make it easier during the development. Once your implementation is operational, you will only need the monitor and keyboard attached to one machine. The other two machines can remain "headless" servers.
- Three x86 hosts, with the following:
- Step 2: Establish Networking
IBM Watson used Juniper switches running at 10Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) speeds, but was not connected to the Internet while playing Jeopardy! Instead, these Ethernet links were for the POWER7 servers to talk to each other, and to access files over the Network File System (NFS) protocol to the internal customized SONAS storage I/O nodes.
The implementation will be able to run "disconnected from the Internet" as well. However, you will need Internet access to download the code and information sources. For our purposes, 1GbE should be sufficient. Connect your Ethernet hub to your DSL or Cable modem. Connect all three hosts to the Ethernet switch. Connect your keyboard, video monitor and mouse to the LCM, and connect the LCM to the three hosts.
- Step 3: Install Linux and Middleware
To say I use Linux on a daily basis is an understatement. Linux runs on my Android-based cell phone, my laptop at work, my personal computers at home, most of our IBM storage devices from SAN Volume Controller to XIV to SONAS, and even on my Tivo at home which recorded my televised episodes of Jeopardy!
For this project, you can use any modern Linux distribution that supports KVM. IBM Watson used Novel SUSE Linux Enterprise Server [SLES 11]. Alternatively, I can also recommend either Red Hat Enterprise Linux [RHEL 6] or Canonical [Ubuntu v10]. Each distribution of Linux comes in different orientations. Download the the 64-bit "ISO" files for each version, and burn them to CDs.
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) oriented, often referred to as "Desktop" or "HPC-Head"
- Command Line Interface (CLI) oriented, often referred to as "Server" or "HPC-Compute"
- Guest OS oriented, to run in a Hypervisor such as KVM, Xen, or VMware. Novell calls theirs "Just Enough Operating System" [JeOS].
For this version for personal use, I have chosen a [multitier architecture], sometimes referred to as an "n-tier" or "client/server" architecture.
- Host 1 - Presentation Server
For the Human-Computer Interface [HCI], the IBM Watson received categories and clues as text files via TCP/IP, had a [beautiful avatar] representing a planet with 42 circles streaking across in orbit, and text-to-speech synthesizer to respond in a computerized voice. Your implementation will not be this sophisticated. Instead, we will have a simple text-based Query Panel web interface accessible from a browser like Mozilla Firefox.
Host 1 will be your Presentation Server, the connection to your keyboard, video monitor and mouse. Install the "Desktop" or "HPC Head Node" version of Linux. Install [Apache Web Server and Tomcat] to run the Query Panel. Host 1 will also be your "programming" host. Install the [Java SDK] and the [Eclipse IDE for Java Developers]. If you always wanted to learn Java, now is your chance. There are plenty of books on Java if that is not the language you normally write code.
While three little systems doesn't constitute an "Extreme Cloud" environment, you might like to try out the "Extreme Cloud Administration Tool", called [xCat], which was used to manage the many servers in IBM Watson.
- Host 2 - Business Logic Server
Host 2 will be driving most of the "thinking". Install the "Server" or "HPC Compute Node" version of Linux. This will be running a server virtualization Hypervisor. I recommend KVM, but you can probably run Xen or VMware instead if you like.
- Host 3 - File and Database Server
Host 3 will hold your information sources, indices, and databases. Install the "Server" or "HPC Compute Node" version of Linux. This will be your NFS server, which might come up as a question during the installation process.
Technically, you could run different Linux distributions on different machines. For example, you could run "Ubuntu Desktop" for host 1, "RHEL 6 Server" for host 2, and "SLES 11" for host 3. In general, Red Hat tries to be the best "Server" platform, and Novell tries to make SLES be the best "Guest OS".
My advice is to pick a single distribution and use it for everything, Desktop, Server, and Guest OS. If you are new to Linux, choose Ubuntu. There are plenty of books on Linux in general, and Ubuntu in particular, and Ubuntu has a helpful community of volunteers to answer your questions.
- Step 4: Download Information Sources
You will need some documents for your implementation to process.
