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I often read about giving and getting critiques on a photograph or series of photographs. Specifically how do I go about giving a critique? What do I say, what points do I want to hit, etc.
What a critique isn't:
There's no better way to say it… A critique is rarely short, because it is specifically designed to provide the artist with detailed, constructive feedback. It's primary purpose is not to make the photographer being critiqued feel good (though that's not to say that it can't be a side benefit), or bad (though again, this can happen as part of a tough critique). With this in mind, it becomes clear why most photo sharing websites aren't good places to get critique… A one-sentence ego-stroke "that's the most amazing thing I've ever seen!" or mean-spirited "that's the worst piece of trash I've ever seen!!!" on a forum somewhere isn't capable of providing anything resembling feedback that is either detailed or constructive. While a critique doesn't have to be written, many critiques are. The main reason for this has to do with what a critique is…
What a critique is:
A critique is the giving of feedback after a considered and measured evaluation of a photograph. When giving a critique it is valid to like a photograph, and it is also valid to not like it. It is not valid to not be able to explain why you reacted the way you did to the image, and it is not valid to not offer detailed feedback to the photographer to whom you are giving the critique. A written critique allows the 'giver' plenty of opportunity to both consider what he or she wants to express, and measure his or her words before presenting them to the artist. Generally speaking this is considered a 'formal critique' and is a carryover from the art world, where such critiques are often published in a similar manner that a wine reviewer would publish his or her reviews of a bottle of wine. A spoken critique is considered to be an 'informal critique' because it is harder to be considered and measured in the giving of the critique verbally (and often 'on the spot').
With that out of the way, it is important to consider a couple of things:
How do I give another photographer a critique?
Whether written (formal) or verbal (informal) I recommend using a system so that you'll look at and critique photographs similarly each time you do. The system I use includes the following specific steps:
Final Notes
Whether you use the above steps specifically or not, the goal of a critique should be as mentioned at the top: to give a considered and measured evaluation of a photograph or series of photographs. To give a critique is a real privilege, and should be treated as such. I rarely walk away from having given a critique without having learned something (sometimes a whole lot!) myself, and as such I believe that both giving and getting critiques are some of the fastest ways to improve as an artist...
Jay Lance's answer is great but I would like to suggest a slight modification in the ordering of items. Specifically, our natural tendency is to deliver the good news first, and the bad news last. While this approach has the advantage that the recipient will consider the negative feedback more seriously, it has the disadvantage that ending on a negative note leaves him/her discouraged.
If it is important to you to keep things motivating and exciting, try reversing the order. Start with the negative feedback. And end with strong positive feedback.
Which of the following would you prefer to hear?
The second phrasing leaves you with a sense of optimism for the future. You feel like you're on the right path and you now want to go out there and work on fixing those two other issues.
When I critique a photograph or a work or art of any kind, I start with praise of something I like in the work. If I see something that I feel needs adjusting or worked on, I will mention what I think might work better, and then at the last of my critique I will end with a positive praise. This is how I would want my work to be critiqued, with a genuine intent to help me get better and to see what others see.


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Tricyclic Antidepressants for Fibromyalgia
How It Works
Experts do not know exactly how tricyclic antidepressants improve symptoms of fibromyalgia. They may help some people with fibromyalgia to sleep better through the night by increasing the deep phase of sleep and decreasing muscle spasms.1
Why It Is Used
Doctors may prescribe tricyclic antidepressants when sleep problems are a major symptom of fibromyalgia.
How Well It Works
Some research shows that tricyclics may work better than other antidepressants for treating fibromyalgia symptoms. They are good at helping with sleep problems. But they may become less effective over time.2
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
FDA advisory. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory on antidepressant medicines and the risk of suicide. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these medicines. Instead, a person taking antidepressants should be watched for warning signs of suicide. This is especially important when treatment begins or when the doses are changed.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Never suddenly stop taking TCAs. The use of any antidepressant should be tapered off slowly and only under the supervision of a doctor. Abruptly stopping antidepressant medicines can cause negative side effects or a relapse of your condition.
TCAs are started at low doses, and the dose is increased gradually to reduce the severity of side effects. You may need regular blood tests to check the amount of the medicine in your blood. Too much of this type of medicine in the bloodstream can be dangerous.
You may start to feel better in 1 to 3 weeks of taking antidepressant medicine. But it can take as many as 6 to 8 weeks to see more improvement. If you have questions or concerns about your medicines or if you do not notice any improvement by 3 weeks, talk to your doctor.
Studies suggest that using the combination of a tricyclic antidepressant and a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), such as fluoxetine (Prozac), may be more successful at breaking the cycle of pain and sleep problems caused by fibromyalgia than using just a single medicine.
Using an antidepressant medicine to treat fibromyalgia does not mean that the condition is "all in your head." The dose of a tricyclic antidepressant used to treat fibromyalgia is usually much less than that needed to treat depression.
People who have seizures (epilepsy), difficulty urinating (urinary retention), glaucoma (an eye disease), or heart conditions may notice that tricyclic antidepressants make these symptoms worse.
Be sure to tell your doctor about all the medicines you are currently taking. TCAs can interact poorly with certain heart medicines—digoxin (for example, Lanoxin)—and/or with other medicines, such as those used to treat seizures—phenytoin (Dilantin).
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
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Grinnell wants you to discover the world—both in your on-campus courses and in off-campus study (sometimes referred to as study abroad). The College places no limits on the amount of students who can go abroad in any given year, and it provides the same financial aid for off-campus study as for on-campus study. That means you can go abroad without taking out tons of student loans or worrying that there's a fixed "quota" of spots for going to a certain country.
In fact, there's such a culture of off-campus study at Grinnell that you'll probably start planning for it in your First-Year Tutorial. Your adviser will tell you how you can complete any major, or prepare for any post-graduate degree (medical school, for example), and still go abroad for a semester. You might hear one of your professors talk about the options for spending a semester in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East. You'll probably meet a Grinnell student who's just gotten back from Botswana, or India, or Denmark.
