#dpc has a question

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Okay. I have crocheted 728 unique pokemon at this point and each of them is an absolute banger piece of art, so it's hard to narrow down which ones to copy to a specific "portfolio" of sorts. Also for many of them there are multiple pictures in terms of type of picture like FOTH (fresh off the hook / just made, me holding them in my hand for scale) or pokeamidex (pokemon posed with a background), and different angles.

I have very few people I would talk about this project with irl, but recently I mentioned it to a professional tailor and ofc she was genuinely interested in it and asked to see pictures. Fortunately I had just taken a bunch of nicer looking pokeamidex photos and had a good bunch she could scroll through. Unfortunately the first thing she saw because it was the thumbnail for my gallery's pkmn folder was. This:

Foth photo of Impidimp. Which multiple people have reacted to (understandably, lol) with "scary" "HES SO SCARY LOOKING" "straight out of a hyperrealistic creepypasta" and "WHY DOES HE HAVE HUMAN EYES". And it made me realize that perhaps I should have a separate folder of especially cool crochet pokemon. But due to the aforementioned numerous crochets I've made and my own personal biases about their awesomeness, it's hard to curate a smaller set of them.

So! This is mostly for fun/my own curiosity: Are there specific crochet pokemon or photos of them that you thought were particularly memorable or striking? What made it special?

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[govindhtech]

Intel’s oneAPI 2024 Kernel_Compiler Feature Improves LLVM

Kernel_Compiler

The kernel_compiler, which was first released as an experimental feature in the fully SYCL2020 compliant Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ compiler 2024.1 is one of the new features. Here’s another illustration of how Intel advances the development of LLVM and SYCL standards. With the help of this extension, OpenCL C strings can be compiled at runtime into kernels that can be used on a device.

For offloading target hardware-specific SYCL kernels, it is provided in addition to the more popular modes of Ahead-of-Time (AOT), SYCL runtime, and directed runtime compilation.

Generally speaking, the kernel_compiler extension ought to be saved for last!

Nonetheless, there might be some very intriguing justifications for leveraging this new extension to create SYCL Kernels from OpenCL C or SPIR-V code stubs.

Let’s take a brief overview of the many late- and early-compile choices that SYCL offers before getting into the specifics and explaining why there are typically though not always better techniques.

Three Different Types of Compilation 

The ability to offload computational work to kernels running on another compute device that may be installed on the machine, such as a GPU or an FPGA, is what SYCL offers your application. Are there thousands of numbers you need to figure out? Forward it to the GPU!

Power and performance are made possible by this, but it also raises more questions:

Which device are you planning to target? In the future, will that change?

Could it be more efficient if it were customized to parameters that only the running program would know, or do you know the complete domain parameter value for that kernel execution? SYCL offers a number of choices to answer those queries:

Ahead-of-Time (AoT) Compile: This process involves compiling your kernels to machine code concurrently with the compilation of your application.

SYCL Runtime Compilation: This method compiles the kernel while your application is executing and it is being used.

With directed runtime compilation, you can set up your application to generate a kernel whenever you’d want.

Let’s examine each one of these:

1. Ahead of Time (AoT) Compile

You can also precompile the kernels at the same time as you compile your application. All you have to do is specify which devices you would like the kernels to be compiled for. All you need to do is pass them to the compiler with the -fsycl-targets flag. Completed! Now that the kernels have been compiled, your application will use those binaries.

AoT compilation has the advantage of being easy to grasp and familiar to C++ programmers. Furthermore, it is the only choice for certain devices such as FPGAs and some GPUs.

An additional benefit is that your kernel can be loaded, given to the device, and executed without the runtime stopping to compile it or halt it.

Although they are not covered in this blog post, there are many more choices available to you for controlling AoT compilation. For additional information, see this section on compiler and runtime design or the -fsycl-targets article in Intel’s GitHub LLVM User Manual.

SPIR-V

2. SYCL Runtime Compilation (via SPIR-V) 

If no target devices are supplied or perhaps if an application with precompiled kernels is executed on a machine with target devices that differ from what was requested, this is SYCL default mode.

SYCL automatically compiles your kernel C++ code to SPIR-V (Standard Portable Intermediate form), an intermediate form. When the SPIR-V kernel is initially required, it is first saved within your program and then sent to the driver of the target device that is encountered. The SPIR-V kernel is then converted to machine code for that device by the device driver.

The default runtime compilation has the following two main benefits:

First of all, you don’t have to worry about the precise target device that your kernel will operate on beforehand. It will run as long as there is one.

