ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
I am the Development Director of the Art Museum and I am currently planning a capital campaign. Not so long ago I was informed that there is a person whom I could include into my donor opportunities list for my future campaign. This person is an older gentleman, the CFO and a shareholder in a large international corporation, Mr. Stayquiet. He seems to be rather generous since he recently pledged $750000 for church building fund. The pledge was done anonymously, so technically I am not supposed to know about it. This might raise doubts concerning whether or not I should approach him as a potential donor for my museum. Yet, in my opinion, the situation does not seem that delicate. First of all, if Mr. Stayquiet really wanted to stay anonymous, his pledge would be done without the fundraisers knowing where the money came from. Instead, one of the fundraisers, who also happens to be my spouse, ended up sharing the information about the pledge with me. This way, it seems like Mr. Stayquiet did not really try to disguise his persona. To my mind, it does not matter where I learnt the information about this gentleman – from my spouse, from a colleague, or just waiting in line at Starbucks. The fact is that potentially this person is a donor for my museum and I do not see any particular reason why I should not approach him. I know his name, I am aware about his workplace, his fondness of fine arts, and his ability to pledge. This is a good enough basis for me to conduct a focused research, look up this man in the Internet, collect more information about him, his schedule, maybe even his personality. This would provide me with advantage designing the most successful ways of approaching him and capturing his attention. Of course, talking to Mr. Stayquiet I should never mention that I know about his pledge for the church building fund, but the fact that me and him belong to the same congregation could be rather helpful. In my opinion, approaching Mr. Stayquiet equals to dealing with any other potential donor since it does not always happen that funders come up to the raisers and offer gifts. Besides, the research of a donor takes place in one hundred per cent of cases. I am absolutely convinced that I should approach Mr. Stayquiet and encourage him to start working with our museum. In fact, I believe that sharing the same church and his interest in fine arts make him an excellent candidate for donor opportunities list. I believe that approaching this particular funder would most likely result in a great success. In conclusion, even though I obtained the information about Mr. Stayquiet by accident, I am going to include him into the donor opportunities list for the Art Museum. The facts I know about this man make him a likely future funder for the museum, and in my opinion, an opportunity like this should not be wasted. Of course, I should not tell Mr. Stayquiet who was my initial source of information about him was as it would be unethical and tactless. Besides, it is obvious that this information could have been acquired from anywhere since Mr. Stayquiet seems like a rather well-known gentleman who does not hide his social status and position.
From the period of our ancestors, man has been consistent in trying to improve the quality of his life (Burges 28). Such a direction has led to the development of basic tool forms; which were used by our ancestors for performing basic tasks such as digging and cutting (Burges 28). At this early stage, man was still utilizing a lot of physical energy while operating the early forms of machines that he had developed. With the discovery of other forms of energy like electricity and fuel energy, a stage was set for the development of a new generation of machines that required a very limited input of human energy (Burges 28). However, at this stage, there was still a wide scale monitoring of machine processes by man. To reduce the role of man in machine processes, a generation of automated machines was born. The main purpose of automation has been to reduce the role of man (mental and physical participation of man) in machine processes. A limitation of human participation in machine processes has been implemented through the incorporation of self monitoring mechanisms in machine systems. In this direction, there has been a need to develop machines that have human like aspects for the purposes of self learning and control. The field of “learning machines” has therefore been growing considerably in the past two decades. Such machines are capable of utilizing circumstances that they have encountered in the past to improve on their future efficiency (Burges 28). As it will be seen in this paper, such a system has numerous benefits that cannot be overlooked by machine designers. An important direction that has emerged in the design of learning machines is the aspect of multi-view learning. In multi-view learning, It is possible for a machine to view (understand) an input in a multi-dimensional manner (Burges 28). With the development of system management frameworks that utilize relational databases, some scientists have suggested the combination of multi-view learning with relational database for the purpose of increasing the capabilities of machine learning. In this literature review, a range of developments in the field of machine learning and multi-view learning in relational databases has been considered. Machine learning can be understood as the process in which machines improve their capacities to function more effectively and efficiently in the future (Nisson 4). Such machines are therefore able to adjust their software programs and their general structure for the purposes of improving on their future performance (Winder 74). Such changes in the program and structure of machines are catalyzed by the environment in which the machines operate (Nisson 5). Machine learning is therefore an imitation of human intelligence where machines acquire some form of learning from their environment (Nisson 5). The environment of learning consists of a machine input, or a piece of information that
Introduction Current education system of the United States undergoes several problematic issues which provide a delay for the educational process. The community of the US professors and teachers is amazed with the fact that in the era of high technologies and higher demands of time and society the level of the education even in the most authoritative educational establishments is lower than expected. Such phenomenon is not surprising while stating that most of the professors or teachers are likely intended to grade their students according to personal preferences and division of a class into those who are in favor and those who are outside. On the other hand, students do not pay much attention to education as it is. Furthermore, the real losses of the American nation may fall into slow but stable degradation of the further generation and nation as a result. The reality of today’s campuses is far from being excellent. The structure of the paper touches upon three standpoints for the critical evaluation of the current situation with education in the US. The paper researches the story by Tom Wolfe I am Charlotte Simmons and the article Grade Inflation: It’s Time to Face the Facts by Harvey C. Mansfield, which from different sides promote an assertion that the higher requirements for would-be specialists can be achieved in higher standards of education and personal motivation within students and professors inside and outside educational establishments. Students’ life In the example of the story by Tom Wolfe appears a logical statement that the reality of present day students in terms of their life in the campus is rather diverse. Education is considered to be the major goal of student life. There should be primordial stimuli for education. Parents, first of all, should make children aware of the perspectives which education can give. Such an idea determines the framework for youth in terms of suggested privileges and facilities in future. This is not just spending time in vain during classes. It is a place where time and conditions as well as inoccupation with possible work redound to the fulfillment of the knowledge background in theoretical and practical approaches. The thing is that there is a lack of motivation within modern students. Positive motivation to study and succeed is almost trite within them. There are too many types of leisure activities which students are involved in. This objective provides a paradox. It is outlined with the fact that with many opportunities to learn (materials, database, high technologies, great support of the government with appropriate help etc.) students’ life is not concerned with education, first of all. Wolfe’s story describes such situation in Charlotte’s initial desire to study contraste
Company Background Dell Technologies is a US-based company specializing in digital transformation through the provision of focused and customized IT infrastructure and solutions. Through the successful merger with EMC, the company has been able to create highly stratified IT solutions through its subdivisions such as Virtustream, VMware Inc., Clients Solution Group Boomi Inc., and RSA Information Security (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2018). Among the notable focused technology solutions include all-flash arrays, data centers, hyper-converged infrastructure, and hybrid cloud among others. The company has embraced innovation in the product and service charter. Among the notable products or services designed, developed, manufactured, and sold by Dell Technologies are categorized into VMware, client solutions, and infrastructure solutions. The client solution products include personal computers, branded peripherals, notebooks, projectors, and monitors among others. These products are designed and manufactured by the company. The second category of product charter is the infrastructure solutions offering information storage in the form of big data and cloud solutions through its Virtustream (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2018). The last category of product or service charter is VMware, which provides networking, mobility, cloud, compute, and security-related infrastructure software to different businesses. For instance, the vSphere, vSAN, vRealize, and VMware Cloud are successful product lines. All the products and services sold by the company are produced or created internally. Company Sales, Inventory, and Accounts Receivable From 2015 to 2018, sales have steadily increased for Dell as evident by rising net revenue from $54,142,000 to $78,660,000 in the three years (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2018). The rising sales could be attributed to expanded markets, increased product ranges, and a diverse market approach. For instance, in the last three years, Dell has introduced or modified more than ten different product lines to increase its market presence. The inventory has also steadily increased in the last three years from $8,901,000 in 2016 to $23,387,000 in 2018 (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2018). The rise in inventory could be attributed to the increasing cost of doing business associated with a company dependent on new technology. Moreover, the global economic swings have increased inflation, which translates to the high cost of running a business. Lastly, the account receivable has also experienced positive growth of about 10% annually for the last three years. The increase in accounts receivable could be associated with the benefits of Dell’s expansionary business strategies rolled out in 2015 and product diversification. In addition, the company’s 2016 operational efficiency streamlining strategies seem to be paying off (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2018). The sales, accounts receivable, and inventory is positively related, that is an increas
Crash (2005), directed and co-produced/written by Canadian-born filmmaker Paul Haggis, is one of many films to tackle the issue of race/racism. Race is defined as the categorization of humans into groups/ populations based on visible physical characteristic traits – skin color, facial features, hair texture, etc. – and self-identification. Does the concept of race/racial grouping and racism have its roots in social constructs/customs or biological make-up? Anthropologist/sociologist, Pierre L. van den Berghe infers that “ race is a group that is socially defined but on the basis of physical criteria .” The entire infrastructure of people’s culture (political, economic, artistic, educational institutions, etc.) is interwoven with personal impressions, ideas, emotions, and prejudices. The visual/fine arts realm is no exception. The extent of cinema’s popularity, influence, and proliferation have been phenomenal. Technological expediency made it an unequaled facet of the arts and entertainment in the 20 th century. American-Armenian author, William Saroyan once stated “ Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society’s porous face .” Like Syriana, Traffic, and Babel, to name a few, Crash examines the complicity and complexity of race in contemporary America via the use of hyperlink cinema, a film style that uses multiple inter-connected storylines and characters. These multiple characters and storylines intersect indirectly and subtly – affecting one another in such a way that the characters do not fully understand and are often unaware. With Los Angeles as the backdrop, the film traverses across a 36 hour time period in which multi-ethnic characters are emotionally compounded and affected yet brought together by volatile violence via shootings, car collisions, and carjacking. Racial tensions and tolerance is examined and depicted through their interactions as well as how distant people can be in general. The distinguished ensemble cast includes Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dill, Ryan Phillipe, Larenz Tate, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Terrance Howard, Thandie Newton, Jennifer Esposito, Bahar Soomekh, and Shaun Toub. The crash is an introspective passion piece for Paul Haggis with the inspirational impetus rooted in a real-life incident that occurred in 1991 when two young men carjacked his Porsche outside a Wilshire Boulevard video store. Two approaches to racism are explored in Crash – open racism and ambiguous racism. The perceptions/actions of Officer John Ryan (Matt Dillon) and Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock) are indicative of the former whereas those of District Attorney Rick Cabot (Brendon Fraser) and Officer Tommy Hansen (Ryan Phillipe) exemplify the latter. We witness Officer Ryan’s hatred against minorities via his interactions with Cameron and Christine Thayer (Terrance Howard and Thandie Newton) and Shaniqua, the insurance agency manager (Lorreta Devine)
The second chapter of Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics” is devoted to the vocabulary of comics and all that the reader perceives when looking at the inscriptions in illustrated publications and what he concludes. The author gives some examples of pictures and introduces the term “icon,” which helps him to denote any illustrations of places, objects, or ideas. He also pays attention to the concepts of abstraction and realism, due to which a reader can perceive various graphic images in comics differently and draw conclusions based on what they see. McCloud suggests the idea of simplifying drawings when a human brain equally recognizes more complicated and simpler pictures (cartoons). These cartooning are viewed as a form of amplification, which is achieved through maximum simplification. The idea of self-centeredness, when any person can see a human face in the objects that surround him or her, is rather interesting. The author also introduces the concept of a mask, where he talks about the fact that any person’s face is nothing more than a mask that obeys the commands of the brain and that is perceived by other people differently than by its owner. McCloud claims that all human feelings are subordinated to the world around, and when it comes to images, realism serves as a way to portray the outer world and a cartoon – the internal one. In the author’s opinion, comic book artists use a concentration technique when a drawing method of realism is used to transfer details, and, to emphasize the general plan, inanimate objects are depicted as simply as possible. This chapter mentions the Japanese masking effect, which for a long time remained a favorite feature of the comics of this country. The article ends with a picture plane that shows the relationship between the person’s perception of reality and the language by which he or she expresses this or that idea or image.
