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The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Richard Hakluyt is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . JAMESTOWN The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Richard Hakluyt Chapter XXII. JAMESTOWN With unquenchable hopefulness Raleigh continued his quest for the Lost Colony to the close of Elizabeth’s reign, and abandoned it only when forced to do so by the attainder of James stripping him of his rights and liberty. By Elizabeth’s last year he had fitted out at his own charges five several expeditions solely for this purpose. While during this period, 1589–1603, his marvellous energies had been directed in many channels, he had remitted no efforts for the succour of his colonists. While performing many parts,—courtier, captain of the queen’s guard, statesman, member of parliament, mariner, sea-fighter, explorer, gold seeker,—and with varying fortunes, now falling under the queen’s displeasure, imprisoned in the Tower of London, again restored to her favour, engaged in dazzling adventure, American colonization was ever paramount in his thoughts. A SPANISH GALLEON OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. And how crowded with extraordinary activities by this most versatile of the Elizabethan men these years were, the record of his greater achievements, mostly chronicled in the Principal Navigations, shows. What he had done up to the time of White’s abandonment of the search for the Lost Colony in 1590 we have seen. In 1591 he was the organizer of a fleet for service against Spain’s American possessions, and was appointed second in command under Lord Thomas Howard. But the queen refusing to let him go out, his cousin Sir Richard Grenville was appointed in his place; and with this expedition Sir Richard’s career closed, he being wounded to death when off the Azores, the last of August, in one of the most stubborn and desperate sea-fights of naval history. The next year, 1592, Raleigh promoted the privateering expedition under Frobisher and Burroughs which captured, among other prizes in the West Indies, the “Madre de Dios,” greatest of the Spanish treasure-ships then afloat. It was in this year, in July, that he was disgraced and sent to the Tower, but in October, when the privateers had returned with their rich prize, the queen, who had the largest share in this privateering venture, released him, since he alone could superintend the division of the plunder. In 1593 he matured a plan for a voyage to the “Empire of Guiana” and the fabled “El Dorado,” the “citie of gold,” in the unexplored northwestern part of South America, of which the natives had told Spanish travellers, with mines far excelling those of Peru. In 1594, in accordance with this plan, he sent out a preliminary expedition, under an experienced navigator, Captain Jacob Whiddon, to explore the coast contiguous to the great River Orinoco, and also the river with its tributaries, above which “El Dorado,” or “Manoa” as called by the Indians, was 383supposed to lie. In 1595 he sailed himself for Guiana at the head of a fleet of five ships and a company of one hundred officers, soldiers, and gentlemen adventurers. By a perilous voyage in small boats he succeeded in penetrating the Orinoco far up to the mouth of the Caroni, and the latter river to impassable falls, yet two hundred miles short, as it was reckoned, of the “citie of gold.” Upon his return to England in the summer, with some specimens of ore which he had picked up along the way, and the son of a local king as a pledge of friendship against his next coming, he prepared, maybe with Hakluyt’s assistance, a glowing account of this voyage, embellished with the tales that had been told him of the wonders of the region besides its richness in mines: among them, the “Amazons,” a warlike race of great women, and the “Ewaipanoma,” a headless nation, whose eyes were in their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and who wore “a long train of hair growing backward between the shoulders.” And when this story was printed, under the inviting title, “The Discouerie of the large, rich, and beautifull Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa, which the Spaniards call El Dorado,” it was eagerly read and heightened his reputation. In 1596 he sent out Captain Laurence Keymis, a companion of his first voyage, with two well-equipped ships to renew the exploration of the Orinoco, especially with a view to planting an English colony in the region. Keymis returned in June with a report that confirmed Raleigh’s belief in its great mineral 384wealth. But at this juncture Raleigh was engrossed in a venture nearer home for checkmating Spain’s move of a second “Armada” against England. He was now united with Howard and the Earl of Essex in command of a fleet to attack Cadiz. With the ship “Warspite” he led the van in the great fight of June twenty-one which resulted in the destruction of the fleet intended for the descent upon England, and the capture of the city. Later, the same year, he despatched one of the smaller ships that had been in the Cadiz fight to Guiana, but this voyage had no important result. In 1597 he sailed as second in command with Essex in an expedition to strike another blow against Spain, and this was effectively done with the capture of Fayal. In 1598 his scheme of colonization in the fertile valley of the Orinoco had developed, and he planned to send out a colony. But for some reason not known the enterprise was abandoned. In 1600 he added to his several offices that of Governor of Jersey. In 1602 he despatched his fifth expedition for the relief of the “Virginia” colony. This expedition was put in charge of Captain Samuel Mace, an excellent mariner, who had already made two voyages to “Virginia.” He returned unsuccessful and Raleigh planned to send him out again. Raleigh could not, however, do any more at his personal cost alone. He