Second, if a GPU driver has been updated to improve performance, your application will benefit from it when your kernel runs on that GPU using the new driver, saving you the trouble of recompiling it.

However, keep in mind that there can be a minor cost in contrast to AoT because your application will need to compile from SPIR-V to machine code when it first delivers the kernel to the device. However, this usually takes place outside of the key performance route, before parallel_for loops the kernel.

In actuality, this compilation time is minimal, and runtime compilation offers more flexibility than the alternative. SYCL may also cache compiled kernels in between app calls, which further eliminates any expenses. See kernel programming cache and environment variables for additional information on caching.

However, if you prefer the flexibility of runtime compilation but dislike the default SYCL behavior, continue reading!

3. Directed Runtime Compilation (via kernel_bundles) 

You may access and manage the kernels that are bundled with your application using the kernel_bundle class in SYCL, which is a programmatic interface.

Here, the kernel_bundle techniques are noteworthy.build(), compile(), and link(). Without having to wait until the kernel is required, these let you, the app author, decide precisely when and how a kernel might be constructed.

Additional details regarding kernel_bundles are provided in the SYCL 2020 specification and in a controlling compilation example.

Specialization Constants 

Assume for the moment that you are creating a kernel that manipulates an input image’s numerous pixels. Your kernel must use a replacement to replace the pixels that match a specific key color. You are aware that if the key color and replacement color were constants instead of parameter variables, the kernel might operate more quickly. However, there is no way to know what those color values might be when you are creating your program. Perhaps they rely on calculations or user input.

Specialization constants are relevant in this situation.

The name refers to the constants in your kernel that you will specialize in at runtime prior to the kernel being compiled at runtime. Your application can set the key and replacement colors using specialization constants, which the device driver subsequently compiles as constants into the kernel’s code. There are significant performance benefits for kernels that can take advantage of this.

The Last Resort – the kernel_compiler 

All of the choices that as a discussed thus far work well together. However, you can choose from a very wide range of settings, including directed compilation, caching, specialization constants, AoT compilation, and the usual SYCL compile-at-runtime behavior.

Using specialization constants to make your program performant or having it choose a specific kernel at runtime are simple processes. However, that might not be sufficient. Perhaps all your software needs to do is create a kernel from scratch.

Here is some source code to help illustrate this. Intel made an effort to compose it in a way that makes sense from top to bottom.

When is It Beneficial to Use kernel_compiler? 

Some SYCL users already have extensive kernel libraries in SPIR-V or OpenCL C. For those, the kernel_compiler is a very helpful extension that enables them to use those libraries rather than a last-resort tool.

Download the Compiler 

Download the most recent version of the Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler, which incorporates the kernel_compiler experimental functionality, if you haven’t already. Purchase it separately for Windows or Linux, via well-known package managers only for Linux, or as a component of the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit 2024.

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[echojulietfoxtrot]

I believe so and I've submitted a 1500 word complaint to the DPC here on that basis.

For a start, defaulting to "Opt Out" protections makes it impossible for all affected Data Subjects to give their "Free and Informed Consent", but there are also obvious issues regarding their obligations to Purpose Limitation and Transparency, and more.

Potentially, the complaint falls down on whether the data relayed across falls into the "personal" categories, but I can't see how at least some of it wouldn't. And that's before even getting into the reports that Tumblr has already forwarded material without even this lip service consent, and the fact there's a question mark over exactly what that was.

Check this out:

(if you didn't know, I'm probably the last to know as usual)

it's ridiculous that we have to scroll down to the "blog settings" and check this box to not get our art stolen by this shit "ai", and if it wasn't for my friend warning me I'd never even known.

I got no notification or update in privacy warning from tumbler... should be also illegal in Europe now right?

[thetoxicgamer]

ATF departs Quest Dota 2 after ‘unacceptable’ contract offer days before Riyadh Masters

