Inner Conflict – An examination of the duality of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea through his vocal expressions and thoughts.

Hemingway’s code heroes are a breed of heroes mostly recognized through their stoic behavior. This stoic behavior stemming from a code used as a shield from earlier psychological or physical trauma. This thesis seeks to make a comment upon how following the code could cause an inner psychological turmoil within one of Hemingway’s code heroes through closer examination of the thoughts and words spoken by Santiago in The Old Man and The Sea (1952). Since the novel contains almost no other characters than Santiago himself, and that he for most of the novel never interacts with others, the novel becomes more introspective and therefore a pattern of conflict between desires of Santiago and the expectations that he puts upon himself through his code. Through a closer reading of Santiago’s thoughts and vocal expressions it will be revealed that the code is not only a stoic shield for the wounds of the past, but also a lingering wound upon his psyche. That is to say, while the code has been the crutch that Santiago has leaned upon, it is also something that needs to be shed in order to grow. So, after an exhaustive loss at sea and a long introspection, once the old man returns to land chooses to give up his code in order to heal.Hemingway’s code heroes are a breed of heroes mostly recognized through their stoic behavior. This stoic behavior stemming from a code used as a shield from earlier psychological or physical trauma. This thesis seeks to make a comment upon how following the code could cause an inner psychological turmoil within one of Hemingway’s code heroes through closer examination of the thoughts and words spoken by Santiago in The Old Man and The Sea (1952). Since the novel contains almost no other characters than Santiago himself, and that he for most of the novel never interacts with others, the novel becomes more introspective and therefore a pattern of conflict between desires of Santiago and the expectations that he puts upon himself through his code. Through a closer reading of Santiago’s thoughts and vocal expressions it will be revealed that the code is not only a stoic shield for the wounds of the past, but also a lingering wound upon his psyche. That is to say, while the code has been the crutch that Santiago has leaned upon, it is also something that needs to be shed in order to grow. So, after an exhaustive loss at sea and a long introspection, once the old man returns to land chooses to give up his code in order to heal

Artificial hatching substrate and different time of transfer to startfeeding: Effect on growth and protease activities of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

Groups of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) eggs were hatched in a Californian hatching system with and without an astro-turf artificial substrate, and food was presented at four different points in development. Dry weight development and protease activities were studied. Irrespective of time of transfer the astro-turf reared fry were bigger than the flat screen reared fry at the termination of the experiment. In respect of growth the first and the fourth transfers were clearly suboptimal for the fry from both systems

CAGD-based computer vision

Journal ArticleAbstract-Three-dimensional model-based computer vision uses geometric models of objects and sensed data to recognize objects in a scene. Likewise, computer aided geometric design (CAGD) systems are used to interactively generate three-dimensional models during the design process. Despite this similarity, there has been a dichotomy between these fields. Recently, the unification of CAGD and vision systems has become the focus of research in the context of manufacturing automation

Parallel rendering

Journal ArticleMassively parallel computers have emerged as valuable tools for performing scientific and engineering computations, far outstripping the capabilities of independent workstations in both sheer floating point performance and memory capacity. As the resolution of simulation models increases, graphics algorithms that take advantage of the large memory and parallelism of these architectures are becoming increasingly important. This issue of IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology highlights some recent work in parallel computer graphics, specifically parallel rendering

LF-PPL: A Low-Level First Order Probabilistic Programming Language for Non-Differentiable Models

We develop a new Low-level, First-order Probabilistic Programming Language (LF-PPL) suited for models containing a mix of continuous, discrete, and/or piecewise-continuous variables. The key success of this language and its compilation scheme is in its ability to automatically distinguish parameters the density function is discontinuous with respect to, while further providing runtime checks for boundary crossings. This enables the introduction of new inference engines that are able to exploit gradient information, while remaining efficient for models which are not everywhere differentiable. We demonstrate this ability by incorporating a discontinuous Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (DHMC) inference engine that is able to deliver automated and efficient inference for non-differentiable models. Our system is backed up by a mathematical formalism that ensures that any model expressed in this language has a density with measure zero discontinuities to maintain the validity of the inference engine.Comment: Published in the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS