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Definition of confetti in English:
confettiLine breaks: con|fetti
Pronunciation: /kənˈfɛti /
noun[mass noun]
Small pieces of coloured paper traditionally thrown over a bride and bridegroom by their wedding guests after the marriage ceremony has taken place.
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early 19th century (originally denoting the real or imitation sweets thrown during Italian carnivals): from Italian, literally 'sweets', from Latin confectum 'something prepared', neuter past participle of conficere 'put together' (see confect).
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- Intensify said:
so good
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- BoNEOuzZoORUzO said:
eren dies at the end
spoiler alert
- Jimmy said:
omg stop spoilig
- xXChaosTheFirstXx said:
does he really die?
- Sader said:
what is that song at the start?
- Martin Hnery said:
no eren does not die
- azert said:
The end? What end? the manga is IN PROGRESS or maybe you have seen the 25th episode? which I doubt because it will only be available in cinema before
- Heot said:
No he doesnt.
- Ragnar said:
Really die?
- Janong said:
I don't want to spoil but read manga if you want to know.
- RandomGuy said:
BoNE is trolling its not true.
- Shin Genyuki said:
No Eren doesn't die in the manga, shut up and let people enjoy the anime
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- Infa said:
What was the song called towards the end when he transformed?
- bustapr said:
guess new intro means the anime will continue this season. next ep will be amazing
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- McChicken said:
If eren dies that would be awesome!
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Goonies Never say Die!
- Sommion said:
too much filler….eren should be transformed sooner.
- Demelicos said:
Episode was alright, can't wait to see that fight though. Round 2, "ding"
- Akiix said:
why do you stop at such crel places??
- JASON said:
man, why does eren die…
- dikpikhans said:
f*cking awesome, yeahh this anime is f*cking good
- lololol said:
eren doesnt die
- Aliko said:
kinda disappointed.. nothing new or exciting happened..
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hell yeah!!! cant fcking wait for next week!!
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Despite having just been through one especially rocky 2013, involving a lot of stressful wedding planning followed by cancelled nuptials and a revealing, emotional stint on VH1's Couples' Therapy, original Teen Mom stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra seem to be in tip-top shape to ring in the new year as one happy couple. At least, that's how it appears from Tyler's mushy Instagram post about their latest Christmas together ...
How romantic and so fitting (no pun intended)! Seriously, no one goes buying their partner something like shoes, unless they feel pretty darn confident about their style -- not to mention their size! And Catelynn is well aware of her honey being a shoe lover with a specific affinity for sneakers. Thus, we shouldn't be surprised that she knocked it out of the park with his Christmas gift!
Now, fingers crossed Tyler treated Catelynn to something just as special. Because we know she loves a swanky pair of shoes or flashy bauble as much as he does! And that's just one of the reasons why these two are clearly a match made in reality show heaven.
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They aren't parents, never were and never will be in my opinion, they did a very very selfish thing to that little girl, and are now crying and moaning boo hoo about it.
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And they highly selfish, if they wouldn't cry about it, then maybe I would understand, but they cry about giving her away and not being able to see her like they want to. If they wanted to see her all of the time, they should've sucked it up and been mature and either A, not had unprotected sex, or B sucked it up and taken care of that little girl.
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South Carolinians may not love former Gov. Mark Sanford. They may still have a bad taste in their mouths after his governorship. They may even wonder whether they can entirely trust him.
But in the end, they decided he was as good as they were going to get.
Sanford completed his return from the political graveyard Tuesday night, easily dispatching Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a deep red district that Mitt Romney won by nearly 20 percentage points.
With many voters expressing misgivings about the former governor, Sanford found a path to victory by turning the race into a referendum on the national Democratic Party instead of himself. He put his political gifts to work, wooing skeptical voters in a relentless game of retail politics. And he had the advantage of facing a political newcomer whose inexperience at times showed.