Grinnell students also go abroad to do summer internships or to complete research for a Mentored Advanced Project. International travel is woven into the Grinnell curriculum, so that courses taken on a Grinnell-approved program will receive college credit. There are even some Grinnell courses that include foreign travel as part of the work for the course.
If you want to spend a semester abroad, Grinnell will make it possible.
- Nearly 60% of all Grinnell students spend a semester off-campus at some point during their college career.
- Grinnell has approved programs in every continent of the world—except Antarctica!
- Some of the recent projects that students have completed abroad include research on individuals with disability in Sri Lanka, research on the representation of women in Gothic art, and research on European policies regarding healthcare and agriculture.


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GREENVILLE, S.C. – The guard duo of Chandler Hash and CJ Gleaton combined for 76 points, as third-seeded Anderson outlasted No. 7 seed Coker, 100-89, in the semifinals of the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Saturday afternoon at Timmons Arena.
Anderson (22-8) has won four of its last five and will face will face top-seeded and 13th-ranked Lincoln Memorial in the tournament championship contest, which is slated for 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon at Timmons Arena. The Trojans will be making their second appearance in the title contest since joining the league for the 2010-11 campaign.
Coker, bidding for its first appearance in the SAC Championship contest in the Cobras' inaugural season in the league, saw its season end with a 15-13 overall record.
Hash and Gleaton posted career highs of 44 points and 32 points, respectively, while Gleaton pulled down 10 rebounds for his ninth double-double of the season. Hash set a new SAC Tournament record by going 17-of-18 from the free throw line. Junior guard Myson Jones added eight points and shared game-high honors with five assists.
Guard Errick Bethel led four Cobras in double figures with 31 points, with Julian Nelson chipping in 16 points. Forward Eren Moses netted 14 points and 11 boards, while Trey Marshall scored 10.
The contest featured eight ties and 13 lead changes, including four before the first media break, with Anderson holding a narrow 10-8 edge with 15:51 on the clock.
Neither team was able to build more than a six-point lead in the first 17 minutes, with the Trojans gaining a 16-10 edge on Gleaton's second 3-pointer from deep in the left corner.
The Cobras forced a pair of turnovers and battled back to even the score at 18 apiece before Hash regained the lead for AU with a pair of free throws and followed a Coker miss with a jumper to boost the Trojans' advantage back to 22-18 with less than nine minutes left in the half.
Bethel's traditional three-point play at the 7:56 mark regained the lead for the Cobras and the two teams exchanged the lead twice before Dante Samuels' two free throws gave Coker a 27-24 advantage.
After the Trojans regained a brief one-point lead, Coker answered to push back out to a double-digit, 40-30, lead on a five straight from Bethel, before Hash drained a 3-pointer just before the buzzer to trim the Cobras' lead to 40-33 at intermission.
Anderson opened the second half with a 9-2 surge to reclaim a brief 43-42 lead before Bethel answered with a 3-pointer from the left with less than 17 minutes left in the game.
Hash and Gleaton combined to score seven straight for Anderson, as the Trojans claimed a 58-53 lead that they would not relinquish and AU pushed out to a 66-58 lead midway through the final half.
After AU opened its largest lead of the game at 76-64, Bethel's rare four-point play with 3:28 left in the game trimmed the Trojan lead to just four, but AU countered with six unanswered to push back out to a double-digit 92-82 lead and sealed the victory by connecting on five consecutive free throws in the final moments.


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Does the non-solvability of the halting problem mean that no program can tell if an arbitrary program halts, or only that if such a program exists then there is no computable proof that it works?
A program that decides it (and works correctly for all input programs) cannot exist at all.
Or in other words, every program can be proven not to answer the halting problem correctly. Given a purported halting solver we can construct, through a diagonalization argument, an input program that the purported solver will give the wrong answer on.
It means the former: there is no program $e$ that computes the characteristic function of the set $K = \{ i : \text{program } i \text{ halts on input } i\}$. Undecidablity has nothing to do with provable computability, it it just about actual computability.


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Raw Spectacle
Was I the Wave? is the long-awaited sophomore offering from Montreal musician and producer Miracle Fortress (Graham Van Pelt). Miracle Fortress gained international recognition in 2007 for his debut album Five Roses, a unique collection of psychedelic shoegazey-pop that garnered high praise from numerous outlets. The Guardian gave it five stars and called it "gorgeous from start to finish," Spin proclaimed "Montreal's latest revelation is a pure pop pick me up" with four stars; and the Montreal Gazette called it "an indie-rock / synth-pop masterpiece," bestowing five stars. Indeed, it became a much-loved record with something of a cult-following, for those in the know.
Though Van Pelt has been busy since the release of Five Roses with his more extroverted band Think About Life, Miracle Fortress has been relatively quiet, until now. While it bears little stylistic resemblance to his debut, Was I the Wave? is in some ways a similar offering, insofar as it takes us on a trip deep into Van Pelt's unique musical mind. There's not much of an argument for calling this record indie-rock—it's essentially an electronic offering—but existing fans won't find it too difficult to hear Van Pelt's signature habit-forming hooks swimming among the big synths, and deep beats.
Like Five Roses, it was created in isolation from top-to-bottom, with Van Pelt serving as composer, arranger, performer, producer, and engineer. Taken as a product of his occasionally hermitic temperament, many of tracks here express themes of alienation, anonymity, or the desire for the assurances of intimacy. The record's first side keeps a deliberately crowded atmosphere, with moments of pressure, anxiety, and relief. The second side is more open and personal, as the production offers breathing room while the lyrics aspire to a more direct narrative of domestic comforts, or resistance to social overexposure. Was I The Wave? nevertheless functions as a running sequence, though the A and B sides respectively reflect the darker and lighter moods of Miracle Fortress. High volume and repeat listens recommended.
