HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: quiz@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: the next TARTS dinner
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:32:48 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes:

> 
> There is a nice vegetarian restaurant called The Green Door I like very
> much. It's a by-weight self-served place, and for around $12 you'll
> stuff yourself completely full. The food is excellent, and the variety
> great. How about holding the next meeting up here in freezing cold
> Ottawa? The National Art Gallery has free admission now, and I'm sure
> there are many other attractions in this great city for all to enjoy.

etc....

> 
> And, no, obviously, the rabbit will never be on the menu.
> -- 
>     Michael MY Hui    Ottawa Ontario Canada    ~{~}


   My apologies for confusing you with another Michael MY Hui from Ottawa
Ontario Canada who was asking about planning a dinner in Ottawa.  

     I will strive to be "more careful and accurate next time" so as to not
attribute to you anything which you did not write.  My apologies if I have
disturbed you.


Edward Henley

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  //     //   DataSoft Consulting   quiz@cibbs.UUCP
 //     //   Club InSaNiTy BBS     uunorth!cibbs!quiz
 ==== ====  Toronto, Ont., Canada
Newsgroups: ont.events
From: kennedyl@bnr.ca (Ken Lawrence)
Subject: Celebration of Choice	
Reply-To: kennedyl@bnr.ca (Ken Lawrence)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:54:54 GMT

Third Annual

Celebration of Choice

Ottawa musicians perform at the 
Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC)
910 Gladstone Street(near Preston) - 8:00pm

MONDAY JANUARY 25,  1993

Rebecca Campbell,  Lynn Miles,  Lucky Ron,
Toasted Westerns,  Bob Stark,  Terry Tufts,
and more...

Tickets for this event are available $10(advance)
$12(at door) at
Women's Bookstore,  Octopus Books,  Folklore Centre,
Food for Thought (or call CARAL-Ottawa at (613) 749-5017

A benefit concert for the Canadian Abortion Rights Action
League (CARAL) on the fifth anniversary of the 
Morgentaler Decision

Newsgroups: ont.events
From: Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Reminder: Colloq. Tuesday, January 26, 1992 at 2:00pm
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:55:21 GMT
To: 42131_3665@uwovax.uwo.ca, KIRBY@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA, allcs@csd.uwo.ca,
        brenda@engrg.uwo.ca, creider@csd.uwo.ca, dawes@uwovax.uwo.ca,
        eagleson@uwovax.uwo.ca, elmarag@uwovax.uwo.ca, grads@csd.uwo.ca,
        hugh@engrg.uwo.ca, jjiang@uwovax.uwo.ca, m.kinnucan@uwo.ca,
        marcu@csd.uwo.ca, ont.events@newshost.uwo.ca, tague@uwo.ca,
        undergrads@gaul.csd.uwo.ca, uwo.general@newshost.uwo.ca,
        wy@apmaths.uwo.ca, zakaria@csd.uwo.ca

          Notice the unusual day of the talk
        --------------------------------------

          The University of Western Ontario
            Department of Computer Science

                    COLLOQUIUM

Presenters:  Joseph Potworka
              AIX Technical Workstation Specialist
              IBM Canada Ltd.
             Jim Davey
              AIX Technical Support Specialist
              IBM Canada Ltd.
Title:       AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update
Time:        Tuesday, January 26, 1992, at 2:00pm
Place:       Middlesex College, Room 320
Abstract:

 IBM's RISC System/6000 family of technical workstations continuously
 leads in reliability and price/performance. Recently IBM announced
 new models, more upgrade paths, more supported devices and a strong
 leadership in the 'Open Systems' marketplace. New software products
 announcements lead the way for research and system management areas with
 new enhancements to the IBM AIX XL C ++ compiler, selected Fortran 90
 functions for the XL Fortran Compiler and new products such as UNITREE
 for file server enhancements. This latest set of announcements also
 include the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Base services
 and the Encina Product family as the first vendor with products in
 the distributed computing environment.