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In the end, the nail biter that late polls hinted at never materialized: Sanford crushed Colbert Busch, 54 to 45 percent.
A turning point in the race came two weeks ago, when Sanford held a mock debate with a cardboard cut-out of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, implying that the California Democrat -- persona non grata in conservative South Carolina - was a stand-in for his Democratic opponent.
The former governor endured days of derision from the press for the move -- Mark Sanford, once regarded as a viable potential presidential candidate, was debating a piece of cardboard.
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But behind the scenes, Sanford's aides grinned: Every time a reporter put "Pelosi" and "Colbert Busch" in the same sentence, the Republican was winning. And some Democratic aides began to worry, too.
After months of relentless focus on his personal life -- his upcoming marriage to his Argentine fiance, the charges that he trespassed at his ex-wife's house and more -- the theatrics helped Sanford turn the race into a debate about issues. Voters had to make a decision: Was Colbert Busch beholden to the Democratic Party? And if so, was that worse than Sanford's transgressions?
Over the ensuing days, Sanford - in TV ads, on the campaign trail, and in a debate -- drove his message home. He challenged Colbert Busch to say how she'd differentiate herself from Pelosi. And he hammered her for accepting campaign help from Washington-based groups like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC, which combined to spend nearly $1 million on the TV airwaves against him.
As he greeted a lunchtime crowd in Charleston last week, Sanford told one supporter that his fight was against Washington Democrats who were "pouring acid on my head every day."
There was something else playing in Sanford's favor - his political instincts. For all his flaws, his fiercest critics concede, few are better at retail politics.
In 1994, Sanford -- then a 34-year-old real estate investor and political newcomer -- launched his first campaign for Congress, traveling up and down the South Carolina coastline in an exhausting push to introduce himself to voters.
This time, Sanford was, in a sense, running from scratch once again. Without the trappings of the governorship, he hop-scotched the Lowcountry in a black van driven by an aide. After spending a year in obscurity, he was reintroducing himself to voters -- soothing the concerns of voters who still felt squeamish about what he had done.
In a district rich with evangelical voters, he adopted religious language to describe his personal journey, talking about a "God of second chances."
"His strength of his campaign style is that he's out there every day," said Scott English, who served as Sanford's gubernatorial chief of staff. "He loves being around people, and that's the hallmark of his campaign."
In Colbert Busch, Sanford was running against a rookie opponent who made some rookie mistakes. While the former governor barnstormed the district, Colbert Busch seemed to be in hiding. She rarely held public events -- and when she did, she was sometimes in a hurry to leave.
At a Chamber of Commerce forum last week, the Democrat delivered four minutes of remarks and was then hustled out of the room by a team of handlers. As baffled reporters trailed, Colbert Busch made a beeline for the parking lot.
For a still largely unknown candidate who needed to introduce herself to voters, it was a head-scratcher of a moment.
"I've never seen a candidate sprint like that," one reporter said at the time.
Though she turned in a strong performance in the sole debate she agreed to, at other times Colbert Busch had difficulty articulating her positions. Any Democrat running in a conservative district has to thread the needle when it comes to talking about issues, but Colbert Busch had particular trouble. Asked in a CNN interview on Tuesday whether she would support the Manchin-Toomey gun control bill, she struggled to come up with an answer.
Of course, the messiness surrounding Sanford's return to politics won't end with his win. On Thursday, he's scheduled to appear in court to answer to his ex-wife's trespassing complaint. And within minutes of the race being called, Democrats were busy at work trying to make Sanford another glaring reminder of the GOP's problem with women.
Once he's sworn into Congress, Sanford will join a House Republican Conference that by and large wanted no part of him. How he and GOP leaders navigate that awkwardness is bound to be an ongoing source of intrigue for House members and reporters alike.
Among the questions Sanford faces is how he will deal with GOP leaders who didn't lift a finger to help him. After the trespassing charges surfaced, the National Republican Congressional Committee -- furious that it had been blindsided -- announced that it would cease spending money to support him. In an interview with POLITICO last week, Sanford said he thought the NRCC was making a mistake.
