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Eugoogly: Don LaFontaine, The Voice of America
Posted by Andrew Unterberger on September 3, 2008
This time, it's for real
On the list of people who have most shaped the pop culture of these United States while remaining completely anonymous to 99.9% of American audiences, the recently deceased Don LaFontaine would really have to rank up there with 2 Unlimited, Ivan Reitman (pre-son Jason's oscar nod, anyways) and John de Mol–and he didn't even have the excuse of being European. But if you don't recognize the name, or the picture above, there's probably a pretty good reason for it (besides the fact that he looks like recent Billy Joel, except even older and having gone through an even more harrowing adolescence)–LaFontaine's claim to immortality is his work in counelss numbers of movie previews, where his booming, gravitas-laden voice would lend excitement and credibility to literally thousands of movie previews, ranging from Oscar-winning classics like The Godfather Part II to mediocre blockbusters like Cheaper By the Dozen.
If the name still isn't ringing any bells, and you imagine that LaFontaine's contributions were likely interchangable and inconsequential, I have but three words to offer you:
Got it now, huh? Well, if you don't see those three words and instantly hear the thunderous timbre and musical cadence of LaFontaine's voice in your head, then you better minimize this window quickly so that your boss doesn't see you futzing around on the internet and fire you, thus ending the only thing lending meaning to your heartless, joyless existence, you fucking drone. The three words that kicked off a countless number of sci-fi, horror and heavy drama flicks, they also function as LaFontaine's de facto catchprhase, the appeal of which LaFontaine had recently tried to summarize:
We have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to. That's very easily done by saying, `In a world where … violence rules.' `In a world where … men are slaves and women are the conquerors.' You very rapidly set the scene.
Literal enough. In any event, even though I probably couldn't point to a single movie that actually used the phrase to sell itself, the phrase quickly entered my cinematic subconscious, and when me and my brother finally found out that the same guy did the voiceover for all of these, we started sending each other random "IN A WORLD…" text messages and cracked up every time.
The interesting thing, sort of, is that LaFontaine had actually started to achieve a kind of reluctant visibility by the time of his death. His voiceovers became more self-referential, as when he berated Homer for copying his narration in the Simpsons Movie preview–banking on the fact that his voiceover technique was so well batted into the public's brains that no further explanation was necessary. More notably, the man started showing his smiling face on TV as well, most visibly in GEICO's IITS #1-rated celebrity commercial, which would later be referenced by LaFontaine in appearances on both The Tonight Show and Frank TV. We might've only been a few years away from cameos in the Apatowverse.
Sadly, LaFontaine died yesterday, resulting from a collapsed lung. It's hard to imagine who will be expected to take over the action movie trailer mantle now–Morgan Freeman seems the most obvious choice, but he's no spring chicken himself, and the workload may just be too much for any one man to take over without some sort of platooning. It's doubtful it'll be the same, anyways.
R.I.P. Don "IN A WORLD…" Fontaine, 1940-2008
(By the way, for those curious–"Let's hope he now lives 'in a world' where people know his name is Don LaFontaine" is the best the Celebrity Death Pun & Conundrum Society could come up with. Feel free to try to better it.)
4 Responses to "Eugoogly: Don LaFontaine, The Voice of America"
September 3, 2008 at 12:50 am
Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.
September 3, 2008 at 11:42 am
While this is a massive loss for the industry there are still a few left to carry the torch (especially that creepy Disney movies guy)
September 3, 2008 at 3:25 pm
This guy really owes the internet and it's quirky sense of humor for making him a cult icon. Always knew about the dudes voice but thanks to the internet that voice was given a name.
September 4, 2008 at 12:11 am
Is this him or some copycat? Voice sounds a little deeper.


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Roy and Jenny Ramble return to Goldfield with all the news of the children at the AOG School, India and ladies making Seema Bags. Please scroll down to view a selection of photographs of their assembly with Year 2 and look back on their previous visits.
It was lovely to welcome Roy, Jenny and Rachel back to Goldfield and to hear all of their latest news of 'Buttercup' the water buffalo and her baby (now fully grown), the chickens, the children from the AOG School and the ladies making the Seema Bags.
Year 2 have been working on an Earthquake science project. The children wanted to know 'What happens when there is an earthquake?' Some of the students at the AOG School have also been working on this project. Ten of the students projects came to Goldfield by post to be sent off with our projects to STEM to see if we could achieve the 'Stem Young Leaders Awards'. Please click STEM for more information about this award.
We asked Roy and Jenny to present certificates and pencils cases to the ten students for their outstanding projects, Photographs will follow shortly from India of the students receiving them in person.
Mrs Sladden held a Nepalese
Seema Bags Sale after school today to support Roy, Jenny, the AOG School and the Seema project.
The girls just love their new hens and cockerel. Roy and Jenny have been able to make a hen coop and everyone wanted to say a big, big thankyou for all of the donations we sent they thank you for saving your pennies and for bringing so much joy to everyone here in Rupaidiha.
Letters arrive from the AOG School written by the children about their experiences of the recent Nepal Earthquakes. Each hand written letter has been beautifully illustrated. We are making a book of the letters to go in our school library and colour copies have been made so that each of our leaving Year 2 children can take a letter home. We would like to send our thanks to the children at the AOG School, we wish them a happy and safe summer and look forward to continuing our communications together in September!
Letters and bag designs from Year 2 have arrived at the AOG School as you can see everyone is pleased to hear Goldfield's news and they will reply very soon. In the meantime the ladies making the Seema bags have been trying some colours to make 3 special items in Goldfield colours; a pencil case, an Aria bag and a pouch bag (see photographs of the weaving below, which colour do you like the best?). There was even better news that the ladies who make the Seema Bags have just received their first big order from an organisation in America for 500 bags, that is FANTASTIC news!