 IBM Canada will be providing a presentation/discussion on the latest
 enhancements to the RISC System/6000 product family. The agenda will
 include a brief summary on the latest announcements and an in-depth
 presentation on the OSF DCE strategy. The DCE presentation will include
 base services, the Encina product family and a Transaction Processing
 strategy.
Newsgroups: uw.icr,ont.events,uw.talks,uw.cs.grad
From: sekuler@psych.toronto.edu (Allison Sekuler)
Subject: PERCEPTION/COGNITION
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Distribution: ont
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:34:18 GMT

                           
                  *RESEARCH GROUP IN PERCEPTION*


                        PIERRE JOLICOEUR
                     University of Waterloo


      "ORIENTATION EFFECTS IN VISUAL OBJECT PERCEPTION:
       SPINNING A NEW YARN USING OLD AND NEW FEATURES."


3 pm, Friday, January 29, 1993 
Room 317 of 1 Spadina Crescent,
University of Toronto, St. George Campus.

Abstract:
The time needed to identify objects from two-dimensional depictions
can be affected sharply by the orientation of the depicted object.
The orientation effects have a number of robust characteristics that
will be described in the talk.  In particular I will review studies
that

 * estimated the magnitude of the effect across different stimulus
   materials, 
 * compared the effect magnitudes in identification experiments
   with that in mental rotation experiments,
 * explored the shape of the orientation function for pattern recognition,
 * measured effects of learning and transfer of learning,
 * estimated the orientation of the perceptual frame of reference
   used to perform various tasks.

Recent results from a naming task and a top-bottom discrimination
task based on a large sample of subjects will be summarized
and used to evaluate various claims in extant theories of object
perception.



All are welcome. Donut holes at 3, talk at 3:10.
For more information please contact Allison Sekuler at
978-1537 or sekuler@psych.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: ont.events,uw.talks,uw.cs.grad
From: wlrush@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (wlrush)
Subject: THEORY SEMINAR
Keywords: Paul Vitanyi, CWI/Universiteit van Amsterdam
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:40:32 GMT


DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

THEORY SEMINAR

                    -Wednesday, January 27, 1993

Paul  Vitanyi  (CWI/Universiteit  van  Amsterdam), will
speak "On the Information Distance".

TIME:                11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1304

ABSTRACT

We  investigate  the  notion  of  absolute  information
distance.  It turns out that very differently motivated
proposals  arising  from  the  physics  notion  of both
reversible  (energy-free)  computations  and reversible
computations   coincide.  This  distance  is  also  the
optimal  cognitive distance, improving earlier results.
A    related    distance   measures   the   amount   of
nonreversibility   (minimum  dissipated  energy)  of  a
computation.  This  work  emerged  from  the physics of
energy-free   computation  and  the  quest  in  pattern
recognition for the notion of `picture similarity'. The
mathematical  techniques  involve Kolmogorov complexity
(Algorithmic  Information  Theory).  This is joint work
with Charles Bennett, Peter Gacs, Ming Li, and Wojtiech
Zurek.

Newsgroups: ont.events,uw.talks,uw.cs.grad
From: wlrush@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (wlrush)
Subject: MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION
Keywords: Brian Gratto, graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:39:46 GMT

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION

                    -Monday, January 25, 1993

Brian Gratto, graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo   will  speak  on  "Network  Management  Using
Aggregate Agents to Monitor Subnet Load".

