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ZIP60: Further Explorations in the Evolutionary Design of Trader Agents and Online Auction-Market Mechanisms
No full textThe “ZIP” adaptive automated trading algorithm has been demonstrated to outperform human traders in experimental studies of continuous double auction (CDA) markets populated by mixtures of human and “software robot” traders. Previous papers have shown that values of the eight parameters governing behavior of ZIP traders can be automatically optimized using a genetic algorithm (GA), and that markets populated by GA-optimized traders perform better than those populated by ZIP traders with manually-set parameter values. This paper introduces a more sophisticated version of the ZIP algorithm, called “ZIP60”, which requires the values of 60 parameters to be set correctly. ZIP60 is shown here to produce significantly better results in comparison to the original ZIP algorithm (called “ZIP8” hereafter) when a GA is used to search the 60-dimensional parameter space. It is also demonstrated here that this works best when the GA itself has control over the dimensionality of the search-space, allowing evolution to guide the expansion of the search-space up from 8 parameters to 60 via intermediate steps. Principal component analysis of the best evolved ZIP60 parameter-sets establishes that no ZIP8 solutions are embedded in the 60-dimensional space. Moreover, some of the results and analysis presented here cast doubt on previously-published ZIP8 results concerning the evolution of new ‘hybrid’ auction mechanisms that appeared to be improvements on the CDA: it now seems likely that those results were actually consequences of the relative lack of sophistication in the original ZIP8 algorithm, because “hybrid” mechanisms occur much less frequently when ZIP60s are used
ANALISIS STRATEGI PERANG DALAM FILM RED CLIFF DAN RED CLIFF 2 MENGGUNAKAN STRATEGI PERANG SUN TZU
No full textANALISIS STRATEGI PERANG DALAM FILM RED CLIFF DAN RED CLIFF 2 MENGGUNAKAN STRATEGI PERANG SUN TZU
Charles Kingsford Smith with bags of the first official air mail between Australia and England after arrival at Croydon Airport, Queensland, 1931 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from caption list.; Part of the: Collection of aviation, coastal and social life scenes, 1920-1965.; Inscription from typed label printed lower right.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4931230; Purchased from Bruce Postle, 2010. "Interested spectators gather around the Avro X after arriving at Croydon airport with the first official Australia-England air mail of some 50,000 letters. Kingsford Smith and G.U. Allen picked up the mail from the Southern Sun, which crashed in Malaya. This leg of the journey, Malaya to Croydon, took 13 days. Kingsford Smith is pictured with bags of the mail"--Information from acquisitions documentation
Assessing ice-cliff backwasting and its contribution to total ablation of debris-covered Miage glacier, Mont Blanc massif, Italy
No full textContinuous surface debris cover strongly reduces the ablation of glaciers, but high melt rates may occur at ice cliffs that are too steep to hold debris. This study assesses the contribution of ice-cliff backwasting to total ablation of Miage glacier, Mont Blanc massif, Italy, in 2010 and 2011, based on field measurements, physical melt models and mapping of ice cliffs using a high-resolution (1 m) digital elevation model (DEM). Short-term model calculations closely match the measured melt rates. A model sensitivity analysis indicates that the effects of cliff slope and albedo are more important for ablation than enhanced longwave incidence from sun-warmed debris or reduced turbulent fluxes at sheltered cliff bases. Analysis of the DEM indicates that ice cliffs account for at most 1.3\% of the 1 m pixels in the glacier's debris-covered zone, but application of a distributed model indicates that ice cliffs account for 7.4\% of total ablation. We conclude that ice cliffs make an important contribution to the ablation of debris-covered glaciers, even when their spatial extent is very small
Cliff House Hotel: Tasting Menu 4th of September, 2014.
No full textThe Cliff House Hotel is a five-star, privately owned luxury hotel located close to Cork and Waterford. The building seems to cling to a cliff on the south side of Ardmore Bay where there has long been a fishing village, and a Christian settlement that pre-dates St. Patrick.
From sun-drenched terraces and private balconies it is possible to see Ardmore’s sands, lobster pots and dolphins that play out on the water. All our luxury rooms and suites are sea facing while many are interconnected to provide family-friendly configurations.
From this dramatic coastal location in Ireland’s gourmet heartland guests can enjoy some of the country’s best restaurants - including a Michelin-starred House Restaurant from Martijn Kajuiter. There is also a bar with an outdoor terrace for summer dining.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/menus21c/1090/thumbnail.jp
Cliff House Hotel: Dinner Menu 5th of September, 2014.