After contract negotiations with loaned Nigma Galaxy offlaner Ammar "ATF" Al-Assaf on July 15 fell through, Quest Esports was left searching for a replacement player just days before the Dota 2 Riyadh Masters. Early in the morning, Quest delivered the startling revelation and thanked both ATF and Nigma for the player's assistance. ATF played a significant role in Quest's top-four result in the Bali Major a fortnight ago as well as their victory over Team Secret ME in the qualifier for the Riyadh Masters. At the time of writing, NAVI player Abdimalik “Malik” Sailau has been listed as ATF’s replacement for the tournament according to Liquipedia, but without an official announcement confirming his addition, it remains unclear whether this will be the case for the July 19 tournament. Quest also mentioned that, despite their “best efforts,” a negotiation over the player’s continued contract with the squad was unable to be resolved, meaning ATF will return to Nigma and likely be riding the bench ahead of 2023’s version of The International in October. https://twitter.com/questesports_/status/1680184196021485568 The situation took a turn just hours after Quest’s announcement, with ATF himself revealing Quest offered him a full-time contract as his loan period ended after the Bali Major, but it was “not acceptable” for him. “The Quest org don’t want to extend the loan for there own reasons, they offered me a contract that I don’t agree on,” said ATF, adding that Quest offered the Jordanian an ultimatum: sign the new contract, or miss out on Riyadh. ATF felt hurt at being forced to make the decision, calling it “sad” that Quest would rather recruit a stand-in than extend Nigma’s loan to include the Riyadh Masters since he helped Quest qualify for the event. He also added Nigma did their best to help with an attempt at extending the loan or a possible buyout. As the Dota community went into a frenzy over the sudden decision, Nigma Galaxy issued their own statement, saying it was best for ATF to compete at Riyadh and for TI qualifiers in late July and was hoping on reaching a resolution with Quest. However, no such agreement was made. “Unfortunately, Quest decided not to continue the path of the loan,” wrapped Nigma, noting that they rightfully could not influence what another organization could commit to in regard to player contracts. Nigma only wanted the best for ATF, according to their statement, even going so far as to play against him and Quest in the Riyadh Masters qualifier. Nigma would ultimately fall to Quest and Team Secret ME, missing the tournament. Quest responded hours later with a Twitter thread responding to Nigma and ATF’s statement at length. The organization said its mission has always been to “build a team based on respect, hard work, and shared goals,” and that a renegotiation of the previously agreed-upon loan was out of the question. https://twitter.com/questesports_/status/1680328595422556160 Quest said they had stuck to the terms of the contract all the way throughout, while “others” wanted to renegotiate these terms days before the Riyadh Masters. Quest added that ATF had asked for a new agreement to continue through the TI period, which would see the loaned player represent Quest at TI should the team qualify. “Our team’s commitment goes beyond personal and financial gain—it’s about the love for the game and shared success, and anyone who joins us must share this vision,” finalized Quest. It’s an ugly end for the partnership between ATF and Quest, with the squad just barely missing out on qualifying for TI. Had they earned enough Dota Pro Circuit points to receive an invite to Seattle, it may have been enough of a caveat to extend the loan to prevent the loss of DPC points. As it stands, Quest will take to the server in Riyadh without ATF this week, while the Jordanian remains benched from Nigma Galaxy in the interim. Both Quest and Nigma will be forced to battle it out for a spot at the TI regional qualifiers in late July, as neither squad secured a top 12 DPC spot. Read the full article

[newsnigeria]

Obafemi Awolowo Speaks on His Relationship with the Ibos: An excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983.👇🏽👇🏽

CIVIL WAR Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal Military Government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being painted in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feel embittered? Awolowo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. Whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo and there’s no campaigning for elections, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but ….Ojukwu is irredeemable, so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you. I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point? I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betides those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly. That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as Pisces, in Latin Pisces means Fish. So I put Pisces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matters. And then on top of it, I wrote Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but……………… Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the school…… started in Urhoboland, in the Mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level, and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..” ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..” ah these Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became a blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the 'Eebu' has become honor, the abuse became honor. And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaigns, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call 'Homo Mortuus' - dead living, 'oku eniyan', that’s what they are, those whose lives have gone. So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so 'Eebudola' is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos. During the war, I saw to it that the revenue which was due to Iboland - South Eastern states they call it, at that time. East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….were librated I handed over the money to them - millions of pounds. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the Executive Council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time, the subvention would not be approved. After all, there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 pounds almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course - South Eastern State, North Central State, Kwara and so on. But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds (£3,500,000.00) to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts and officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view: you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Federal Commissioner for Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the Ministry of Economic Planning in planning for the rehabilitation of the war-affected areas. TWENTY POUNDS POLICY That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course, I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’ books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their savings books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up. I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central Bank and the pertinent officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then made some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approved, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war. And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there. STARVATION POLICY Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu, and Port Harcourt, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things that I knew that you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, but when I write reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories, and so on. I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses - Air force dress, Army dress, and so on, and went to the war-torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never returned from the place. But I went. But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we were sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red Cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happened was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, it's only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor. You won't hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, or a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor. None of their children either, so they waylaid the food, they ambushed the vehicles and took the food to their friends and their collaborators, and their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process, the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer the most. CHANGE OF CURRENCY And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu from taking the money which his soldiers had stolen from our Central Bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central Bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms. So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told to the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now Governor of Cross River, Attah, and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any Commissioner at the time says that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and the starvation of his soldiers also defeated him. These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who wasn't well-fed? But he had been taking the food which we sent to civilians, and so we stopped the food. ABANDONED PROPERTY And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds in rent which has been kept for him. All his rent was collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds. So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies. Omoba Bisi Odukoya Via Ayekooto Read the full article

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[tofufei]

to elaborate...

