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The Master Algorithm. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015. Domingos wrote the book in order to generate interest from people outside the field.

Overview
The book outlines five approaches of machine learning: inductive reasoning, connectionism, evolutionary computation, Bayes' theorem and analogical modelling. The author explains these tribes to the reader by referring to more understandable processes of logic, connections made in the brain, natural selection, probability and similarity judgments. Throughout the book, it is suggested that each different tribe has the potential to contribute to a unifying "master algorithm".

Towards the end of the book the author pictures a "master algorithm" in the near future, where machine learning algorithms asymptotically grow to a perfect understanding of how the world and people in it work. Although the algorithm doesn't yet exist, he briefly reviews his own invention of the Markov logic network.

In the media
In 2016 Bill Gates recommended the book, alongside Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, as one of two books everyone should read to understand AI. In 2018 the book was noted to be on Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's bookshelf.

Reception
A computer science educator stated in Times Higher Education that the examples are clear and accessible. In contrast, The Economist agreed Domingos "does a good job" but complained that he "constantly invents metaphors that grate or confuse". Kirkus Reviews praised the book, stating that "Readers unfamiliar with logic and computer theory will have a difficult time, but those who persist will discover fascinating insights."

A New Scientist review called it "compelling but rather unquestioning".

References

Further reading
 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sum-of-human-knowledge-1442610803
 http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/09/book-master-algorithm-pedro-domingos.html
 http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/08/interview-pedro-domingos-master-algorithm-new-deep-learning.html (interview)

External links 
 

Machine learning
2015 non-fiction books
Computer science books
Algorithms
Philosophy of computer science
Philosophy of artificial intelligence
Basic Books books
Diwakar Vaish. Diwakar Vaish ( ; born 23 July 1992) is an Indian-born robotics researcher and Head of Robotics and Research at A-SET Training and Research Institutes (2010–present). He is the developer of India's first completely indigenous 3D printed humanoid robot (Manav), India's first mind controlled robot, and the world's first production brain controlled wheelchair. Diwakar is the co-creator of the world's cheapest ventilator, with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.

Achievements 
 He is the developer and mind behind Manav (India's first completely indigenous 3D printed humanoid robot)
 He is an alumnus of Sharda University, Noida. He was part of B.Tech. (Computer Science program) from 2010 to 2014. 
 In 2017, Vaish co-created the world's cheapest and smallest ventilator, alongside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The ventilator does not require an artificial oxygen supply and can process atmospheric air. The ventilator, currently in trials, will cost $250 US Dollars.
 In 2016, he developed the world's first production brain-controlled wheelchair, which uses the brain's electrical impulses to command the wheelchair. It has been developed for patients of locked-in syndrome (LIS).
 He is the developer of an unmanned ground vehicle named "Versatile" which has the capability of changing its shape according to the terrain.

See also 
 Brain–computer interface

References

External links 
 

Living people
1992 births
Indian roboticists
People from Delhi
Technique Polytechnic Institute. Technique Polytechnic Institute is a co-educational private diploma engineering college located at Hooghly district in West Bengal, India. It is affiliated to West Bengal State Council of Technical Education and approved by All India Council for Technical Education.

Academics
Technique Polytechnic Institute offers undergraduate diplomas in several streams. It also offers vocational training programmes in several courses. All full-time diploma engineering programs are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.

Facilities
 Library
 Laboratories
 Workshops
 Class Rooms
 Canteen
 Hostel
 Sports

Gallery
 Jelet Rank
 Pictures
 Video
 Video in Bengali

See also

References

External links
Official Website

Private engineering colleges in India
Engineering colleges in West Bengal
Universities and colleges in Hooghly district
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in West Bengal
Chengdu University of Science and Technology. The Chengdu University of Science and Technology () was a national public university from 1952 to 1994 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was merged into Sichuan University in 1993.