Miracle Fortress is thrilled to present his brand new music video for the epic Was I the Wave? cut, "Raw Spectacle". Premiered on IFC yesterday and directed by Emily Kai Bock and shot by Neal Rockwell, this short film-style video adds another layer of drama to the 2011 album track. Raw Spectacle is the third video offering since the album's release, following Miscalculations, and B-side Possession.
As Graham Van Pelt explains: "We set out to create our own variation on the supernatural misfit story, without the trappings of CGI or indeed much of a budget whatsoever. Much toxic by-products were inhaled and minor burns were occasionally suffered, but we can say with pride that the result exceeded our own expectations."
Rarely has electronic music come across as personal and from the heart as it does on Was I the Wave?
By the time we get to new single and album standout Miscalculations, there's pummeling bass, splashy drums and a full-throttle laser show. Motoring.
The remix keeps the song's woozy vocals largely intact, but Pantha du Prince dials down the synths and inserts a steady techno pulse, creating a sort of Balearic pop tune that is undeniably pleasing to the ear.
"Part experimental-ambient and part 80s pop, Was I the Wave is all massive synth-scapes littered with electro beats, and Van Pelt's dreamy wail towering above."
"strange and beautiful … soaring melodies and moody, atmospheric sonic beds … filled with the kind of vocal and instrumental hooks you can't leave behind."
"At the show, Van Pelt opted to offer up new tracks such as 'Miscalculations' and 'Everything Works' in a near-pitch black room, with only flickering laser lights outlining his body enough for the audience to see him. While that might have enraged photographers, it played to the strength of the throbbing beats and helped create a distinct mood for Van Pelt's newfound niche of late-night dance club soundtracks."
"Hella versatile. It was a party by the end of the set."
"Van Pelt and drummer just let the groove of his cerebral, bass-heavy "bedroom club" music do all the talking as a laser light show sprayed the ceiling and jaws dropped to the floor."
"This less-than-30-minute set offered us just a handful of the new tunes (including the stellar "Miscalculations," which sounds like the hit Cut Copy never wrote)"
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WHEELING - It's a cold, snowy January and head colds and cases of the flu are plentiful, leaving many local hospitals low on blood donations from healthy donors.
That is one reason the American Red Cross is urging all local residents in good health to brave the cold weather and donate a pint of blood at the 27th-annual Ohio Valley Media Day Blood Drive set from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 21 at WesBanco Arena.
The annual event is the largest single-day blood drive in the Greater Alleghenies Blood Services Region, which serves six states, including most of West Virginia and parts of Ohio.
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EXPLAINING NEED — Cheryl Gergely, communications manager of the Greater Alleghenies region of the American Red Cross, announced the 27th-annual Ohio Valley Media Day Blood Drive, the region's largest single-day blood drive of the year, is set from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 21 at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling. - Sarah Harmon
"We need people to come out and donate blood in January, because it is a time blood donations tend to decline. It's cold outside and people are facing illnesses, so often people cannot donate blood," Cheryl Gergely, communications manager of the Greater Alleghenies region, said. "At the same time, the need for blood continues for patients in hospitals."
The Red Cross is especially in need of O negative blood, the universal blood type that can be transfused to patients of all blood types, as well as B negative and A negative, according to Gergely.
The goal this year is to bring in at least 500 people to produce 400 successful blood donations.
"One out of 10 people admitted to the hospital needs blood," Gergely said. "Blood is needed by cancer patients, people with blood disorders, premature babies, transplant recipients, trauma victims and more. Blood donated at the Media Day Blood Drive may give someone another day, another week, another month to spend with loved ones and friends."
The donations will benefit area hospitals, including Ohio Valley Medical Center, East Ohio Regional Hospital, Barnesville Hospital, Trinity Medical Center and Wetzel County Hospital.
Individuals 17 years old or older weighing 110 pounds or more may be eligible to donate blood. A 16-year-old can donate with signed permission from a parent. Individuals should bring a blood donor card or driver's license or two other forms of identification when coming to donate.
Gergely said blood donors must be healthy without cold or flu symptoms and must not be taking antibiotics at the time of donation.
Free parking at the Intermodal Transportation Center, free day care services and refreshments such as pizza, salad, fruit, doughnuts and soft drinks will be provided at the event. Donors can take advantage of free transportation provided by Airport Limousine to and from the event by calling (304) 232-1175 to make advance arrangements. Media Day T-shirts also will be handed out to all donors while supplies last.


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The old computer has a 2nd hard drive where the PostGIS data directory is stored. I want to move this drive over to the new computer and continue to use it for data storage.
Can I install the 2nd hard drive in the new machine and when installing PostGIS point it to the data directory on this hard drive and everything will work?
Or do I have to back my database up and restore it?
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Singapore Says Suspect Is Helping Soccer Probe
SINGAPORE—Singapore authorities said Friday that the Singaporean man allegedly leading a global soccer match-fixing syndicate has been cooperating with police investigations.
Dan Tan Seet Eng "is currently assisting Singapore authorities in their investigations," Singapore police said in response to queries. It didn't elaborate on how Mr. Tan is assisting police or whether he has been detained.
European investigators say they believe Mr. Tan is the leader and financier of a crime syndicate allegedly responsible for fixing hundreds of soccer matches around the globe. Mr. Tan couldn't be reached for comment.
Singapore's announcement came as Italian police arrested a Slovenian man suspected to be a member of this crime syndicate. Admir Suljic, who turns 32 years old on Saturday, surrendered to police at Malpensa international Airport west of Milan early Thursday, Italian police said.
This month, Europol, a coordinating group for European police forces, said had evidence that 680 soccer matches played around the world—including in some of the sport's biggest tournaments—may have been fixed. Some 425 soccer and team officials, players and others are suspected of being involved, and dozens have been arrested.
