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Traditional translation models include many human touch points that slow down project efficiency and increase translation costs as well as prolonging turnaround times. It also helps reduce production tasks such as file analysis, legacy translation leverage, project quotation creation, translator assignment, weekly updates, desktop publishing, file delivery, and invoicing and payment that have routinely been carried out by specially trained project managers, localization engineers, and DTP publishers. This labor intensive manual work not only extends the project schedule, leading to higher costs but also leads to potential human errors.
The good news is that regardless of the type of content that needs translation such as medical, technical, legal, or financial documents, the mechanical steps involved to properly localize the materials into the target languages largely remain the same and repetitive. This is where translation process automation can come in to achieve higher productivity and better consistency.
Online Translation Ecosystem
At Stepes, we have created an online translation ecosystem that optimizes various localization processes and automates many of the labor-intensive tasks. Our online dashboard allows our customers to upload project files and receive instant project estimates while leveraging from translation memories. Upon approval, the projects kick off immediately with Stepes selecting from its pool of pre-approved linguists who have matching subject matter expertise. Real time translation notifications are a unique differentiator between Stepes and other online translation platforms because Stepes is the first company in the industry to introduce mobile translation technology. During the entire project, clients are able to track live translation progress at any time. Upon completion, Stepes clients can download translated files with the click of button. Better yet, they can also rate the translator's performance so the best translators become a member of their dedicated MyTranslator team.
File Analysis Automation
File analysis is a common task within the professional localization process that scans documents in a variety of formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and InDesign for translatable strings. These strings are then extracted with formatting tags and control characters stripped. Next, these strings are systematically compared to legacy translated texts stored in a database called TM (translation memory.) Translation memories allow previously translated texts to be recycled or reused for cost savings, allowing for faster turnaround and better translation consistency. The file analysis will generate a report listing total word counts, new words, 100% matches and repetitions, various fuzzy matches, and if the document needs DTP, it will also list the number of pages, graphics, and screenshots used.
Traditionally, localization companies have relied on localization production engineers to perform file analysis offline to produce the final word count reports. This is because the file evaluation and text extraction processes require many different software applications to work together. In order for all of these isolated systems and applications to work together seamlessly, expert developers with deep engineering know-how (both software and hardware) and solid language experience are needed to code sophisticated algorithms to handle these complex functions. Compared to the majority of the translation houses which have very limited technical engineering background, Stepes was created from the ground up to use cutting-edge technology innovations in order to achieve translation efficiency. Stepes online translation platform is able to handle virtually all file formats, including scanned documents, audio, and video files.
Quotation Automation
The file analysis report produced in the previous step is then used to create a client quotation using standard per word rates for different language pairs such as English-Chinese, English-Spanish, or French-Japanese. The translation industry has long established the best practice to use word counts for quotation calculations. This is the most accurate method because it allows companies to more easily capture legacy translated content on a granular level to achieve the highest leverage ratio. Translation quotations are usually broken by new words, repetitions (word segments that appear multiple times within the same document,) 100% matches, 95%-99% matches, 85%-94% matches, and $75-84% matches. The translation quote may also include the number of pages that need DTP service. Traditionally, DTP took up a large part of translation project costs because translated contents must be formatted to match the source files. However, modern translation tools (CATs) are able to do a much better job preserving the original layout so the final DTP effort is minimal. In fact, if a customer uses DITA XML for creating the source documents, manual DTP can be completely eliminated.
Stepes generates translation project quotations automatically which allows our clients to receive project estimates in real time, compared to other translation companies that can only turn around quotes in 24 hours or longer. In today's fast changing digital economy, instant translation quotes allow our customers to make important business decisions quickly, enabling them to accelerate product development and reduce time-to-market for international deployment.
Translator Assignment Automation
Linguistic resource management is one of the most critical business practices for professional language services. Translation companies by virtue of their core business work with a large number of professional freelance translators from around the world. The ability to effectively and efficiently manage these linguistic resources separates the good LSPs (language service providers) from the mediocre ones. However, linguistic resource management can also be time consuming and labor intensive. This is because evaluating vendor qualifications, negotiating rates, and managing project assignments, performing linguistic evaluations, and handling translator payments for a large number of contact translators all take substantial time. This is where Stepes excels because we have developed a highly automated online linguistic resource management platform that streamlines the entire translator provisioning process.
When a client uploads a project onto Stepes, its MyTranslator module uses the specified industry or subject matter information to match pre-approved translators automatically. Furthermore, since Stepes is the first translation company to introduce our patent-pending translation technology, the system is able to notify the selected linguists instantly on their mobile instantly. It then allows the linguists to immediately begin translating, all their smartphone or desktop computers, anywhere and anytime. At the end of each project, MyTranslator also allows the clients to rate each translator's performance so good translators will become a part of the customer's dedicated translation team.
Live Project Tracking
Nobody wants to be surprised to receive a note from a translation supplier on a Friday morning saying that they can't deliver a project on time as they've promised. Timely project delivery has a major impact on the client product development schedule. Missed translation deliveries often lead to delayed international product launches which can translate into millions of dollars in lost revenue. Worse yet, late deployment of products and services can also lead to lost market shares that take years and substantial efforts to recover. One of the most important localization risk management best practices is the proactive administration of project tracking and monitoring in real time. However, traditional offline translation models make this aspect of risk management next to impossible to implement due to their opaque product processes. This is why you need online translation services, like Stepes, that have the ability to track live translation progress 24/7 from anywhere, on mobile and on desktop.
The Stepes online translation ecosystem provides its customers with a powerful dashboard that gives them easy access to a variety of project monitoring functions. In addition to seeing the percentage complete for each project per language, clients can also view the actual content that is being translated in real time. This allows them to proactively perform linguistic validation if needed concurrent to actual project translations, enabling our clients to detect translation issues early in the project cycle should they occur and take appropriate action quickly to prevent project delays.
