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Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Repost on Turing and Wasserman- lets talk about...
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- Anonymous12:08 PM, March 16, 2010
The first modern PC? You mean something with a mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking, multiple users communicating using networked A/V and sharing documents live? Wait, no, that was the "oN-Line System" in the 1960s.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous2:11 PM, March 16, 2010
What would you say is the impact of the "Unique Game Conjecture" on the world of computing? To an outsider it looks like a fair bit of mental masturbation.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous2:24 PM, March 16, 2010
Anon 2: UGC would imply that certain approximation algorithms can not be improved.
Broader impact depends on how important these algorithms are in practice. - Anonymous3:07 PM, March 16, 2010
This is for a conjecture and further work on "if it happens to be true, then _______" questions? It could be false. Is awarding this the same as awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a man who had been President for days and hadn't actually done anything but talk big?
ReplyDelete - Anonymous5:56 PM, March 16, 2010
While on the topic of awards: the SIGACT Goedel award page is still requesting nominations for the 2008 award! Can we request the SIGACT chair to press on the relevant people? :)
ReplyDelete - Anonymous6:31 PM, March 16, 2010
Is awarding this the same as awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a man who had been President for days and hadn't actually done anything but talk big?
That is nothing compared to awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to unrepentant murderers such as Kissinger, Arafat (or a literary fraud such as Rigoberta Menchu), but for some reason American academic circles seem obsessed with the latest Nobel prize gaffe, which frankly pales by comparison. dear anon 2.
there is a simple 2-approx for vertex cover: iteratively grab a vertex, and remove all attached edges from the graph. repeat until all edges are removed.
under UGC, this is the optimal algorithm. thus, if someone ever needs a vertex cover, they know they don't have to look any farther than this simple algorithm. (there's also an LP relaxation with factor 2, and something else that gets 2-o(1), but asymptotically 2 has not been beaten ie ugc still open).
if you ask me, even this specific example is a big deal.
add to that the general importance of the results, what they say about combinatorial optimization (that for CSPs, integrality gap = inapproximability), all this crazy stuff..
finally, an expert should weigh in here, but it seems to be one of the biggest single steps in the p=/=np relationship since the development of pcp. and p=/=np is our big problem/embarrasment.- Anonymous7:28 PM, March 16, 2010
A question: Isn't the hardness of expander graphs were the main reason that people believed in UGC, now that we know it is not hard why would one in UGC?
ReplyDelete - Anonymous8:26 PM, March 16, 2010
ugc is a beautiful conjecture and the reductions from it are of no less importance as the reductions by karp to many problems from 3sat.
the primary difference is that 3 sat was provably a hard problem as a class of other problems reduced to it.
ug on the other hand is provably an easy problem, as it reduces to many problems. for an example, ug is easier than finding a strictly better than factor 2 algorithm for vertex cover. - Anonymous8:39 PM, March 16, 2010
the concept of a modern pc is quite an achievement and any single person whose scientific contribution has increased the chance of us having a computer age deserve the award.
of course, for the same reason, i would like tim berners-lee to win the turing award too for conceptualizing the web.
if we would like to be ahead of the curve, i think we should also consider awarding the first person or team who conceptualized a smart phone. this technology would turn out to be very important in the near future.
i am not sure how much is the importance of page rank in search, but if it is significant then even the google folks should get the award. jon kleinberg got an award though his accomplishment was not even in the same league. if jon deserves nevalina then google folks deserve turing.
btw, who did the first email? email is still by far the biggest use of the internet, far bigger than search. - Anonymous9:28 PM, March 16, 2010
Ray Tomlinson probably did the first network-based e-mail.
Len Kleinrock probably did the first personal-use text messaging live (to get his razor back). - Anonymous9:50 PM, March 16, 2010
I believe the algorithm you describe for Vertex Cover is actually a logn approximation.
To get a 2-approximation, one can find a maximal matching and take one vertex from each edge. Note that this is not what you are doing. - FractionalLP10:34 PM, March 16, 2010
Anon responding to "matus", two errors in your comment:
Matus' algorithm is not a log n approximation, e.g., if the graph is a star with one central vertex and n-1 peripheral vertices (hub-and-spokes), and if the algorithm always picks a peripheral vertex, the ratio of alg. to optimal is n-1, not logn.
In the matching-based algorithm you describe, you need to pick both endpoints of all edges in a maximal matching. This is clearly a vertex cover since an uncovered edge would contradict the maximality of the matching. The size of this vertex cover is no more than twice the best possible, since you need at least one vertex per matched edge. - Anonymous10:40 PM, March 16, 2010
You are right--I think if you follow Matus's algorithm and choose the vertices greedily (largest degree), then it is a log n approximation. - AnonCSProf2:59 PM, March 20, 2010
Matus says ~"if UGC is true, then anyone who needs a vertex cover approx algorithm need look no further than the simple algorithm"~.
I don't buy it at all. It may be that there is no better algorithm whose worst-case approximation ratio is at most 2 in all cases. But there may well be algorithms that perform better on many graphs seen in practice.
Think of SAT. There may be no general polynomial time algorithm, but there are still SAT solvers that work well on many formulas seen in practice, and they are incredibly important.
I see this as one reason why people deride complexity theorists as disconnected from practice. I find it is common to over-state the practical relevance of these kind of theoretical results.


