Credit Implications Your FICO score will drop by over 100 points due to foreclosures, according to Barry Paperno, consumer operations manager at Fair Isaac. Your FICO can also drop for short sales, if the sale was reported as settled for less than what was due. This may seem like a relatively small amount for a default on a major asset, but it's enough to cause credit card companies to consider rate hikes and credit limit decreases, and for insurance companies to raise premiums. (Learn more about your credit rating in our article: Consumer Credit Report: What's On It.)
Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). We develop an open source machine learning toolkit which provides
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PyjamasDesktop is actually a port of PyJamas which is a web toolkit, so you also have the option of running PyjamasDesktop applications as web applications - unmodified.
Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control.
The team found that students remembered the pairs much better when they first tried to retrieve the answer before it was shown to them. In a way this pretesting effect is counterintuitive: Studying a pair for 13 seconds produces worse recall than studying the pair for 5 seconds, if students in the latter condition spent the previous 8 seconds trying to retrieve or guess the answer. But the effect averaged about 10 percent better recall, and occurred both immediately after study and after a delay averaging 38 hours.
Deques are a generalization of stacks and queues (the name is pronounced “deck” and is short for “double-ended queue”). Deques support thread-safe, memory efficient appends and pops from either side of the deque with approximately the same O(1) performance in either direction.
If a perfectly diffuse, perfectly reflecting surface has one foot-candle (one lumen per square foot) of illumination falling on it, its luminance is one foot-Lambert or 1/pi candles per square foot.
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have created the most powerful coherently combined diode lasers yet demonstrated. These lasers address a long-standing challenge for laser technology—merging multiple laser beams coherently to produce a single-beam, high-brightness output.
The Developing Science and Technologies List (DSTL) is a compendium of scientific and technological capabilities being developed worldwide that have the potential to significantly enhance or degrade US military capabilities in the future. It includes basic research, applied research and advanced technology development.
Physical sun light This will model sun lighting from NASA measurements, including atmospheric absorption adjustable through the turbidity parameter. The size of the sun can be tweak from its reference size with the relsize (relative size) parameter. To get a correct effect, the Z axis must point above, the Y axis is north and X axis is east. Physical sky light The physical sky creates a lighting setup that simulates the light of the sun and atmosphere, based on the direction of a sun lamp in the scene and a parameter named turbidity which defines the clearness of the sky. Both the sun angle and the sky clearness influence the colour of the light. Additional parameters called aconst, bconst, cconst, dconst, econst allow you to fine tune the color of the sky to simulate various atmospheric conditions.
Pyoptic is an optics and physics simulation based on python and uses scipy as a calculation engine, matplotlib and tvtk for visualisation. It is mainly intended for simple simulations of optical engineering, imaging systems, laser systems, laser transportation and applications, lens design etc.
JSatTrak is a Satellite tracking program written in Java. It allows you to predict the position of any satellite in real time or in the past or future. It uses advanced SGP4/SDP4 algorithms developed by NASA/NORAD or customizable high precision solvers to propagate satellite orbits. The program also allows for easy updating of current satellite tracking data via CelesTrak.com. Because this application was written in Java, it should run on almost any operating system or directly off the web using java web start!
The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a modular, extensible, cross-platform computer vision software framework written in C++. It was designed to support a variety of space exploration tasks, including automated science and engineering analysis, robot perception, and 2D/3D environment reconstruction, though it can also serve as a general-purpose image processing and machine vision framework in other contexts as well. The VW was developed within the Autonomous Systems and Robotics area of the Inteligent Systems Division at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a project to build an 8.4m telescope at Cerro Pachon, Chile and survey the entire sky every three days starting around 2014. The scientific goals of the project range from characterizing the population of largish asteroids which are in orbits that could hit the Earth to understanding the nature of the dark energy that is causing the Universe's expansion to accelerate. The application codes, which handle the images coming from the telescope and generate catalogs of astronomical sources, are being implemented in C++, exported to python using swig. The pipeline processing framework allows these python modules to be connected together to process data in a parallel environment.
Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. Cython is based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations.
OSE is a generic application framework suitable for constructing general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based services. The four main parts of OSE are an extensive C++ class library, a set of Python wrappers, a build environment based on GNU Make, and a set of documentation extraction tools.
Eg to make a struct from a string >>> a = cast(packet, POINTER(A)).contents >>> a.x 258 >>> Or (this is identical to your method) >>> a = A() >>> a.x 0 >>> memmove(addressof(a), packet, sizeof(a)) 3083811008L >>> a.x 258 I think the second of those methods is promoted by the ctypes documentation. I'm not sure about the lifetimes of the .contents in the first method! And the reverse >>> string_at(addressof(a), sizeof(a)) '\x02\x01\x00\x00' >>>
In some cases, it may be appropriate to process part of a request synchronously, but to finish processing in a forked child depending on the request data. This can be implemented by using a synchronous server and doing an explicit fork in the request handler class handle() method.
While working with Aerospace to develop the NPP architecture documentation, NASA realized the Science Data Segment presented novel challenges in terms of ground system design and implementation. NASA asked Aerospace to suggest possible approaches for the Science Data Segment in early 2001. Based on initial architecture definition and requirements, Aerospace recommended an emerging technology known as grid computing (see sidebar, Grid Computing: An Overview). Because of the relative lack of maturity of this approach, Aerospace also recommended the development of a prototype implementation that would allow NASA to investigate key features as it moved to procure the full operational Science Data Segment. This prototype implementation was named the Advanced Data Grid.
ilkerson says that most traditional assessments take less than four hours. LENABaby, in contrast, considers a full day of activities in the child's natural environment. Traditional assessments can be done in the child's home, but this often involves multiple video cameras and lights, which can influence the child's behavior.
This reference is either acquired through a stringified URI string, NameService lookup (similar to DNS), or passed-in as a method parameter during a call. Object references are lightweight objects matching the interface of the real object (remote or local). Method calls on the reference result in subsequent calls to the ORB and blocking on the thread while waiting for a reply, success or failure. The parameters, return data (if any), and exception data are marshaled internally by the ORB according the local language and OS mapping. [edit]
The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern object-oriented middleware with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, and PHP. Ice is used in many mission-critical projects by companies all over the world. Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure and vast array of features for demanding technical applications. Ice is free software, available with full source, and released under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). Commercial licenses are available for customers who wish to use Ice for closed-source software.
Technical Note: The Financial Forecast Center has moved away from publishing standard deviations of the forecast's performance in recognition that the distribution of value movements in the financial markets follow Levy or Cauchy distributions, not Gaussian or normal distributions. Likewise, the forecast model's errors follow similar distributions. A Gaussian distribution significantly underestimates the probability of a large price or rate movement. A Gaussian distribution may underestimate the probabilty of a 3 sigma price movement by a factor of 10. In other words, the chance of a 3 sigma movement is potentially 10 times greater than that predicted by a Gaussian probability curve. The above change in error reporting enables a more accurate depiction of a forecast model's potential performance.