- Ayato's skill has normal ICD so he's not applying enough hydro for Xiangling to vape her hits consistently. Added to that, both Ayato and Xiangling have very high ER requirements in the team so you can't invest as many subs into offensive stats. Kazuha also cannot double swirl. Nothing that makes vape good works with Ayato. Pls stop suggesting Ayato vape. That's his only!! bad team, I don't know why people keep suggesting it. Play him in literally anything else. Soup, taser, hyperbloom, mono hydro, even as a bloom or freeze bot he's better!! I'm on my knees.

- DW/GD is almost never resin efficient to farm and I am sick of people saying that it is. Unless you're playing spread Nahida who does want good DW subs, basically noone cares about DW subs. All you need is the 4DW set effect and you'll have a full set relatively quickly. Afterwards, you have basically no reason to stay in that domain anymore as noone has 4GD as their uncontested BiS set. Characters who want 4GD (Alhaitham, Yae Miko, Tighnari, Cyno) have 2pc/2pc or alternative options that are basically as good as 4GD even assuming same substat quality bc you don't get full uptime on 4GD! Chances are, your 2pc/2pc sets have even better subs and you get them passively from other sources. 4WT is just as good for Tighnari. For many, further DW pieces are just as useless as DPC pieces, so if you're building a hyperbloom character, FOPL is *right there*. No reason not to farm it unless you lucked out and already got an onset GD EM goblet/circlet. Stop believing the lie that 4GD pieces are universally good!!!! They're not. "Ohh but if 4GD isn't good, the 2pc can still be used!" Yes but also no. Do you know what other 2pc set has EM? FOPL and WT ffs

- Characters relying on their bursts feel ass to play in overworld. Even if your Xiangling has Bennett and enough ER subs, she feels terrible in overworld!! Look me in the eye and tell me you, spiral abyss clearer, enjoy Xiangling in overworld. So stop suggesting to new players that they should definitely build Xiangling when they don’t have Bennett and don't have the artifacts for enough ER. They're not doing spiral abyss, they're not even halfway through the main story.

- Conversely, stop discouraging people from pulling for Wanderer...?? They didn’t ask about spiral abyss. Most of the content happens in overworld. You spend more time a day travelling to the spot where the daily commissions take place than you spend actually doing the commissions.

- Wanderer optimal combo debate is insane. People who have never looked at his motion values just keep parrotting one specific Youtuber or each other. After he made another video where he probably revised his statement, people are finally coming around and saying that N2C is his most universal combo. Everyone is so eager to point out to other people who're not yet enlightened that actually N2C is generally better than CA spam. What they're forgetting is the context. If the question is "are there every any cases where CA spam is better than NA spam or N2C" then the answer is yes! In situations where your CAs can hit multiple enemies but your NAs cannot. I am answering a question about specific cases!!!!!! Do Not Cite the Deep Magic to me. I have been advocating AGAINST CA spam and for N2C since fucking December 2022 where you didn't even know what a N2C even was😭 And if we're going to be all smartass about this then ackshually you should play N3N2D or N2CN2D bc did you know that dash combos are actually a DPS gain even at c0? I know your beloved youtuber said it is always a DPS loss but He's Wrong.

i need to be less into genshin impact. i have so many strong opinions on irrelevant stuff💀

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Why do people think crocheting amigurumi is complicated? Obviously I'm biased because it's all I do, but if anything I think it should be the easiest kind of thing to crochet? It's all just single crochet stitches, a few chains maybe, some sewing. Even the magic ring is just some single crochets on overlapped yarn. What's supposed to be the hard part?

[yvetteheiser]

Yvette Heiser-Taking Prints at academy events – Where common sense comes into play

The preface of the General Data Protection Regulation( GDPR) has touched off a significant shift in people's perception of data protection, and organizations across all types of sectors are contending with different challenges in terms of icing they're balancing their interests with the rights of individuality around their particular data.