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Thanks again, Kori for organizing and Hollie for sending me my gift.
Nope, I received a letter
FROM someone in Georgia
TO someone in Connecticut...
that somehow ended up here in Texas.
Anyway, it gave me an idea.
It'd be so fun to have a reality show called Return to Sender,
where we stick a miniature person in a package or two or three...
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and what they go through.
No miniature people willing?
What about an oompah loompah?
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Don't get out!
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He'll be right back Annie, he wanted his shoes.
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They do it (because I have them so well trained)
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Roger E. Truitt of Paducah, Ky., retired senior vice president of the energy company ARCO and retired president of ARCO Products Co., will be the commencement speaker during two graduation ceremonies at Missouri University of Science and Technology in December.
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was born on Hiiumaa, population 9,000, and started his footballing career there
before making a national name for himself at top-flight FC Kuressaare which is
Saaremaa's biggest club.
After joining in 2004 Pukk helped them get promoted to the Meistriliiga
on 3 occasions and now, at the age of 36, is still playing for the island side.
He had a short spell with Estonian giants Flora Tallinn last year but is back
with the club he loves as they look to stave off another relegation to the 2nd
Until this year's finals in Bermuda Saaremaa have been contested
every Island Games football tournament since 1999 with Pukk playing in each tournament
from 2005. The early days of Saaremaa's participation were blighted by some
poor defeats – their 1999 loss to Hitra and a 2003 1-0 defeat to Alderney
represent the only games these 2 islands have ever won at the competition.
Performances picked up in the later part of the 00's with a
veritable Saaremaa 'golden generation' finishing a best-ever 6th in
2005. Viktor Alonen, with 71 caps for Estonia, was part of that side which Pukk
top-scored in with 4 goals. In 2011 Saaremaa matched their record finish by coming
6th again but only after a penalty shootout had seen them miss out
on a place in the semi-finals.
A re-launch of inter-county matches by the Estonian Football
Association has meant that, as of 2011, Saaremaa have met their smaller
neighbours Hiiumaa in an annual summer friendly. Hiiumaa's largest club Kärdla
Linnameeskond play in the 4th-tier with FC Kuressaare's B team Sörve
JK and unsurprisingly Saaremaa have won each match in the last 3 years.
Pukk chooses to represent his island of birth in these games
and the 1-0 win this summer was a close affair. Hiiumaa also managed to score
away from home in 2012, Pukk inevitably getting the goal. With Kuressaare once
again struggling at the foot of the Meistriliiga and the 2015 Island Games in
Jersey likely to feature a Saaremaa football team we caught up with Pukk to
hear his thoughts.
NFFU: After
representing Saaremaa for so many years at the Island Games how did it feel to
play against them for the island of your birth Hiiumaa these last 3 summers?
MP: It felt great because I was playing together
again with some of my old teammates and with some young talents from my birth
island. The only bad thing is that we have lost all these 3 games, but soon we
will win.
NFFU: You grew up
in Hiiumaa but have played much of your career on Saaremaa. Would you say there
is a big difference in the quality of the 2 teams?
MP: I've played half of my career with clubs
from Hiiumaa but in the lower leagues and one of the reasons I joined FC
Kuressaare was that they're stronger and gave me a chance to play in the Estonian
highest level. I've never regretted this
choice I made because last year I got my first (unfortunately also last) professional
contract with Flora Tallinn and I now have a bronze medal from the Estonian
NFFU: Do you
think Hiiumaa would be able to sustain a semi-professional Meistriliiga club
like Saaremaa does?
MP: Yes it is possible, but it takes time, maybe
in 5 or even 10 more years.
NFFU: You have
played in 4 Island Games tournaments, how does it feel to be representing
Saaremaa against teams from all over the world?
MP: I am very happy that officials gave me the
chance to represent Saaremaa and I have done it very proudly.
NFFU: You were
joint top goal-scorer in 2005 – would you say this was your best Island Games
performance individually?
MP: Yes. That year we had a very good and
experienced team, we played good matches and I scored some nice goals.
NFFU: Saaremaa
came 6th that year and also in 2011 when you missed out on making the
semi-finals only on penalties. Which side would you say was better, 2005 or
MP: In 2005 we had a good and experienced team
as well as a very strong group where we managed a draw against later winners
Shetland, but we finished 6th. In 2011 we should have got to the semi-finals
without having to go to penalties but we had new and young team. With the 2005 team
we would have done it.
NFFU: You lost
4-0 to Gibraltar in 2011 who have now joined UEFA. Do you think they will be
competitive in European Championship qualification next year?
MP: Congratulations to them, but I think they
will not get good results in international games.
NFFU: Did you
play in the 1-0 loss to Alderney in 2003? This must be one of your worst Island
Games memories if so?
MP: No, 2005 were my first games, but I have
heard from older players that the Saaremaa team has got even worse losses than
against Alderney in the past.
NFFU: Do you
think you will still be playing for Saaremaa at the 2015 games in Jersey?
NFFU: What would
you say your best memory playing for Saaremaa and Kuressaare have been?
MP: For Saaremaa my first games in Shetland in 2005
and for FC Kuressaare my goal against Flora Tallinn which was our first victory
against them in club history.
NFFU: After the
strong performance in the 2011 Island Games would you say that the future is
good for Saaremaa and FC Kuressaare?