Thankfully everyone at the AOG School is safe after the recent earthquake in Nepal but the girls in the home are sleeping outside until things return back to normal. Sadly the building where the girls make the Seema bags collapsed in the earthquake. We would like to suport Roy, Jenny, the AOG School and the Seema project by selling Nepalese
Seema Bags after school in the playground on Friday 8th May.
We would like to say a huge to everyone who supported this worthy cause and are please to announce that £477 was raised!
What a beautiful sari Jenny is wearing!
Sweet treats for the children!
Roy and Jenny buy school uniform (including shoes) for all of the children they look after at the AOG School. For the children it is the first school uniform they have ever worn and the first time they have worn shoes (usually the children walk around in bare feet).
They have 800 pupils at their school and they buy uniforms for them all (can you image how much money this costs!).
Here are the children in their school hall, all 800 of them. It gets very hot during assemblies and because it is so small the children sometimes accidently sit on someone elses lap!
In this classroom the children are all hard at work. There are 40 children in this class and just 1 teacher!
These children are in the Reception class.
They are very happy to be using the lovely bright new tables Roy and Jenny have recently bought for them.
This is the choir performing to the school. The children love to sing.......
...... and dance, and dress up!
Roy and Jenny only have a few chickens. The chickens need somewhere really safe to live because there are snakes in the area. Hopefully they will be able to raise enough money to build a secure coop very soon.
Buttercup has a baby of her own!
In 1986 Roy and Jenny Ramble moved to India to a tiny little village called Rupaidiha close to Kanpur and Nepal. In 1987 they founded a school to provide the poorest children with a quality education. Originally there were only 7 students. After the first year there were 127 students and now the school educates almost 800 students with 30 teachers. Mrs Sladden became one of those teachers! Mrs Sladden explained that she had to wear a sari when she taught in the school. As you can see from these photographs this was not an easy outfit to put on!
With the success of the school Roy and Jenny went on to set up an outdoor education program. They kept hearing stories about children unable to go to school because their families couldn't afford to pay the school fees.
Many families living in and around Rupaidiha are poor. Children have to help their families by selling crops, sugar etc. The children carry heavy loads on their heads and run across the border into Nepal to sell their goods and make money for their families. Roy and Jenny wanted to help these children.
On the 1st February 2010 lessons began at the Rupaidiha Outdoor Education Center and within two weeks over 120 students came for two hours of lessons covering education health and hygiene. Provisions for more students and outdoor centers are still needed and Roy and Jenny do everything they can to raise awareness and funds.
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One of the common, and understandable questions we get when introducing the idea that Big Head is NOT a calcium deficiency disease is "Where is the research?" Perhaps a more interesting question would be "Where is the research that it is a Calcium Deficiency Disease?"
"When I was invited to Australia to look at the "Big Head problem" the first thing I did was to set up trials in Blackall and Murwillumbah. We invested thousands of dollars in research and development and used the services of both veterinary and human hospitals to conduct blood tests. These were field trials not scientific experiments but they looked at more blood parameters than any other trials we have read about. The traditional explanations given in the literature that oxalates create a calcium deficiency in the same way that phosphorus does in Millers Disease simply doesn't explain the results we got in our trials."
Malcolm Green, Technical & Marketing Director at EquiFeast Australia
The results of these trials are published in the form of a video here:
Consistently we have reduced the calcium in diets and yet all the symptoms have gone away. And the chelate we used in our trials and continue to use in our commercial products binds calcium more tightly than calcium is bound to oxalate. The often repeated mantra that chelated calcium is protected from oxalates makes no sense - why would the chelated calcium in a supplement magically give up its calcium when it gets into the bloodstream? And even at the high levels of chelated calcium we use we are nowhere near providing the RDA of calcium. And our nearest competitor provides about 1/24th of the amount we do!
EquiFeast ran a second round of trials and it is a combination of the two that have led us to develop our hypothesis that Big Head (or Oxalate Poisoning as we would prefer to call it) is not a calcium deficiency problem but a calcium regulation problem. That doesn't mean we know exactly what is going on - we don't. But nobody knows how paracetamol works either so it isn't crucial.
At the moment Oxalate Poisoning appears to be an exclusively Australian problem, however we are looking into other countries that may be effected. We believe it started 40-50 years ago with the introduction of grasses like Buffel, Setaria and Kikuyu. Unfortunately the theory that it is a calcium deficiency problem was developed as a result of comparison with a similar but different cause of Big Head - Millers or Bran Disease. Yet despite this history there have been no scientific studies of this problem. NOT ONE! All we could find was a "recommendation" from the early 1980's based on the millers disease hypothesis (Blainey, Gartner and McKenzie). There work looked only at "calcium balance" but not at symptoms because their experiments only lasted about a month. We can't find a single scientific study looking at the symptoms of oxalate poisoning. This lack of research is a major tragedy given the welfare implications of this disease. Back in 1981 nobody was using chelated minerals so that limited research tells us nothing about the nutrients we at EquiFeast have pioneered.
In 2015 the South Australian vet Elizabeth Herbert published some anecdotal experiences based on miniature horses eating soursobs (Journal of Equine Veterinary Education). Her experience was that injecting calcium borogluconate (a chelated calcium) generally worked but that when these horses were returned to the real world and supplemented with limestone and DCP (the solution proposed by every Australian feed and supplements firm) these horses deteriorated - some were even euthanised. This use of a chelate is the only evidence not generated by EquiFeast and it turns out to somewhat support our hypotheses and contradict the conventional approach to this problem.
At EquiFeast we are proud of the fact that we have developed an innovative solution to a problem found on the opposite side of the world. And we are equally proud of the fact that it is now being warmly welcomed by many of Australia's most successful cattle ranchers and campdrafters. These are people who wouldn't be conned by fancy marketing but that have tried and been disappointed by traditional calcium based solutions. They are also generally desperate to solve this debilitating problem, trying just about everything that has been offered to them.