had now exhausted his own means in the undertaking which, as Hakluyt wrote, “required a prince’s purse to have it thoroughly followed out.” He had renewed his endeavours to bring the privy council into his scheme, but without success. Elizabeth’s end was approaching and her ministers were busy with their personal affairs, manœuvring for their own advancement with her successor on the throne. Notwithstanding his failure to find support his splendid hope for his “Virginia” was not crushed. On the eve of his own downfall, which came swift upon the accession of James, he had written, “I shall yet live to see it an English Nation.” This faith he carried with him to the Tower of London, into which James thrust him in December, 1603, under sentence of death on a trumped-up charge of treason; and while in durance here he saw his cherished hopes realized through Richard Hakluyt’s efforts. In 1605 Hakluyt brought his arguments to bear upon various men of condition, friendly to colonization, to induce them to join in a petition for patents for the establishment of two plantations on the coast of North America. The issue of this petition was James’s charter bearing date of April tenth, 1606, by which the two companies, subsequently designated the London and the Plymouth Companies, were created, between whom were divided in nearly equal parts the vast territory then known as Virginia, stretching from Cape Fear to Halifax, and back a hundred miles inland: the company occupying the southern part to be called the “First Colony of Virginia” and that occupying the northern part, the “Second Colony of Virginia.” Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, and Edward Maria Wingfield, as patentees, were the chief adventurers in the London or South Virginia Company. Ten of the nineteen adventurers styled merchants, remaining in England, at the establishment of the corporation of “The Governour and Assistants of the Citie of Ralegh in Virginia” became subscribers to the South Virginia Company. Sir Thomas Smith, chief among the nineteen merchants, was made their first treasurer. Just a year after the issue of the patent their “First Colony of Virginia,” sailing from England in December, 1606, arrived out at Chesapeake Bay, the region which Ralph Lane had determined as the fitter place than Roanoke for settlement, and in which Raleigh had directed White with the Second—the Lost—Colony to plant, as they would have done had Captain Ferdinando been true to them. And in May, 1607, the permanent settlement here was at last begun as Jamestown. Raleigh was condemned to be executed on the eleventh of December, 1603, but the day before he was reprieved, and he was held a prisoner in the Tower, with this unjust sentence hanging over his head, for thirteen dismal years. During this cruel imprisonment his great talents were occupied in philosophic and literary work, and he wrote out his notable Historie of the World. Meanwhile his statesmanlike interest in the developing American colony continued constant and keen. At one time he sought release for a visit to Virginia, promising to bring the king rich returns therefrom. At length, in 1616, James liberated him for the purpose of making another expedition to Guiana upon his pledge to find the fabulous gold mine or else bear all the expenses of the undertaking. Thus at liberty, while making his preparations for this voyage, he was enabled to see Pocahontas from Virginia, who was in England that year. He sailed on his forlorn hope in June, 1617, with a fleet of fourteen ships and four hundred men, accompanied by his son Walter, and his faithful friend Captain Keymis. The expedition was a tragic failure, for his plans were betrayed to the court at Madrid, through the Spanish ambassador, under whose influence James had fallen, and immediate steps were taken to thwart them. The fleet were attacked by the Spaniards at a new Spanish settlement on the Orinoco, and in the fight that ensued young Raleigh was killed. Sir Walter himself had been detained at Trinidad, sick with a violent fever, and when the report of this disaster with the loss of his beloved son was brought to him, his stout heart was broken. Upon his return to England he was rearrested at the representation of the Spanish ambassador, on a charge of breaking the peace with Spain. Again he was thrust into the Tower. Trial was denied him, and the truculent James, at the behest of the king of Spain, now ordered his execution, finding a legal cover for this judicial murder in the original sentence of 1603. He was brought before the Court of King’s Bench on the twenty-eighth of October, 1618, and the next morning was beheaded on Tower Hill, meeting death with great fortitude. “Prythie, let me see the axe, dost thou think, man, I am afraid of it?” he asked 388of the executioner; “a sharp medicine, but a sound cure for all diseases.” In St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, is the beautiful Raleigh Window, the gift of Americans, with this inscription from the pen of James Russell Lowell: “The New World’s sons, from England’s breasts we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came; Proud of her Past, wherefrom our Present grew, This Window we inscribe with Raleigh’s name.” Hakluyt’s monument is the Hakluyt Society, worthy among historical institutions, in the membership of which Americans are united with Englishmen, founded in England in the first half of the nineteenth century, in a manner to continue Hakluyt’s work through the printing of hitherto unpublished or rare accounts of voyages and travels, so to open an easier way to a branch of knowledge which, as the founders truly say, “yields to none in importance and is superior to most in agreeable variety.” The End About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Richard Hakluyt (2018). The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57917/pg57917-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html .