Job Delivery Simplified
FTPs and email attachments have been the staple of project file deliveries for the translation industry until cloud drives like Box and Dropbox became available. FTPs require special applications which are hard to use. Email file attachments are difficult to manage and backup. Even the latest cloud drives add an additional layer of project complexity that is not completely necessary. To deliver projects using these means, the translation company's project managers must manually upload the files leading to potential human errors with incorrect file placements, especially if the same project involves many target languages. Depending on the file transfer protocol used, sometimes files end up getting corrupted during transmission, often wasting a day or more for new uploads to arrive because of the vendor's international time zone differences.
With Stepes, all translated files are stored on the cloud and within our clients' online account that they can download with the click of a button. Furthermore, since the project deliveries are grouped by projects, dates, and languages, they can be easily searched and accessed at any time. Since our online based project management system has completely bypassed outdated FTP and email file transfers, we are able to achieve robust project deliveries in real time.
Billing & Invoice Automation
Most people may not realize, but a big part of translation production is the timely management of project invoices and billing. These efforts involve both the client and vendor sides. Manual project invoicing is tedious, labor intensive, and more likely to cause human errors. Manually submitted invoices also require the customer to allocate additional human resources to process these invoices by hand. Stepes has streamlined our customer payments into a fully automatic process. Our clients have the option to pay by weekly or monthly invoices, or by using a company credit card. Stepes also accepts a number of electronic payment systems such as PayPal, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Apple Pay and others. More importantly, Stepes allows our clients to easily track what they spend on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis, and obtain graphical view of various finance related data points.
In addition to automating customer payments, managing translator billing and invoices is also a big part of a translation company's regular operations. This is because translation companies tend to work with a large number of linguists from around the world, it's quite labor intensive if a LSP has to manually process translator invoices and payments. These additional human efforts all contribute to higher service costs which the customer ultimately ends up paying for one way or another. This is why Stepes' fully automated translator payment system is a game changer. Translators never have to manually submit invoices anymore because all project related finances are systematically handled online in real time. Translators only need to decide if and when they need to withdraw from their wallet within their Stepes accounts.


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Irma pummels Cuba as Florida hunkers for a hit
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Irma pummelled the north coast of Cuba yesterday, inflicting major damage as millions of people in the US state of Florida hunkered down for a direct hit from the monster storm.
Irma's blast through the Cuban coastline weakened it to a Category Three, but it is still packing winds of 125 miles (200 kilometre) per hour.
The eye of the storm is "beginning to move slowly away from the coast of Cuba, while weather is deteriorating in South Florida," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in an advisory late yesterday, with Irma just 115 miles south-east of Key West.
"Irma is forecast to restrengthen once it moves away from Cuba and remain a powerful hurricane as it approaches Florida" early Sunday, it added.
At least 25 people have been killed since Irma began its devastating march through the Caribbean as a Category Five storm of nearly unmatched power, making landfall late Friday in Cuba on the Camaguey archipelago.
The Cuban Government extended its maximum state of alert to include Havana and neighbouring provinces amid fears of flooding in low-lying areas.
Terrified Cubans who rode out Irma in coastal towns reported "deafening" winds, uprooted trees and power lines, and blown rooftops.
In the seaside town of Caibarien, the storm knocked down walls and littered the streets with tree branches, roof tiles and other debris.
Francis, a 19-year-old who lives near the Caibarien sea wall, said she fled to her grandfather's house as storm waters reached her street corner.
"It must be full of water," she said of her house.
More than a million people evacuated from vulnerable areas in Cuba. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but officials reported "significant damage".
In Florida, cities on both the east and west coasts of the peninsular state took on the appearance of ghost towns as nervous residents heeded insistent evacuation orders affecting 6.3 million people, nearly a third of the state's population.
The storm's forecast track has shifted slightly, so it now looks bound for Florida's west Gulf coast instead of the Atlantic coast, with landfall expected early today in the Florida Keys.
But Irma is so wide that authorities were bracing for destructive storm surges on both coasts and the Keys, the chain of low-lying islands that stretch south of Miami toward Cuba.
And hurricane-force winds are expected to lash the peninsula as it rolls north toward Georgia.
On highway 75 along the western coast of Florida, a steady stream of cars pressed northward as thousands fled at the last minute from the fast-approaching killer hurricane.
Strip malls, fast food restaurants and retail giants were all closed for business.
In Key West, police opened a "shelter of last resort" for those who had ignored mandatory evacuation orders.
Flood-prone Miami Beach, also under mandatory evacuation order, has been emptied of people but is bracing for high waters.
Scott Abraham, who lives on the fifth floor of a beachfront apartment building, is planning to ride the storm out with his wife and two kids.
"If I lived in a house I would have left, but if it gets flooded here it's going to take a week at least to come back. I don't want that," he said.
In Miami, a big worry was the two dozen or so giant construction cranes in the downtown area. Though designed to withstand hurricane winds, city officials warned people to stay away from them.
Across the peninsula, the Gulf coast city of Fort Myers also was battening down for Irma's screaming winds, rain and storm surge.
"This is a worst case scenario for our city, and our region," Mayor Randall Henderson told CNN.
Warning that Irma would be worse than Hurricane Andrew, which killed 65 people in 1992, Florida's governor said all 20.6 million Floridians should prepare to flee.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic snaked north out of the state, with mattresses, gas cans and kayaks strapped to car roofs.
Cuban-American Orlando Reyes, 82, was forced to leave his assisted living facility in Miami Beach.
"It is frightening," he told AFP at a shelter in Miami. "We had to leave without a cent, without taking a bath, or bringing anything."
The storm smashed through a string of Caribbean islands, beginning with tiny Barbuda last Wednesday, followed by the holiday islands of Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.
Also affected were the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Turks and Caicos. The Bahamas were spared Irma's worst.