MP: Yes, Saaremaa and FC Kuressaare have a real
chance to get good placements in the future. But it is not easy; everything
comes with hard work and commitment.
NFFU: Who would
you say the best young players from the island are at the moment? Who do you
think has a good future?
MP: At the moment the best Saaremaa player is probably
Kuressaare captain Sander Viira but there are a lot of new and young players coming
who can get to the top, only if they want to get there themselves.
NFFU: Do you
think Kuressaare can avoid relegation and stay in the Meistriliiga this year?
MP: Yes, we can, I have faith in my team!


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DRIVERS: Jenson BUTTON (Brawn GP), Robert KUBICA (BMW Sauber), Felipe MASSA (Ferrari), Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull) PRESS CONFERENCE
Q. Gentlemen, what are your feelings going into the new season?
Jenson BUTTON: I have not slept that much this week, I must say. It is great to be here to start with for me. It is great to be here in Melbourne for the first race. That was the first goal. It is nice to be here and secondly we are in a much better position than most people thought, so it is nice to be here starting the season on a positive note.
Q. Is it a massive excitement. Your father says he is having to take tranquilizers.
JB: I think a bottle of red normally does it. My father does talk a lot. He is very excited at the moment. I don't know, it is difficult. For everyone else they have been testing for quite a bit of the winter, but for us it has been condensed down to the last two weeks. We have been flat out with testing and simulator work, so it has all been quite busy the last couple of weeks.
As I said it is good to be here and it is good to see the team with a very positive attitude. We have gone through a very hard time this winter but they have stayed strong and we've proved it with the reliability in testing and getting the car out.
Q. Sebastian, for you a new team as well?
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, a slightly new team. Obviously looking forward to the season. We had quite a strong winter, I'd say with a lot of work going on. I think our car looks very nice but we have to prove it is one of the best on the circuit still, but let's see. Right now for everyone it is the same situation as you don't know exactly where you are, it is a bit of guessing right now, but we focus on ourselves. I think we are in a good position, so we will see but definitely looking forward.
Q. Felipe, a certain amount of unfinished business, I suspect, is your way of looking at the new season.
Felipe MASSA: Well, it depends. We finished the business last year with one point behind but we finished. Now we need to start another one from zero. I hope with a very competitive car like we had last year, but maybe slightly more reliable and a very efficient team. That was what we were doing in the winter, trying to work 100 per cent in every detail, not to lose any point, so I hope.
Q. Is it excitement or anxiety?
FM: What happened in last year's championship is finished. Everybody starts from zero now. We have 20 drivers fighting, so until the point that you see maybe you have two, three, five or more fighting for the championship. Now everybody is in the same position. For sure, some people are a bit more competitive. Some people are not, depends. But everybody starts from zero. We need to take everything we learned in the past, but we need to work very hard because we know the championship is long and everybody is in the same boat now.
Q. Robert, your feelings coming into the new season?
Robert KUBICA: As always the winter has been very important to try and analyze and to get knowledge about the new components on the car as the regulation change has been quite big. There was a lot to understand, tyres, aerodynamics, KERS. Yeah, looking forward. Finally we will get a clearer picture where we are compared to our competitors and we will see.
Q. Are you excited about the new season?
RK: Yes, as always. It is a new season and like I said it is always good after a six month break to start again. Testing is important but the races are what we like.
Q. There have been changes in the regulations with KERS and other things like slick tyres. What are the things that have affected you most as drivers, personally? Sebastian, perhaps you can start?
SV: Regarding the wide front wing we will see in turn one on Sunday. Other than that I think the biggest change was going to slick tyres and reducing the aerodynamics. Obviously driving is still very similar. If you look at the outside shape of the car you are surprised that it is that closed from the inside from a feeling's point of view, so not a lot has changed turning left.
The car still turns left, so that is important. But I think there is a bit less grip all around, a bit less stability, so you just have less grip, less stability. But I think everyone gets used to it quite quickly. As regards the slick tyres I would say we all have some knowledge, some fresher and some maybe a bit longer ago but it should not be a problem. They seemed to be quite easy to handle but it is always the tyres. They make the contact to the ground, so we will see.
JB: For me it has been the tyres. I really like the way the tyres work compared to the grooves, especially the front of the car, as obviously the surface area is more affected at the front than the rear going from grooves to slicks. I am enjoying driving the tyres. As soon as I drove them last year I found a benefit that suits my style a bit more, so I am happy with that change. Aerodynamically it is obviously different but we have gained so much grip having slick tyres in a way it balances itself out.
RK: As Jenson and Sebastian mentioned, tyres and aerodynamics. I found the grip level quite balanced. Of course through some mid-speed range corners you get more from the slick tyres and in the other corners you are a bit slower because of the aerodynamic loss. But all in all I think lap time is quite similar and as Jenson mentioned the front tyres are quite powerful. KERS was a big topic during the winter and we will see.
Q. How much are you able to notice the KERS benefit and equally the difference with the movable front wing?
RK: I think the front wing we didn't play with at all, very little during the winter. Of course it depends from car to car as you can adjust one flap, so it will have a bigger or smaller influence depending on the cars. That's not a big topic to really discuss.