Equally importantly these people are affected far more by the lameness and short stepping gait issues of oxalate poisoning than they are by Big Head. A working stock horse can't muster properly if it can't move freely or if it is lame. And a campdraft horse can't perform like a real athlete with poor tendon, ligament and muscle function.
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On the 2017-15-04, Hellshaker will open up for no less than Kee Marcello at Palatset in Linköping sweden. Be shure not to miss this gig if you are near by. Tickets avalible at www.tickster.com .
Hellshaker goes to Tjeck republic and Slovakia, some dates during the tour will posibly pop up also in Poland. Will just se about that. Tour will start 04/11 in Tjeck Republic and end in Stockholm Sweden 19/11. Tjeck the tourplan for dates and venues.
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Greetings fellow METALHEADS! We are happy to announce that we´ve just signed a record-deal with the Swedish record label Rambo music. The record is now in for mixing / mastering and is intended to be released WORLD WIDE in march 2016.We are now planning tourdates, and we will launch our first gig for 2016, in January at Copperfields/Stockholm.We also have the pleasure to announce that we´ve got a new drummer (Stefan Pettersson) in the band who is doing great rehearsing all the songs.
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Data Science Delivered
About: Short document summarising Ian's thoughts on successful ways to ship working, maintainable and understandable data science products and ways to avoid falling into dark holes of despair. This is based on my experience, your experience may be very different - if so, file a Bug for me in GitHub and give me something to chew on.
Very roughly these are "notes from me to my-younger-self", I hope you find some of this to be useful. I've put this together based on my talking, teaching and coaching along with feedback from chats at our PyDataLondon monthly meetup.
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By: Ian Ozsvald (http://ianozsvald.com - LinkedIn) of ModelInsight (do get in contact if consulting and coaching might be useful)
License: Creative Commons By Attribution
Location: https://github.com/ianozsvald/data_science_delivered
Aimed at: Existing data scientists, both for those who are engineers and those who are researchers.
My notes
overview of the major stages in a data project (from conception to maintenance)
outline the projects
take a look at the data
determine what's feasible, define milestones, get buy-in
- keep the scope small and sane (especially if you're not confident about your data or how you'll solve the aspirational goals of the project)
deliver a working prototype
- it is quite usual to iterate on the data+prototype stage several times, once you've made a prototyped you'll probably discover that the data has problems, as you address those data problems you'll realise you had poor assumptions in the prototype, so you'll iterate. you might get it right first time (and make sure a colleague validates this) but several iterations aren't uncommon.
deliver a deployable, maintainable and testable system
support the solution
early stages
sources of data
- don't forget external data (e.g. OpenData) and licensable data
- joining external data to internal data might be tricky (you probably lack a decent join key)
discovery - what's feasible? what's valuable? how far might this project go?
dirty data
cleaning data is necessary, nothing else works if the data is not clean
cleaning data is an on-going process
low quality data breaks everything
don't patch over bad data, you forget about it and it never gets better, then you rely on the assumptions and things go bad
write validators that check for bad data - run them regularly, report exceptions to the specification, treat this as a red flag event and try to get to the source of the problem (and patch up broken data before you forget about it)
- for numbers - figure out what distributions and examples you have. what are your outliers? are the outliers reasonable or the result of bad data?
- for text - what examples do you have? how long and short are the strings? what character sets are used? do you care about case, accents, punctuation?
- what kind of variations do you have in your data? what's normal? Seaborn's pairplot does a great job on small sets of numerical data
delivering data products
How a project can evolve
Get your data (and expect to have to fetch more, it is fine to start with a sensible subset of the possible data - aim for Small Data that fits in RAM at the start to keep your exploration speed high)
Hacking, scripts (knock out lots of ideas)
Reporting results (tell a story, get someone to validate your assumptions, do a code review as a sanity check)
Using source-control (e.g. github.com), don't be slow to keep a history of edits and to sync off-site
Pickles (you'll have partial results you want to store, a
pickleis a reasonable way to store early-stage results)
Configuration (make it run on other machines e.g. for colleagues or for deployment or other configurations like test, staging and deployment)
Modules (use
__init__.pyin folders to group code into logical units)
- See my template for examples of a working module with tests and a config
Packages (make your code distributable using
Testing (check
unittest.pyand py.test)
- You'll have more confidence in your code
- When refactoring you'll know if your code still does what it was supposed to
- When you upgrade libraries (e.g. new Python libraries or major Python versions) you'll be confident that your code still does the same job that it did before
- py.test to write cleaner tests than with Python's built-in
- you can run
py.test -sto see
stdout(which otherwise is hidden unless the tests fail) and
py.test -s -pdbto drop into the Python debugger on a failure (so you get dropped in to pdb to do live debugging)
- you can run
- coverage to figure out if you're actually testing all of your code (so you can figure out which bits need the urgent addition of tests!)
- hypothesis for fuzzing your unit tests and finding blind spots you missed (use this in addition to your regular tests, not as a replacement for them)
Data integrity tests (make sure your data actually contains what you expect - you can easily ignore this step and easily write a solution that lies to you - be very wary of skipping this)
- engarde to add constraints to your DataFrames
Speed of iteration (it gets slower as the code gets bigger, it is also likely that more bugs slip in which occasionally will really slow you down)
Repeatable processes
Online data (we've gone from a static lump of data to needing to update our models with new data - how do we do this and deploy it within our unique operating constraints?)