IBM Watson used a modified SONAS to provide a highly-available clustered NFS server. For this version, we won't need that level of sophistication. Configure Host 3 as the NFS server, and Hosts 1 and 2 as NFS clients. See the [Linux-NFS-HOWTO] for details. To optimize performance, host 3 will be the "official master copy", but we will use a Linux utility called rsync to copy the information sources over to the hosts 1 and 2. This allows the task engines on those hosts to access local disk resources during question-answer processing.
We will also need a relational database. You won't need a high-powered IBM DB2. Your implementation can do fine with something like [Apache Derby] which is the open source version of IBM CloudScape from its Informix acquisition. Set up Host 3 as the Derby Network Server, and Hosts 1 and 2 as Derby Network Clients. For more about structured content in relational databases, see my post [IBM Watson - Business Intelligence, Data Retrieval and Text Mining].
Linux includes a utility called wget which allows you to download content from the Internet to your system. What documents you decide to download is up to you, based on what types of questions you want answered. For example, if you like Literature, check out the vast resources at [FullBooks.com]. You can automate the download by writing a shell script or program to invoke wget to all the places you want to fetch data from. Rename the downloaded files to something unique, as often they are just "index.html". For more on wget utility, see [IBM Developerworks].
- Step 5: The Query Panel - Parsing the Question
Next, we need to parse the question and have some sense of what is being asked for. For this we will use [OpenNLP] for Natural Language Processing, and [OpenCyc] for the conceptual logic reasoning. See Doug Lenat presenting this 75-minute video [Computers versus Common Sense]. To learn more, see the [CYC 101 Tutorial].
Unlike Jeopardy! where Alex Trebek provides the answer and contestants must respond with the correct question, we will do normal Question-and-Answer processing. To keep things simple, we will limit questions to the following formats:
- Who is ...?
- Where is ...?
- When did ... happen?
- What is ...?
- Which ...?
Host 1 will have a simple Query Panel web interface. At the top, a place to enter your question, and a "submit" button, and a place at the bottom for the answer to be shown. When "submit" is pressed, this will pass the question to "main.jsp", the Java servlet program that will start the Question-answering analysis. Limiting the types of questions that can be posed will simplify hypothesis generation, reduce the candidate set and evidence evaluation, allowing the analytics processing to continue in reasonable time.
- Step 6: Unstructured Information Management Architecture
The "heart and soul" of IBM Watson is Unstructured Information Management Architecture [UIMA]. IBM developed this, then made it available to the world as open source. It is maintained by the [Apache Software Foundation], and overseen by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards [OASIS].
Basically, UIMA lets you scan unstructured documents, gleam the important points, and put that into a database for later retrieval. In the graph above, DBs means 'databases' and KBs means 'knowledge bases'. See the 4-minute YouTube video of [IBM Content Analytics], the commercial version of UIMA.
Starting from the left, the Collection Reader selects each document to process, and creates an empty Common Analysis Structure (CAS) which serves as a standardized container for information. This CAS is passed to Analysis Engines , composed of one or more Annotators which analyze the text and fill the CAS with the information found. The CAS are passed to CAS Consumers which do something with the information found, such as enter an entry into a database, update an index, or update a vote count.
(Note: This point requires, what we in the industry call a small matter of programming, or [SMOP]. If you've always wanted to learn Java programming, XML, and JDBC, you will get to do plenty here. )
If you are not familiar with UIMA, consider this [UIMA Tutorial].
- Step 7: Parallel Processing
People have asked me why IBM Watson is so big. Did we really need 2,880 cores of processing power? As a supercomputer, the 80 TeraFLOPs of IBM Watson would place it only in 94th place on the [Top 500 Supercomputers]. While IBM Watson may be the [Smartest Machine on Earth], the most powerful supercomputer at this time is the Tianhe-1A with more than 186,000 cores, capable of 2,566 TeraFLOPs.
To determine how big IBM Watson needed to be, the IBM Research team ran the DeepQA algorithm on a single core. It took 2 hours to answer a single Jeopardy question! Let's look at the performance data:
Element Number of cores Time to answer one Jeopardy question Single core 1 2 hours Single IBM Power750 server 32 < 4 minutes Single rack (10 servers) 320 < 30 seconds IBM Watson (90 servers) 2,880 < 3 seconds
The old adage applies, [many hands make for light work]. The idea is to divide-and-conquer. For example, if you wanted to find a particular street address in the Manhattan phone book, you could dispatch fifty pages to each friend and they could all scan those pages at the same time. This is known as "Parallel Processing" and is how supercomputers are able to work so well. However, not all algorithms lend well to parallel processing, and the phrase [nine women can't have a baby in one month] is often used to remind us of this.
