Happy Holidays everyone!

For this year's holiday season, I helped @24-7-testing with the Portal Holiday Spirit Initiative with art for two of the cards! This has been a project that has been ongoing for a few years now, and it was such a joy getting to participate and help make the art. I hope everyone enjoys their card if they requested one, and thank you again to 24-7-testing for putting these together all these years!

I got my card from PHSI! The return address is such a cute touch 😭

The end of the year can be tough for a lot of people. My goal? To make it a little bit brighter. That's why I'm pleased to once again announce the return of...

The Portal Holiday Spirit Initiative!

To help bring a smile to people's faces this year, I will be sending FREE Portal-Themed Holiday Cards to anyone who asks for one! There are a few changes to the cards this year because life has gotten very busy for me and I have less free time than in years past.

This year there will only be one card design, featuring artwork from one of the Portal Fandom's awesome artists! The cards will still be customizable to any Winter Holiday of your choosing, but you'll have to wait for your card to arrive in order to see how (the method takes cues from the Portal game's sense of humor, so it will very much be on-brand).

This year is also special because it is PHSI's 5th Anniversary! I can’t express the amount of thanks everyone who has participated over the years, whether you've reblogged and shared, requested cards, helped with artwork, or helped in other ways. You all deserve my recognition and thanks for volunteering your time, talents, and support! Thanks for helping to make PHSI a special fandom tradition!

If you would like to receive a Portal-Themed Holiday Card:

Visit bit.ly/PHSI-2023 ...

Answer the questions in the forms...

Wait for your card to be sent!

It's that easy! Card Requests are now open, and close on December 20th in order to give me enough time to make and send all the cards before the end of the year. Please submit sooner rather than later so I have time to finish them all!

Also, please don’t be afraid to request a physical card if you don’t live in the US! The card service I've chosen says they ship worldwide and, while it might take a bit longer for you to receive your card depending on what country you live in, the cards will get mailed to whatever address you provide, domestic or foreign. Last year I mailed/emailed a total of 164 cards to Italy, Canada, Germany, England, Poland, The US, The United Kingdom, Brazil, India, and Slovenia!

I’m happy to be a part of the Portal Fandom and hope to bring a smile to others in the Fandom this year! Making and emailing Holiday Cards takes time and effort, and sending physical cards is expensive. While it isn't a requirement to receive a card, I would greatly appreciate if you'd like to give $4 to cover the cost of your card or someone else's. Please visit ko-fi.com/247testing and click the Donate button if you want to help out. 

Also, feel free to DM me with any questions or comments. Thanks!

Answers for common questions and concerns under the cut:

Worried about providing a mailing address, for whatever reason?

PHSI has an eCard option! All you need to provide is a name for me to call you by and an email address to receive your card!

Worried about requesting a card because you don’t live in the US?

PHSI mails to any address provided, whether domestic or foreign! However, please wait patiently for your card, due to the current global rate of shipping.

Worried that you can’t give $4 to cover the cost of your card or someone else’s?

Requesting a card from PHSI has been and will always be FREE! However, giving $4 to the initiative helps me pay for the printing service and postage to mail physical cards (visit ko-fi.com/247testing if you’d like to contribute). I gratefully appreciate any contributions received, even if it’s just a comment saying thanks!

Worried because you don’t know how to support the artist of the card you received?

The artist’s social media is listed on the back of every card featuring their artwork. Look them up, commission them, reblog their art, and support them however you can!

Worried because you haven’t received your card yet?

Double check your email inbox and junk folders. I send everyone an email that either confirms your Holiday Card has shipped or includes your eCard! Physical cards take 1-2 weeks to arrive. If your physical card fails to show up after the first week of January, please reach out to me and I’ll send you a replacement eCard!

Worried because you received your card and don’t know what to do now?

Make a post about it! Include pictures, videos, or anything you’d like, and tag me in the post (@24-7-testing) so I can reblog it! If you don’t want to show your card off, that’s ok too!