Big Data (maybe you really have a Big Data problem - now you've figured out how to solve the problem on a subset of the data you need to figure out how to deploy this in a cluster)
the cost of bad data
we all have bad data, we sweep it under the carpet
bad data should be treated like bad logic - it'll torpedo your project so it must be fixed
bad data will keep creeping back in from new data sources and from existing data sources and from legacy data sources, if you don't monitor for it then you won't see this (and later it'll just be painful to deal with)
you have to actively monitor it, report on it and fix it
bad data will add a "development tax" on your work, it'll incrementally slow you down and over time it can cause your project to stall when the whole teams switches for months just to clean the data so it can be useful again
make it a red-light scenario when your data goes bad and fix it else you'll keep running slower and slower (just like you spend more time fire-fighting if you don't bother with a good unit-test and test management process)
O'Reilly's Bad Data Handbook
Some general notes on cost of bad data:
dealing with disparate or hard-to-access data
- it is common for an organically evolved system to have many datastores (e.g. a MongoDB, a MySQL, some SQLITEs, an Adobe Omniture, Google Analytics) which are loosely coupled where you have to work hard to get data from several datasets
- commonly the schemas evolve independently and historic information can be bad at different times for different stores (and this domain info can be stored in an individual's head)
- this sort of mix of data causes an inertia on research and reporting
- possible solutions include
- rewriting the storage layers
- massive effort, lots of line-systems might require updating
- if on-line data products need this view of the data (e.g. for live decisions on live datasets) then this might be the best option
- building a unified approach to extracting all the data and storing it in a new system in a clean and consistent way (e.g. putting it into a Data Warehouse or a Big Data system)
- less effort, but more cruft is left in the line-systems
- data products can be built off of the new system but remember that this clean view of the data is only available in this data store (not in the live line-system data stores)
- rewriting the storage layers
dealing with dirty data
what clean data might look like (this is very problem specific!)
- no pure duplicates
- few or no near-duplicates (e.g. repeated records with typos or minor changes)
- values that are normalised w.r.t. your problem
- e.g. if you're working on a data-augmentation problem you'll need some dirty data but if you're regressing then you'll want clean data so you can solve your regression challenge
- a sane schema
- reasonable value ranges
- sensible between-table relationships are represented
- no (or few) lies in the data!
- sensible use of
0to represent missing and zero values
R&D on dirty data
- transform the raw dirty data into a cleaned research-ready dataset
- you want clean data when you solve your challenge
- you can robustify your research code for deployment by taking the relevant cleaning code and integrating it into your production system
talks on dirty data
- "Dirty Data" by Friso van Vollenhoven (notes the Icelandic Thorn issue, bad date encodings)
- "Cleaning Confused Collections of Characters" my thoughts on ways through extracting and cleaning text
dirty text data
cleaning broken text
ftfy to fix bad encodings
poor specification of encoding - requires some checking on your part to make sensible guesses - often text "looks like" UTF8 but might actually be encoded in Windows CP-1252 which encodes smart-quotes differently to disk
Chromium Compact Language Detector - identifies human language type
HTML entity decoding (Python's unescape does a sensible job for the basic entities)
normalising unicode variants (text, punctuation)
- problems for decoding non-English alphabets like the Turkish Double I and the (horrible) associated stories of murder on that page
- variants of dash (e.g. 40 variants are listed) and white space (including non-breaking whitespace, examples),
and &,
copyright ©etc
normalising synonyms
- probably having many synonymous words for the same "thing" you're working on is a bad idea (e.g. company name variants like RBS and The Royal Bank of Scotland, and product name variants like MS VC 2000 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2000) as the variants water down the signal, you should probably map these to canonical representations to reduce the variation in labelling. This only applies if you want the aggregate signal for the "common items" rather than the exact signal for each named variation
- ish has synonyms for common terms like "yes, yep, yup, …"
- unidecode strips "funny accents" to remove variation in your text, this is useful if people write the same thing in different ways (e.g. Société Générale and Societe Generale will both be written by regular people to mean the same company)
normalising text terms
- often names can be written in different orders e.g. "Ian Ozsvald" and (in Hungary) "Ozsvald Ian", with no other indication of the reversed encoding
normalising weights and measures
astropy etc?
no tool to recognise these?
encoding text categories for machine learning
- Pandas has a get_dummies which performs naieve encoding
- Patsy has a richer set of encoding options and tries to remove redundant encodings
dirty numeric data
numeric outliers for normally distributed numbers - checking the values outside of a couple of standard deviations is a sane starting point
checking for outliers in a non-stationery dataset (e.g. a time series of prices) is trickier (READER - what's a good starting point?)
check for text-encoded numbers like NaN and INFINITY, they confuse things when parsed!
solving problems with data
O'Reilly's notes on Evaluating Machine Learning Models
a rough process for machine learning:
- it is fine to focus on your training data only at first (before you have a useful model) - if you can't (over)fit your training data then you'll have no joy with your test data
- identify what your model can't fit in your data, don't guess, diagnose it (at the start this is a great way to spot broken data or missing features that you took for granted!)
- switch to using 10-fold Cross Validation once you can over-fit your training data, CV will give you an idea about how well you generalise for predicting the real world
- now start to diagnose what the model gets wrong on your test data
diagnosis tips:
Andrew Ng's notes http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials/ML-advice.pdf
"A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning", Pedro Domingos - really useful paper to clear up some ML assumptions
metrics http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/09/willyourmodelworkpart4/
Unboxing the Random Forest Classifier: The Threshold Distributions
Visualise a confusion matrix for the resulting classifications.
Visualise a correlation matrix for your features if you have a small number (e.g. <20 features). You might also visualise the similarities as a force network graph (photo) using NetworkX or Gephi.
Use a Dummy classifier which classifies based on e.g. the most frequent class seen in the training set, this should reflect the underlying distribution of your classes and any classifier and features you build must outperform this (else they're not exploiting any information that may exist!)
What classifications are always wrong? Train on your training set and then use either your train or your test set to diagnose which labels in incorrectly predicts (e.g. for a binary classification task take a highly confident wrong class answer from your test set). What's missing? Poor features? Maybe the model is too simplistic? Maybe you have bad labels?
Which classifications always sit on the decision boundary (e.g. items with a 50⁄50 probability of being in one of two classes)? Why can't the model confidently move the examples to the right class?