TIME:                2:30-3:30 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1331

ABSTRACT

In  today's  corporate  and  educational  environments,
there  is  an  ever-growing  need  to  provide  network
management for large heterogeneous networks. The Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been proposed as
a  standard  by  the Internet community to perform this
function.  Although SNMP has gained wide acceptance, we
have  identified deficiencies in two areas: scalability
and    manager-to-manager   communication.   The   SNMP
philosophy  of  a  manager  polling  an agent to obtain
information  does not scale well to large networks with
hundreds  of  hosts. In addition, there is no mechanism
for  one  manager to communicate with or make collected
information  available to another manager. We introduce
the  concept  of  the  AGGREGATE  AGENT  to solve these
problems.  The  aggregate  agent  provides  a method of
subdividing  a  large  task  so  it  can  be handled by
multiple managers, allows the imposition of a hierarchy
for  the  flow  of  network information, and supports a
mechanism   for  a  manager  to  make  its  information
available  to  other  managers.  The  talk  focuses  on
illustrating  the aggregate-agent concept by describing
an  implementation  of a network-management application
that   employs    aggregate  agents.  This  application
monitors the average packet load for an arbitrary group
of   subnets.   The   collection  method  used  in  the
application  is  validated  by graphical comparison and
spectral  analysis  relative  to  data  collected  by a
protocol  analyser.  An  experimental  deployment  on a
group of eight subnetworks comprising over 180 hosts is
described  and  the  data  collected  is  presented and
analyzed.


Newsgroups: ont.events
From: johncw@physics.utoronto.ca (Super-User)
Subject: Edward Wright, Thursday 28 January, 1993 : Physics
Originator: root@helios.physics
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:20:30 GMT


                                PHYSICS
                              COLLOQUIUM
                         UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

                      Thursday, January 28, 1993
                         4:10 p.m.  Room 102
                    McLennan Physical Laboratories
                        60 St. George Street

Speaker                 PROFESSOR EDWARD WRIGHT
                        Department of Astronomy
                 University of California, Los Angeles

Topic          "OBSERVING THE EARLY UNIVERSE WITH COBE"

      Detailed studies of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave
background using the COsmic Background Explorer satellite launched in
1989 allow one to study energy release later than 1 year after the Big
Bang.  Studies of the temperature fluctuations around the sky allow one
to see structures as they existed 300,000 years after the Big Bang; but
these structures were formed less than 1 nanosecond after the Big Bang
and provide us with our earliest observed datum about the history of
the Universe.
Newsgroups: ont.events,ont.general
From: bdb@becker.GTS.ORG (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: Reminder: Colloq. Tuesday, January 26, 1992 at 2:00pm
Followup-To: ont.general
Reply-To: news@becker.gts.org
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:05:22 GMT

In article <9301221955.AA25672@no26sun.csd.uwo.ca> Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca> writes:
|          Notice the unusual day of the talk
|        --------------------------------------
|
|          The University of Western Ontario
|            Department of Computer Science
|
|                    COLLOQUIUM
|
|Presenters:  Joseph Potworka
|              AIX Technical Workstation Specialist
|              IBM Canada Ltd.
|             Jim Davey
|              AIX Technical Support Specialist
|              IBM Canada Ltd.
|Title:       AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update
|Time:        Tuesday, January 26, 1992, at 2:00pm
|Place:       Middlesex College, Room 320
|Abstract:
|
| IBM's RISC System/6000 family of technical workstations continuously
| leads in reliability and price/performance. Recently IBM announced
| new models, more upgrade paths, more supported devices and a strong
| leadership in the 'Open Systems' marketplace. New software products
|[...]


	This is an advertisement cloaked very thinly
	in the guise of a seminar announcement.


	As such it has no place in this newsgroup -
	perhaps one of the "biz" groups might have
	been more appropriate (but the way this is
	worded it is hard to decide whether it should
	have been posted at all 8^)


-- 
  ,u,	 Bruce Becker			Toronto, Ontario
a /i/	 Internet: bdb@becker.gts.org	Uucp: ...!web!becker!bdb
 `\o\-e  "...symbolising Excitement and Fun."		
 _< /_		-- Disneyland North investment brochure
Newsgroups: ont.events,uw.talks,uw.cs.grad
From: wlrush@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (wlrush)
Subject: MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION
Keywords: Simon Sivyer Clift, grad student, Dept. Comp. Sci. Univ. Waterloo
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:38:54 GMT


DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION

                    -Thursday, January 28, 19993

Simon Sivyer Clift, graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci.,
Univ.  of Waterloo will speak on "Linear and Non-Linear
Methods    for    the    Incompressible   Navier-Stokes
Equations."