Europol said it uncovered more than $10.9 million in alleged betting profit and at least $2.7 million in corrupt payments to people involved in the matches believed to be have been fixed. A Europol official said Mr. Tan was one of the people being investigated in this probe.
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Established in 1909, the museum's current facility was constructed in 1969 at the tip of Hermann Park. The museum attracts more than two million visitors each year and is the second most popular non-Smithsonian museum in the country. Major exhibits include the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals (with more than 750 specimen), the Cockrell Butterfly Center (with over 1,500 butterflies), and the highly interactive Wiess Energy Hall.
Fun Fact: The museum has a 60-foot-tall Foucault pendulum, an instrument that demonstrates the rotation of the planets.
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Next Friday I will be teaching a Special Spinning® ride in one of my hometown clubs. The ride is special as I create a unique atmosphere prior the event and this year it's a third edition of that ride.
The idea is very simple, for an additional fee members can join two hours of cycling that is divided into two parts- first is gentle and the second hour is more intensive. The name of the ride is "Water and fire ride" and it's strength is simplicity. While the 'water part' we perform a long warm up, and for most of the time we stay on the flat road, music is gentle and easy to listen and ride to.
Second hour is opposite, we start with a higher level of energy in the beginning.Next we go on a various terrain , the flats are fast and hills you can definitely feel in your quads and hamstrings.
This year owner of the studio where I'm teaching has bought a projector and the big screen so I can add to the ride some visual images. The ride is absolutely ( like every Spinning® class ) for students at all levels. Remember it is all about fun and performing a 120 minutes of cardiovascular work. We promote it on different levels, after the class , via my Facebook page , via club Facebook page and through the posters around the facility.
I encourage all You instructors out there to be creative and follow your ideas even if they are simple. As I mentioned above: simplicity is the key!
For all interested , below is a list of the tracks I used during the 'Water- Fire' ride in the last year.
My favorites for the ride:
1. David Bradstreet 'Water Voices'
2. Ryuichi Sakamoto 'Onlu Love Can Conquer Hate'
3. Basement Jaxx 'Rendez-Vu'
4. Michael Jackson 'Rock With You'
5. Aerosmith 'Love in the elevator'
6. Sacred Spirit 'Yeha-Noha'
7. Deep Forrest 'Madazulu'
8. Umalali 'Merua'
9. Nalin & Kane 'Talkin About'
10. Kevin Kern 'Sundial Dreams'
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Will the QRC-35 clamp fit on top of the RD5 directly? Will any other clamps work as well?
Will the QRC-35 clamp fit on top of the RD5 directly? Will any other clamps work as well?
It's a bit difficult to see in the pictures, but does the RD5 have 3 threaded sockets on the top? When you say any clamp would fit, I assume you're suggesting the center hole on the RD5 will fit any clamp with a center hole. If you want to make use of two holes, would you then be restricted to the QRC-35 only, or would the QRC-65 also work? Thank you.
Received the RD5 and QRC-35 today. No directions or online manuals for either. Honestly, I fail to see a good way of mounting the QRC-35 to the top of the RD5. The spacing of the two holes on the QRC-35 do not line-up with the threaded hole on the RD5. You can put a screw in one of the non-centered threaded holes, and the other hole lines up with an adjacent non-threaded hole, but obviously that isn't a good way to mount this. What am I missing?
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Valley News alum Bill Adair, editor of Pulitzer Prize winning PolitiFact, leaves Tampa Bay Times for Duke
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5 Ways 'Common Sense' Lies To You Everyday
#2. The Regression Fallacy
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Human beings are hardwired to see patterns. Seeing links and connections between various stimuli is a big part of how people navigate complex environments. Back in the earlier days of our evolution, it helped us to hunt and find food; today it helps us deal with people, keep track of large amounts of information and figure out just what the fuck is happening on Lost.
But misfires in pattern recognition create all sorts of weirdness, particularly in the form of superstition. You're playing the slots, losing and losing, when suddenly an obese woman next to you farts. You hit the jackpot, and suddenly you're convinced her colon houses gaseous magic. You're following her around the casino the rest of the day, continually asking if she wants one of these extra burritos you happen to have lying around.
It Gets Worse...A great example of The Regression Fallacy is the alleged "Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx."
The Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx is a supposed curse where athletes who appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated will then become terrible or have a run of bad luck afterward (there's a similar belief about Madden Football). Forgetting that Michael Jordan was on the cover 49 times and never had a slump, everyone fails to realize that people are often on the cover of the magazine at the height of their careers, so they're bound to get worse. Big fluctuations are natural in an athlete's career, as is a downward level of skill.
That's why they call it the Regression Fallacy, because any trend is going to regress back to where it normally is. Crime goes way up in the city, they elect a new mayor, and crime goes down. Wow! This mayor is magic! Or maybe he's secretly Batman! Actually, the crime increase was out of the ordinary and crime was destined to fall back to its normal level. But the mayor--and countless other politicians and gurus--will make an entire career out of exploiting the Regression Fallacy.
#1. Special Pleading
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"I know I was a heroin addict, but this is different. It's meth."
How It Screws Us:
Although it sounds like what you'll need to do to get your significant other to, just this once, try on a rubber hood and call you "Duke," Special Pleading is actually when we allow something to be an exception to a rule, for no logical reason.
In every day life, people use Special Pleading to make them feel less guilty about doing shitty things. When someone else eats the last doughnut, they're a classless motherfucker who deserves to rot in Hell; when you or a friend does it, it's because you were really hungry and you've had a bad day and you didn't get any doughnuts the last time. Special Pleading is the lettuce in mankind's hypocrisy salad.
We'll slow down with the food references, now.
It Gets Worse...