"Houses are smashed, the airport is out of action," Saint Barthelemy resident Olivier Toussaint told AFP.
"Upside-down cars are in the cemeteries. Boats are sunk in the marina, shops are destroyed."
Meteorologists, meanwhile, were closely monitoring two other Atlantic storms.
Jose, a powerful Category Four storm, was heading toward the same string of Caribbean islands Irma has pummelled in recent days.
France's meteorological agency issued its highest warning for Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, saying Jose could become a "dangerous event of exceptional intensity".
The deteriorating weather grounded aircraft and prevented boats from bringing relief supplies to hard-hit islands.
Mudslides unleashed by the heavy rains of Katia, which made landfall in eastern Mexico late Friday as a Category One hurricane, caused two deaths.
The US military was mobilising thousands of troops and deploying several large ships to aid with evacuations and humanitarian relief, as the Air Force removed scores of planes from the southern United States.
Meanwhile, the death toll from across the islands has continued to rise.
Six were reported killed in the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla, including an elderly man who was crushed when his house collapsed.
Two were killed in Puerto Rico, and four more in the US Virgin Islands.
A child died in Barbuda, at least 10 in France's Caribbean territories, and two more on the Dutch side of St Martin.
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SSC Exam Result 2019 has been publish in 06 May at 12:00pm, Success rate 82.20% and GPA-5 achived 1,05,594. As the rules the result publishes within 60 days from the last day of exam. You can get the result from here.
Mr. Shorab Hossain, Sectratery of Education could inform the result's date in a press breifings. Every body can get the result and latest update of SSC Examination Result 2019 from here.
Dakhil Exam Result 2019 and SSC Vocational Exam Result 2019 also published at same time.
SSC Result 2019: Ms. Dr. Dipu Moni, Minister of education, requested to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allow result publishing day 05 to 07 May 2018. Prime Minister has chosen Monday, 06 May 2019 to published to SSC and equivalent result.
HSC (College) Admission Circular & Application Process 2019-20
On thatday morning at 10am the result copy handed over to Dr. Dipu Moni by the chairman of all education boards. At this time different sectratary of ministry of education and relevent higher level officer were present.
Generally honourrable Prime minister received the result summary but she is now out of country now.
All education board has taken the examination at same time. Dakhil exam also taken the Dakhil examination under Bangladesh Madrasha Education Board and SSC Vocational exam under Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
Education Board SSC, Dakhil and SSC Equivalent Result 2019
Total 21,35,333 students were appeared on SSC and equivalent exam where 2,56,501 from Madrasah board, 1,04,212 students from Technical board, 14,25,900 students from general education board and 10,70,441 are boys and 10,64,892 are girls among them.
SSC Result 2019:
SSC exam result has been published on 06 May 2019.
There are 17,49,165 students passed and success rate 82.20% and total 1,05,594 students achieved GPA 5 in 2019 that was 1,10,629 in 2018.
Board wise passed:- Dhaka Board 79.62%, Chittagong Board 78.11%, Rajshahi Board 91.64%, Sylhet Board 70.83%, Barishal Board 77.41%, Comilla Board 87.16%, Joshore Board 90.88%, Dinajpore Board 84.10%, Madrasha Board 83.03% and Technical Board 72.24%. General education board's passed rate 82.80%.
Result available for 21,35,333 students were seat for the examination and successfully passed 17,49,165 students.
History of GPA-5 (A+) Achievement in the SSC Result
If you did not satisfied on your result or if you think someting is wrong with your result you can chellange your exam sheet with small fee. See how to chellange/ re scrutiny your result.
In this year (2019) SSC exam has taken short time. Few days ago, Result Publication request was sent to Prime Minister for approval and she was approved for date 06 May. Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam was finished on the end of 08 March 2019 and this examination is taken by Bangladesh Education Board, Ministry of Education.
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Welcome in the Name of our Blessed Lord!
College Hill Lutheran Church (CHLC) is a liturgical and confessional Lutheran congregation of the Iowa District East of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. CHLC provides for the preaching of Christ-crucified and the faithful administration of the sacraments for sinners. Located just one block from the campus of the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, IA), CHLC has served students and members of the community for over 75 years!
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Choose a 10am, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, or 4pm class, then make your way to your dance academy — a 19th-century boutique palais ballroom near the famous Vienna Concert Hall and the Strauss Monument.During your private 45-minute waltz lesson, listen as your instructor sheds light on formal ballroom etiquette, and learn of the waltz's role in Viennese culture and heritage. Learn the important movements and key body postures of the original Viennese waltz, and put them into practise. After one hour in the impressive setting of the palais ballroom, step outside to conclude your waltz class.


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The Bartee Lab
Eric Bartee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
2007-2012 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2007 PhD, Oregon Health and Sciences University
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Tel: 843-876-2775
Office: BSB- 208C | Lab: BSB-205
Research Interests
My interests as a scientist involve the study of virus-host interactions with particular interest paid to how these interactions can be used to improve therapy for cancer patients, a field known as oncolytic virotherapy. Oncolytics combines two powerful strategies into a single treatment. In the initial steps, a patient is intentionally infected with a virus which preferentially infects and kills cancer cells. These viruses identify and replicate specifically in transformed cancer cells resulting in the generation of new infectious virus. This newly replicated virus subsequently spreads to adjoining cancer cells where the process repeats resulting in a tumor localized cascade of viral infection. This process, known as direct oncolytics, causes the elimination of virtually all directly infected cancer cells resulting in a swift reduction in tumor size. During this process, oncolytic viral infection also induces localized inflammation and the recruitment of an adaptive T cell response. While this T cell response is initially generated to combat the viral infection, once begun, tumor infiltrating T cells also respond to non-viral peptides within the tumor, including tumor specific antigens, through the process of epitope spreading. This results in the generation of not only a primary anti-viral immune response, but also a secondary immune response against the tumor itself. The generation and propagation of this anti-tumor immune response, a process known as oncolytic immunotherapy, can have powerful clinical benefits including the complete eradication of both local and metastatic disease.