Fortuantely, UIMA is designed for parallel processing. You need to install UIMA-AS for Asynchronous Scale-out processing, an add-on to the base UIMA Java framework, supporting a very flexible scale-out capability based on JMS (Java Messaging Services) and ActiveMQ. We will also need Apache Hadoop, an open source implementation used by Yahoo Search engine. Hadoop has a "MapReduce" engine that allows you to divide the work, dispatch pieces to different "task engines", and the combine the results afterwards.
Host 2 will run Hadoop and drive the MapReduce process. Plan to have three KVM guests on Host 1, four on Host 2, and three on Host 3. That means you have 10 task engines to work with. These task engines can be deployed for Content Readers, Analysis Engines, and CAS Consumers. When all processing is done, the resulting votes will be tabulated and the top answer displayed on the Query Panel on Host 1.
- Step 8: Testing
To simplify testing, use a batch processing approach. Rather than entering questions by hand in the Query Panel, generate a long list of questions in a file, and submit for processing. This will allow you to fine-tune the environment, optimize for performance, and validate the answers returned.
There you have it. By the time you get your implementation fully operational, you will have learned a lot of useful skills, including Linux administration, Ethernet networking, NFS file system configuration, Java programming, UIMA text mining analysis, and MapReduce parallel processing. Hopefully, you will also gain an appreciation for how difficult it was for the IBM Research team to accomplish what they had for the Grand Challenge on Jeopardy! Not surprisingly, IBM Watson is making IBM [as sexy to work for as Apple, Google or Facebook], all of which started their business in a garage or a basement with a system as small as this version for personal use.
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InformationWeek Government's third annual Federal Government IT Priorities Survey shows that federal IT pros are focused on providing a secure, solid foundation for their agencies' many other IT efforts. Security, continuity planning, and data records management—in that order—top the list of federal IT priorities. Our survey, conducted in July, was completed by 147 federal IT pros.
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The program employs third-party organizations to perform independent assessments of cloud services on behalf of an agency. In our survey, 16% of respondents said they are already using FedRAMP and 36% plan to use it within 12 months.
This report provides in-depth analysis of the top five federal IT priorities: cybersecurity/security; disaster recover planning/continuity planning; data records management; data center consolidation; and storage solutions/data growth.
The priorities are interrelated. Getting one initiative right often has a bearing on the success of others. (R5400812)
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Enter the notion of a data center interconnect, which extends an Ethernet network between two physically separate data centers. While the idea is simple, Ethernet wasn't designed to run across a wide area network. Thus, a DCI implementation requires a variety of technological fixes to work around Ethernet's limitations.
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Network-based intrusion-prevention and -detection products play a significant role in today's enterprise because of their ability to detect and block attacks and alert security teams to suspicious traffic. We invited IT professionals who use, or have used or evaluated, network IPS/IDS products in the past 12 months to participate in a vendor evaluation survey; 458 IT pros responded. We asked them to rate network IPS/IDS vendors in two categories: general performance and technology-specific features.
Eight vendors had a sufficient number of respondents to receive a full evaluation. They are Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, HP/TippingPoint, IBM/ISS, Intel/McAfee*, Juniper Networks, McAfee/NitroSecurity* and Snort running on a customer's own hardware.
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Methodology InformationWeek surveyed business technology decision-makers at North American companies. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers. Individual evaluations were conducted for vendors whose products have been used or evaluated in the past 12 months by 37 or more respondents.
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I am a contributor at the wonderful site Mothers in Medicine, and this week a guest poster wrote in to ask Do Single Mothers Go to Medical School? Please go read her original post and the other comments. Here is my very long-winded reply:
Hi! I am a single mother who just finished medical school. I would be happy to chat with you through email, if you're interested. Please feel free to let KC know, and she knows how to get ahold of me. Also, you can read the posts I have written on here (click on the MomTFH link in the labels to the right–>) or read my blog at https://momstinfoilhat.wordpress.com. Not all of my posts are about being a single mom, obviously, but it is my constant reality as I write. As I hope you have discovered, it is easier and harder to be a single mom than you may have expected, and it does not dominate all of my thoughts, conversations and interactions.