Yvette Heiser an expert photographer shares his views on  academic event photography .The DPC frequently receives queries from seminaries, parents, and indeed shutterbugs about taking photos at academy events. These events range from musicals and football matches, right up to sports days, holy rapprochement, and award observances. Common questions postdate similar as " Do you need the concurrence of a child's guardian before you can take a print of a child? ", " Do you need concurrence for each separate academy event? ", " Can seminaries ban parents from taking prints at academy events? ", and " Can people take prints of other people's children without the guardian's authorization " The expression " Because of GDPR " is also trending of late, and this environment appears to be no different when we hear effects similar as seminaries saying " We can publish a print of a pupil but we can't name them because of GDPR " or parents saying " I can't take a print of my child in the  play because of GDPR ", pressing the real sense of confusion girding this issue.

Back to basics

Before we claw into the academy- and child-specific environment, let's go back to basics for a moment. As Commissioner for Data Protection Helen Dixon stated in a recent interview with the Irish Independent, there's nothing under the GDPR proscribing people from taking prints in a public place. Handed you're not draining anyone, taking photos of people in public is generally allowed. Still, whether you can publish a snap to broad- grounded follower ship is a different question. In other words, taking a print in public is generally fine; it's what you do with that print that can potentially come to a data protection issue.

Family and musketeers taking prints at academy events

Academy plays, rugby matches, Christmas hymn musicales – all important mileposts that parents, family, and musketeers understandably want to record on camera. But questions similar as “Is it OK if you capture the image of another child while snapping film-land of your own? " face time and time again, leaving parents, and indeed seminaries, at a bit of a loss as to what to do. A lot of the time, families taking prints at this kind of event are simply doing so for reminiscence's sake and they don't intend to post or publish the prints anywhere. This type of exertion falls under the so-called " manage impunity " under the GDPR, which provides that the GDPR doesn't apply when a person processes particular data( for illustration, a snap of someone) in the course of a purely particular or manage exertion ,e.g. with no connection to a professional, business, functionary or marketable exertion.

That being said, the ubiquitous nature of social media means that numerous prints like these will inescapably wind up on some proud parent's Instagram account. And in fact, the GDPR doesn't rigorously enjoin this either, with Recital 18 stating that particular conditioning could include social networking. still, if a parent published a print of their child online that also contained images of other children, and the parent of one of the other children was uncomfortable with this and asked the parent to take the print down, common sense and indeed common courtesy would suggest that you should take the prints carefully.

[govindhtech]

SYCL 2020’s Five New Features For Modern C++ Programmers

SYCL

For accelerator-using C++ programmers, SYCL 2020 is interesting. People enjoyed contributing to the SYCL standard, a book, and the DPC++ open source effort to integrate SYCL into LLVM. The SYCL 2020 standard included some of the favorite new features. These are Intel engineers’ views, not Khronos’.

Khronos allows heterogeneous C++ programming with SYCL. After SYCL 2020 was finalized in late 2020, compiler support increased.

SYCL is argued in several places, including Considering a Heterogeneous Future for C++ and other materials on sycl.tech. How will can allow heterogeneous C++ programming with portability across vendors and architectures? SYCL answers that question.

SYCL 2020 offers interesting new capabilities to be firmly multivendor and multiarchitecture with to community involvement.

The Best Five

A fundamental purpose of SYCL 2020 is to harmonize with ISO C++, which offers two advantages. First, it makes SYCL natural for C++ programmers. Second, it lets SYCL test multivendor, multiarchitecture heterogeneous programming solutions that may influence other C++ libraries and ISO C++.

Changing the base language from C++11 to C++17 allows developers to use class template argument deduction (CTAD) and deduction guides, which necessitated several syntactic changes in SYCL 2020.

Backends allow SYCL to target more hardware by supporting languages/frameworks other than OpenCL.

USM is a pointer-based alternative to SYCL 1.2.1’s buffer/accessor concept.

A “built-in” library in SYCL 2020 accelerates reductions, a frequent programming style.

The group library abstracts cooperative work items, improving application speed and programmer efficiency by aligning with hardware capabilities (independent of vendor).

Atomic references aligned with C++20 std::atomic_ref expand heterogeneous device memory models.

These enhancements make the SYCL ecosystem open, multivendor, and multiarchitecture, allowing C++ writers to fully leverage heterogeneous computing today and in the future.

Backends

With backends, SYCL 2020 allows implementations in languages/frameworks other than OpenCL. Thus, the namespace has been reduced to sycl::, and the SYCL header file has been relocated from to .

These modifications affect SYCL deeply. Although implementations are still free to build atop OpenCL (and many do), generic backends have made SYCL a programming approach that can target more diverse APIs and hardware. SYCL can now “glue” C++ programs to vendor-specific libraries, enabling developers to target several platforms without changing their code.

SYCL 2020 has true openness, cross-architecture, and cross-vendor.