FM: For sure it is a big change compared to last year. We have so many things to work on the car. The KERS and the front wing which it is not necessary to change, just when you are following somebody, so you can change whenever you like once a lap, so you can use it for set up as well. For sure the tyres were a big difference, aerodynamically we lost a lot of downforce compared to last year. At least we lost at Ferrari, I don't know about the other teams.
My car is like that. I feel a big difference to drive especially with the old tyres. With the new tyres you have the grip, so you can be aggressive, you can brake strong and try to bring the car, as we were doing last year. In terms of turning you can be aggressive but with the old tyres the car is sliding much more. It is a little bit different to drive and you need to be smoother than last year, at least in my car.
Q. Jenson, you have been through a roller-coaster of emotions but you always seemed to believe you had a drive. Tell us about the atmosphere within the team.
JB: First of all there was not really an option not to believe. When I found out last November it was obviously a big shock. You can get as down as you like but it doesn't change anything, so I was keeping in contact with the team all the way through the winter. Some days were good, some days weren't. But finally we have had a good outcome.
Q. And the atmosphere within the team?
JB: It is as good as you can imagine. But when I went there in November, the day after I found out that we might not be racing this year, the atmosphere was already good. I walked into the factory feeling a little bit down, but chatting to all the different departments expecting a few upset people and no positivity, but there was. They were all going about their business like they had been before the announcement and they knew they were building something that was good. They have done a great job and that pleases me no end. It is great to be a part of that as they have put their heart and soul into producing a car for this year.
Q. Sebastian, in a way same sort of thing. Same family but a different team. Is it very different.
SV: It is a different team, yes. We have the same parent, that is quite special, but still the team is different. I think every team has its own way and its own philosophy. It was basically the same when I came from BMW to Toro Rosso. Of course it is different and you have to adapt. Some things you like and some things you don't like. When you don't like something then you just open your mouth and tell them what you don't like. You talk about it and then you see where you go.
I had enough time already at the end of last year, so basically the Monday after Brazil I was already a Red Bull driver. I did all the winter tests and I got a bit more time as Mark had his accident last November. That all helped me in a way to get well known in the factory and to the car and the working procedures of the team. Hopefully we used all our tests at the beginning of this year and this winter with the new car to prepare for this season as in the season there will be no more testing, so that's it for this year testing-wise.
Q. Now, for the two in the front row, where do you feel your cars and teams are in the hierarchy as we go into the new season?
FM: Difficult. The picture from the winter, at least, is that Brawn is better than anybody, so maybe we need to fight each other (BMW and Ferrari) for third place. I hope not.
RK: I think we have been kept waiting for an answer for quite a long time already. We've been asked the same question since February, so let's keep waiting for another two days and we will see.
Q. (Ed Gorman - The Times) Jenson, are you not worried that everything that's been put into this car isn't about to be wrecked by a protest which we understand is going to be filed this evening or later on today and that that could just trash the whole thing?
JB: Well, first of all, it's not something that I have any control over personally, and secondly, I think the best person to speak to about that is Ross.
Q. (Ed Gorman – The Times) But for you personally, it would be a huge disappointment, wouldn't it, if the car turns out to be illegal?
JB: You've said it yourself. It doesn't change anything for me. I can't do anything about it. It's down to Ross and whoever else is involved.
Q. (Dan Knutson – National Speed Sport News) Speaking of the new rules, for you all, do you think we'll see more overtaking this year?
SV: I don't know. Let's see. It's difficult to say. Obviously it's only my second full season in Formula One but I remember that at the beginning of last year people were going crazy: now, without traction control, the cars will spin off and there will be much more overtaking. I think it was more interesting than the years before. We saw the cars sliding a bit more here and there but in the end, overtaking was still difficult and I think you have to understand, at least that's my feeling, it's already difficult to pass another car in Formula Three because of the downforce.
Well, in Formula One I think the cars have a bit more downforce than in Formula Three. Obviously, I think we made some steps to help overtaking but we have to prove it on the circuit and not prove it in winter testing, just following another car for half a lap and 'do I get a feeling now or not?' We have to prove it in racing, so we still have to wait and see. In testing, it's not the case that you follow another car and you feel nothing anymore and if you're faster you just pass.
You still feel that you lose grip all around, some cars maybe more at the front, some cars more at the rear. It depends on the car, but you still lose downforce, so you still lose grip and that makes it tough to overtake. How tough? That needs to be answered in the next races.
JB: On the two circuits that we've tested on, there's never been any overtaking anyway really. Barcelona and Jerez are very difficult for overtaking. I probably followed two cars in testing at Barcelona. I didn't try and overtake... you're on different strategies and what-have-you so… you're not going to take the risk in practice either. I felt that I could follow a little bit closer but it wasn't enough to make a move around Barcelona. Hopefully it's going to be different at somewhere like this and when we go onto the next few races where there are opportunities to overtake. Hopefully there will be more of them.
RK: I think KERS can have a big influence, if you have it on board or not, so I think this is the main key. I'm not expecting more overtaking due to the aerodynamic changes, just maybe if some cars in front of you are not using KERS and you have additional power, then it might be a bit easier, but it's still quite difficult, I think.
FM: I think the same, same feeling. As Robert said, if you have KERS and you are a couple of tenths behind the guy in front, then KERS can be a help but I don't know how it's going to improve the situation compared to last year. If it improves five or ten percent, that's already a big improvement.