Introduction The main problem facing most people when it comes to writing is procrastination. Doing the assignments at the last-minute causes people to rush things, and therefore making many mistakes. As a result, one believes that he is not a good writer. Like most people, I believe that there are people who were born good at something, and in this case, there were born writers. This mentality may keep other people from learning to be good writers, but I believe that the struggle to achieve good results is not much of a burden. In writing my research paper, i had to come up with strategies to make sure that I completed it in time, and that it was satisfactory, according to the instructions provided. I believe that my success was attributed to great planning and organization skills. In addition to this, I took my time to research and obtain the most appropriate resources, before writing my paper. After completion, I proof read the paper, making the necessary grammatical and spelling mistakes (Hyland, 2000). Writing and editing strategies Planning Every assignment issued requires a certain amount of time, which is determined by the lecturer. The most important thing after viewing an assignment and looking at the time frame to complete it is planning. One aspect of planning involves the development of an outline that helps to organize the research paper. The outline was very important as it helped me to stay focused on the objectives of the paper, without deviating from the main topic. The outline was also helpful in obtaining meaningful resources that reflected on the various sections of the paper (Lester & Lester, 2009). Research This is another vital part of writing a research paper. The research conducted on a particular topic requires one to have great understanding of the topic at hand. Understanding of the topic narrows down the research options, to only those that provide relevant information. In my research, most of the information I used was from online books and journals. With a library card it is possible to access some libraries like Ebscohost and Proquest. Some information was from web sources, but paraphrasing helped to avoid plagiarism (Lester & Lester, 2009). Challenges in preparing the paper Arranging the research paper based on my sources was a challenge, in order to avoid plagiarism. I had to include quotation marks and parenthetical citation for the sources in instances where I copied material. For paraphrased sentences, I included the citations at the end of the sentences, as well as at the end of the paragraphs, since most of the information in the research paper was borrowed (Hyland, 2000). Revising the paper The research paper had three drafts before submitting it. The first one was beneficial in rectifying the structure and organization of the research paper. In reviewing it, I observed the relevance of the material to the thesis statement as well as the ease of understanding the information, when viewed by other parties. I corrected the grammatical errors in the second draft, and used the final one to observe any errors
Energy revolutions and communications revolutions need to occur in combination to lead to an industrial revolution. The communication revolution supports the energy revolution when it is substantially lithe. The first revolution was the Industrial Revolution. It was created with the combination of cheap energy that arose due to technological advances. Steam energy powered machinery and fueled a revolution in communications. There were enough people going through the school institutions in Europe and America to take over jobs and push forward the revolution. The second mentioned revolution was the second Industrial Revolution. It took place after the discovery and development of centralized electricity in combination with the telephone and radio, as well as TV (Wanghorn par. 3). Peak globalization is the attainment of maximum utility from present forms of energy sources, which are mainly fossil fuels. It refers to a situation where there can be no more substantial improvement in supply and utilization of fossil fuels to cause an increase in the level of development around the world and sustain it for decades to come. Fossil fuels are already the main part of the global economy because they facilitate transportation, food, and power buildings. Fossil fuel is not renewable and its shortage causes economic collapse, while its increase causes surges in economic performance (Wanghorn par. 3-5). Climate change is the rise in temperatures caused by an increase in carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere, which ends up causing changes to the hydrological cycle of the earth. The effect leads to the destruction of ecosystems. It is a feature that can wipe out all plant and animal life when left unchecked. It needs the world to half the amount of carbon dioxide that is released to the atmosphere. Climate change is mostly a product of fossil fuel burning to create energy for various sectors of the economy (Wanghorn par. 5). The third Industrial Revolution is the combination of energy decentralization, the use of renewable energy on a mass scale, and relying on the Internet as the main communication channel for personal and business activities. The revolution places the task of energy creation and distribution in the hands of independent small scale and large-scale producers who use renewable sources of energy. This means that entire cities, made up of thousands of households will become the main producers of electricity and other energy forms for consumption in the cities and distribution of the excess energy to other cities or to storage facilities. The Internet, on the other hand, fuels independent production of education and its dissemination to individuals to allow people to take part in economic activities independently, according to their strengths. At its heart, the revolution will ensure technology for the collection and distribution of energy is free like the Internet. The first pillar is the goal of achieving twenty p