Founded in 1952 by a central government-ordered separation from National Sichuan University, the institution was named the Chengdu Engineering College () and affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1978, this institution attained university status and changed its name to the Chengdu University of Science and Technology. In 1993, the university was merged back into Sichuan University.

References 

Universities and colleges established in 1952
Universities and colleges in Chengdu
Sichuan University
1952 establishments in China
Boeing Model 853-21 Quiet Bird. The Boeing Model 853-21 Quiet Bird was a US Army reconnaissance plane study developed by Boeing in the early 1960s from their Model 831. It was an early example of stealth technology, especially electromagnetic low-observability.

Design and development

Development of the Model 853-21 began in 1962 at Boeing Wichita, only a 1/2 scale prototype was produced which never flew, but tests showed that it had a very low radar cross-section (stealth aircraft).

Specifications

See also

References

External links 

Stealth aircraft
1960s United States experimental aircraft
Boeing aircraft
1,4-Dichloro-2-nitrobenzene. 1,4-Dichloro-2-nitrobenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H3Cl2NO2. One of several isomers of dichloronitrobenzene, it is a yellow solid that is insoluble in water.  It is produced by nitration of 1,4-dichlorobenzene.  It is a precursor to many derivatives of commercial interest. Hydrogenation gives 1,4-dichloroaniline.  Nucleophiles displace the chloride adjacent to the nitro group: ammonia gives the aniline derivative, aqueous base gives the phenol derivative, and methoxide gives the anisole derivative.  These compounds are respectively 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline, 4-chloro-2-nitrophenol, and 4-chloro-2-nitroanisole.

References

Nitrobenzene derivatives
Chlorobenzene derivatives
Industrial dashboard. An Industrial Dashboard is a graphical display of manufacturing information via programming. Much like the dashboard in a car, an Industrial Dashboard shows data collected from a multitude of sensors displayed as one quick overview of the general operating situation. The Industrial Dashboard typically involves use of Java Script, Html5, and PHP. 

In the simplest form, an Industrial Dashboard may show just one metric from a manufacturing process. This might start with a count of product produced from a machine. A more complex approach to Industrial Dashboarding would be a series of "drill down" click points - starting with a dashboard screen showing a summary of production for the whole plant. Various points on that screen would be clickable to drill down into more and more dashboard screens until reaching a dashboard of very detailed data on a single machine or Machine Operator Efficiency of a single employee.

There are several hardware technology approaches to retrieving data from the machinery. The science of interfacing industrial machines is widely referred to as Industry4.0 or IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things). Some industry standards such as MTConnect are emerging in an attempt make CNC machine tools produce production data in a uniform format to web servers.

References

Further reading

Lean manufacturing
Imagination Creator. Creator is a family of single-board computers developed by Imagination Technologies to promote educational research and software development based on the MIPS architecture. The first board in the platform, the Creator Ci20, was released in August 2014. A second development kit called Creator Ci40 was introduced through a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015.

Hardware

Creator Ci20 
The Creator Ci20 board is based on an Ingenic JZ4780 mobile-class application processor, which contains a dual-core 1.2 GHz MIPS32 CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit, coupled with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. This processor supports MXU, a 32-bit SIMD extension. In addition, the board provides:

 8 GB of flash and 1 GB of DDR3 SDRAM memory
 Video playback up to 1080p
 AC97 audio, via 4-pin input/output jack and HDMI connector
 Camera interface – ITU645 controller
 Connectivity – 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
 HDMI output up to 2K resolution
 2 x USB – host and OTG
 14-pin EJTAG connector
 2 x UART, GPIO, SPI, I2C, ADC, expansion headers