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Guess who got a letter from the man/myth/legend Cave Johnson?

It’s a wonderful card, and I absolutely adore it even though I did have to explain to my parents that I’m not actually BFFs with the CEO of an applied sciences company.

Thank you so much to @24-7-testing for putting together the holiday spirit initiative year after year, and thank you to @purrtal2 for the artwork! This was quite a treat to receive! Happy holidays to you both!

Finally received my portal holiday card and I absolutely love it! And the artwork is gorgeous!

Thanks @24-7-testing so much for this wonderful project💛

I LOVE the Christmas card I got from @floating-goblin-art for the PHSI! Plus, the message on the back made me laugh! Thank you for this wonderful card, it shall stay on my wall forever now. 😁

Pending Home Sales Ascended 3.4% in March

Pending Home Sales Ascended 3.4% in March https://ift.tt/SZUO8Iy Key Highlights Pending home sales increased 3.4% in March. Month over month, contract signings rose in the Northeast, South and West but dropped in the Midwest. Compared to one year ago, pending home sales declined in the Northeast and South while the Midwest and West improved. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Pending home sales in March climbed 3.4%, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Northeast, South and West posted monthly gains in transactions while the Midwest recorded a loss. Year-over-year, the Northeast and South registered decreases but the Midwest and West improved. The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* – a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings – increased to 78.2 in March. Year over year, pending transactions were up 0.1%. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. “March’s Pending Home Sales Index – at 78.2 – marks the best performance in a year, but it still remains in a fairly narrow range over the last 12 months without a measurable breakout,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “Meaningful gains will only occur with declining mortgage rates and rising inventory.” Quarterly U.S. Economic Forecast             NAR forecasts that existing-home sales will rise by 9% in 2024 to 4.46 million (from 4.09 million 2023) and another 13.2% in 2025 to 5.05 million (from 2024). Housing starts are expected to rise by 1.2% in 2024 to 1.43 million (from 1.413 million in 2023) and 4.9% to 1.5 million in 2025 (from 2024). “Home sales have lingered at 30-year lows, and since 70 million more Americans live in the country now compared to three decades ago, it’s inevitable that sales will rise in coming years,” explained Yun. “Inventory will grow steadily from more home construction, and various life-changing events will require people to trade up, trade down or move to another location.” NAR expects that median home prices will increase by 1.8% in 2024 to a record of $396,800 (from $389,800 in 2023) and another 1.8% in 2025 to $403,800 (from 2024). NAR forecasts a modest reduction – 0.6% – in the median new home price to $426,100 in 2024 (from $428,600 in 2023), reflecting the building of smaller-sized homes. The association anticipates the median new home price will jump 3.4% to $440,500 in 2025 (from 2024). “Home prices are expected to rise roughly in line with consumer price inflation and wage growth over the next two years,” added Yun. “Most homeowners are on strong financial footing in current market conditions, with only 2% of sales classified as being distressed.” NAR expects home sales to steadily improve while home prices continue to hit record highs. “Job gains, steady mortgage rates and the release of inventory from pent-up home sellers will lead to more sales,” explained Yun. “Given the lingering housing shortage, home prices will march higher, albeit much more slowly than in the past.” Pending Home Sales Regional Breakdown The Northeast PHSI increased 2.7% from last month to 65.1, a decline of 0.3% from March 2023. The Midwest index fell 4.3% to 78.1 in March, up 1.3% from one year ago. The South PHSI improved 7.0% to 95.8 in March, dropping 1.5% from the prior year. The West index rose 6.8% in March to 61.0, up 3.6% from March 2023.  “Home prices rising faster than income growth is not healthy and adds challenges for first-time buyers,” said Yun. Yun further noted, “Inventory will gradually rise from recent growth in home building. Additionally, many sellers who delayed listing in the past two years will start putting their homes on the market to move to a different home that better fits their new life circumstances – such as changes in family composition, jobs, commuting patterns and retirees wanting to be closer to their grandkids.” via Real Estate Agent Magazine https://ift.tt/dTvmJ1V April 25, 2024 at 11:22AM