JB: One of the bigger problems is if you don't have KERS and you are behind a car that does have KERS, you're not going to be able to get past, that's one weakness of not having KERS.
Q. (Mick Warner – Herald Sun) Jenson, do you or the other drivers have a view on racing in twilight here in Melbourne?
JB: There's still going to be light left, isn't there? I'm hoping. We have got a bright car. For us it doesn't really make any difference. Dinner reservations are going to be difficult but apart from that, there's no real difference. For us we can get up later on Sunday morning which is nice. I don't know what difference it makes for you guys but for us it doesn't change anything. As long as there's still some temperature, that's it.
FM: As long as I will have visibility it's OK.
Q. (Ken Sparkes – Fairfax Radio News) Jenson, the big buzz is for Brawn all the way down the pits. Have you felt that pressure, that all of a sudden you could be race favourite?
JB: It's not a pressure, definitely not, it's a nice feeling. We've done seven days of testing, I've driven the car for three days which normally wouldn't be enough. We've been reliable-ish, so we've been able to get quite a bit done in that time. I feel comfortable in the car, I feel that I've made it quite personal to myself which is good, but we're coming here with an open mind, for sure.
Testing is one thing and for sure we've been reasonably reliable and we've done some good lap times, but in 2006 we had a quick car in testing and we got to the first race and we got blown away by the Ferraris, so you never know until you turn a wheel here. I have a feeling we're not going to be slow but how quick, we have to wait and see for that one.
Q. (Jonathan Legard – BBC) Robert, what's going to make your mind up, or the team's mind up, about who uses it, and if you use it what sort of difference it could make to you?
RK: I think it's already official that I don't run KERS here. Nick will run it here. The team will decide race-by-race in the future and driver-by-driver, so we will see.
Q. (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Jenson, you say 'talk to Ross', presumably you have spoken to him. Can you just give us an insight into what he has told you about the car? You must believe from speaking with him that the car you will be driving this weekend is legal?
JB: For sure. Yup. I've said all I have to say on the subject.
Q. (James Allen – Financial Times) Jenson, it's quite hard to categorise exactly where you are, because it's an independent team with a customer engine and yet it's got top team facilities. It's a team that nearly didn't make it and yet when it puts the car on the track it's mind-blowingly fast. We all want to think of you as an underdog and yet in some ways you're a favourite. Do you feel that kind of mixed feeling yourself and does the team feel that way?
JB: I understand what you're saying, for sure. We should be the underdogs, for sure, being a private team with a customer engine, but looking at the testing times, we're not, but the testing that we had – seven days – it was so valuable to us. We're not going to plod around slowly. We have to see what the car can do and we have to get the maximum out of it, push the car to the limit, so we can find the limit. So we don't really have a choice in the matter.
I don't know if we are the favourites or what but it's nice knowing that we have a competitive car and as I said, we don't know how competitive it is but for me, all I know is that it's great to drive and I feel that I can really work with it and the changes that I make, make a difference, good or bad, so I'm happy with what we have.
Q. Felipe, McLaren are insisting that they are not as competitive as they used to be. Do you think they are sandbagging, could it be a kind of tactics?
FM: I have no idea, so you need to ask them. I work for Ferrari, I don't work for McLaren. For sure, it is strange to see McLaren at the back. The only thing I can think for myself is that they are a respected team, so we need to respect them for what they did in the past. That's the only idea I have, so I have no idea where they are going to be. I have no idea where I am going to be on the grid, so that's why I cannot answer for McLaren.
Q. (Sarah Holt – BBC Sport) Jenson, over this difficult winter did you know that the new car was going to be so super-quick, and do you think that this perceived level of performance is going to be sustainable from such a small team over the season and beyond this season?
JB: I knew it was going in the right direction, for sure. I spent a lot of time with the team at the end of the year, and obviously we started focusing on our car reasonably early, as you could see from our performances towards the end of last season. That's one of the reasons why I was hanging on in there, hoping that the car would be raced in 2009, because for me it was strong and I think some of this is the reason why everyone's kept their head strong and kept focused on the job in hand because they knew that they were going in the right direction and they knew that they had a good car or the makings of a good car.
Q. (Sarah Holt – BBC Sport) Do you think you can sustain it throughout the season?
JB: It's all guesswork, for sure, and we really don't know what's going to happen even in qualifying and the race on Sunday. That's something that I hope happens, that we can sustain our performance, whatever it's going to be. Yeah, that's got to be the aim. We're here this weekend, hoping that we can do the whole season. We haven't come to Melbourne to just do the first two or three races, we're here for the championship, so we've got to hope that we can complete it.
Q. (Heinz Prüller – ORF) Gentlemen, can I ask each one of you how many kilometres you tested during the winter and how much testing the team did in kilometres or miles or days?
JB: Mine's actually quite easy. I think I did about seven…
FM: I read it somewhere but I have no idea where.
JB: I did about 1800 kilometres.
Q. (Jon McEvoy – The Daily Mail) Felipe, just wondering your response to reports this morning in England in which Lewis Hamilton said he would give thought to driving for another team. Obviously that would lead one to suspect that he might have Ferrari in mind. How would you feel about driving alongside Lewis and your thoughts about what he's said?
FM: Well, I drove alongside Michael. I drive alongside Kimi, so… I heard for many years already that Fernando will come. He's just another one, so I don't care. Valentino Rossi as well. Maybe my father will drive for Ferrari next year. We don't know.