While the oncolytic phenomenon has been observed using a wide variety of viruses, our lab is primarily focused on the therapeutic potential of a virus known as myxoma. Myxoma is a member of the poxvirus family whose natural infection is strictly limited to rabbits. In the European rabbit myxoma causes an incredibly lethal disease known as myxomatosis; however, the virus is unable to cause disease in any other known species due to its inability to counteract non-rabbit innate immune responses. In non-rabbit hosts, this restricts myxoma replication to cells where these responses are either absent or defective, a state which occurs almost exclusively in transformed cancer cells. This naturally occurring cancer tropism allows myxoma to effectively treat a wide variety of cancers including: skin cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, head and neck cancers, and various cancers of the blood. Unfortunately, while these treatments show significant promise in preclinical trials, they are often not curative, necessitating that methods be identified to improve the clinical potential of this agent. To this end, our lab is currently working on three major projects designed to improve the oncolytic potential of the myxoma virus.
1) Combining oncolytics and T cell checkpoint inhibitors: Previous work has shown that myxoma virus is effective at rapidly debulking a variety of solid tumors through a direct oncolytic mechanism. Unfortunately, due to the immunosuppressive nature of many of these tumors, myxoma therapy fails to induce a clinically relevant anti-tumor immune response resulting in poor overall outcomes. This immune suppression can be overcome by inhibiting a variety of T cell checkpoint pathways such as PD1/PDL1 and TIM3/GAL9; however, this combination therapy also causes significant autoimmune like toxicities (a side effect often associate with systemic checkpoint blockade). To overcome this issue, our lab has pioneered a method to deliver T cell checkpoint inhibitors directly to the local tumor microenvironment using novel recombinant myxoma viruses. This recombinant therapy allows for the effective release of oncolytic immunotherapy resulting in the eradication of established tumors while also reducing the toxicities associated with systemic therapy. We are currently exploring: the molecular mechanisms underlying the improved efficacy of these recombinant myxoma constructs, the potential role that the complex tumor microenvironment plays during both oncolytic and checkpoint therapies, and how to further improve outcomes by creating next generation recombinant viruses and combinatorial treatments.
2) Oncolytic treatment of multiple myeloma: Previously, we have shown that myxoma specifically discriminates between normal and cancerous hematopoietic cells and we have proposed that this discrimination can be used to eliminate cancerous multiple myeloma cells contaminating autologous stem cell samples prior to transplant into patients. We are currently exploring whether the virus can also be used as a front line therapy to improve treatment of myeloma patients by: directly identifying and eliminating myeloma in vivo, eliminating residual myeloma after chemotherapy, or expelling myeloma from its protected bone marrow niches.
3) Improving systemic delivery of myxoma: While myxoma virus is incredibly effective at treating large localized tumors, the virus is often much less efficacious against small metastatic disease. We hypothesize that this failure is the result of our inability to delivery an effective oncolytic dose to these tumors due to the promiscuous binding of myxoma to non-malignant cells. We are therefore interested in understanding the basic biology of the myxoma virus with special interest paid to the viral proteins which mediate binding of the virus to target cells.
Recent Publications | Additional Publications
Bartee MY, Dryja P, Bartee E. Chimeric tumor modeling reveals role of partial PDL1 expression in resistance to virally induced immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Jan 16;7(1):11. PMID: 30651147.
Bartee MY, Dunlap KM, Bartee E. Tumor-Localized Secretion of Soluble PD1 Enhances Oncolytic Virotherapy. Cancer Res. 2017 Jun 1;77(11):2952-2963. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-1638. Epub 2017 Mar 17. PMID: 28314785
Bartee E, Li Z. In vivo and in situ programming of tumor immunity by combining oncolytics and PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade. Exp Hematol Oncol. 2017 May 24;6:15. doi: 10.1186/s40164-017-0075-4. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28546884
Bartee E, Bartee MY, Bogen B, Yu XZ. Systemic therapy with oncolytic myxoma virus cures established residual multiple myeloma in mice. Mol Ther Oncolytics. 2016 Dec 7;3:16032. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27933316
Bartee MY, Dunlap KM, Bartee E. Myxoma Virus Induces Ligand Independent Extrin sic Apoptosis in Human Myeloma Cells. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2016 Apr;16(4):203-12. doi: 10.1016/j.clml.2015.12.005. Epub 2015 Dec 23. PMID: 26803534
Research Support
NIH-NIAID R21 Award Bartee (PI) 2019 - Present
The goal of this work is to design a recombinant MYXV which blocks the TIM3/GAL9 checkpoint.
Hollings Cancer Center PPG Paulos (PI) 2018 – Present
The goal of this collaborative PPG is to develop novel immunotherapeutic methods for lung cancer.
Sponsored Research Project Bartee (PI) 2018 – Present
The goal of this work is to test the therapeutic potential of MYXV's expressing a variety of soluble checkpoint inhibitors and initiate a phase-I clinical trial of recombinant MYXV
ACS-Research Scholar Award Bartee (PI) 2017 – Present
The goal of this work is to study a novel recombinant myxoma virus which expresses soluble PD1 from infected cells as a potential therapeutic for a variety of solid tumors such as melanoma.
NIH-NCI R01 Award Bartee (PI) 2015 – Present
The goal of this work is to study the mechanisms and efficacy of MYXV as a therapeutic for residual multiple myeloma.