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The New York Times recently proclaimed It describes Google’s “dread” of interfaces based on the species of artificial intelligence called large language models (LLM), such as ChatGPT, that threaten to displace its dominance in search. . A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business Search proved the key factor in the modern economy, propelling far beyond that of the previous most valuable commodity in the world: oil and gas. the value of data Per the Times: “Over the past three decades, a handful of products like Netscape’s web browser, Google’s search engine and Apple’s iPhone have truly upended the tech industry and made what came before them look like lumbering dinosaurs. “Three weeks ago, made its case to be the industry’s next big disrupter." an experimental chat bot called ChatGPT The prime directive for Silicon Valley, coined by the late Andy Grove (former CEO of Intel), still applies: “ .” Yet… rumors of Google’s death are greatly exaggerated. Only the paranoid survive The purported panic fosters a misunderstanding of how Google operates, why it dominates, and how programs such as GPT3 and ChatGPT operate. #A beginner’s guide to Google’s (and LLMs) inner workings Google has the world’s largest (mega-billion dollar) supercomputer, built out of networked Linux devices and storage devices.  Reuters that Google was going to spend an additional $13B in 2019 just augmenting capacity. It keeps this beast fed by regularly crawling the web and by attracting a steady stream of user content including the world’s email, videos, geolocation data, and much much more data. . estimated By one estimate, at least an exabyte It is practically impossible for a mere AI compute function to overcome Alphabet’s massive advantages from its installed base. Unless Google fumbles. Highly unlikely. ChatGPT has a different sort of compute challenge resulting in a different architecture. This keeps it from being an immediate threat to Google. It is predicated on large scale linear algebra operations and can get by with a much smaller data set. Furthermore, the corpus it learns, as opposed to what it searches, is fixed. Searchwise, that’s a fatal limitation. While ChatGPT can search for more recent information about the pandemic, GPT3 knows nothing about  COVID-19. It was trained on a pre pandemic corpus. This prevents it from playing David to Google’s Goliath. AI interfaces, indeed, could create a threat to attracting a stream of user content. That is the case, however, only if the purveyors of LLM-based interfaces, like OpenAI, are already prepared to store, safeguard, and monetize that data. Currently none are so prepared. Furthermore, these programs give no particular advantage to finding data in the middle of a video or detecting piracy of video content.  Remember, Alphabet, Google’s parent, owns YouTube, the Fort Knox of video. #The future of search There are new approaches on the horizon to expanding what is searchable. These almost certainly will prove of great value for accessing the many specialist data repositories that are currently effectively unsearchable by Google’s search engine. GitHub, the go to repository of software code, is a great example. Even if there are in the world, that’s a tiny drop in the bucket of the world’s online population. 30M programmers and software developers Yet, software developers, on average, control vastly more deployable capital than the average citizen of planet Earth. This is not necessarily through their personal wealth. They exercise their market power  through their collective influence on their clients and employers. As such, they, their clients and employers are more able and more willing to pay for expanded capacity to search repositories like GitHub, which is currently only searchable via metadata and social means. Code is opaque to automated investigation of its structure and behavior. There are even fewer biologists and chemists actively involved in drug development. That said, they very likely control even more deployable capital than software developers (on average). Companies like Pfizer, Lily, Merck, and AstraZeneca have enormous capital. They are even more able, and certainly willing, to pay for expanded search capabilities. They are especially keen because it is significantly less expensive to run a computer search than it is to run a physical assay. The potential of the Kyoto Genes and Genomics database, for example, is largely untapped because we cannot see into the dynamics of the data stored there. That’s a spectacularly valuable niche application.  It is, however, irrelevant to the vast majority of rank-and-file web-searchers who vastly outnumber data specialists. For the foreseeable future, the expansion of search will not be in consumer markets. It will be in technical specialist, government, and enterprise markets. One of the first things specialists (like the lead author here) do is to test ChatGPT on common sense reasoning over specialist data sets. At this it fails . miserably #Back to the future Google’s past could be a map to AI’s future. Google missed video search.  It paid for that by with $1.65B in a stock-for-stock swap in 2006.  