You don't need us to point out examples of hypocrisy, from cops who won't write traffic tickets to other cops, to politicians who talk about how important the public school system is while putting their own kids in a exclusive private schools.
What's interesting is how everyone excuses it in their own mind.
You can't find anyone who simply says, "The rules don't apply to us because we're awesome!" Thanks to Special Pleading, there are elaborate mental gymnastics that happen inside them that eliminate even their feelings of guilt. And the thing is, sometimes they're right; you did call your boss a motherfucker because you were having a bad day. You do have bad habits due to your childhood upbringing. You were abrupt with your girlfriend because you were running late.
But what's strange is we don't let anyone else have those excuses. The girl behind the counter at Starbucks wasn't rude because she was having a bad day. She's just a bitch. The kid at Best Buy wasn't just clueless about the return policy, he was intentionally evil and trying to steal your money. Some of us have held grudges for years, based on actions by someone else that we've forgiven ourselves for doing countless times.
They might as well call it the "This Is Why The World Seems to be Full of Dicks" fallacy.
Don't miss Michael Swaim's look at The 4 Most Impressive Wastes of Time on Record. And find out how else you continue to be your own worst enemy, in 5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head and Sleep Jerk to Piss Shivers: 5 Body Mysteries Explained.
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Can anyone familiar with the book 'A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition' or the theory described help me out?
See quote from chapter 12, 'Vapnik-Chervonenkis Theory', of 'A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition' below. I'm not following the geometric setup outlined there.
Some specific questions:
The hyperrectangle referred to is as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperrectangle, right?
Does $\phi \in C$ correspond to hyperrectangles of arbitrary dimension?
When the text says "assign the smallest hyperrectangle containing these points", I assume it means both in the sense of smallest dimension as well as size. I'm not sure whether this means the $\phi_i$ are of fixed dimension. I think so.
However, my main source of perplexity is the sentence beginning "Clearly, for each $\phi$..." and ending "on the boundary of the hyperrectangle". I've no idea why this would be true.
There is a similar setup earlier in the book, Section 4.5, but this talks about hyperplanes, and is easier to follow.
No doubt I'm misreading or something. Clarifications appreciated.
Regards, Faheem.
(Some background to the extract that follows.)
In what follows, d is just a fixed integer. I guess it represents the dimension.
Suppose you have a classifier
$$ \phi: \mathbb{R}^d \longrightarrow \{0, 1\}$$
and $n$ ordered pairs $(X_i, Y_i)$, where $X_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$ are the data values, and $Y_i\in \{0,1\}$ are the correct classifications of the $X_i$. Then the empirical error (or risk) of $\phi$ is
$$ \hat{L}_n(\phi) = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^n I_{\{\phi(X_i)\neq Y_i\}} $$
that is, the number of errors made by the classifier is counted and normalized.
From pg 191 of 'A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition' by Devroye et al, chapter 12, 'Vapnik-Chervonenkis Theory'.
Let $C$ be the class of classifiers assigning 1 to those $x$ contained in a closed hyperrectangle and 0 to all other points, Then a classifier minimizing the empirical error $\hat{L}_n(\phi)$ over all $\phi \in C$ may be obtained by the following algorithm: to each 2d-tuple $(X_{i_1}, X_{i_{2d}})$ of points from $X_1,\dots, X_n$, assign the smallest hyperrectangle containing these points. If we assume that $X$ has a density, then the points $X_1,\dots, X_n$ are in general position with probability one. This way we obtain at most ${n \choose 2d}$ sets. Let $\phi_i$ correspond to the $i$-th such hyperrectangle, that is, the one assigning 1 to those $x$ contained in the hyperrectangle, and 0 to other points. Clearly, for each $\phi \in C$, there exists a $\phi_i$, i = 1, ${n \choose 2d}$, such that
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I tend to like Dominion more online than face to face. The game has a ton of shuffling, and hence you can play much faster online. Also, I am a bit biased, but online implementations often give access to game logs, which you can then crunch and compute interesting statistics from. For example, my Dominion stats site and my Race for the Galaxy stats site both produce interesting stats from game logs.
I tend to think strategic games that don't have a political element to them work better online than off. But I can't imagine playing something like BSG without being face to face.
Well, many a game's playing experience could benefit from a port to a PC. Usually those would be eurogames with little discussion at the table but quite a lot of math.
The computer can do a lot of heavy lifting and tedious tasks, making the game more dynamic, with less turn downtime and setup time. The shuffling in card games was already mentioned. But this could get even better.
Let's use an example: Imagine a digitalised version of Power Grid. Wouldn't it be easier if the game offered you direct info on how much it costs to buy a "house" in a city? It's simple addition, but the number of operations you have to make in memory makes it a chore. Everyone can do it, and they will do it, but it takes time and makes your turn longer. The game could tell you how much of a certain resource could be bought by your enemies before it's your time to buy, letting you plan spending money. It could show you how much cash the other players have. It could show you how many cities you can sustain using some or all of your power plants.
All this information is open, and quite easy to acquire; it's right there on the board. But processing it in our heads takes time, making turns longer. Wouldn't it be great if you could play two games of Power Grid in the time you used to play only one?
On the other hand, there are types of games that won't get better when digitalized, and those mostly include thematic and interaction based games. All the evil laughter when backstabbing your friends in Munchkin or Discworld is priceless and can't be done in a PC version. If you talk and laugh a lot at the table, its a good indicator that the game won't be very good when digitalized.


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HILLSBORO (October 24, 2012)--Reed Justus, author of "If You Hang on Long Enough, You Get to Live Forever," will be signing copies of his book at the Hillsboro Library and at Barnes & Noble.
On Thursday, Justus will be at the Hillsboro Library on S. Waco Street from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
On Saturday, the Clifton resident will be at the Barnes & Noble store on W. Waco Drive from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Justus is a survivor of polio, a brain tumor, and prostate cancer.