TIME:                4:00-5:00 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1304

ABSTRACT

The  Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous
fluid  flow  in  the  primitive variable form require a
great  deal  of computer time and storage for numerical
solution.   Recent studies have used Newton's method to
solve  the  discretized,  non-linear,  algebraic system
arising  from  these equations.  Either direct methods,
or iterative methods can be used to solve the resulting
linear   systems,   but  iterative  methods  have  been
demonstrated  to  be  faster and generally require less
storage.

A   two-stage   non-linear   method  using  the  slowly
converging,  but  robust ``frozen coefficient'' method,
and  full  Newton iteration, will be demonstrated to be
superior  to  the  use  of  either  method  alone.   An
iterative matrix solution based on CGSTAB acceleration,
and  a  preconditioner  based on the frozen coefficient
matrix   will  be  shown  to  be  efficient,  and  more
effective  than direct methods.  Issues of ordering and
preconditioning will be addressed, and it will be shown
that  completely  general  matrix  methods  can be used
efficiently.

Matrix  ordering, problem domain anisotropy, and finite
volume  cell  anisotropy will be shown to have profound
effects  on  the  efficiency of the solution method.  A
mixed   form  of  non-linear  iteration,  using  Newton
iteration  over  part of the problem domain, and frozen
coefficient iteration over the rest, will be outlined.

The  main  method  to be outlined solves incompressible
fluid  flow  to  arbitrary  precision,  and  has a time
                                                   3/2
complexity   measured  to  be  less  than  the  O(N   )

expected for an iterative method in two dimensions.

This presentation is being held in conjunction with the
Scientific Computation Group.
Newsgroups: ont.events,ut.dcs.seminars,ut.dcs.ai
From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Radford M. Neal, 11 February 1993: AI
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:46:02 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

       -------------------------------------------------------------

                                    AI
                  GB221, at 11:00 a.m., 11 February 1993

                              Radford M. Neal
           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

      " Learning Concepts with Hierarchical Latent Variable Models "

    To make sense of the world, we must learn how to describe the multitude
    of things we sense using concepts that capture the underlying
    structure that is present.  Often, we must do this in an unsupervised
    fashion, without any external guidance as to what concepts are
    appropriate.  Understanding and automating this process are major
    challenges for AI.

    In scientific investigations, exploratory data analysis has a similar
    aim, and has long been tackled using semi-automatic methods.  One
    approach used explains the relationships among a number of independent
    items by postulating unobservable "latent variables", associated with
    each item, that determine the distributions for the observed
    attributes.  The simplest such models employ a single, discrete "latent
    class" variable.  Many of the similarities between individual animals
    can be explained by the concept of a "species", for example.

    I will briefly describe work I have done on Bayesian latent class
    analysis, which includes a radical approach to the vexing problem of
    determining the appropriate number of latent classes.  I also describe
    work on learning more general latent variable models expressed using
    "belief networks", in which an item can be in more than one "class".
    To explain the symptoms of patients in terms of underlying diseases,
    for example, one must allow for the possibility that the patient has
    more than one disease.