With many training runs you can plot the coefficients inside a classifier like Logistic Regression (using a boxplot per feature) to see the distribution of the weights. This should show if e.g. some of your feature data has a poor distribution (e.g. if it is non-Normal) and how variable the weights can be.
diagnosis tips:
- OLS is surprisingly robust, it is a great starting point
- After training - predict on the training data, take the worst errors and try to diagnose those
- Make a histogram of the values of the response value - is it Normal-like? If it is heavily skewed then maybe you should try to transform it (using a
log). With a heavy skew OLS can be skewed in favour of trying to fit the few outliers rather than the body of mostly-not-skewed values. Remember to measure your training error on the un-transformed data (else you can't compare it to the error on the non-transformed previous version)
feature diagnosis
(Unit) Testing on scikit-learn models
- Valerio Maggio's talk at BudapestBI Forum 2015 on Machine Learning Under Test from BudapestBIForum 2015 covers numeric precision (e.g. almost-equal, unit least precision), measures of generalisation error (e.g. cross validation, accuracy measures), hyperparameters
natural language processing
NLTK useful for ngrams and tokenisation
it is faster to tokenise on whitespace yourself
SpaCy looks good
keep features human-readable to ease debugging
tokenising a lower-cased string with whitespace tokenisation and unigrams gets you a long way
for two-class text classification (e.g. spam, "is user of typeX") the following configuration is a sane base-case starting point (this is a Pattern that you might want to follow):
- assumption - normal-human-possible classification task (i.e. one with lots of redundancy that a regular human can easily solve)
- lowercased, uni-decoded unigram features
- bag of words (i.e. without order or frequency counts)
- Bernulli Naive Bayes (by default scikit learn's BNB takes care of unbalanced data sets)
- Use a dummy classifier that uses some regular expressions (i.e. driven by human insight rather than ML) for a super-easy-to-diagnose classification approach
- don't be in a rush to go to complex models and features sets until you know why you need the complexity
- tfidf scaling is useful for variable length documents (e.g. pages of wikipedia text) but if your text is roughly the same length (e.g. tweets) then scaling is less useful
delivering working products
delivering repeatable read-only datasets
- WaterMark marks a Notebook with a datestamp and some system information (including versions of Python, IPython, the compiler, key libraries and a git hash)
delivering read-only webservices
delivering online data products
KISS - explainable answers probably beat having the best score
deployment options to machines:
deployment technologies:
- use github to pull onto a target machine - useful at first for small scale deployments, not useful for automation
- docker - useful for fully-built and reproducible builds
building a web-based API:
- Featherweight super lightweight server for publishing R&D Python functions as JSON web functions
- Flask with Swagger documentation
- Django REST
- Eve - Python + Flask and Mongo or SQL storage
storing data
add constraints to your datastore whenever possible, probably they're granular (e.g. text only with N characters, ints-only and Nulls are allowed) with the wrong level of granularity (you might want lower-case hex-like ASCII UUID strings only or positive numbers for addresses within a certain range), but some constraints are much better than no constraints. Constraints between key fields in tables are also very sensible.
pickles of
dictsare good for persisting python objects
- add a timestamp and maybe a git commit for traceability and a notes key in a
dictalong with your data (which might be
- have a script that visits all your pickles, loads them in and reports the build-time, label and notes so you can quickly check what's deployed
- add a timestamp and maybe a git commit for traceability and a notes key in a
- Unicode text is 3-byte
utf8by default (so it only encodes the Basic Multilingual Plane and not the Supplementary Planes) and so silently loses data that doesn't look "Western-like", use
- Unicode text is 3-byte
- Schemaless by default (this hopefully changes in 2015), this makes it quick for iteration and rubbish for data integrity later when you have an engineering mindset (write your own validation & reporting code that checks your schema is met to avoid going crazy)
- Monary lets you read MongoDB data->Python around 10* faster (talk)
dense and sparse matrices
- numpy arrays have a single type
- scipy.sparse is excellent for sparse data - if you have a dense matrix that's larger than RAM then definitely check if you have many (e.g. >30%) zero-based entries, if so you should test the RAM usage of a sparse array
- you can store sparse data on disk with hdf5 and compression
engineering concerns (how stuff goes wrong)
not logging the right data
not automating your data-edit process for production data (you mustn't edit this stuff by hand as you'll have multiple environments over time)
not automating the logging/scraping of data
- intermittent logging (causing gaps)
schemas change but not using a good change approach
field name changes
datatype changes
not having a sensible schema
"" None Id(0) "none" "NOTPRESENT"to all indicate a Null condition in the same dataset, this is a really bad idea and will lead to confusion. Fix on using only 1 Null value.
having different applications (e.g. MongoDB driven by C# and Python with different Legacy UUIDs) write data in similar but incompatible ways
data lakes are probably a better idea then never-finished perfect schemas
lack of monitoring and lack of acting on the monitored result
write data validator scripts and run them religiously
when data goes wrong, make it a high priority else it'll poison later work
use testing to limit problems
coding sensible practices
- don't copy/paste magic numbers around your code, instead use the constant-convention with an upper-cased variable like
OFFSET=53.9and use
OFFSETthroughout your code (rather than
53.9). This is especially useful if you have two different magic numbers that mean differnets things (e.g.
10used in two different contexts), having a spelt-out variable makes the intent much clearer when you return to this code months later.