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Git for Administrators
This page describes how to maintain a copy of Moodle on your production server which can easily be upgraded using Git. If you have customisations of Moodle core code, you are advised to follow the instructions in the Git for developers guide.
To get the most of Git it is worth making the effort to understand its basic concepts - see the section below. It can be a bit of a steep learning curve, especially if you are used to CVS or Subversion.
Getting hold of Git (Windows, OSX, Linux and others)
Support for Git is available for most popular operating systems:
- List of downloads from Git site - http://git-scm.com/download
Once you have downloaded and installed your OS relevant git installation, the git commands in this document should work with your operating system.
Moodle branch names
Major Moodle versions each have their own branch in Git. For example, MOODLE_38_STABLE (3.8), MOODLE_39_STABLE (3.9). Development is generally done on branch 'master'. The entire lifetime of that version will stay on that branch. Each release is designated by adding a Git 'tag', for example v3.9.0-beta, v3.9.0-rc1, v3.9.0.
Important: Even though the branch name has 'STABLE' in it, it does not mean that the code on that branch is actually stable. Soon after the branch is made it will contain 'beta' and 'release candidate' versions of the new Moodle version. It's important to check that the current state of the branch meets your needs. Generally, the easiest way is to examine the current contents of version.php - substitute the branch in this url, https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/MOODLE_39_STABLE/version.php
Do not use alpha, beta, release-candidates or code from the master branch for production sites. It could have significant bugs.
Obtaining the code from Git
The command line version of Git is discussed here. Graphical clients are little more than wrappers around the command line version, so you should be able to deduce the correct parameters quite easily.
You can find the official Moodle git repository at git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git (with an official clone at git://github.com/moodle/moodle.git). To initialize your local checkout, use
$ cd /path/to/your/webroot $ git clone git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git (1) $ cd moodle $ git branch -a (2) $ git branch --track MOODLE_311_STABLE origin/MOODLE_311_STABLE (3) $ git checkout MOODLE_311_STABLE (4)
- The command (1) initializes the new local repository as a clone of the 'upstream' (i.e. the remote server based) moodle.git repository. The upstream repository is called 'origin' by default. It creates a new directory named moodle, where it downloads all the files. This operation can take a while as it is actually getting the entire history of all Moodle versions
- The command (2) lists all available branches.
- Use the command (3) to create a new local branch called MOODLE_311_STABLE and set it to track the remote branch MOODLE_311_STABLE from the upstream repository.
- The command (4) actually switches to the newly created local branch.
Git Connection Refused Error
- If connection refused, use: $ git clone https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git
fatal: unable to connect to git.moodle.org: git.moodle.org[0: 184.108.40.206]: errno=Connection refused
Note that Git has a huge number of options for each command and it's actually possible to do the above process with a single command (left as an exercise!!).
Git from behind a firewall
Git uses a read-only protocol that may be blocked by your firewall (port 9418). If this is a problem, you can use GitHub's http version https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git. It's a bit slower, so use the Git protocol if you can.
Updating your installation
The Moodle development team performs integration and testing of fixed bugs every Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday you can install all patches by updating your code. Check the shortlog to see if the official repository has been already updated or not.
To update your code to the latest version (on the MOODLE_311_STABLE branch) all you have to do is:
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle/ $ git pull
If this is a production site you should still consider the Upgrade instructions (e.g. take backups).
Installing a contributed extension from its Git repository
This is one way to handle adding plugins from other Git repositories into your Moodle repository. Another way is to use Git Submodules. However, at the time of writing, this is one of Git's rougher features and should be regarded as an advanced option.
For example, let us say we want to install the Certificate module from its Git repository into our Moodle 3.11.
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle/ $ cd mod (1) $ git clone https://github.com/markn86/moodle-mod_certificate.git certificate (2) $ cd certificate $ git checkout -b MOODLE_311_STABLE origin/MOODLE_311_STABLE (3) $ git branch -d master (4)
The command (1) changes the current directory into the mod folder of your local Moodle clone. The command (2) creates a new subdirectory certificate and makes a local clone of vanilla Certificate repository. The command (3) creates a new local branch that will track the remote branch with a Certificate version for Moodle 3.11. The command (4) deletes the master that was created automatically by git-clone in (2) as we do not want it in this production checkout.
Note: you should check first the compatibility of a module with your Moodle branch by asking directly to the Maintainer before cloning the repo or - if you want to guess it - by issuing the command below before running the command (3), in order to verify what is available among the branches:
$ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/MOODLE_20_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_21_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_22_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_23_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_24_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_25_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_26_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_27_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_28_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_29_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_30_STABLE remotes/origin/MOODLE_31_STABLE remotes/origin/master
This will avoid an error message when you issue the command (3) against a nonexistent branch, e.g.:
§ git checkout -b MOODLE_31_STABLE origin/MOODLE_31_STABLE fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches. Did you intend to checkout 'origin/MOODLE_31_STABLE' which can not be resolved as commit?
Note: To fix above error, use: "git fetch origin MOODLE_31_STABLE:LOCAL_MOODLE_31_STABLE"
Now it is wise to add the new directory mod/certificate/ to the list of ignored files of the main Moodle clone, otherwise a status of the main clone will keep reminding you that the new code has not been checked in.