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You might have heard of systemhelden.com in one of my other posts. This is a german community for system administrators and other heroes of IT that is fun to belong to and that is enjoying a nice growth in popularity.
Today, we added a podcast (sorry, it's in german) to this community called "HELDENFunk". This podcast features stories from the Systemhelden.com community, tech news and other fun stuff. In this first episode, we discuss how the Systemhelden.com website is hosted in a Solaris 10 container on a Sun Fire X4200 server at our ISP Cyberways in Augsburg, then Rolf discusses how you can calculate your CO2 footprint out of your server's wattage and he introduces the Sun EcoTour, which is a mobile blog written by a journalist that rides a bike across Germany. Wolfgang Stief is our special guest, he works at Best Systeme and is in the process of setting up Solaris 10 Zones on a Sun Fire T2000 server for GUUG, the German Unix User's Group. We interview another great podcast called POFACS, the podcast for alternative computer systems and we feature Sun's Magnum Switch and a funny video about blending an Apple iPhone in our news section.
Producing the podcast was great fun. We had great people in our studio (Read: conference room...) and quite a few laughs. Thanks to Marc Baumann, we had great microphones and a mixer to record with. My NI Audio Kontrol 1 audio interface, featured in an earlier blog post, proved to provide excellent recording quality. We used quite a complicated setup to conduct a phone interview over Skype but which turned to work quite well. And again, Marc edited and cut everything very nicely so everything now just sounds great.
We plan to publish a new episode each month, so feel free to let us know what you'd like us to cover and what suggestions you might have. Just write to kontakt at systemhelden dot com.


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Boehner Plea Runs Into GOP Rebellion
After a Day of Intrigue, House Leader's Budget Bill Blocked by Conservatives
Speaker John Boehner assembled his restive troops Tuesday morning to unveil possibly the last chance for House Republicans to make their mark on a bill to fund the government and stave off default.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee, said the plan was imperfect but likely the best of the bad options that remained, according to lawmakers in attendance. He also challenged the 30 or so conservatives who had rejected earlier proposals. "Look at where we are," he told them, according to two lawmakers in the meeting. "Your 'no' vote has consequences."
But in a replay of so many other previous showdowns, the more conservative members of the caucus rebelled—even after Mr. Boehner retooled the bill to appease the lawmakers—and party leaders abandoned plans Tuesday evening to bring the bill to the floor.
"I've got one vote and mine's a 'no,' " Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) said after emerging from a meeting with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.).
As was the case with previous budget showdowns—such as the 2011 debt-ceiling debate and the 2012 "fiscal cliff"—all eyes are on House Republicans and what they might be willing to pass. By rejecting the latest proposal from GOP leaders right on the cusp of a critical deadline, the House may soon be forced to vote on a deal hatched by Senate leaders.
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Months of debate within the Republican Party about how to fund the government and avoid a U.S. debt default came to a boil at the morning meeting in a Capitol Hill basement. The more conservative members of the House GOP voiced their displeasure about Mr. Boehner's proposal as well as their weakened negotiating position. Other, longer-serving lawmakers interrupted their speeches with heckles. An argument broke out about how to improve the bill.
The House budget fight has amplified a long-standing rift between conservatives willing to upend traditional ways of doing business to slow the growth of federal spending and dismantle the 2010 health law, and other, more-veteran lawmakers who see these actions as damaging to the party.
House GOP leaders have repeatedly struggled to muster the 217 votes they need to pass party-line measures without Democratic votes.
The fight has also been a personal one for Mr. Boehner, whose speakership has been repeatedly questioned by his own rank-and-file. He has also come under attack from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.). On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who served with Mr. Boehner in the House, said failure to pass the House plan would put the speaker "in a compromised situation."
At the same time, conservatives have unexpectedly praised Mr. Boehner in recent weeks for sticking his neck out for their priorities, particularly his push to include changes to the health-care law in a budget bill. "I've been quite impressed with our speaker throughout this whole ordeal," said Rep. Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.).
To kick off Tuesday's meeting, Mr. Boehner outlined his proposal. He was blunt, saying the bill was just "putting lipstick" on a separate plan being hatched by Senate leaders, according to lawmakers in attendance.
The proposal would raise the debt ceiling and open the government, while also adding a two-year delay of a tax on medical-device makers and a prohibition on health-care subsidies for the president, his cabinet and members of Congress.
Mr. Boehner reminded his colleagues that the leadership had heeded their concerns at every stage of the fight with the White House and Senate Democrats. Republicans could wait for the Senate to act, which could take days, or they could take one more crack at forcing the action by passing their own version. "We're running out of time," Mr. Boehner told his colleagues, according to multiple attendees.
Mr. Cantor echoed Mr. Boehner's appeal. Republicans had a "binary choice," he said: They could accept the House bill or swallow one crafted by Mr. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).
Rep. Steve Southerland of Florida opened the meeting by leading the group in "Amazing Grace" and offering a prayer. Yet Tuesday's two-hour session mixed bonding with quarreling. A number of Republicans argued in favor of beefing up the proposal by prohibiting staff, in addition to lawmakers and senior administration officials, from receiving health-care subsidies.
Some of the more outspoken conservatives raised complaints about the Republican offer and groused about being largely sidelined since late last week when President Barack Obama rejected an earlier Republican offer.
At points, frustration with those Republicans boiled over. A group of veteran lawmakers shouted "regular order" when the conservatives spoke too long. Others sought assurances that leaders would let their new bill fail, in which case they planned to blame their more conservative colleagues.
Mr. Southerland rose again, but not to sing or pray. This time, he asked his GOP colleagues directly whether they would support the bill outlined by Mr. Boehner, if leaders beefed up the prohibition on health-insurance subsidies. A number said they would.
After the meeting, GOP leaders bowed to conservative demands by changing the bill to extend the health-insurance prohibition to staffers and to fund the government through Dec. 15, a month earlier than the Senate plan. But in the end, that proved to be not enough.