- if you find yourself copy/pasting a block of code (e.g. a few lines that make a new database connection or do a common data manipulation) then strongly think about refactoring this into a function, it'll make support easier and your code will get shorter (so there's fewer lines to hide bugs)
- don't copy/paste magic numbers around your code, instead use the constant-convention with an upper-cased variable like
useful python tools
anaconda environments
ipython - interactive Python shell
jupyter notebook (and consider
%connect_info(sort-of example to connect a Notebook's kernel with a console interface)
argparse and os.env to get default configurations from environment
ipython_memory_usage - diagnose line-by-line RAM usage in an IPython session
jq - excellent JSON parser
IPython Notebook working practices
- IPython at the console (
ipython) is great for rapid R&D, typically I use an IPython shell and a VIM terminal as my only editor (VIM tends to exist on all platforms and over the wire and I like being old-skool)
- The IPython/Jupyter Notebook is great for sharing content with colleagues and making a historic document for review, it isn't great as an IDE
- In the IPython Notebook you can add
%qtconsole --style=linuxfor unix colouring) and it'll open a QTConsole in a new window which shares the same kernel, so you can prototype (and get tooltips and tab completions) in the shell, then copy/paste the useful lines into your Notebook. Plots will work in both the shell and the Notebook - see details for QTconsole
- When plotting you can use
%matplotlib inlineto get static inline plots in the Notebook (as PNGs) or
%matplotlib notebookto get interactive graphics (e.g. tooltips, zooms) but note that each interactive graphic holds a heavyweight object, by default the Notebook limits to 20 (IIRC) plots before it gives you warnings
- Quantopian's QGrid gives an Excel-like interactive grid for Pandas dataframes including sorting and filtering
- IPython at the console (
useful data cleaning tools
- dedupe DataMade's data dedupe and merge process with online learning
- usa address DataMade's process to convert USA unstructured addresses into structured data
- probable people DataMade's process to convert unstructured Western people names into structured data
- parserator DataMade's tool to make probabilistic parsers
- Data Making Guidelines DataMade's guide to a repeatable ETL process
higher performance python
- Numba compiles Python
numpyoperations (particularly for-loops on
numpyarrays) using LLVM, this is a very sane first thing to try
- PyPy works great on non-numpy code, if you have pure-Python CPU-bound code then definitely try PyPY
multiprocessinglets you parallelise stuff on a single machine
- don't be in a rush to go to a cluster-solution (e.g. Spark) unless you really need it, it is fine to rent an Amazon EC2 machine with 32 cores for a couple of dollars an hour using
multiprocessingand the exact same code will run on your laptop which eases your dev/debug cycle
- Robert's line_profiler is my go-to profiling tool for speed issues
- Fabian's memory_profiler is my go-to tool for memory-based profiling
- High Performance Python - my book covers a lot of this stuff
- Numba compiles Python
Building data teams
- "The Emerging Role of Data Scientists on Software Development Teams" by Microsoft Research categorises how different team-types might work and how career progression might work
The business side of delivering data science products
- "Delivering Value Throughout the Analytical Process" by Jon Sedar gives a nice overview of how to talk whilst wearing your business hat
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Dean Valley has two arenas which are available for hire by non-livery clients – a 60m x 60m all weather Andrews Bowen Ltd waxed sand outdoor floodlit arena and a 35m x 25m Andrews Bowen Ltd waxed sand indoor arena.
The use of a selection of jumping poles, blocks and wings is included in the indoor arena booking fee. Additionally the indoor arena has a viewing gallery where spectators can watch without being in the way.
During the summer, a full course of show jumps is set out in the outdoor arena.
Throughout the year Tony French provides Show Jumping Training every Tuesday. Chris Smith provides Show Jumping Training every Wednesday. Flat work lessons are provided by the Dean Valley staff on many evenings.
Additional adhoc clinics and training will be advertised in the Events calendar.


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Press Release, FOJ, 11.03.2014
Perinçek: Switzerland requests referral to Grand Chamber
Keywords: Human rights | Administration of justice | Discrimination
The European Convention on Human Rights provides for referral to the Grand Chamber in cases including those which raise a serious question affecting the interpretation or application of the Convention. In the present case, Switzerland's primary interest is in clarifying the scope available to the domestic authorities in applying the criminal anti-racism provision laid down in the Swiss Criminal Code (Art. 261bis CC). Switzerland created this penal provision, which entered into force on 1 January 1995, to close loopholes in criminal law and enable the country to accede to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
On 9 March 2007, Turkish national Doğu Perinçek was sentenced in Canton Vaud to both a financial penalty and a criminal fine under Art. 261bis CC for denying the Armenian Genocide. The Cantonal Court of Canton Vaud and the Federal Supreme Court both rejected appeals against the judgment. In its ruling of 17 December 2013, the competent chamber of the European Court of Human Rights determined that the Swiss courts' rulings violated the appellant's right to freedom of expression.
Further information
For the complete documentation see the pages in German, French or Italian.
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Choosing who you want to photograph your proposal, engagement, and your wedding is a huge deal. For the rest of your life, these images are ones that you are going to frequently look at and share with others around you. That being said, I hope that you feel as confident in my abilities as I do when you decide to choose a professional photographer. You will never receive images less than stunning, captivating, or authentic when you choose Abby Stockton Photography. I can't wait to assure you of my promises as we begin working together.
I am thrilled to offer proposal and engagement photography, wedding videography and photography, and well as newborn and pregnancy photo shoots, family photos, senior portraits, and more.
I am most often found in the Denver area as a photographer for weddings and events, but will happily travel to the nearby cities and throughout Colorado for your special day or photo shoot!
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Sustainable procurement
The council invited all suppliers and potential suppliers to a Sustainable procurement event on 9 April 2014. The event was a chance to hear about the council's sustainable procurement requirements, and to learn more about the programmes and accreditations available to help businesses meet the requirements.
View the media release.
View information on the presenters and stallholders and the FAQ.
View presenters' slides:
- Adding Sustainable Value
- Business Sustainability 101
- Dori Media
- Enviro-Mark Solutions Ltd with Office Max
- Fulton Hogan
- Improvement Direct
- Waikato Regional Council
See our better business page for Waikato specific guides.
Tenders and expressions of interest
Find out about any contracted services up for public tender on our public notices and tenders page.