No full textThe Cliff House Hotel is a five-star, privately owned luxury hotel located close to Cork and Waterford. The building seems to cling to a cliff on the south side of Ardmore Bay where there has long been a fishing village, and a Christian settlement that pre-dates St. Patrick.
From sun-drenched terraces and private balconies it is possible to see Ardmore’s sands, lobster pots and dolphins that play out on the water. All our luxury rooms and suites are sea facing while many are interconnected to provide family-friendly configurations.
From this dramatic coastal location in Ireland’s gourmet heartland guests can enjoy some of the country’s best restaurants - including a Michelin-starred House Restaurant from Martijn Kajuiter. There is also a bar with an outdoor terrace for summer dining.
See hotel website here.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/menus21c/1089/thumbnail.jp
Cliff House Hotel: Dessert Menu 5th of September, 2014.
No full textThe Cliff House Hotel is a five-star, privately owned luxury hotel located close to Cork and Waterford. The building seems to cling to a cliff on the south side of Ardmore Bay where there has long been a fishing village, and a Christian settlement that pre-dates St. Patrick.
From sun-drenched terraces and private balconies it is possible to see Ardmore’s sands, lobster pots and dolphins that play out on the water. All our luxury rooms and suites are sea facing while many are interconnected to provide family-friendly configurations.
From this dramatic coastal location in Ireland’s gourmet heartland guests can enjoy some of the country’s best restaurants - including a Michelin-starred House Restaurant from Martijn Kajuiter. There is also have a bar with an outdoor terrace for summer dining.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/menus21c/1091/thumbnail.jp
hpDJ: An automated DJ with floorshow feedback
No full textMany radio stations and nightclubs employ Disk-Jockeys (DJs) to provide a continuous uninterrupted stream or “mix” of dance music, built from a sequence of individual song-tracks. In the last decade, commercial pre-recorded compilation CDs of DJ mixes have become a growth market. DJs exercise skill in deciding an appropriate sequence of tracks and in mixing 'seamlessly' from one track to the next. Online access to large-scale archives of digitized music via automated music information retrieval systems offers users the possibility of discovering many songs they like, but the majority of consumers are unlikely to want to learn the DJ skills of sequencing and mixing. This paper describes hpDJ, an automatic method by which compilations of dance-music can be sequenced and seamlessly mixed by computer, with minimal user involvement. The user may specify a selection of tracks, and may give a qualitative indication of the type of mix required. The resultant mix can be presented as a continuous single digital audio file, whether for burning to CD, or for play-out from a personal playback device such as an iPod, or for play-out to rooms full of dancers in a nightclub. Results from an early version of this system have been tested on an audience of patrons in a London nightclub, with very favourable results. Subsequent to that experiment, we designed technologies which allow the hpDJ system to monitor the responses of crowds of dancers/listeners, so that hpDJ can dynamically react to those responses from the crowd. The initial intention was that hpDJ would monitor the crowd’s reaction to the song-track currently being played, and use that response to guide its selection of subsequent song-tracks tracks in the mix. In that version, it’s assumed that all the song-tracks existed in some archive or library of pre-recorded files. However, once reliable crowd-monitoring technology is available, it becomes possible to use the crowd-response data to dynamically “remix” existing song-tracks (i.e, alter the track in some way, tailoring it to the response of the crowd) and even to dynamically “compose” new song-tracks suited to that crowd. Thus, the music played by hpDJ to any particular crowd of listeners on any particular night becomes a direct function of that particular crowd’s particular responses on that particular night. On a different night, the same crowd of people might react in a different way, leading hpDJ to create different music. Thus, the music composed and played by hpDJ could be viewed as an “emergent” property of the dynamic interaction between the computer system and the crowd, and the crowd could then be viewed as having collectively collaborated on composing the music that was played on that night. This en masse collective composition raises some interesting legal issues regarding the ownership of the composition (i.e.: who, exactly, is the author of the work?), but revenue-generating businesses can nevertheless plausibly be built from such technologies
Cattle Standing Below Cliff
No full textGroup of cattle standing under a cliff.
First of five prints in small album
Letter from Cliff [Uyeda] to Michi Weglyn, July 20, 1987
No full textA letter from "Cliff" [Clifford I. Uyeda] to Michi Weglyn criticizing the 1987 book "They Call Me Moses Masaoka" by Mike Masaoka and Bill Hosokawa. The author of the letter also describes internal conflict on the national board of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
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