Google should learn a lesson or two from Bing
Google recently has opted to remove the title of "Persian Gulf" on its map service altogether, thwarting criticism from some states. Other services, such as Bing, are still using the historically valid name for the water.
Google, an advertising giant, relies on advertising money for survival. Therefore, it would not be that difficult to understand why it has removed the "disputed" title.
Initiating PyGTK, the right way
There are many ways to initiate PyGTK. However, the best way is almost always is the easiest way! See the following code:
# Importing GTK and PyGTK modules, You need to have them installed!
import gtk
import pygtk
# Checking to see if you have a compatible version of PyGTK installed.
pygtk.require("2.0")
# Defining a class which inherits gtk.Window object.
class MyWindow(gtk.Window):
def __init__(self):
# Associating the __init__ to the parent.
super(MyWindow, self).__init__()
# Closing the window will call gtk.mainquit method.
self.connect("delete-event", gtk.mainquit)
self.set_title("My New Window!")
# showing all objects on the window
self.show_all()
# Creation of an instance
GUI = MyWindow()
# starting GTK!
gtk.main()
I will be covering how to write PyGTK in the upcoming posts.
Make no mistake! Cancer is no smart.
Through the years that I have been studying cancer biology, I repeatedly been told that cancer is a smart entity. The proponents reason that if you treat cancer with drug almost always a resistant form of cancer forms. They also argue that metastasis is indeed the ultimate result of cancer ingenuity, which desperately seeks to reach novel places from the beginning very early in cancer formation.
Imagine you have a large number of blinds in a large maze field, which has only one exit. The rule in this maze is that blinds can go together hand in hand to form groups, or individually based on their choice early in the beginning of the maze competition. The exception to this rule is that once one of them releases the hand of the other it cannot rejoin to the other blind for the rest of the way. They start the maze from the same point and begin the journey to reach the exit. As the time passes, the blinds propagate from the start point, which is the function of time and their speed. After a reasonable time period the majority get stuck into the manifold maze dead ends. These dead ends are special. Some may grab the blinds impeding their movement while others may spare them to continue their journey. Therefore, these lucky blinds are able to return and assume a new random path in this maze.
In this example, the question that we want to answer is that what is the probability that at least one blind individual successfully pass through the exit point at any time point. The probability in this example is correlated with the group number of blinds at any time point and complexity of the maze in general (the number of bad dead-ends). Thus, it would not be naïve to assume that a less complex maze, or similarly, the higher number of groups would contribute to higher probability.
Density and complexity of maze increases from the left to right
Do these two factors make the blind individuals smart? Does the winner is the smartest of blinds in this maze?
Think about it!