Creator Ci40 
The Creator Ci40 board  is based on a cXT200 chip optimized specifically for IoT applications which contains a dual-core, dual-threaded 550 MHz MIPS interAptiv CPU with 32k I&D L1 cache and 512k L2 cache and an IEEE754 Floating Point Unit coupled with an Ensigma C4500 Wi-Fi radio processor. In addition, the board provides:
 512 MB of NAND flash memory and 256 MB DDR3 SDRAM
 1 x micro SD card
 802.11b/g/n/ac 2x2 Wi-Fi, 802.15.4 6LoWPAN dedicated chip, Bluetooth 4.1 (Classic + Smart, respectively)
 Dedicated TPM chip
 1 x RJ45 Ethernet port
 1 x 3.5mm input/output jack, 1 x S/PDIF input/output connector
 32 x GPIO, 2 x mikroBUS i/f, 4 x PWM, 1 x SPI, 2 x UART, 2 x I2C, 5 x ADC, expansion headers, 14-pin EJTAG connector, 9 x indicator LEDs (7 x I/O, 1 x MCU),
 1 x micro USB 2.0 OTG

Software 
All Creator boards support the Creator IoT Framework, an open source software package based on the LWM2M protocol developed by the Open Mobile Alliance.

References 

Computer science education in the United Kingdom
Educational hardware
Linux-based devices
MIPS architecture
Single-board computers
Machine operator efficiency. In lean manufacturing, machine operator efficiency (MOE) is the performance of an employee who operates industrial machinery. The operator's efficiency is measured as the time spent producing product divided by the time the operator is on duty. For example: if an operator is assigned to run a CNC machine tool for seven hours, but they only have four hours' worth of continuous uninterrupted output of workpieces—their MOE rating is 57% (4 divided by 7) for this seven-hour period of time.

There is a similar lean manufacturing KPI called overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). The major difference between OEE and MOE is that the OEE rating is on the machine and the MOE is on the person.

MOE is a measure of operator performance only, regardless of the type of machine or the speed of the machine they are working on. MOE only measures the operator's ability to keep the machine running continuously (load and unload parts faster that the automatic cycle time of the machine). The MOE rating of an operator will travel with them as they moves from one machine to another. This is easily accomplished because the MOE rating is a universal calculation of time and not reliant on the complex OEE calculations of loading, availability, performance, and quality.

Industrial dashboards can be used to display statistics for MOE ratings on each operator. To boost overall profitability for a manufacturing plant, machine operators are sometimes compensated with a salary bonus based on their MOE ratings.

References

Lean manufacturing
Arditi–Ginzburg equations. The Arditi–Ginzburg equations describe ratio-dependent predator–prey dynamics. Where N is the population of a prey species and P that of a predator, the population dynamics are described by the following two equations:

Here f(N) captures any change in the prey population not due to predator activity including inherent birth and death rates. The per capita effect of predators on the prey population (the harvest rate) is modeled by a function g which is a function of the ratio N/P of prey to predators. Predators receive a reproductive payoff, e, for consuming prey, and die at rate u. Making predation pressure a function of the ratio of prey to predators contrasts with the prey-dependent Lotka–Volterra equations, where the per capita effect of predators on the prey population is simply a function of the magnitude of the prey population g(N). Because the number of prey harvested by each predator decreases as predators become more dense, ratio-dependent predation is a way of incorporating predator intraspecific competition for food. Ratio-dependent predation may account for heterogeneity  in large-scale natural systems in which predator efficiency decreases when prey is scarce. The merit of ratio-dependent versus prey-dependent models of predation has been the subject of much controversy, especially between the biologists Lev R. Ginzburg and Peter A. Abrams. Ginzburg purports that ratio-dependent models more accurately depict predator-prey interactions while Abrams maintains that these models make unwarranted complicating assumptions. A later review critically examines the claims made about ratio-dependent predation to find that the added value of the  ratio-dependent predation models is unclear and concludes that "As empirical evidence is often lacking on both functional responses and the importance of functional responses for population dynamics, there is no need to strongly favor one limit model over the others."  

A recent ecology undergraduate textbook devotes about equal space to Lotka-Volterra and Arditi-Ginzburg equations.
Neither prey-dependent nor ratio-dependent models can claim universal accuracy but the issue is to identify which is least wrong.