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle/ $ echo /mod/certificate/ >> .git/info/exclude
To update your Moodle installation now, you must visit both Git repositories and pull changes from upstream.
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle/ $ git pull $ cd mod/certificate $ git pull
Writing a shell script with these lines in the root of Moodle installation is a very good idea. Otherwise it is easy to forget what Git repositories are there within the main Moodle repository.
Installing and maintaining contributed extensions using Git submodules
As it was said in the previous section, this is for advanced users only. Therefore, it is necessary, that you have some experience with Git and its commands. A step-by-step explanation will be provided, but in order to follow these steps it is helpful to understand, what these commands do.
Advanced options and commands can be found at Git book. If you have any questions about Git submodules, please visit the site above first.
Installing a new extension into an existing Moodle
As an example we use the Certificate module from the previous section.
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle $ git submodule add https://github.com/markn86/moodle-mod_certificate.git mod/certificate
Note, that Git is reporting two new files in the repository:
$ git status # On branch MOODLE_29_STABLE # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: .gitmodules # new file: mod/certificate #
The file .gitmodules contains the local path and url of all your submodules. It has to be committed, if you intend to clone the repository later (see the page Moodle development environment with Git submodules). Before committing, make sure to check the configuration of the plugin's Git repository, since the automatically generated settings may be not sufficient. For future updates it is helpful, to track the remote branch, which corresponds to the Moodle version of your repository.
$ cd mod/certificate $ git branch -avv * master 345f5b1 [origin/master] Replaced deprecated function remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/MOODLE_20_STABLE 1aa1040 Added option to print 'grade category' grade remotes/origin/MOODLE_21_STABLE 1aa1040 Added option to print 'grade category' grade remotes/origin/MOODLE_22_STABLE 1aa1040 Added option to print 'grade category' grade remotes/origin/MOODLE_23_STABLE fe047de Check that the function exists rather than relying on the Moodle version remotes/origin/MOODLE_24_STABLE 1051f7d CONTRIB-4892 Fixed the email to others functionality remotes/origin/MOODLE_25_STABLE cdb221a CONTRIB-4946: Removed character from language file breaking AMOS remotes/origin/MOODLE_26_STABLE 696802a Increased version remotes/origin/MOODLE_27_STABLE d3c0379 Increased version remotes/origin/MOODLE_28_STABLE fa8df83 Increased version remotes/origin/MOODLE_29_STABLE 3f03740 Replaced deprecated function remotes/origin/master 345f5b1 Replaced deprecated function
Git created the branch master which tracks origin/master automatically, because the remote repository has checked out master. Therefore, create a new branch, which tracks the appropriate remote branch. Of course, this is only possible, if the remote repository offers those branches.
$ git checkout -b MOODLE_29_STABLE origin/MOODLE_29_STABLE Branch MOODLE_29_STABLE set up to track remote branch MOODLE_29_STABLE from origin. Switched to a new branch 'MOODLE_29_STABLE' $ git branch -D master Deleted branch master (was 345f5b1).
It is not necessary to delete the master branch, but it's useless to keep it. In fact, these settings don't need to be touched afterwards.
The final step is to commit the changes to the main repository.
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle $ git commit -a -m "New extension mod_certificate installed"
It has to be ensured, that the commit includes only the changes for the new Git submodule (since -a commits all non-staged changes).
Maintaining Git submodules
Maintaining a set of submodules is extremely easy. Consider a Moodle repository with several submodules installed. Keep in mind, that the extension mod_mylittleextension is a fake plugin, created for a test scenario in this example. It is not an official Moodle module. For updating all your submodules at once, type in:
$ cd /path/to/your/moodle $ git submodule foreach git pull Entering 'block/coursefeedback' Already up-to-date. Entering 'mod/certificate' Already up-to-date. Entering 'mod/mylittleextension' remote: Counting objects: 6, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done. From /local/repositories/mle 89d9eae..64c122d master -> origin/master Updating 89d9eae..64c122d Fast-forward index.html | 9 +++++++++ version.php | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 index.html $ git status # On branch MOODLE_29_STABLE # Changes not staged for commit: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) # # modified: mod/mylittleextension (new commits) #
The command git submodule foreach [another command] walks through all submodule repositiories and executes what is specified by [another command]. In this case it is git pull. Therefore, the module mylittleextension was updated and the main repository isn't clean anymore until changes are committed:
$ git commit -a -m "Plugin updates"
Maintaining plugins with Git submodules has also another application than simplifying the update process. In a greater scale it can be used to maintain a Moodle project, where multiple developers need to have an exact copy of your moodle without organizing external plugins manually. You can read more about this topic at the page Moodle development environment with Git submodules.
See also
- Windows installation using Git
- Git for Mac
- dev:Moodle versions
- For fixing a Tracker Issue (MDL) / Forking Moodle / CONTRIButing code User:Sam_Hemelryk/My_Moodle_Git_workflow
- Case study Git + Moodle from Technical University Berlin
- Moodle forum discussions
- Github and Moodle deployment for production
- GIT help needed
- Clear git guide for Admins (not developers)
- Best way to use Git
- External resources


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Sergio Pucheta shares his UFO experience: "IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYBODY"
Treatment: The police officer is currently under psychiatric care within the framework of a "confusional episode". "I'm feeling somewhat nervous; my head aches and my hands itch," said the law enforcement agent who was interviewed Monday by a Barcelona (Spain) radio station. He asked that society "believe his story, since this had never happened to be before, and I didn't believe in any of this before."
