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This Cop Sabotaged His Own Cases to Undermine a Prosecutor: Why He Did So

ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION.

The Last Will of the Old Squire

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and His Powerful Billionaire Friends

মার্কিন সুপ্রিম কোর্টের বিচারপতি ক্লারেন্স থমাস এবং তার শক্তিশালী বিলিয়নেয়ার বন্ধুরা

Clarence Thomas, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof der USA, und seine mächtigen milliardenschweren Freunde

El juez de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, Clarence Thomas, y sus poderosos amigos multimillonarios

Clarence Thomas, juge de la Cour suprême des États-Unis, et ses puissants amis milliardaires

अमेरिकी सुप्रीम कोर्ट के न्यायाधीश क्लेरेंस थॉमस और उनके शक्तिशाली अरबपति मित्र

米国最高裁判所判事クラレンス・トーマスと彼の強力な億万長者の友人たち

미국 대법원 판사 클라렌스 토마스(Clarence Thomas)와 그의 막강한 억만장자 친구들

O juiz da Suprema Corte dos EUA, Clarence Thomas, e seus poderosos amigos bilionários

Судья Верховного суда США Кларенс Томас и его влиятельные друзья-миллиардеры

ABD Yüksek Mahkemesi Yargıcı Clarence Thomas ve Güçlü Milyarder Arkadaşları

Thẩm phán Tòa án Tối cao Hoa Kỳ Clarence Thomas và những người bạn tỷ phú đầy quyền lực của ông

美国最高法院法官克拉伦斯·托马斯和他有权势的亿万富翁朋友

Part 2: Real Motion Data from Apple Watch and Quick Analysis In the , I demonstrated how high-frequency motion data can be collected during a tennis session using my sample app. In this part, I'll provide a sneak peek into the data and try to extract some high-level learnings from it. previous part How I Collected the Data I play tennis once a week, so once I made , I was able to quickly take it to the real world to obtain the sensor data. I'm right-handed, so for better accuracy, I wore the watch on the right wrist even though I usually wear it on the left. As my simple iPhone sample app only keeps the data in memory and there should be an established connection between the counterpart apps, I had to keep my phone in my pocket. the app Only during the session, I realized that the iPhone app has to be in the foreground, otherwise the messages are not delivered. I made several recordings, each of them represented a single rally. On average, the warm-up rallies were 6-8-shot long. WatchConnectivity Accelerometer Data For a typical rally, its accelerometer file would be about 1–1.5 Mb. from that warm-up session that represents roughly a 19-second series with 15651 readings – remember, it's an 800 Hz sensor! Here is a sample file Here is a simple of the acceleration measured in Gs across all three axes: line-chart visualization We can clearly see the spikes just before and after the shot, with the Z-axis showing the highest amplitude. The Z-axis is orthogonal to the watch screen surface. That's why it's no surprise that it gets the largest acceleration when the wrist moves toward the ball. I just didn't expect that the racquet acceleration could reach 30G! Y is pointing from the bottom to the top edge of the watch, and X is basically the continuation of the digital crown. That's why it shows the least amount of movement. A single-shot close-up is also interesting (how acceleration is thrown back and forth over a tiny period of time): Rotation Data is similar to the accelerometer one, but here, it's radians per second for each axis. It shows similar peaks around the same timestamps; however, its readings are 4x less frequent: The gyroscope data Interestingly, the X axis shows higher amplitude than Z here, and each axis has a distinct pattern. As X is the digital crown axis, higher values here may mean more spin that comes from the wrist. Conclusion and What's Next This was just my first tennis session with this app, and my main goal was to see if it actually worked as expected and if the data had some actual meaning, even if presented as a simple line chart. Now, I clearly see a correlation between the line and its corresponding shots – for example, higher amplitude seems to mean a higher ball speed. I plan to eventually extract more useful information from the raw data – such as shot frequency, time to contact, distinguishing backhand vs forehand vs volley, approximate ball speed, and so on. To start, I could try to apply a median filter and then find local peaks. In addition, here are the ideas for improvements that I'm going to make to the app to be able to better analyze the data in future sessions (I am not sure if all of them are feasible and quick to build, but they should definitely help): Persist data onto disk on the watch during the session and transmit it as a large file – to avoid having to keep the iPhone app nearby and active. Preview the line charts right on the iPhone. Put the accelerometer and the gyroscope data onto the same timeline. Add a way to map the data recording to the actual rally – maybe by shooting the video of the practice on the counterpart iPhone and then synchronizing it with the motion data. I'm curious about what you think can be done with this raw data. Please do share your suggestions in the comments!