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Introduction: Estimate Pi Using Conductive Paint
Given an "infinite" 2D square grid of resistors with resistance R, the equivalent resistance across the diagonal of one square is 2R/pi [1,2]. Working out this solution theoretically has sniped many a nerd. Furthermore, it is prohibitively laborious for an amateur to attempt to verify this experimentally -- until now. Using Bare Paint, I drew a square grid of resistors on a page of normal copy paper, and measured resistances with a multimeter. My wishful thinking was that, with a large enough array of resistors (14 x 14), I could approximate "infinity" sufficiently from the perspective of squares in the middle of the page. Drawing the resistors with the Bare Paint seemed easier than gathering and connecting 196 resistors.
While one set of measurements yielded a value of pi as impressive (to me) as 3.38, overall I observed poor consistency of measurements among adjacent squares near the center of the page, and poor repeatability of measurements for the squares tested. Nevertheless, I hope that you, dear reader, will consider trying this experiment for yourself. I will tell you how I did it, and perhaps you will take more care than I to apply the paint accurately and precisely; otherwise, you will too observe a high variance of resistance among your resistors. Note also that the resistance of the Bare Paint decreases as it dries, so be sure to allow ample time for drying (tens of minutes) before measurements.
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Step 1: Materials
I used one tube of Bare Paint, a multimeter with leads (pictured in the intro section), and an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper.
Step 2: Folding the Paper to Make "guide Lines" for Drawing
To make a square grid of lines to guide your eyes and the pen when drawing the resistors, you can first fold the sheet diagonally to be flush with a long edge, as shown. Cut/tear the sheet along the interface between the two-layer part and the still-one-layer part to end up with (after unfolding) a square piece (8 1/2" x 8 1/2") of paper.
Then, for each of the two axes of the sheet, successively fold the sheet in half four times and unfold it completely.
Step 3: Draw the Grid!
With a calm and steady hand, keeping an eye on the guide lines, and with light pressure on the pen body, draw the grid. Well, to decrease variability, you may try a different method, but drawing by hand is easy. I waited a bit after drawing all lines in one direction before drawing the crossing lines, but I think that was unwise because the drawn lines were able to dry/harden a bit and thus more care was required on my part when drawing across the already-drawn lines -- sometimes the pen seemed to "jump" with some momentum over the already-drawn lines, and thus I had to backtrack to ensure well-connected junctions.
You can clearly see than my drawn grid lacked uniformity, but I didn't know then how much that would matter. Hopefully you will do better than me.
Also, note how I drew "dangling" resistors at the edges of the sheet. These are useful to estimate the resistance of an isolated stretch of the paint equal in length to a side of one square; you need this value to estimate pi.
Step 4: Measure!
"To measure is to know." -Lord Kelvin
There are three simple measurements to do. Using your multimeter in "ohmmeter" mode (the units of resistance are Ohms, symbolized by the Greek capital letter Omega), you can measure (1) the resistance across an isolated "dangling" resistor that is not part of the grid; let's call this resistance R. Next, you can measure (2) the resistance across one side of a square near the center of the paper; the resistance should theoretically be R_side = R / 2. Finally, you can measure (3) the resistance across the diagonal of one square; the resistance should theoretically be R_diag = R * (2 / pi). So, pi should equal 2 * (R / R_diag). Is it close to 3.14? Note that I can list at most three significant digits because my pictured multimeter only provided three. I got as close as 3.38 for one set of measurements.
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I think that your design of the net with conductive ink is a cleaver idea :)
The problem is only about the possibility of doing UNIFORM painted lines. Uniform in the amount of ink in each little piece or line (in each differential of line in the mathematic language).
May be if you use an old ruling pen and a ruler ...
I am very happy to see this instructable. Google used it as one of their questions for prospective employees on a famous test they gave around the time they went public. someone asked "why pi"? The reason is that the grid is symmetrical to infinity but there are different degrees of infinity so that it is important that the answer contain an element of "equal distance in all directions" which is how a circle is formed. In other words, the solution requires "equal distance to enforce equal infinities". The long derivations to such a simple answer, in my opinion, show that this problem exposes a terrible weakness in today's math. A simple answer from a simple question should have a simple derivation, if the analytical method is in any sense "powerful" for that type of question.
I like that intuition about pi being part of the answer due to symmetry. I also appreciate derivations that avoid long sequences of symbolic manipulations; if you haven't seen Bret Victor's project to "Kill Math", I find it inspiring. I particularly liked the snippet from Strogatz's Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos he includes at the bottom of that page.
Maybe someone can explain why pi is in the denominator and why 2R is up top. Even a series expansion argument is too complex. I think viewing it as a conductance would help in that effort: Ctotal =C*pi/2. Re-arranging: pi=2*Ctotal/C and since pi = circumference / diameter, C is the diameter of the "simplified (circle) viewpoint" we are looking for and 2*Ctotal is its circumference. Or it might be better to find the viewpoint that says diam=1/2*C and circumference=Ctotal. Yes, the whole intellectual explosion around Chaos in the 1980's was from people finally taking more notice of graphical methods in the back of a few 1960's and 1970's DE books, although the ideas had been around a lot longer. Feynman diagrams are another example of a "break-through" that occurred from drawing pictures instead of equations. Our mind can understand pictures pretty darn good. We need a good picture of how Michael Hudson's economics works and then vote accordingly.
Oh man...I remember seeing this problem in my junior electrical engineering courses. We lucked out - it was given as a final exam question the year before...but as it turns out most aerospace and mechanical engineers are terrible are circuit analysts...so we were spared a repeat of that blunder.
Interesting experiment...this would be a good showcase in circuitry courses. Nice approach...I wonder how big an array would actually be needed to reasonably approximate pi? Kudos!
I have not calculated the minimum error associated with approximating pi this way as a function of array dimension; as you mentioned, this could be a useful table to reference.
sounds interesting
Wouldn't a conductive wire mesh like an RF Shield be able to approximate it? If it requires a high resistance for accurate measurement, maybe a type of filtering system that uses tiny meshes may be resistive enough.