He's also going to have to decide what kind of member he wants to be. Will he be a rabble-rouser, as he occasionally was during the Newt Gingrich era? Or will he put aside any harsh feelings he has for party leaders and be a loyal soldier for House Speaker John Boehner?
Sanford's friends say he's been so busy with the race that he's given little thought to such basic questions as who his chief of staff will be. But, after being out of the limelight for two years, they say he's hungry to get back to policymaking. As the only former governor in the House -- and, for good reason or bad, one of the best-known members of Congress -- his microphone will be large.
And, unlike his first go-round in the House, Sanford allies say this time he's not thinking about pursuing higher ambitions.
"I think he will be excited to have a platform and have a voice in the political process, and not be focused on climbing the political ladder. He's going to be engaged in the public debate," said Chad Walldorf, a longtime Sanford friend who spent two years as his gubernatorial deputy chief of staff. "I think he'll be unfettered by concerns of higher office and that will give him a unique perspective and an ability to speak out on issues."
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If I understand the various sources (and my somewhat vague memory) correctly, it now appears that Earth has rotated far enough to take the Deep Space Network station at Goldstone, through which Hayabusa has been transmitting, out of line with Hayabusa. Now there is a gap in communication with the spacecraft until it can be acquired at Usuda, Japan. I amnot sure how long the wait will be.
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Avoiding Loops in R: An Example with Principal Minors
Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:31 AM PDT
This article was first published on Coffee and Econometrics in the Morning
Yesterday, I found myself wanting to compute a large subset of the second order principal minors of a matrix (diagonal-preserving minors; the ones for which the rows and columns kept are the same). Don't judge me for wanting to do this, and bear with me, there is a lesson about R programming here.
If you don't know what a principal minor is or forgot what it was (because most of us don't spend much time with principal minors), here is a short refresher on how to get a second-order principal minor (other orders are possible and there's a lot of related theory, but let's try to focus on this one task for now).
Step 1: Deletion. Take any matrix. Delete all but two rows and all but two columns. For example, suppose the matrix is 5×5 and let's keep rows 1 and 3 and columns 2 and 4 (lots of other combinations are possible).
In the back of your mind, think how easy this is in R.
Step 2: Calculation. Once we delete the irrelevant parts of the big matrix to get our 2×2 submatrix, obtain the principal minor by taking the determinant of the resulting 2×2 matrix. For our example, we compute 3×2 – 3×1 = 3.
Both steps in this calculation are easy to implement in R. For the first step, merely use R's fantastic syntax for extracting rows and columns of matrices. If the matrix is called mat, we efficiently perform the first step by:
little_mat = mat[c(1,3), c(2,4)]
That's easy enough. With little_mat in hand, the second step is even easier.
pm = det(little_mat)
The real trick to this programming problem is picking out all of principal minors I want to compute (diagonal-preserving ones that keep the same-numbered rows and columns; little_mat won't do because c(1,3) is not c(2,4)), and doing it efficiently. I also don't want to rewrite my code as my matrix changes size.
So, what do we do? A really bad idea that will eventually compute the right answer is to write this using for() loops.
Barring a coding error, this code should eventually work, but it will be slow. If you want to run through this code many times (like I did yesterday), efficiency is at a premium and you should immediately think of faster techniques — like using the apply() function.
Before moving to apply(), we need a quick way to enumerate all of the ways to keep two out of N rows. If we were counting, that's N choose 2, also known as a combination. Fortunately, this step has already been implemented in the gregmisc library with a function called combinations(). Conveniently, combinations(N, 2) will return a matrix with all of the ways to select two numbers less than or equal to N as its rows. There are other options, but this is the default, which is perfect for our application.
For example, here is some output for N=5.