"The government shutdown has made the House Republican negotiating position that much weaker than it was already," said Rep. Charlie Dent (R., Pa.). "Obviously, right now, things are not good. But over time, will things bounce back? We'll see."
Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas (R., Okla.) said only, "We live in challenging times."
Others weren't that gracious. "This is it," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.). "The Star Wars convention ends today."
—Janet Hook contributed to this article.
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Using a balanced attack and the timely playmaking that defined its season, the Assumption High School volleyball team held off a feisty young Mercy squad to win the KHSAA state volleyball championship in a thrilling five-set final at Valley's J.C. Cantrell Gymnasium on Oct. 27.
"This is the way we've been going all year long," said Rockets coach Ron Kordes, whose side was inconsistent, but prevailed 25-21, 20-25, 25-18, 15-25, 15-10, to earn a third consecutive title and 17th overall. "It's either feast or famine."
Top-ranked Assumption (41-2) dispatched Henderson County, No. 10 Lone Oak and No. 7 Henry Clay to reach the final, while No. 4 Mercy (33-10) downed No. 21 Southwestern, No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 11 North Oldham.
With a starting lineup that included only one senior, Mercy took an 18-14 lead in the first set and quickly shattered the air of inevitability that permeates most matches featuring Assumption, a team ranked third in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com.
The Rockets responded by scoring eight of the next nine points – including two kills apiece by Alyssa Cavanaugh and Hannah Moore – to take a 22-19 edge and went on to win 25-21.
In the second set, Mercy's Courtney Crable caught fire, recording seven kills and an ace. The Jaguars also got a boost from sophomore Devon Rachel, who notched three kills and a pair of blocks to put her side up 24-20, before Crable finished the set with one of her match-high 25 kills.
"Our hearts weren't fatigued and we just kept fighting," said Mercy Coach Todd Garvey, whose team had gone to five sets with Notre Dame earlier in the day.
After splitting the next two sets, Assumption took a 10-5 lead in the fifth.
"We all decided to bring it together… and play our real game," said Cavanaugh, who finished with 13 kills.
After a Crable slam narrowed the gap to 13-10, Assumption's Hannah Moore closed the match with two straight kills.
"(Mercy) played a phenomenal match and… we knew we had to fight," said Taylor Paulson, who led Assumption with 17 kills out of the middle. Paulson and fellow seniors London Ackerman (28 digs) and Kaelin Grimes (13 digs) compiled a gaudy 121-7 record over their final three seasons, including three titles in a row.
Rounding out the offensive production for the Rockets were Moore with 14 kills and Miranda Elpers with 10.
Devon Rachel and Ashley Jefferson finished with seven kills apiece for Mercy and setter Morgan Elmore tallied 43 assists.
Assumption setter Alexa Filley was named tournament MVP after recording 41 assists and 17 digs in the final.
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Katherine English piled up 22 goals in her senior season at Sacred Heart, but none was bigger than the near-post smash in overtime that lifted the Valkyries to a 1-0 win over arch-rival Assumption in the state championship game at Bellarmine's Frazier Stadium on Oct. 24.
English's sudden-victory goal came with 1:25 to play in OT on the Valkyries' 27th penalty corner.
"I thought if we had a good push out, I'd try near post even though it's a harder angle," said English. "It just slipped right through the post and the goalie's foot."
Sacred Heart (24-1-1) carried play for large parts of match, outshooting Assumption 18-9 and conceding only nine corners.
Assumption goalkeeper Sara Nicolas recorded 14 saves, including a diving stop to her right to deny an Allison Corley attempt with 5:33 to play in the first half and a spectacular sliding 1-on-1 save against speedy Hadleigh Frank with 2:05 left in regulation.
"Their goalie was excellent and their defense was really good," said Valkyries coach Liz Lewis. "I thought that it would be a one-goal game."
Caroline Fowler had 13 saves for Sacred Heart and maintained a clean sheet for the tournament, including shutouts against Kentucky Country Day, 4-0, and defending champion Manual, 6-0.
Assumption cruised past Mercy 4-0 and Ballard 3-0 to reach the final.
"I'm just very proud of my girls," said Assumption coach Debbie Judd. "You get that many corners on you and you stop all of them except (one). That's amazing."
Sacred Heart beat Assumption twice during the regular season and English said the matchup never disappointed.
"It's always hard to play Assumption because they're our rival and there's so much emotion in the game, but we've worked so hard for it and we've been through so much," she said.
"This is the perfect end to my senior year."
No. 1 St. Xavier smoked Corbin 7-0 in a state tournament quarterfinal and will face No. 23 Boone County (20-3-3) in a 6 p.m. semifinal Thursday at Paul Dunbar. The Tigers (25-0-2) are seeking a second straight crown and fifth in six years.
No. 2 Paul Dunbar (24-3) takes on No. 10 Henderson County (20-3-2) at 8 p.m. in the other semifinal. The championship game is slated for 7 p.m. Saturday at Dunbar.
In girls' action, No. 4 Assumption fell to No. 12 Elizabethtown 1-0 in quarterfinal play last Saturday at Lafayette. The Rockets finished their season at 19-4-4.
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A gentle surge in U.S. manufacturing and more emphasis on "near shoring" indicates that trade with Canada will continue to grow this year, major forwarders say. This is a trend confirmed by economists at the Toronto-based CIBC World Markets who report that Canada will remain the biggest trading partner for the U.S. for years to come.
Demand for U.S. goods is surging, says CIBC, with wholesale trade inventories climbing 1.7 percent to $52.4 billion this past May—the largest percentage increase since January 2007. "The volume of cross-border growth is impressive," says CIBC analyst Rob Shotte. "The inventory-tosales ratio is a measure of the time, in months, required to exhaust inventories if sales were to remain at their current level. Overall, 16 of the 25 wholesale trade industries reported higher inventory levels."