This flexibility allows the open-source DPC++ compiler effort to support NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs by implementing SYCL 2020 in LLVM (clang). SYCL 2020 has true openness, cross-architecture, and cross-vendor.

Unified shared memory

Some devices provide CPU-host memory unified views. This unified shared memory (USM) from SYCL 2020 allows a pointer-based access paradigm instead of the buffer/accessor model from SYCL 1.2.1.

Programming with USM provides two benefits. First, USM provides a single address space across host and device; pointers to USM allocations are consistent and may be provided to kernels as arguments. Porting pointer-based C++ and CUDA programs to SYCL is substantially simplified. Second, USM allows shared allocations to migrate seamlessly between devices, enhancing programmer efficiency and compatibility with C++ containers (e.g., std::vector) and algorithms.

Three USM allocations provide programmers as much or as little data movement control as they want. Device allocations allow programmers full control over application data migration. Host allocations are beneficial when data is seldom utilized and transporting it is not worth the expense or when data exceeds device capacity. Shared allocations are a good compromise that immediately migrate to use, improving performance and efficiency.

Reductions

Other C++ reduction solutions, such as P0075 and the Kokkos and RAJA libraries, influenced SYCL 2020.

The reducer class and reduction function simplify SYCL kernel variable expression using reduction semantics. It also lets implementations use compile-time reduction method specialization for good performance on various manufacturers’ devices.

The famous BabelStream benchmark, published by the University of Bristol, shows how SYCL 2020 reductions increase performance. BabelStream’s basic dot product kernel computes a floating-point total of all kernel work items. The 43-line SYCL 1.2.1 version employs a tree reduction in work-group local memory and asks the user to choose the optimal device work-group size. SYCL 2020 is shorter (20 lines) and more performance portable by leaving algorithm and work-group size to implementation.

Group Library

The work-group abstraction from SYCL 1.2.1 is expanded by a sub-group abstraction and a library of group-based algorithms in SYCL 2020.

Sub_group describes a kernel’s cooperative work pieces running “together,” providing a portable abstraction for various hardware providers. Sub-groups in the DPC++ compiler always map to a key hardware concept SIMD vectorization on Intel architectures, “warps” on NVIDIA architectures, and “wavefronts” on AMD architectures enabling low-level performance optimization for SYCL applications.

In another tight agreement with ISO C++, SYCL 2020 includes group-based algorithms based on C++17: all_of, any_of, none_of, reduce, exclusive_scan, and inclusive_scan. SYCL implementations may use work-group and/or sub-group parallelism to produce finely tailored, cooperative versions of these functions since each algorithm is supported at various scopes.

Atomic references

Atomics improved in C++20 with the ability to encapsulate types in atomic references (std::atomic_ref). This design (sycl::atomic_ref) is extended to enable address spaces and memory scopes in SYCL 2020, creating an atomic reference implementation ready for heterogeneous computing.

SYCL follows ISO C++, and memory scopes were necessary for portable programming without losing speed. Don’t disregard heterogeneous systems’ complicated memory topologies.

Memory models and atomics are complicated, hence SYCL does not need all devices to use the entire C++ memory model to support as many devices as feasible. SYCL offers a wide range of device capabilities, another example of being accessible to all vendors.

Beyond SYCL 2020: Vendor Extensions

SYCL 2020’s capability for multiple backends and hardware has spurred vendor extensions. These extensions allow innovation that provides practical solutions for devices that require it and guides future SYCL standards. Extensions are crucial to standardization, and the DPC++ compiler project’s extensions inspired various elements in this article.

Two new DPC++ compiler features are SYCL 2020 vendor extensions.

Group-local Memory at Kernel Scope

Local accessors in SYCL 1.2.1 allow for group-local memory, which must be specified outside of the kernel and sent as a kernel parameter. This might seem weird for programmers from OpenCL or CUDA, thus has created an extension to specify group-local memory in a kernel function. This improvement makes kernels more self-contained and informs compiler optimizations (where local memory is known at compile-time).

FPGA-Specific Extensions

The DPC++ compiler project supports Intel FPGAs. It seems that the modifications, or something similar, can work with any FPGA suppliers. FPGAs are a significant accelerator sector, and nous believe it pioneering work will shape future SYCL standards along with other vendor extension initiatives.

Have introduced FPGA choices to make buying FPGA hardware or emulation devices easier. The latter allows quick prototyping, which FPGA software writers must consider. FPGA LSU controls allow us to tune load/store operations and request a specific global memory access configuration. Also implemented data placement controls for external memory banks (e.g., DDR channel) to tune FPGA designs via FPGA memory channel. FPGA registers allow major tuning controls for FPGA high-performance pipelining.