Getting High-Frequency Tennis Motion Data from Apple Watch [Part 2]

Consideration of Early Hypotheses

THE DUTY OF AMERICAN WOMEN TO THEIR COUNTRY.

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories by Mark Twain, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR here ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR I found that a person of large intelligence could read this beautiful language with considerable facility without a dictionary, but I presently found that to such a person a grammar could be of use at times. It is because, if he does not know the and the and the and the apart, confusions and uncertainties can arise. He can get the idea that a thing is going to happen next week when the truth is that it has already happened week before last. Even more previously, sometimes. Examination and inquiry showed me that the adjectives and such things were frank and fair-minded and straightforward, and did not shuffle; it was the Verb that mixed the hands, it was the Verb that lacked stability, it was the Verb that had no permanent opinion about anything, it was the Verb that was always dodging the issue and putting out the light and making all the trouble. were's was's maybe's has-beens's Further examination, further inquiry, further reflection, confirmed this judgment, and established beyond peradventure the fact that the Verb was the storm-center. This discovery made plain the right and wise course to pursue in order to acquire certainty and exactness in understanding the statements which the newspaper was daily endeavoring to convey to me: I must catch a Verb and tame it. I must find out its ways, I must spot its eccentricities, I must penetrate its disguises, I must intelligently foresee and forecast at least the commoner of the dodges it was likely to try upon a stranger in given circumstances, I must get in on its main shifts and head them off, I must learn its game and play the limit. I had noticed, in other foreign languages, that verbs are bred in families, and that the members of each family have certain features or resemblances that are common to that family and distinguish it from the other families—the other kin, the cousins and what not. I had noticed that this family-mark is not usually the nose or the hair, so to speak, but the tail—the Termination—and that these tails are quite definitely differentiated; insomuch that an expert can tell a Pluperfect from a Subjunctive by its tail as easily and as certainly as a cowboy can tell a cow from a horse by the like process, the result of observation and culture. I should explain that I am speaking of legitimate verbs, those verbs which in the slang of the grammar are called Regular. There are others—I am not meaning to conceal this; others called Irregulars, born out of wedlock, of unknown and uninteresting parentage, and naturally destitute of family resemblances, as regards to all features, tails included. But of these pathetic outcasts I have nothing to say. I do not approve of them, I do not encourage them; I am prudishly delicate and sensitive, and I do not allow them to be used in my presence. But, as I have said, I decided to catch one of the others and break it into harness. One is enough. Once familiar with its assortment of tails, you are immune; after that, no regular verb can conceal its specialty from you and make you think it is working the past or the future or the conditional or the unconditional when it is engaged in some other line of business—its tail will give it away. I found out all these things by myself, without a teacher. I selected the verb Not for any personal reason, for I am indifferent about verbs; I care no more for one verb than for another, and have little or no respect for any of them; but in foreign languages you always begin with that one. Why, I don't know. It is merely habit, I suppose; the first teacher chose it, Adam was satisfied, and there hasn't been a successor since with originality enough to start a fresh one. For they a pretty limited lot, you will admit that? Originality is not in their line; they can't think up anything new, anything to freshen up the old moss-grown dullness of the language lesson and put life and “go” into it, and charm and grace and picturesqueness. amare, to love. are I knew I must look after those details myself; therefore I thought them out and wrote them down, and sent for the and explained them to him, and said he must arrange a proper plant, and get together a good stock company among the , and design the costumes, and distribute the parts; and drill the troupe, and be ready in three days to begin on this Verb in a shipshape and workman-like manner. I told him to put each grand division of it under a foreman, and each subdivision under a subordinate of the rank of sergeant or corporal or something like that, and to have a different