Sounds good to me. Try it and report back to us. :)
Keep in mind that a lead (graphite) pencil is conductive and could be used in place of the paint perhaps?
Yes, and it seems user Rogie-Bear has taken this approach.
Brilliant 'ibble!
Certainly the most thought provoking
My attempt to emulate your setup using penciled 8X9 grid yielded pi=1.44!
Close, but not close enough!
I think that your design of the net with conductive ink is a cleaver idea :)
The problem is only about the possibility of doing UNIFORM painted lines. Uniform in the amount of ink in each little piece or line (in each differential of line in the mathematic language).
May be if you use an old ruling pen and a ruler ...
This is a great piece of work. The "final exam" for any EE is the understanding of the infinite grid of resistors. So simple, so majestic and so defining of the difference between an EE and a technician.
Fantastic lab exercise for either physics or circuits.
Best instructable I have seen in quite some time.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE! We are completely in awe.
this is the first time I have heard of this problem...
Could you explain why R_diag = R*(2/pi)
Thanks a lot in advance.
That result is derived in each of the tworeferences I provided at the end of my first sentence, and the derivation is difficult to summarize in a sentence or two, even with heavy jargon. I recommend printing out one of the derivations and finding a local math junkie with whom to sit and walk through it.
great application for the paint! really cool project, I'd never seen this problem before.


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Transcribing into the language of predicate logic can be extremely difficult. Actually, one can do logic perfectly well without getting very good at transcription. But transcriptions into logic provide one of predicate logic's important uses. This is because, when it comes to quantification, English is often extremely confusing, ambiguous, and even downright obscure. Often we can become clearer about what is being said if we put a statement into logic. Sometimes transcribing into logic is a must for clarity and precision. For example, how do you understand the highly ambiguous sentence, 'All of the boys didn't kiss all of the girls.'? I, for one, am lost unless I transcribe into logic.
Before we get started, I should mention a general point. Just as in the case of sentence logic, if two predicate logic sentences are logically equivalent they are both equally good (or equally bad!) transcriptions of an English sentence. Two logically equivalent sentences share the same truth value in all possible cases (understood as all interpretations), and in this sense two logically equivalent sentences "say the same thing." But if two predicate logic sentences say the same thing, then to the extent that one of them says what an English sentence says, then so does the other.
We are going to be looking at quite a few examples, so let's agree on a transcription guide:
Transcription Guide
a: Adam Px: x is a person
J: The lights will be on Rx: x is a registered voter
Ax: x is an adult Vx: x has the right to vote
Bx:x is a boy Kxy: x kissed y
Cx: x is a cat Lxy: x love y
Dx: x is a dog Mxy: x is married to y
Fx: x can run a 3.45 mile Oxy: x owns y
Gx: x is a girl Txy: x is a tail of y
Hx: x is at home
Take note of the fact that in giving you a transcription guide, I have been using open sentences to indicate predicates. For example, I am using the open sentence 'Px' to indicate the predicate 'is a person.' The idea of using an open sentence to indicate a predicate will soon become very useful.
To keep us focused on the new ideas, I will often use subscripts on restricted quantifiers. However, you should keep in mind that complete transcriptions require you to rewrite the subscripts, as explained in the last section.
Now let's go back and start with the basics. '(
Vx)(Cx ⊃ Fx)' transcribes 'all cats are furry,' 'Every cat is furry,' 'Any cat is furry,' and 'Each cat is furry.' This indicates that
Usually, the words 'all', 'every', 'any', and 'each' signal a universal quantifier.
Let's make a similar list for the existential quantifier. '(Ǝx)(Cx & Fx)' transcribes 'Some cat is furry', 'Some cats are furry,' 'At least one cat is furry', 'There is a furry cat,' and 'There are furry cats':
Usually, the expressions 'some', 'at least one', 'there is', and 'there are' signal an existential quantifier.
These lists make a good beginning, but you must use care. There are no hard and fast rules for transcribing English quantifier words into predicate logic. For starters, 'a' can easily function as a universal or an existential quantifier. For example, 'A car can go very fast.' is ambiguous. It can be used to say either that any car can go very fast or that some car can go very fast.
To make it clearer that 'a' can function both ways, consider the following examples. You probably understand 'A man is wise.' to mean that some man is wise. But most likely you understand 'A dog has four legs.' to mean that all dogs have four legs. Actually, both of these sentences are ambiguous. In both sentences, 'a' can correspond to 'all' or 'some'. You probably didn't notice that fact because when we hear an ambiguous sentence we tend to notice only one of the possible meanings. If a sentence is obviously true when understood with one of its meanings and obviously false when understood with the other, we usually hear the sentence only as making the true statement. So if all the men in the world were wise, we would take 'A man is wise.' to mean that all men are wise, and if only one dog in the world had four legs we would take 'A dog has four legs.' to mean that some dog has four legs.
It is a little easier to hear 'A car can go very fast.' either way. This is because we interpret this sentence one way or the other, depending on how fast we take 'fast' to be. If 'fast' means 30 miles an hour (which is very fast by horse and buggy standards), it is easy to hear 'A car can go very fast.' as meaning that all cars can go very fast. If "fast' means 180 miles an hour it is easy to hear 'a car can go very fast.' as meaning that some car can go very fast.
'A' is not the only treacherous English quantifier word. 'Anyone' usually gets transcribed with a universal quantifier. But not always. Consider
(3) If anyone is at home, the lights will be on.
(4) If anyone can run a 3:45 mile, Adam can.
We naturally hear (3), not as saying that if everyone is at home the lights will be on, but as saying that if someone is at home the lights will be on. So a correct transcription is
(3a) (Ǝx)PHx ⊃ J
Likewise, by (4), we do not ordinarily mean that if everyone can run a 3:43 mile, Adam can. We mean that if someone can run that fast, Adam can:
(4a) (Ǝx)PFx ⊃ Fa
At least that's what one would ordinarily mean by (4). However, I think that (4) actually is ambiguous. I think 'anyone' in (4) could be understood as 'everyone'. This becomes more plausible if you change the '3:45 mile' to 'lo-minute mile'. And it becomes still more plausible after you consider the following example: 'Anyone can tie their own shoe laces. And if anyone can, Adam can.'