The Waikato Regional Council has two primary methods of buying goods and services - purchase orders, and purchasing cards (pcards). Occasionally staff may use petty cash. Unless specific arrangements have been made, and confirmed in writing, payment to suppliers will only be made if one of these methods has been used.
Purchase orders
A purchase order is used to authorise the procurement of goods or services with a unique identifying number. The purchase order number should be quoted on all correspondence regarding those goods or services, including the invoice.
A purchase order is also used for goods or service procurement that fall under individually negotiated contracts or agreements. These purchase orders will be valid for a specific period of time, or a total number of dollars for a specified period of time, and will be related to a formal contract.
Download Waikato Regional Council's purchase order terms and conditions for goods and services below:
Terms and Conditions for the Provision of Goods
Terms and Conditions for the Provision of Services (170kb)
If a formal written contract is in place, the terms and conditions of that contract will take precedence over the purchase order terms and conditions. However, the purchase order number should always be quoted.
Any invoices which do not quote a purchase order number, or do not match the purchase order or agreed contract payment, value, quantity or detail may not be authorised for payment and may be returned to the supplier for correction.
Purchasing card (pcard)
A pcard is issued to Waikato Regional Council staff who have a need for buying low value goods or services. It is used in the same way as any other credit card except it must only be used only for the purchase of goods and services for Waikato Regional Council.
Generally, pcards will be used to purchase low value items from suppliers who are not likely to be used frequently. Typically these purchases are for less than $500, but may be up to $2,000.
If you have any questions or comments regarding procurement from the Waikato Regional Council, please email email@example.com.


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B.S. Degree in Forestry from The Ohio State University, 2006.
12 years
Timber Sales, Timber Appraisal, Timber Management Plans, Multiple Use Plans, Tree Planting, Timber Inventory, Timber Tax Assistance, and Timber Litigation.
Indiana Forestry and Woodland Owners Association, Ohio Forestry Association.
Liability and Workers Compensation Insurance.
One full-time forester and one forestry tech.
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In human society, important factors are the common feelings and skills to communicate and build friendships. This common feeling often means common sense. A seminary professor in the Catholic Times begins his article in View from the Ark with these words on 'Rationality of Common Sense and Reason, and the Art of Consensus'.
Presently in society, we see much that doesn't make sense. Parents abandon their children so they can live alone, children kill their parents for failure to help them, using friendship to deceive another, lovers who fall out of love threaten and kill, blacklisting people with whom you don't agree to secretly push them out of society, buying people with money to do your will. These things, of course, have always been present in society, the mass media, the social network, and the smartphones have possibly just made it easier to access what is happening.
It's important to remember that much that determines common sense is not rational but public opinion, manipulated statistics and news and gossip. We have different ideologies pushed, refusal to dialogue, unconditionally criticizing others irrationally, makes a society that's not interested in common sense.
The German philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, emphasized that when we work searching for consensus and freed from ideologies we have a community that allows free discussion and rational dialogue. He believes that when you have an honest dialogue between persons who are equal and trust each other consensus can be reached without this thinking we have only violence.
Last year, society's common sense and through reasonable examination of the hidden long-standing irregularities and inconsistencies a change took place. "Righteous anger" was expressed peacefully as we learned the truth that was disguised and concealed. Coming up against the lies of long-held power we experienced what true freedom, justice, and peace were. Habermas's common sense and rational dialogue help us in the first step to solve the problems present with different opinions and values with constant dialogue and discussion.
According to the Samsung Economic Research Institute, Korea spends 27% of GDP per capita on conflict cost. Conflict is a part of every society but efforts are necessary to resolve them and they are not attained overnight. They must begin with the individual person. It begins in the family, the attitude of the parents and the children. Listen carefully to each other and from where each is coming. We learn perseverance, respect, and skills of persuasion, and learn to communicate to coexist.
The Church needs the same skills. For the Christian, this should be more vital and important. If we as a Church are not open to dialogue, communication, fellowship, and common sense it's a sign we will have problems in dealing with some long-standing evils.This is what Martin Luther was speaking about 500 years ago through the Reformation for renewal something we need to remember.


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All packages are sent within a reasonable time 2 to 5 working days ( usually sent the same day) and are well packaged to prevent any possibility of transport.
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Canada: 3 to 5 business days
United States: 4 to 8 business days
Europe: 4 to 14 business days
All Princesse & Dragon shipments are made through Canada Post. In order to ensure the quality of our service and ensure the safe delivery of your purchase, all shipments are insured and have a tracking number that will be emailed to you as soon as the package is shipped. Conditions beyond our control (bad weather, strikes, customs, etc.) can lead to delays. All our shipments are made by a postal package in a packaging guaranteeing a perfect protection of the contents. Customs fees may apply at your expense for outside the country.
The products are sent in standard package format, so they will be delivered to your mailbox. If you are not present at the time of delivery, Canada Post will leave a delivery notice indicating to which post office you can pick it up. Delivery times are not guaranteed, Princesse & Dragon disclaims any liability for delay in receiving the package. Please, contact us if you notice a delay.
If your scarf is damaged, contact us as soon as it is received. We will find the best arrangement for the situation.
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The question: What is agnosticism?
I'm frequently staggered by how much I don't know. Awesome moments of ignorance-insight strike (often, curiously, in the bath) like mini-flashes of lightning, catapulting me out of a habitual mode of mind that fixates on the tiny speck of planet where, for a few brief years, I seem to have been planted. Why is there something rather than nothing? I don't know. How does consciousness manifest in a material body? I don't know. Are there limits to the universe(s) and if so, what is beyond them? I don't know. Are we merely characters in a computer simulation created by brighter minds? I don't know. As the 13th century zen master Dogen succinctly and pointedly asked: "What is it that thus comes?" I don't know.