Summary

Heterogeneity endures. Many new hardware alternatives focus on performance and performance-per-watt. This trend will need open, multivendor, multiarchitecture programming paradigms like SYCL.

The five new SYCL 2020 features assist provide portability and performance mobility. C++ programmers may maximize heterogeneous computing with SYCL 2020.

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[sparkiekong]

So I got like 2 questions I guess... so morigan can like, make the sea do stuff? And how powerful is she compared to other of your KSU people so like, how would she stack up to say Apex with helenofsimblr for instance?

Hi there. Sorry it took me a bit to get these answered but I had to consult @helenofsimblr as Apex is her creation!

More under the cut and thank you for the ask! Bit longwinded because the questions are not easy as yes or no. The two are very close in physical strength.

So first, can Morrigan make the sea do stuff? The short answer is yes, due to her background (to be revealed later...) she is able to manipulate the sea in a variety of fashions. I can go into more detail, but it would perhaps spoil the story a bit if I gave more detail than that. I applaud your keen eye on seeing that Morrigan's powers are somehow tied to the sea.

Secondly, how does she stack up to Apex? That was a more complex discussion! Helen and I have a document that covers the variety of range of power that characters in the KSU have. We have a sort of hierarchy of power much akin to the MCU's power scale.

Helen says, "Apex is an enhanced super soldier clone. He's fast and his reflexes are honed to the nth degree, but he has no knowledge of DPC or anything martial art. His entire strategy thus far has been to just out muscle everything he's come across and that's worked for him. But what happens when you go up against someone who's as physically as powerful as you, but also deeply trained?" Good question yes? Let's talk about Morrigan now...

Morrigan's lineage is a long powerful line of Mer royalty. She is also currently the only living mer who holds the station of Paragon, which is where many of her sea related powers come from. If you took those powers away, she would still be a capable and deadly fighter, able to use claws, tridents and a variety of martial weapons above and below the sea.

So if we're doing this battle near water, there is no question that Morrigan would win out. Now on land, you might think it to be a different story, but Helen and I agree that Morrigan is still going to win. Morrigan would be packing her trusty trident and a set of very mean claws along with extensive specialized training that she would have since childhood and we think that is why Morrigan would edge Apex out of the winner spot.

Although, I do not think in either situation she would come out of the battle completely unharmed. I am certain she would be feeling it the next day! Apex is no slouch!

Hope that long-winded answer helps out! and @helenofsimblr, please feel free to chime in if you feel the need to!

[civilmanage]

Damp proof course

What is damp proof course?

At the plinth level above the foundation/plinth beam there is a non-absorbent concrete layer, which is called damp proof course (DPC). It has 2.5–4 cm (1–1.75 inches) thick layer. Damp proof course (dpc)is mainly laid on plinth beam at plinth level or floor level.

Why DPC is provided in building? Or what is the purpose of DPC? It is provided to prevent the super structure from the effects of moisture content present in soil.

If the question arise in you mind, why & how ground water or moisture content flow upward to the building (against gravity) if its down to building?

It is because of capillary action. Capillary action is the phenomenon which let the moisture content move spontaneously in any direction through a porous channel.

That’s why through the homogeneity of structure and pores of concrete & bricks moisture content from ground moves upward to the building. To tackle this, we provide D.P.C, further more a plastic transparent sheet over D.P.C.

The sub-structure/foundation is below the ground and can’t be seen, that’s why there aren’t any arrangements provided to prevent the sub-structure from the bad effect of moisture content.

As it has much importance in structure, it is made up with good quality of concrete. Which concrete mix grade is use for DPC? M15 (1:2:4) ratio of concrete mix is used for DPC.

There’s ready made DPC available in the market and there’s many construction material suppliers, who supplies DPC materials.

Bad effects of dampness:

Dampness can rot the wood work inside the building.

It can cause erosion to metals (steel, aluminum bras) used in building.

Softening and crumbling of plaster.

Bubbles appear on wall paints because of dampness, which crumble the the paint and effect the surface.

Floor and mats also effect by by dampness.

It can effect electric wiring, which can cause shot circuit.

Dampness can cause efflorescence on surface of brick, which effect the brick strength.

It cause smell in building and rooms.

Dampness has really bad effect on human health.

Causes of dampness:

Following are the climatic and structural causes by which dampness enters into the structure.

Rain:

Rain is the biggest reason behind the cause of dampness in structure. Some buildings are capable to bear the heavy rain with interval but it wasn’t able to bear the continuous rain for days.