Going back to (3), one would think that if (4) is ambiguous, (3) should be ambiguous in the same way. I just can't hear an ambiguity in (3). Can you?
'Someone' can play the reverse trick on us. Usually, we transcribe it with an existential quantifier. But consider
(5) Someone who is a registered voter has the right to vote.
We naturally hear this as the generalization stating that anyone who is a registered voter has the right to vote. Thus we transcribe it as
(5a) (
Vx)P(Rx ⊃ Vx)
As in the case of (4), which uses 'anyone', we can have ambiguity in sentences such as (5), which uses 'someone'. If you don't believe me, imagine that you live in a totalitarian state, called Totalitarania. In Totalitarania, everyone is a registered voter. But voter registration is a sham. In fact, only one person, the boss, has the right to vote. As a citizen of Totalitarania, you can still truthfully say that someone who is a registered voter (namely, the boss) has the right to vote. (You can make this even clearer by emphasizing the word 'someone: 'someone who is a registered voter has the right to vote.') In this context we hear the sentence as saying
(5b) (Ǝx)P(Rx ⊃ Vx)
Ambiguity can plague transcription in all sorts of ways. Consider an example traditional among linguists:
(6) All the boys kissed all the girls
This can easily mean that each and every one of the boys kissed each and every one of the girls:
(6a) (
Vx)B( Vy)CKxy
But it can also mean that each of the boys kissed some girls so that, finally, each and every girl got kissed by some boy:
(6b) (
Vx)B(Ǝy)GKxY & ( Vy)G(Ǝx)BKxY
If you think that was bad, things get much worse when multiple quantifiers get tangled up with negations. Consider
(7) All the boys didn't kiss all the girls.
Everytime I try to think this one through, I blow a circuit. Perhaps the most natural transcription is to take the logical form of the English at face value and take the sentence to assert that of each and every boy it is true that he did not kiss all the girls; that is, for each and every boy there is at least one girl not kissed by that boy:
(7a) (
Vx)B~( Vy)CKxy, or ( Vx)B(Ǝy)C~Kxy
But one can also take the sentence to mean that each and every boy refrained from kissing each and every girl, that is, didn't kiss the first girl and didn't kiss the second girl and not the third, and so on. In yet other words, this says that for each and every boy there was no girl whom he kissed, so that nobody kissed anybody:
(7b) (
Vx)B~( Vy)C~Kxy, or ( Vx)B~(Ǝy)CKxy, or ~(Ǝx)B(Ǝy)CKxy
We are still not done with this example, for one can also use (7) to mean that not all the boys kissed every single girl-that is, that some boy did not kiss all the girls, in other words that at least one of the boys didn't kiss at least one of the girls:
(7c) ~(
Vx)B( Vy)CKxy, or (Ǝx)B~( Vy)CKxy , or (Ǝx)B(Ǝy)C~Kxy
It's worth an aside to indicate how it can happen that an innocent-looking sentence such as (7) can turn out to be so horribly ambiguous. Modern linguistics postulates that our minds carry around more than one representation of a given sentence. There is one kind of structure that . represents the logical form of a sentence. Another kind of structure represents sentences as we speak and write them. Our minds connect these (and other) representations of a given sentence by making all sorts of complicated transformations. These transformations can turn representations of different logical forms into the same representation of a spoken or written sentence. Thus one sentence which you speak or write can correspond to two, three, or sometimes quite a few different structures that carry very different meanings. In particular, the written sentence (7) corresponds to (at least!) three different logical forms. (7a), (7b), and (7c) don't give all the details of the different, hidden structures that can be transformed into (7). But they do describe the differences which show up in the language of predicate logic.
You can see hints of all this if you look closely at (7), (7a), (7b), and (7c). In (7) we have two universal quantifier words and a negation. But since the quantifier words appear on either side of 'kissed', it's really not all that clear where the negation is meant to go in relation to the universal quantifiers. We must consider three possibilities. We could have the negation between the two universal quantifiers. Indeed, that is what you see in (7a), in the first of its logically equivalent forms. Or we could have the negation coming after the two universal quantifiers, which is what you find in the first of the logically equivalent sentences in (7b). Finally, we could have the negation preceding both universal quantifiers. You see this option in (7c). In sum, we have three similar, but importantly different, structures. Their logical forms all have two universal quantifiers and a negation, but the three differ, with the negation coming before, between, or after the two quantifiers. The linguistic transformations in our hinds connect all three of these structures with the same, highly ambiguous English sentence, (7).
Let's get back to logic and consider some other words which you may find especially difficult to transcribe. I am always getting mixed up by sentences which use 'only', such as 'Only cats are furry.' So I use the strategy of first transcribing a clear case (it helps to use a sentence I know is true) and then using the clear case to figure out a formula. I proceed in this way: Transcribe
(8) Only adults can vote.
This means that anyone who is not an adult can't vote, or equivalently (using the law of contraposition), anyone who can vote is an adult. So either of the following equivalent sentences provides a correct transcription:
(8a) (
Vx)P(~Ax ⊃ ~Vx)
(8b) (
Vx)P(Vx ⊃ Ax)
This works in general. (In the following I used boldface capital P and Q to stand for arbitrary predicates.) Transcribe
(9) Only Ps are Qs
either as
(9a) (
Vx)(~Px ~Qx)
(9b) (
Vx)(Qx ⊃ Px)
Thus 'Only cats are furry' becomes (
Vx)(Fx ⊃ Cx).'