OK, on to your questions. Let's start with the simpler one. I took the MCAT after being out of the basic science classes for several years, too. I used a single review book and did OK. I happen to be a good test taker. If I had a time machine (Oh, geez! the things I could fix!) I would have taken a review course and probably scored higher. I think taking a targeted MCAT review would be higher yield for you than retaking all of your premed. That will also take quite a while. But, if you think having domestic good grades will improve your chances of admission, it's definitely an option.
As for RN vs. NP vs. being a physician, that is really up to you, and I don't think there is an easy answer to that. There are many days in which I wish I had the time machine and could go back and be an NP, but I may be a unique case. I am older than you, I want to go into obstetrics, and I didn't match into residency last year. If I was a nurse practitioner / midwife, I could be working already, no residency required, and be doing everything I want to do as a doctor (I am not super gung ho about being a lead surgeon and am more interested in low risk obstetrics, obviously, but there are plenty of NPs that assist in the OR, just don't lead surgeries).
Obviously, yes, single mothers do go to medical school. I was pleasantly surprised at the diversity in my class. I sat next to a grandmother all of 2nd year, and I was not the only single mom in my class. Also, single mothers do a lot of things that take them away from their kid(s). Many single moms work outside the home for long hours and have to rely on different forms of help and childcare. And, most of these single moms are not pursuing a life long dream, one that will most likely provide financial security and a fulfilling career. Moms have guilt, single moms have guilt. I don't let that keep me from pursuing my career in medicine.
Medical school is not a bad situation to be in as a single mom. Especially the first two years. There are many schools that even stream most of the classes online, and do not have an attendance policy for many of the classes (mine did). Your clinical years may be more difficult. Your schedule can change from month to month, and I have had to ask a caregiver to show up at my house at 4:30 am some months so I can get to my rotation on time. Even more difficult, my schedule would change in a month. My kids were in school and had after school care from a trusted family member, so my main issue was the early mornings.
As for being able to handle it, I was the president of more than one extracurricular club. I won a research fellowship and full tuition scholarship. I was recommended and inducted into the humanism honors society by one of my attendings / professors. I qualified for the regular honors society, but I won't go into the political BS that kept me from that group. I aced my boards and never failed a class. I am not just tooting my horn here; I am telling you that, if you work hard and have the aptitude and right attitude, you will do well.
I have written on my blog about my sometimes frustration with some of my former classmates. These are things my single, childless classmates have told me: I gave up using any washable dishes or glasses during medical school because I don't have time to do any dishes. I gave up my dog to my parents during board review because I can't take care of it. I don't have time to do _____ activity or ______ club. I didn't have time to take the required scrub class before rotations started because I wanted to go on a vacation. I need to take off a month because I am planning a wedding. I can't make the meeting at that time because that's when I nap. (Yes, for real) I would see some of these same students go to yoga 3 times a week, or party frequently, or get their mani/pedi once a week, or watch every episode of the Jersey Shore, or make what ever bargains or compromises they chose. So do I. (Make compromises. I don't do any of those things on the list. I have a dog and two cats, I cook and use real dishes and plates, and I don't get to work out often if at all, watch much TV, or take care of my fingernails, hairdo or other beauty routines often. I also schedule my naps, rare as they are, around my obligations, not the other way around). So will you, compromise, that is, regardless of your path.
As for divorce, moving, family support – that stuff is not easy. If you email me and are up for it, I can regale you with the soap opera that was my divorce and coparenting (they don't call it custody anymore) agreement, and the sacrifices I had to make to be able to move if I matched out of the area. Single parents relocate all the time for many reasons. It is not fair to expect every single parent to remain, forever, in a 50 mile radius of where they divorced. There are a lot of moving parts to this, and I could write more words than this entire post already (seriously not kidding) about it. A lot of this depends on your ex. This battle was infinitely harder than medical school for me.
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Holistic practice involves complete mind, body, and spirit involvement to help achieve a natural balance that promotes overall health and well-being.
Most holistic approaches to well-being have a basis in tradition, and many date back several hundred years. Various forms of Holistic practice can be traced to several different places on the globe.
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