See also
 Lotka–Volterra equation
 Population dynamics

References

Predation
Ordinary differential equations
Population models
Mathematical modeling
Community ecology
2,5-Dichloroaniline. 2,5-Dichloroaniline is an organic compound with the formula C6H3Cl2NH2. One of six isomers of dichloroaniline, it is a colorless solid that is insoluble in water.  It is produced by hydrogenation of 1,4-dichloro-2-nitrobenzene.  It is a precursor to dyes and pigments, e.g., Pigment Yellow 10.

References

Anilines
Chlorobenzene derivatives
PilotsEYE.tv. PilotsEYE.tv is a German documentary series that provides unprecedented access to the cockpits of commercial aircraft. The series, produced by AignerMEDIA (AME) GmbH under the direction of Thomas Aigner, won the WorldMediaFestival "intermedia-globe" award in 2009. Using up to 14 HD cameras and eight microphones, the series captures the work of airline pilots during actual flights, offering viewers an authentic cockpit experience.

Content

Each episode documents a complete flight, from pre-flight preparations through landing, combining technical aspects with human elements. Viewers experience detailed procedures including refueling calculations, push back operations, takeoff, cruise flight highlights, and landing approaches. The pilots provide real-time commentary explaining their decision-making processes, aircraft systems, and sharing personal insights about their profession.

The series features various aircraft types, including the Airbus A380, Boeing 777, and other modern commercial aircraft. Episodes often highlight special scenarios such as challenging weather conditions, unique routes, or milestone flights like a pilot's final journey before retirement.

A special feature of the series is its multilingual accessibility, with all episodes available in 27 subtitle languages, making it accessible to a global audience of aviation enthusiasts, travelers, and professional pilots.

List of episodes

References

External links

PilotsEYE.tv Production website
HD-Trailer on YouTube
Backstage on Facebook
Video on demand on Vimeo

Aviation websites
Documentary television series about aviation
2007 web series debuts
German travel websites
Travel web series
Aeronautical Syndicate. The Aeronautical Syndicate Limited (ASL) was one of the earliest aeroplane manufacturers. A British company, it was founded in 1909 by the investor Horatio Barber and engineers William Oke Manning and Howard T. Wright. Initially located in Battersea, London, the business soon relocated to Larkhill on Salisbury Plain. It later moved to the Aeronautical Syndicate Flying School, Hendon. The company closed in 1912.

ASL were most well known as manufacturer of the ASL Valkyrie series of tail-first or canard monoplanes.

Origins
Horatio Barber had made a fortune in Canada when, back in England, he met the friends William Manning and Howard Wright. They were both electrical engineers with, like Barber, a keen interest in aeronautics. In 1909 they formed the Aeronautical Syndicate Limited and Manning was appointed Chief Designer.

They first set up under a railway arch in Battersea, next to the Short Brothers who were another early aeronautical manufacturer. However ASL needed somewhere to fly their machines. They soon moved to a rented site at Durrington Down on Salisbury Plain, a location which would later become known as Lark Hill.

Aircraft production
The first aircraft, the ASL monoplane No.1, was of canard layout with a pusher propeller driven by a  Antoinette V-8 engine. The pilot was Barber's chauffeur, Bertie Woodrow, but it was overweight and failed to fly. It was later sold off and is believed to have crashed on its first real flight.

The ASL monoplane No.2 appeared in the spring of 1910. Also of canard design, it had a  wing-span and was powered by a rear-mounted  Green D.4 engine mounted above the trailing edge of the wing and driving an  diameter two-bladed pusher propeller. The pilot sat immediately in front of the wing's leading edge: in front of him a square-section fuselage of uncovered wire-braced wooden construction carried the  span foreplane, a small rudder and a pair of nosewheels. Woodrow flew it on many test flights, eventually crashing it when the foreplane was experimentally set at too steep an angle.