With this way of computing the rows/ columns we want to keep, all we need to do is put our simple code for computing a second order principal minor into a function. Let's call it minor2(). Then, use apply() to apply this function to each row (MARGIN=1 is for rows) of the combinations matrix. Here's the complete set of code that will work if you have a matrix called mat for which you want the diagonal-second order principal minors.
Because we avoid doing loops, this method is much faster. For a big project, this added efficiency is worth it. More generally, this technique of using apply() to avoid repeatedly looping is a good lesson to apply to other programming problems.
6 comments:
- Anonymous said…
- 1. first for loop has an error and should readfor(i in 1:(nrow(mat)-1)){2. why use gregmisc? You can use the R provided function combn and then use t(combn(nrow(mat),2)) to get the same result.
- July 18, 2011 12:10 PM
- Tony Cookson said…
- Thanks for the correction and the tip on combn. With regard to why to use gregmisc, I suppose that it depends on your application. It turns out that gregmisc is faster even without transposing (I tried that too).> system.time(combinations(400,2))
user system elapsed
0.29 0.00 0.29
> system.time(t(combn(400,2)))
user system elapsed
1.04 0.00 1.05But, gregmisc's combinations() function breaks on combinations much larger than this (I picked 1000 choose 2… which broke gregmisc's combinations, but not combn).
- July 18, 2011 12:19 PM
- Anonymous said…
- About the speed.I tested as follows: number of replications N <- 1000> system.time(replicate(N, {
+ for(i in 1:(nrow(mat)-1)){
+ start <- i + 1
+ for(j in start:nrow(mat)){
+ thisminor <- det(mat[c(i,j),c(i,j)])
+ minors.1 <- c(minors.1, thisminor)
+ }
+ }
+ }))
user system elapsed
0.417 0.001 0.421
> system.time(replicate(N, {
+ index_vec <- t(combn(nrow(mat),2))
+ minors.2 <- apply(index_vec, MARGIN=1, FUN=function(ix){ minor2(mat,ix)})
+ }))
user system elapsed
0.824 0.002 0.829
Even if you move the combn to before the second system.time the for loop is still faster albeit with a much smaller margin.
Conclusion: For loop is faster!
- July 18, 2011 12:20 PM
- Tony Cookson said…
- Thanks again for another challenging comment. Maybe I should not have been so unequivocal in my language about avoiding for loops. For small problems, they're fine.I have been working with bigger matrices (on the order of 100 or 200 rows. In this setting, apply() saves time. I tested the code you provided (with combinations, rather than combn) as follows:> mat = matrix(rnorm(200*200), nrow = 200)
> system.time(replicate(N,
+ {
+ minors.1 = NULL
+ for(i in 1:(nrow(mat)-1)){
+ start <- i + 1
+ for(j in start:nrow(mat)){
+ thisminor <- det(mat[c(i,j),c(i,j)])
+ minors.1 <- c(minors.1, thisminor)
+ }
+ }
+ }))
user system elapsed
30.75 0.03 30.79
> minor2 = function(mat, idx){
+ prin = mat[idx,idx]
+ return(det(prin))
+ }
> system.time(replicate(N, {
+ index_vec <- combinations(nrow(mat), 2)
+ minors.2 <- apply(index_vec, MARGIN=1, FUN=function(ix){ minor2(mat,ix)})
+ }))
user system elapsed
21.64 0.00 21.67
Conclusion: apply() scales better than the nested for loop. But, you're right. For smaller matrices, the for loop will be the faster option.
- July 18, 2011 12:44 PM
- spiceman said…
- I think some speed would be gained by preallocating a vector of size nrow, so that R does not have to copy data by c(…).minors[i] = thisminorBy the way, apply has an internal for loop…
- July 18, 2011 2:33 PM
- Tony Cookson said…
- Good point on preallocating the vector (copying slows R down quite a bit).One caveat to your suggestion: The size you propose isn't right. There are usually many more minors of order two than rows in the matrix.
- July 18, 2011 2:51 PM


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