    Mostly, however, I will discuss a hierarchical generalization of
    latent class models, in which similarities in the descriptions of
    the various classes are expressed in terms of classes at a higher
    level.  The practice in biology of grouping several species into
    a "genus", several genera into a "family", etc. is an example of
    such a model.  High-level classes can be defined in terms not only
    of concrete similarities, but also on the basis of more abstract
    characteristics, such as which attributes distinguish between the
    low-level classes, and which are irrelevant.  Consequently, rather
    than merely providing a coarser level of interpretation, such a
    high-level class structure can also bias the construction of low-level
    classes in favour of those with a coherent high-level structure.
From: kprastin@lotds.uucp (Ken Rastin)
Newsgroups: ont.test
Followup-To: ont.test
Subject: test
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:57:55 EST
Organization: The Land of The Darkside BBS * (519)/888-9869

test

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Newsgroups: ont.test
From: kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca (Ken Dykes)
Subject: you may ignore me
Organization: Thinkage Ltd.
Distribution: ont
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:35:30 GMT


but you wont...

-- 
   - Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada    [43.47N 80.52W]
         kgdykes@thinkage.on.ca   postmaster@thinkage.com   thinkage!kgdykes
         harley-request@thinkage.on.ca             kgdykes@math.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: rene@yzrnur.uucp (Rene)
Subject: Testing
Organization: Yzrnur Consulting
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:30 GMT

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        =-=  Rene Lampe  (rene@yzrnur - uunet!yzrnur!rene)            =-= 
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        =-= I Know You Believe You Understand What You Think I said.  =-=
        =-= But I'am Not Sure You Realize That What You Heard Is Not  =-=
        =-= What I Meant...                                           =-=
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From: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.ca (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep)
Newsgroups: ont.test
Subject: Re: test posting
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 02:27:54 EST
Organization: Sonic Interzone, Atonal Hoodlum Subversion, TO Ont. 416-966-9906

> I am tired of these test postings. Obviously this newsgroup wasnt
> created to be abused with postings just for the purpose of testing it
> out. I mean, what, are we testing signatures?
> 
> This newsgroup is for discussing usenet TESTS in ontario, obviously.
> Please use it that way.
> 
> :)
> 
> /kc (sticking up for a poor newsgroup, and just a test message, really...)
> 
> Ken Chasse - Sonic Interzone, Toronto Ont. * Inet: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.c
> -----------                                                        ----------
> "Hey! How did I get on this list? I tried control/alt/delete, but I'm still o
>  the list!"   -- '/jordan' from the (legitimate) clueless-users mailing list.


Ken Chasse - Sonic Interzone, Toronto Ont. * Inet: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.ca
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"Hey! How did I get on this list? I tried control/alt/delete, but I'm still on
 the list!"   -- '/jordan' from the (legitimate) clueless-users mailing list.
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: motani@watson.ibm.com
Subject: This is a test
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:06:32 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: motani@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Can I reply to the poster?

________________________________________________________________________________
Muiz Motani
IBM Canada Lab                  motani@vnet.ibm.com
Distributed System Products
From: kprastin@lotds.uucp (Ken Rastin)
Newsgroups: ont.test
Followup-To: ont.test
Subject: Land of the Darkside
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:27:09 EST
Organization: The Land of The Darkside BBS * (519)/888-9869

Test, test :)

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Newsgroups: ont.test
From: carlo@electro.electro.com (Carlo Sgro)
Subject: test
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:40:58 GMT


-- 
Carlo Sgro  is  carlo@electro.com            "Yet another person who never has
or {uunet.ca|watcgl|xenitec}!electro!carlo    had a relationship with Margaret 
System Administrator, Electrohome Ltd.        Trudeau..."
Kitchener, ON, (519)744-7111 x 7209          
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: chris@rubble.uucp (Chris Nitsopoulos)
Subject: Test
Organization: Rubble, Toronto, Ontario
Distribution: ont
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:21:27 GMT

testing

-- 
Chris Nitsopoulos        chris@rubble.uucp    ..!uunet.ca!geac!rubble!chris
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Newsgroups: ont.test
From: ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown)
Subject: test
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:01:54 GMT


testing...1...2...3...4

-- 
Ken Brown                                   internet: kbrown@trentu.ca
Trent University Computing & Telecommunications  tel: (705)748-1540
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8           fax: (705)748-1246 
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