The third design was named the Valkyrie and first flew in September 1910. It was produced in significant numbers and in several variants, typically powered by a  Gnome Sigma engine.

ASL gained a reputation for the quality of their work and also took on commissions for other clients.

The last of the company's designs to be built was the Viking I. The tailplane stabiliser and front-mounted tractor propeller had by now become established as the conventional layout, while an increasing number of manufacturers were hedging their bets by building both monoplanes and biplanes. The Viking I emerged as a conventional tractor biplane.

Closure
The Viking failed to sell. Due to the lack of any commercial prospects, the company was wound up in April 1912, most of its assets being acquired by Handley Page.

References

Citations

Bibliography
Brown, Timothy C.; Flying with the Larks: The Early Aviation Pioneers of Lark Hill, Spellmount (History Press), 2013.

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
1,3-Dichlorobenzene. 1,3-Dichlorobenzene (also known as meta-dichlorobenzene) is an aryl chloride and isomer of dichlorobenzene with the formula C6H4Cl2. It is the least common of the three isomers of dichlorobenzene, and it is a colorless liquid that is insoluble in water.  It is produced as a minor byproduct of the chlorination of benzene, but can also be prepared in a directed manner by the Sandmeyer reaction of 3-chloroaniline.  It also arises from the isomerization of the other dichlorobenzenes at high temperature.

Hazards
This chemical is combustible. "Hazardous decomposition products" are carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, chlorine, hydrogen chloride gas. It is toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects.

References

Chlorobenzenes
Darwin River Dam. The Darwin River Dam is in Australia's Northern Territory on the Darwin River. The water catchment it contains is the major source for the city of Darwin.

The dam can hold up to 259,000 megalitres of water () which is half the volume in Sydney Harbour or eleven times bigger than the Manton Dam.

The Darwin River Dam is an embankment-type dam. It is ungated with no spillway regulation possible. The dam relies on the annual wet season to be replenished. Toward the end of this season, the dam sometimes overflows. Most years spilling occurs, and is considered normal. Depending on rainfall amounts, this overflow can last from days to weeks.

The water in this dam is considered to be one of the most pristine on Earth. In order to preserve this quality, the catchment and reservoir policy prohibits recreational use with substantial penalties imposed for trespassing. Also, there is no Cabomba, an aquatic weed genus that can affect water quality.

The dam was formally opened by William McMahon (Prime Minister at the time) on 29 June 1972. The cost of construction was $9 million.

See also
 Irrigation in Australia
 List of dams and reservoirs in Australia

References

External links
 
Information about current water levels in the Darwin River Dam catchment

Dams in the Northern Territory
Dams completed in 1972
1972 establishments in Australia
Darwin, Northern Territory
Rajagopalan Vasudevan. Rajagopalan Vasudevan, is an Indian scientist who has worked mainly in waste management. He is currently a professor in Thiagarajar College of Engineering.  He developed an innovative method to reuse plastic waste to construct better, more durable and very cost-effective roads. He thought up the idea of shredding plastic waste, mixing it with bitumen and using the polymerized mix in road construction. This method will help in making roads much faster and also will save environment from dangerous plastic waste. He also visited Mahatma schools on 15 April 2008. The roads also show greater resistance to damages caused by heavy rains. His road construction method is now widely used to construct roads in rural India. He was awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour Padma Shri in 2018.

Career 
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree and M.Sc degree from the Madras University in 1965 and 1967 respectively. He also earned his Ph.D from the same university in 1974. Later in 1975, he joined Thiagarajar College of Engineering as Lecturer and became Professor in 1998.

Research 
His research mainly deals with waste management specifically use of waste plastics for road and building constructions.

References

External links 
 Thiagarajan, Kamala "The man who paves India's roads with old plastic" – The Guardian, 9 July 2018

Living people
University of Madras alumni
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Indian chemists
Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
21st-century Indian chemists