General Pico (Agencia) - Sergio Pucheta, the provincial police corporal involved in an alleged UFO experience, stated yesterday that "this could happen to anybody". It should be noted that the strange episode which had the officer as its protagonist, took place between the evening of March 2nd and early morning on Friday, March 3rd in the rural region of Dorila.
Pucheta, who was hospitalized at the Gobernador Centeno Hospital until noon Monday, only recently got in touch with the local press at his home on 104th and 25th streets where he lives with with his wife (pregnant) and his in-laws.
First, Pucheta showed a video made during the first days of February at a site close to the one where last Thursday's experience occurred. The images taken by the police officer show a round light apparently rotating on its axis.
It should be noted that this video was requisitioned by Minister Tierno in the early hours of Friday the 3rd while the police combed the area searching for the missing officer, who finally "appeared" at around 16:30 hours -- benumbed and in a fetal position -- on a rural road near Quemu Quemu, some 20 kilometers away from the place where his disaappearance occurred.
Moreover, the videotape was also requested by Pampan ufologist "Quique" Mario, who returned to General Pico yesterday to secure further details on Pucheta's ordeal.
Sergio Pucheta met with the media from General Pico at 09:30 hours yesterday, providing details of his experience for over an hour. "I was driving a motorcycle (a Honda 125 cc belonging to the Cattle Rustling Division) and when I reached the wilderness area we call "Las Cañas", I saw a red light similar to that of a car," he explained, adding that upon reaching the site, the light vanished. "Then I got off my motorcycle to see if could hear any noises. When I got back on the motorcycle and was about to put on my helmet, the red light appeared in front of me, against my face and very strong."
He followed by saying that the red light "stood in front of me and sort of hypnotized me," stressing that as a result of this contact he could "only move his hands, nothing else. I couldn't move the rest of my body...it was as if (the light) was going all over my body."
Later, he added that the light rose into the air and caused him "a considerable head and eye ache", a situation the officer tried to escape from, running away on foot into the fields, without recalling ever having dismantled his service pistol or the police walkie-talkie, which was subsequently found at the site together with other belongings, such as a cell phone which lost all of its stored phone numbers, except for the last call Pucheta made to his fellow officers, calling for backup.
The corporal explained that he has worked for the police force for some 8 years and that for the last two he has served in the Cattle Rustling Division (Division Abigeato) engaging in patrols between 19:30 and 22:00 hours along the rural region of Dorila, Speluzzi and Trebolares.
Pucheta also noted that as he ran into the rural field "they were always behind me", in reference to two pursuing entities. He likewise added "I can't recall if I was walking or running" and noted having remembered all of his life in a matter of seconds "from when I was little until now that I'm older, everything good or bad that ever happened to me."
Regarding the "entities" chasing him, he maintained that they "levitated" and described one of the figures as "being smaller than me, somewhat transparent, with a large head and clear red eyes ...the eyes were very red."
He explained that "they were utilizing my mind, as if they were performing tests," which he later described as "life tests" -- "For example, I reached a cornfield, and at a distance of some 10 meters saw a large figure that appeared to be chewing thee corn cobs and was breaking something. I felt very scared and stood there staring at it. It was getting closer and closer and that's when I felt them tell me "either you go forward or backward". Then I stood thinking and walked right past the figure, and the fear sort of left me at that moment," he said.
When asked if the figure could be that of an animal, he said no, because "it was taller than me and much larger".
Meanwhile, Pucheta stated that throughout the experience he was "aware, because I was thinking about my family, in my wife and [our unborn child]...this was something real that was happening to me," adding that he felt great fear throughout the experience, except for when "I began remembering everything I'd ever been through since childhood. That was the loveliest thing that happened to me."
He later said that he currently "feels very afraid about going out at night" and that the entities told him telepathically that "the were going to seize another fellow officer who also travels alone."
With regard to the place from where the police rescued him, he said that he had been "waiting there since the morning. I was there from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, sitting and waiting" in a place where "no one ever came by".
When asked why he hadn't decided to move away from that spot, he replied: "My feet were paralyzed...I was numb," adding fearfully "they told me that if I spent the day there until the evening, they would come back for me again."
The police officer was unable to explain if the "entities" had taken him somewhere, but he explained that during parts of the distance he covered "it was as though I was in the air" and even remembered having gone past young bull calves "that didn't move", as if the animals were unaware of his presence.
Sergio Pucheta also made it clear during the press conference that his experience is just one of "many cases" recorded in the rural area.
"Previously, my partner and I have seen thousands of those red lights. We once chased one right to the blacktop highway. It was raining and then we never found any traces of it, only our pickup truck."
He added that some two weeks ago "a fellow officer was driving along the access road to Agustoni and saw a light in the middle of the road. He thought it was a car and flashed his headlights at it, but the light wouldn't budge. When he was about to overtake it, the light moved from one side to another and flew straight up."
* Translation (c) 2006. Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)
More . . .
See Also: Did ET Abduct Police Officer?
See Also:UPDATE: Policeman Recovers and Confirms Having Seen Aliens!


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