uniform for each squad, so that I could tell a Pluperfect from a Compound Future without looking at the book; the whole battery to be under his own special and particular command, with the rank of Brigadier, and I to pay the freight. facchino contadini I then inquired into the character and possibilities of the selected verb, and was much disturbed to find that it was over my size, it being chambered for fifty-seven rounds—fifty-seven ways of saying I without reloading; and yet none of them likely to convince a girl that was laying for a title, or a title that was laying for rocks. love It seemed to me that with my inexperience it would be foolish to go into action with this mitrailleuse, so I ordered it to the rear and told the facchino to provide something a little more primitive to start with, something less elaborate, some gentle old-fashioned flint-lock, smooth-bore, double-barreled thing, calculated to cripple at two hundred yards and kill at forty—an arrangement suitable for a beginner who could be satisfied with moderate results on the offstart and did not wish to take the whole territory in the first campaign. But in vain. He was not able to mend the matter, all the verbs being of the same build, all Gatlings, all of the same caliber and delivery, fifty-seven to the volley, and fatal at a mile and a half. But he said the auxiliary verb , was a tidy thing, and easy to handle in a seaway, and less likely to miss stays in going about than some of the others; so, upon his recommendation I chose that one, and told him to take it along and scrape its bottom and break out its spinnaker and get it ready for business. avere, to have I will explain that a facchino is a general-utility domestic. Mine was a horse-doctor in his better days, and a very good one. At the end of three days the facchino-doctor-brigadier was ready. I was also ready, with a stenographer. We were in a room called the Rope-Walk. This is a formidably long room, as is indicated by its facetious name, and is a good place for reviews. At 9:30 the F.-D.-B. took his place near me and gave the word of command; the drums began to rumble and thunder, the head of the forces appeared at an upper door, and the “march-past” was on. Down they filed, a blaze of variegated color, each squad gaudy in a uniform of its own and bearing a banner inscribed with its verbal rank and quality: first the Present Tense in Mediterranean blue and old gold, then the Past Definite in scarlet and black, then the Imperfect in green and yellow, then the Indicative Future in the stars and stripes, then the Old Red Sandstone Subjunctive in purple and silver—and so on and so on, fifty-seven privates and twenty commissioned and non-commissioned officers; certainly one of the most fiery and dazzling and eloquent sights I have ever beheld. I could not keep back the tears. Presently: “Halt!” commanded the Brigadier. “Front—face!” “Right dress!” “Stand at ease!” “One—two—three. In unison— ” recite! It was fine. In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. Then came commands: “About—face! Eyes—front! Helm alee—hard aport! Forward—march!” and the drums let go again. When the last Termination had disappeared, the commander said the instruction drill would now begin, and asked for suggestions. I said: “They say , and so on, but they don't say . It will be better, and more definite, if they have something to have; just an object, you know, a something—anything will do; anything that will give the listener a sort of personal as well as grammatical interest in their joys and complaints, you see.” I have, thou hast, he has what He said: “It is a good point. Would a dog do?” I said I did not know, but we could try a dog and see. So he sent out an aide-de-camp to give the order to add the dog. The six privates of the Present Tense now filed in, in charge of Sergeant Avere ( ), and displaying their banner. They formed in line of battle, and recited, one at a time, thus: to have “ I have a dog.” Io ho un cane, “ , thou hast a dog.” Tu hai un cane he has a dog.” “Egli ha un cane, , we have a dog.” “Noi abbiamo un cane “ , you have a dog.” Voi avete un cane “ they have a dog.” Eglino hanno un cane, No comment followed. They returned to camp, and I reflected a while. The commander said: “I fear you are disappointed.” “Yes,” I said; “they are too monotonous, too singsong, to dead-and-alive; they have no expression, no elocution. It isn't natural; it could never happen in real life. A person who had just acquired a dog is either blame' glad or blame' sorry. He is not on the fence. I never saw a case. What the nation do you suppose is the matter with these people?” He thought maybe the trouble was with the dog. He said: “These are , you know, and they have a prejudice against dogs—that is, against marimane. Marimana dogs stand guard over people's vines and