Yet these flashes come not in the form of questions and answers, or any other form of reasoning or language. They just come, unbidden, wordlessly and shockingly, usually lasting just a second or two, sometimes prompting a reflexive laugh or startled exhalation of breath, my mind suddenly empty of culturally-ingrained concepts that for most of the time keep it tightly constricted. For an instant, the fact that I am here but don't know how or why seems at the same time hilarious, achingly sad, and utterly wonderful. My heart feels warm, light, connected.
I ... don't ... know ... (aaahhh!)
Then conceptual mind whirrs into gear again, and I start busily thinking about breakfast, work, love, or why there is something rather than nothing, only using language and logic this time – a wholly different and unsatisfying experience – less mystical, more mystifying.
Buddhism (and especially zen) can seem like a form of agnosticism. But there is a subtle and important distinction between agnosticism as it is usually meant ("appropriate intellectual reserve in the face of the big questions" says Nick Spencer) and the "don't know" mind of zen. Cultivating the state of not-knowing through practices such as zazen (sitting meditation) is a radical, experiential approach that undercuts the rational brain, so prone to tie itself up in concepts that lead to intellectual dead-ends. Linguistic attempts to get at the ultimate truth are sometimes described as fingers pointing at the moon – useful, but not to be mistaken for the moon itself, whose magical beauty can only ever be apprehended directly.
Agnostic (and indeed atheists) examine the evidence in front of them, and conclude that there is no material evidence for the non-material (strange, that!). The non-theistic meditator turns his or her focus on the perceiver as well as the perceived, and tends to discover, over time, that the mind which views the evidence is not quite so solid as once thought. As neuroscientist and zen practitioner James Austin describes in his new book Selfless Insight, meditation demonstrably changes brain functioning so that the world is literally perceived more openly, and from a less ego-fixated viewpoint. When the mind that sees "the evidence" is shown not to be reliable, "the evidence" itself comes to seem less of a gold-standard for determining what is, and what isn't, real. In their determination to rely on what's in front of their eyes, many rationalists seem not to contemplate the biases of mind that might be influencing their (and all our) perceptions.
That is not to say that the rational mind is bad (perhaps one day science will tell us everything about how and why our world exists – here's hoping!), or that the flashes of insight which can come about through meditation necessarily tell us anything conclusive about the predicament of life in which we find ourselves. To elevate the mystical above the rational would be to fall towards the extreme of theism, which is just as short-sighted as getting so blinkered by materialism that we fail to see the incredible wonder in our everyday experience (a dull, unimaginative and uninspired state of mind that Ken Wilber calls "Flatland").
We neither need an anthropomorphic, external, creator God, nor to close ourselves off from the spectacular majesty of existence that presents itself when we stop thinking so damned hard about it. Is this agnosticism? I don't know.


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Dubai Miracle Garden which is the world's largest natural flower garden is all set to delight visitors when it reopens this winter on 27th November, 2016. Located in Al Barsha South, Miracle Garden which has attracted more than 1.5 million guests last year will display its breathtaking array of flowers- all 60 million of them- in addition to unveiling a dramatic new floral display in association with Emirates Airline which will have a huge appeal for visitors.
As a unique destination to see spectacular floral displays showcased in a variety of dramatic sculptures and designs, the Dubai Miracle Garden has carved a special place in the hearts of residents and visitors over the last four years. This year there will be fantastic new floral sculpture which has been conceived in partnership with Emirates Airline details of which will be revealed later this month in line with our constant efforts to give visitors a great incentive to visit the gardens.
This year, Miracle Gardens will also have another new exhibit called "Lost Paradise" which is a underground floral cascade with a depth of 20 ft. There will also be more than 20 food and beverage vendors to choose from for visitors to enjoy a great meal with beautiful views.
Dubai Miracle Garden will be open at 09:00 to 21:00 on weekdays and 09:00 to 23:00 on Friday and Saturdays. Regular admission is Dh 40 per Adult, Dh 30 per child (from 3-12 years). Entry is free for people with disabilities and children 2 years and under.


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Stop making excuses. Create your own reality: Gary Whitehill
December 11, 2013
Gary is a relentless entrepreneur and driven philanthropist with a footprint on four continents; broad experience spanning entrepreneurship, M&A, business turnarounds, and Fortune 50 board directorships. Seasoned in structuring the macro-level dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, Gary has been featured in industry-leading publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Inc. and the New York Times
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Luck is an accumulation of superior effort and focused execution


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16 Small Bathroom Decorating Ideas You will Love
If you have a small home, probably you also have a small bathroom. bathroom should be a place that makes us feel great. You know that the bathroom is an essential part of the home and not a sub. You shouldn't ignore beauty of the of the bathroom space. Taking a few creative risks in the bath is a good thing. Even tough your bathroom layout isn't big, you can still make your bathroom look impressive. So here are some quick small bathroom ideas for decorating.
Small bathroom imposes on us to found a solution to show the bathroom area look large, in this case, it is better to use the selection of light colors and bright decoration. Harmonic decoration between bathroom furniture and designs for the remainder of toilet elements like the ceiling, tiles, and bathtub or showers to complete exquisite bathroom decoration.
Use wall arts in a bathroom to adds charm in the space. This pictures wall in bathroom is a great example of not leaving the bathroom as an afterthought in decorating.
Think about the use of multi-use decorative storage unit to help in saving more space inside the bathroom as well as giving an incredibly gorgeous bathroom decor.
Furthermore, there are so many ways to enhance the interior of your bathroom. We hope the ideas above can greatly help to enhance your bathroom.


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While we generally don't charge for shipping, there is a modest $8.95 handling fee per order. Some orders may be determined to carry additional shipping costs prior to shipment. Particularly, certain heavy or bulk items can have shipping fees added to the order. If that is the case, you will be notified prior to the items being shipped or your credit card being charged. If you have any questions regarding this policy please call (1-800-856-4292).
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