Great move, as YouTube is , two orders of magnitude greater than what they paid for it. Good deal all around, but to the point Google expanded its search hegemony. buying YouTube now estimated to be worth $180B In , America’s premier futurist, George Gilder, has suggested the end of big data as a siloed commodity behind the firewalls of the big five. Supposedly, this will be due to developments of decentralizing technologies, such as blockchain. Indeed, the co-author’s review of Life After Google suggested that innovation rather than regulation is a better way of domesticating big data. Life After Google However, we can’t look to LLMs as the relevant innovation. While the computer architectures of LLMs and other similar AI-based approaches are not the same as Google’s, they are still massively centralized and run counter to the decentralizing trend. They may yet extend the life of centralized big data, until scalable decentralizing technologies, now on the horizon, come to fruition. Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s holding company),  Meta (Facebook’s holding company), and Microsoft today are the Masters of the Digital Universe. That won’t last. Eventually, sooner than you might think, they are likely .  The penalty for failure to innovate is severe. to go the way of Kodak. Xerox or Blockbuster As the Greek’s taught us, – extreme wealth – tends to lead to – overweening pride.  Which is then, always, slain by the goddess . oblos hubris Nemesis Google’s reported “dread” at the advent of ChatGBT is very much a bullish, not bearish, signal.  It implies that Google’s leadership has not succumbed, and does not appear at risk of soon succumbing to . hubris Only the paranoid survive. By Lucius Gregory Meredith and Ralph J. Benko

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The great lock down has helped to slow the spread of Covid-19. But it also came at a great cost to the global economy. Unlike a recession, many nonessential businesses have been closed with no clear timetable to reopen. The initial jobless claims in the US have swelled to more than 26 million since mid-March. While we see some glimmers of hope, we are not out of the woods yet. Businesses are anxious to reopen but we are also concerned with the health risks associated with it. The dilemma is if we reopen too quickly, we might risk triggering a second wave of Coronavirus which could be even worse. For everyone to feel safe about reopening the economy, what we really need is one or more vaccines that are safe and broadly available. Scientists around the world are working frantically to find a cure to fight the Coronavirus. This is probably not going to happen for at least another nine months. The debate is raging over how long the U.S. economy should stay closed to contain Covid-19. On one side, we have the business community and workers who lost their jobs; on the other side, we have the healthcare workers with the highest risk of getting infected by Covid-19. For many of the healthcare workers working in the front line fighting against Coronavirus to save lives, they will probably echo the same sentiment expressed by a counter protester against premature reopening below. “They just think it’s a free-for-all, and I’m going in for $16.50 an hour, risking my life,” said Kelly Lepage, an emergency room tech who graduates nursing school in just a couple weeks. “ ,” Lepage said. “ hands. They’re not there. They don’t see what we see. It’s very hard. I really wish they understood that we are trying our best to keep America safe.” They’re not bringing bodies to trailers They’re not taking care of these people that can’t touch their families’ source Health Care Workers Are At High Risk of Catching Covid-19 Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, less than one third of the American workforce has the luxury of working from home. With the rest of the Americans, they either lost their jobs due to the lock down or employed in “essential services” with higher risk of exposing themselves to the virus. The infographic from Visualcapitalist below shows the COVID-19 risk for the different occupations using data from the . The score for each occupation is based on contact with others, physical proximity to others and exposure to hazardous conditions. Occupational Information Network Credit: Visualcapitalist.com As we can see from the infographic above, healthcare workers tend to have higher risks and this is consistent with real world data support. In a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it found that out of the 138 patients, 57 (41.3%) were presumed to have been infected in Zhongnan Hospital (located in Wuhan, China) including 17 patients (12.3%) who were already hospitalized for other reasons and . . 