Nothing' and 'not everything' often confuse me also. We must carefully distinguish
(10) Nothing is furry: (
Vx)~Fx, or ~(Ǝx)Fx
(11) Not everything is furry: ~(
Vx)Fx, or (Ǝx)~Fx
(The alternative transcriptions given in (10) and (11) are logically equivalent, by the rules ~(
Vx) and ~(Ǝx) for logical equivalence introduced in section 3-4.) 'Not everything' can be transcribed literally as 'not all x . . .'. 'Nothing' means something different and much stronger. 'Nothing' means 'everything is not . . . .' Be careful not to confuse 'nothing' with 'not everything.' If the distinction is not yet clear, make up some more examples and carefully think them through. 'None' and 'none but' can also cause confusion:
(12) None but adults can vote: (
Vx)(~Ax ⊃ ~Vx)
(13) None love Adam: (
Vx)~Lxe '
None but' simply transcribes as 'only.' When 'none' without the 'but' fits in grammatically in English you will usually be able to treat it as you do 'nothing'. 'Nothing' and 'none' differ in that we tend to use 'none' when there has been a stated or implied restriction of domain: "How many cats does Adam love? He loves none." In this context a really faithful transcription of the sentence 'Adam loves none.' would be '(
Vx)C~Lax', or, rewriting the subscript, '( Vx)(Cx ⊃ ~Lax).
Perhaps the most important negative quantifier expression in English is 'no', as in
(14) No cats are furry.
To say that no cats are furry is to say that absolutely all cats are not furry, so that we transcribe (18) as
(15) (
Vx)C~Fx, that is, ( Vx)(Cx ⊃ ~Fx)
In general, transcribe
(16) No Ps are Qx.
(17) (
Vx)P~Q, that is, ( Vx)(P ⊃ ~Q)
4-4. Transcribe the following English sentences into the language of predicate logic. Use subscripts if you find them helpful in figuring out your answers, but no subscripts should appear in your final answers.
Transcription Guide
a: Adam Fx: x is furry
e: Eve Px: x is a person
Ax: x is an animal Qx: x purrs
Bx: x is a blonde Lxy: x loves y
Cx: x is a cat Sxy: x is son of y
Dx: x is a dog Txy: x is tickling y
a) Anything furry loves Eve.
b) No cat is furry.
c) If anyone loves Adam, Eve does.
d) ve does not love anyone.
e) Nothing is furry.
f) Adam, if anyone, is blond.
g) Not all cats are furry.
h) Some cats are not furry.
i) No one is a cat.
j) No cat is a dog.
k) If something purrs, it is a cat.
l) Not everything blond is a cat.
m) A dog is not an animal. (Ambiguous)
n) Not all animals are dogs.
o) Only cats purr.
p) Not only cats are furry.
q) Any dog is not a cat.
r) No blonds love Adam.
s) None but blonds love Adam.
t) Some dog is not a cat.
u) Nothing furry loves anyone.
v) Only cat lovers love dogs. (Ambiguous?)
w) If someone is a son of Adam, he is blond.
x) No son of Adam is a son of Eve.
y) Someone who is a son of Adam is no son of Eve. (Ambiguous)
z) Each cat which loves Adam also loves Eve.
aa) Not everyone who loves Adam also loves Eve.
bb) Anyone who is tickling Eve is tickling Adam.
cc) None but those who love Adam also love Eve.
4-5. Give alternative transcriptions which show the ways in which the following sentences are ambiguous. In this problem you do not have to eliminate subscripts. (It is sometimes easier to study the ambiguity if we write these sentences in the compact subscript notation.)
a) Everyone loves someone.
b) Someone loves everyone.
c) Something is a cat if and only if Adam loves it.
d) All cats are not furry. e) Not anyone loves Adam.
4-6. In this section I discussed ambiguities connected with words such as 'a', 'someone', and 'anyone.' In fact, English has a great many sorts of ambiguity arising from the ways in which words are connected with each other. For example, 'I won't stay at home to please you.' can mean that if I stay at home, I won't do it in order to please you. But it can also mean that 1 will go out because going out will please you. 'Eve asked Adam to stay in the house.' can mean that Eve asked Adam to remain in a certain location, and that location is the house. It can also mean that Eve asked Adam to remain in some unspecified location, and that she made her request in the house.
For the following English sentences, provide alternative transcripts showing how the sentences are ambiguous. Use the transcription guides given for each sentence.
a) Flying planes can be dangerous. (Px: x is a plane. Fx: x is flying. Dx: x can be dangerous. Ax: x is an act of flying a plane.)
b) All wild animal keepers are blond. (Kxy: x keeps y. Wx: x is wild. Ax: x is an animal. Bx: x is blond.)
c) Adam only relaxes on Sundays. (a: Adam. Rxy: x relaxes on day y. Lxy: x relaxes ("is lazy") all day long on day y. Sx: x is Sunday.)
d) Eve dressed and walked all the dogs. (e: Eve. Cxy: x dressed y. Dx: x is a dog. Wxy: x walked y.)
Linguists use the expression Structural Ambiguity for the kind of ambiguity in these examples. This is because the ambiguities have to do with alternative ways in which the grammatical structure of the sentences can be correctly analyzed. Structural ambiguity contrasts with Lexical Ambiguity, which has to do with the ambiguity in the meaning of isolated words. Thus the most obvious ambiguity of 'I took my brother's picture yesterday.' turns on the ambiguity of the meaning of 'took' (stole vs. produced a picture). The ambiguity involved with quantifier words such as 'a', 'someone', and 'anyone' is actually structural ambiguity, not lexical ambiguity. We can see a hint of this in the fact that '(Ǝx)Hx ⊃ J' is logically equivalent to '(
Vx)(Hx ⊃ J) and the fact that '( Vx)Hx ⊃ J' is logically equivalent to (Ǝx)(Hx ⊃ J), as you will prove later on in the course.


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