The impact of the current environment for U.S. shippers has been significant, Shotte adds. U.S. wholesalers in construction, forestry, mining, industrial machinery, equipment, and supplies posted the biggest inventory gains in dollar terms, followed by agricultural wholesalers when shipping into Canada, CIBC notes in a recent report.
One of the world's premier trade services companies concurs with this observation. "A combination of forces are at work when examining this uptick," says Amy Magnus, district manager for A.N. Deringer. "Business has been good, and seems to be getting better. But U.S. exporters trying to go it alone may still find some unexpected barriers and choke points."
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White Sox acquired LHP Sean Bierman from the Rays to complete the Jesse Crain trade.
Rangers acquired RHP Lucas Harrell and LHP Dario Alvarez from the Braves for INIF Travis Demeritte.
Prince Fielder (neck) will undergo fusion surgery on Friday.
Miguel Cabrera launched a go-ahead solo homer in the top of the ninth inning to push the Tigers past the Red Sox 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon in Boston.
Alex Dickerson homered for the fourth consecutive game Wednesday as the Padres beat the Blue Jays by a score of 8-4 at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Stephen Strasburg fired seven scoreless innings in the Nationals' defeat of the Indians on Wednesday.
Adam Conley threw 6 2/3 scoreless innings Wednesday in the Marlins' 11-1 rout of the Phillies.
Nelson Cruz (foot) is out of the Mariners' starting lineup Wednesday against the Pirates.
Gregory Polanco is out of the Pirates' starting lineup on Wednesday against the Mariners.
Denard Span is just getting a day off Wednesday.
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The CWC Bulldogs came into Casey on Saturday, looking to catch the Warriors of Casey-Westfield off-guard and steal a win. But on the bright sunny Saturday afternoon, the Bulldogs were up against too tough a challenge, falling 45-0 to last year's state runner-up.
Casey-Westfield wasted no time, scoring 28 fast points in the first quarter. The Warriors added 14 more before halftime and scored the only points of the second half with a third quarter field goal.
Casey-Westfield Head Coach Jim Sullivan said that he expected a little faster CWC team, but that field conditions could have been a factor.
"I think they were a little shell shocked," said Sullivan. "We saw a little faster team on tape, but with the field conditions the way they are, it isn't very conducive to a strong running game."
While the Casey staff may have expected a faster team, CWC Coach Kurt Simon may have misjudged the Warrior team.
"They may be a little better than we thought they were," said Simon.
The Bulldogs struggled all game against the soft turf and sturdy Casey defensive unit, only managing 143 yards of total offense against the Warriors 338 yards.
Dylan Rankin rushed for 67 yards on 25 carries. Ryan Farr completed four our of 10 passes for 22 yards and two picks, and Lukas Matsel led the Bulldog receivers with three receptions for 18 yards.
The Bulldogs end their season with a 6-4 record.
Rankin finished the season with 1344 yards rushing, putting him fourth all-time in rushing yards in a season for CWC.
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This question already has an answer here:
I've got a list in the format of
And I want it to "compress" into a list of pairs
{element, frequency} such as this:
I've come up with this (faulty) solution:
upravit[l_List] := {l[[1]], l[[2]] + 1}
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list //. {a___, b_List, c_List, d___} /; c[[1]] == b[[1]] -> {a, upravit[b], d}
The problem is that I'm only checking elements that are next to each other, and so in the example, I'd end up with
Therefore, either I need to correct my code, or come up with an entirely different method (using similar methods thought, as this is a homework).
Thanks for any help!
Edit: as pointed out in the comments and answers, there is a function that easily does that. I should've specified that this should be done using the methods in my example only. Sorry!


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After the recent hate crime in the Village (just an example) which I thought was rather safe I wanted to do some research into which intersections/streets/'hoods have higher crime rates. I seek violent crime statistics (such as shootings, stabbings...) for 2013 and am particularly interested in the following neighborhoods: West Village, Willamsburg, Upper West Side, Gramercy, Chelsea and Lower Manhanttan. Also, data covering crimes against women and hate crime would be welcome.
The City of New York publishes it's crime stats by Precinct on a weekly basis.
Even the most cursory of Google searches meanwhile, will reveal dozens of visualizations or other attempts to parse and crunch this data.
That said, all of the neighborhoods you listed are extremely safe, both in general, and in terms of hate crimes. The reason that the recently reported incidents which prompted this question were so incredibly shocking is because they were so shocking. They represent the sum total of serious incidents of that nature in those neighborhoods in recent memory for the most part.
New York City is still probably the safest large city in the USA. While more recent FBI data has shown that rank falling a bit, most of that is attributable not to a rise in murders, rapes, or assaults, but to a slower than national average decline in robberies - most notably, events like cell phone thefts on the Subway. While this is certainly reason to be alert and aware of your surroundings, I'd hardly call it a reason to be vigilant about any neighborhood in Manhattan, or, for that matter, to be especially concerned about hate crimes.
One thing that you will notice is that Greenwich Village and Midtown do tend to rank poorly in the cities crime statistics. This is for two reasons; one, the aforementioned high number of petty robberies is at it's highest in areas with lots of tourists and a large commuter density - especially Midtown, which has a relatively small resident population, which drives the per-capita numbers sky high. The other issue, is that both neighborhoods represent a significant portion of the cities nightlife, and the various crimes that come along with that - which is to say, assaults from bar fights, rape (though usually not of the stranger in a darkened alley variety), and yes, robbery.
As a rule of thumb, as a tourist, you'll have nearly no reason to go anywhere where you should be legitimately afraid for your safety. Neighborhoods like East New York, Brownsville, and Hunts Point have nothing to offer you. If you stay out of them, and don't go looking for trouble, you'll have little to worry about in New York.