A good constructed walls prevent the dampness to enter, but the joint of walls and brick pores let dampness enter. It can also enter through the slab joints, slab cracks, holes and the joints b/w wall & slab.

Plinth level of building:

Plinth level of building really have interference into dampness acceptance. It can decrease it and increase it as well. A building constructed above the surrounding ground level surface has less dampness effects comparatively.

The rain water will not accumulate near the building walls and will flow the opposite side if the plinth level is above. The below plinth level will have the opposite case and will be affected by dampness.

Drainability of soil:

The ground soil on which structure is built on, the drainability of that soil also have important role in dampness effects. Sandy soil can absorb the water and shed it, in other hand clay withhold the moisture content.

Seasonal effects:

In cold places atmosphere moisture settle down on ground surface. This type of dampness can be seen as dew drops normally, this dampness will have bad affect on structure. This dampness has less affect on hot places.

Moisture entrapped during construction:

Building walls are wet while construction and this moisture stays for really long. If the hard water or salty water were used in construction, the dampness can stays more longer.

Salt in water absorb the moisture content and withhold it. Construction in rainy seasons or cold weather have more possibilities of moisture content, because of no direct sun light will not let the moisture content dried.

Defective material use:

Defective or low quality material also fascinate to accumulate dampness, e.g. porous bricks, soft stones, especially when that used in outer surface of wall. Salty sand also contribute in dampness accumulation.

Defective construction:

A little carelessness between the joints of walls and slab will left the space between, by which rain water can shed inside of building. The space between the frames of windows & vantilations of outer walls can affect.

Moisture originated in building:

Water accumulation on some spaces in building (washroom, kitchen etc) will result into dampness ultimately. The blockage or breakage of sanitary & sewerage pipes can also cause dampness.

Material for damp proof course:

DPC is made up with concrete. The aggregates used in concrete should be less than 12mm (0.5 inch). The aggregates should be pieces of hard stone. It should be washed before using it.

The sand use in it should be coarser and cleaned from organic matters. The average size of sand particles should be 5 mm (3/16 inch). It should be seived before use.

Portland cement is use for DPC making. The water use in it should be clean, having Ph value 6. It shouldn’t have acidity & alkalinity.

Making of damp proof course material:

The proportion of concrete ingredients can be done by volume or by weight. Cement and sand are mixed on water tighten plat form. Put coarse aggregates below, over it put the CS mixture and mix the whole material in dry form.

Then pour the required water quantity, which is almost 45% to weight of cement. Mix it well in wet form. As water proofing agent put 3–5% of padlo w.r.t weight of cement.

Preparation of base for Damp proof course:

Before placing DPC, it is compulsory to prepare the surface of wall. At plinth level the most upper layer should be laid on edge wise, it can be flat but the frog should be downside.

If there is a plinth beam at plinth level then there is no need of laying DPC, but to lay, it is consider better. Upper surface should be clean with steel brush and then wet it well.

Laying of damp proof course:

DPC should be laid according to drawing and laid over equal width of plinth/wall. Straight edge/mould is used to make the edges of DPC plain/straight. Damp proof course is mainly laid on top layer of brick work of foundation or above plinth beam.

Make the surface of DPC plain and compact it. There shouldn’t be any joint in between. After the DPC is laid, make its upper surface rough with the help of steel brush. Rough surface will help to make better joint of masonry.

Curing of damp proof course:

Curing of DPC is done for atleast 7 days. The curing should be start after 12 hours. Masonry work above DPC can be done right after 48 hours but curing will be last for 7 days.

Damp proof course materials:

Following are the materials use to prevent dampness.

Bitumen mastic:

It is also called asphalt mastic. It is a hot non-absorbent mixture of sand and bitumen/asphalt. To prevent the dampness, Use 2.5cm to 5cm thick layer of bitumen mastic. It should be laid in hot form, because a cold form become solid.

Bitumen mats:

Its a 6 mm thick layer, which has width same as wall thickness. It is laid above the plinth/floor level of wall. It is also used for vertically prevention of dampness on walls outer surface.

Hot layer of bitumen:

2 layers of hot bitumen are laid upon the concrete D.P.C. Its average weight should be 1.75 kg/m2. It fills the concrete pores and make it more resistant against dampness.

Metalic sheets:

Steel, copper and aluminum sheets are also used to prevent dampness, but it not economical method. These sheets are wide same as the wall thickness. These sheet are 3mm thick.

Finally use rich cement concrete layer b/w 1.2cm — 4 cm thick and rich cement mortar layer of 2cm thick as damp proof course.

Source: https://civilmanage.com/damp-proof-course

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