olives, you know, and are very savage, and thereby a grief and an inconvenience to persons who want other people's things at night. In my judgment they have taken this dog for a marimana, and have soured on him.” contadini I saw that the dog was a mistake, and not functionable: we must try something else; something, if possible, that could evoke sentiment, interest, feeling. “What is cat, in Italian?” I asked. “Gatto.” “Is it a gentleman cat, or a lady?” “Gentleman cat.” “How are these people as regards that animal?” “We-ll, they—they—” “You hesitate: that is enough. How are they about chickens?” He tilted his eyes toward heaven in mute ecstasy. I understood. “What is chicken, in Italian?” I asked. “Pollo, ” (Podere is Italian for master. It is a title of courtesy, and conveys reverence and admiration.) “Pollo is one chicken by itself; when there are enough present to constitute a plural, it is ” Podere. polli. “Very well, polli will do. Which squad is detailed for duty next?” “The Past Definite.” “Send out and order it to the front—with chickens. And let them understand that we don't want any more of this cold indifference.” He gave the order to an aide, adding, with a haunting tenderness in his tone and a watering mouth in his aspect: “Convey to them the conception that these are unprotected chickens.” He turned to me, saluting with his hand to his temple, and explained, “It will inflame their interest in the poultry, sire.” A few minutes elapsed. Then the squad marched in and formed up, their faces glowing with enthusiasm, and the file-leader shouted: “ , I had chickens!” Ebbi polli “Good!” I said. “Go on, the next.” “ , thou hadst chickens!” Avest polli “Fine! Next!” “ , he had chickens!” Ebbe polli “Moltimoltissimo! Go on, the next!” “ we had chickens!” Avemmo polli, “Basta-basta aspettatto avanti—last man— !” charge “ , they had chickens!” Ebbero polli Then they formed in echelon, by columns of fours, refused the left, and retired in great style on the double-quick. I was enchanted, and said: “Now, doctor, that is something ! Chickens are the ticket, there is no doubt about it. What is the next squad?” like “The Imperfect.” “How does it go?” “ , I had, , thou hadst, , he had, —” Io Aveva tu avevi egli aveva noi av “Wait—we've just the hads. What are you giving me?” had “But this is another breed.” “What do we want of another breed? Isn't one breed enough? is , and your tricking it out in a fresh way of spelling isn't going to make it any hadder than it was before; now you know that yourself.” Had had “But there is a distinction—they are not just the same Hads.” “How do you make it out?” “Well, you use that first Had when you are referring to something that happened at a named and sharp and perfectly definite moment; you use the other when the thing happened at a vaguely defined time and in a more prolonged and indefinitely continuous way.” “Why, doctor, it is pure nonsense; you know it yourself. Look here: If I have had a had, or have wanted to have had a had, or was in a position right then and there to have had a had that hadn't had any chance to go out hadding on account of this foolish discrimination which lets one Had go hadding in any kind of indefinite grammatical weather but restricts the other one to definite and datable meteoric convulsions, and keeps it pining around and watching the barometer all the time, and liable to get sick through confinement and lack of exercise, and all that sort of thing, why—why, the inhumanity of it is enough, let alone the wanton superfluity and uselessness of any such a loafing consumptive hospital-bird of a Had taking up room and cumbering the place for nothing. These finical refinements revolt me; it is not right, it is not honorable; it is constructive nepotism to keep in office a Had that is so delicate it can't come out when the wind's in the nor'west—I won't have this dude on the payroll. Cancel his exequator; and look here—” “But you miss the point. It is like this. You see—” “Never mind explaining, I don't care anything about it. Six Hads is enough for me; anybody that needs twelve, let him subscribe; I don't want any stock in a Had Trust. Knock out the Prolonged and Indefinitely Continuous; four-fifths of it is water, anyway.” “But I beg you, podere! It is often quite indispensable in cases where—” “Pipe the next squad to the assault!” But it was not to be; for at that moment the dull boom of the noon gun floated up out of far-off Florence, followed by the usual softened jangle of church-bells, Florentine and suburban, that bursts out in murmurous response; by labor-union law the (1) must stop; stop promptly, stop instantly, stop definitely, like the chosen and best of the breed of Hads. colazione 1. Colazione is Italian for a collection, a meeting, a seance, a sitting.—M.T. 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