40 health care workers (29%) Download the report In addition to the higher risk, just think about having to wear a face mask, stuck in protective gear all day long and working long hours, it is understandable that they are concerned with the premature reopening of the economy. Protect The Economy Without Sacrificing Public Health It’s not true that the only way to improve public health is by shutting down the economy and the only way to improve the economy is by sacrificing public health. Except for countries like Singapore and Taiwan, many countries have been playing catch up on Covid-19. Singapore and Taiwan have proven to the world that they can improve the economy without sacrificing public health. How did they do it? They wear face masks and practice social distancing religiously. Protect Yourself and Protect Others Policymakers have been stressing the need for large-scale “testing and tracing” to successfully reopen, and how hard it will be to implement these practices at scale anytime soon. What they overlooked is whether the public has enough personal protective gear to protect themselves from the Covid-19 virus. Face masks likely “played an active role in slowing down the disease transmission in Asian countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. It is an important component of containing the Covid-19 outbreak, and as a responsible citizen and a signal of support to health-care workers. Even CDC has reversed itself and is now recommending the use of cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of Covid-19. Wearing a mask is not just for protecting people from getting infected, but also prevent people with Covid-19 from infecting others. Keeping Your Distance to Stay Safe Until we find a vaccine, we still need to continue some physical distancing between individuals for the foreseeable future. Businesses that need in person attendance should have clear guidelines for their employees on how to maintain social distancing at work. In addition, employers should be required to provide protective gears to all employees coming to work in person e.g. two face masks per employee everyday. Social distancing inside a restaurant in Singapore. Source: The Straits Times For businesses such as restaurants, if they reopen, they will have to follow the same social distancing guidelines not just for their employees but for their customers too. Restaurants will have to reduce their capacity to meet the social distancing requirement to protect the diners. As a result, their cost of doing business will be higher. Even if customers are coming back, many companies might not be able to afford to keep the business running at a loss for too long. Only The Paranoid Survive Places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan have much higher population density than the US. And yet they have proven that they can protect the people and protect the economy at the same time. In addition to wearing face mask and practicing social distancing, they prohibit big crowd gathering. They closed down entertainment venues such as bars, karaoke lounges, cinemas and gyms. Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. Source: CNN Given that the situation of Covid-19 infection remains severe, it is particularly worrisome to see how some cities have reopened some of the beaches to the public. See picture above. People does not seem to be particularly concerned with the danger of Covid-19 in a large crowd environment. Why people in Asia and US behave so differently when it comes to Covid-19? People in Asia are paranoid with Covid-19. They still have memories of the SARS epidemic. As a result, they are more alert. This is what we need in the US. We need to be fearful of the Covid-19 instead of taking it lightly. featured image source: cnn

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recently dropped the title announcement video for the highly anticipated sequel to the live-action hit movie based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The new movie has been aptly titled Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Paramount Pictures The new video and logo evokes the inclusion of Tails, who was first introduced to gamers in 1992’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for SEGA Genesis. Interestingly enough, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the game that essentially pioneered global release dates for major video game titles. The game saw a massive global release effort that year that was dubbed “Sonic 2sday,” which launched the game in North America and Europe. Additionally, the clip features a brief sampling of the “Emerald Hill Zone” theme from the second game. Emerald Hill Zone was the first stage of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Hopefully, the sequel will make better use of Sonic’s iconic music than the original did. The new release of the title announcement video celebrates the one-year anniversary for the record-setting theatrical opening of the first movie, which starred Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik, James Marsden as Sheriff Tom Wachowski, and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Movie Release Date and Trailer Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is currently slated for an April 8, 2022 release date. Currently, the theatrical cinematic marketplace is in a very uncertain state right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An April 2022 release date at least gives Paramount Pictures further time for the coronavirus to hopefully dissipate, or at least, to plan a new release strategy if theatrical exhibitors collapse and pandemic restrictions are still in place by that time. You can check out Paramount’s new title video for Sonic the Hedgehog 2. announcement

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