Lhc saba itrain

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Includes preliminary background which is essential to those who work in hyperspectral ima.Ī new comparison of hyperspectral anomaly detection algorithms for real-time applicationsĭíaz, María. This book is written to particularly address PHSI in real time processing, while a book, Recursive Hyperspectral Sample and Band Processing: Algorithm Architecture and Implementation (Springer 2016) can be considered as its companion book. This book focuses on progressive nature in algorithms on their real-time and causal processing implementation in two major applications, endmember finding and anomaly detection, both of which are fundamental tasks in hyperspectral imaging but generally not encountered in multispectral imaging. Both of these can be used to design algorithms and also form an integral part of real time hyperpsectral image processing. Recently, two new concepts of real time hyperspectral image processing, Progressive Hyperspectral Imaging (PHSI) and Recursive Hyperspectral Imaging (RHSI). The book covers the most crucial parts of real-time hyperspectral image processing: causality and real-time capability. Real-time progressive hyperspectral image processing endmember finding and anomaly detection We conclude that our cluster-based technique out- performs other statistical techniques with higher accuracy and lower processing time. We then relaxed this constraint with higher accuracy by implementing a cluster-based technique to detect sporadic and continuous anomalies. We have developed a window-based statistical anomaly detection technique to detect anomalies that appear sporadically. We have built our framework using Apache Spark to get higher throughput and lower data processing time on streaming data. As a case study, we investigate group anomaly de- tection for a VMware-based cloud data center, which maintains a large number of virtual machines (VMs). We have developed a distributed statistical approach to build a model and later use it to detect anomaly. This paper presents a novel, generic, real-time distributed anomaly detection framework for heterogeneous streaming data where anomalies appear as a group. Detecting anomalies in fast, voluminous streams of data is a formidable chal- lenge. Such deviated patterns typically correspond to samples of interest and are assigned different labels in different domains, such as outliers, anomalies, exceptions, or malware. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)Īnomaly detection refers to the identi cation of an irregular or unusual pat- tern which deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States) Ingram, Joey Burton [Sandia National Lab. of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States) Thuraisingham, Bhavani [Univ. of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States) Khan, Latifur [Univ. of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States) Iftekhar, Mohammed [Univ. Statistical Techniques For Real-time Anomaly Detection Using Spark Over Multi-source VMware Performance DataĮnergy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB) A liquidity vector is an aggregated representation of the underlying payment network of a settlement system for a particular time interval. We discuss how an autoencoder can detect system-level anomalies in a real-time gross settlement system by reconstructing a set of liquidity vectors. Triepels, Ron Daniels, Hennie Heijmans, R. In case you use a modern system like the ECoS or Central Station 1 and 2, iTrain will import all loc definitions so you can start even faster.Anomaly detection in real-time gross payment data Defining a route can be as simple as selecting the order of blocks, but more advanced options are also possible. Simply draw the layout and assign the signals and feedbacks to the blocks for automatic control of your block signals, without providing difficult rules. It is not necessary to study for weeks to be able to use iTrain. The switchboard is fully scalable with an optional layout overview for large layouts, and allows different tabs for different views of (parts of) the layout. Client server architecture allows extra computers to be used as extra overviews or controllers.

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Modern software techniques make it possible to run the program on all major computer operating systems such as Windows, macOS and Linux. For example, automatic block control avoids collisions and you control which train is driving manually or fully automatically according to a selected route. ITrain offers an easy to use solution to control your model railroad with your computer(s), especially if you want to automate only parts of your layout and keep control of the rest yourself.

Wow a letter from Mr. Johnson himself? Better be those $60 he owes me.

(Thank you to @24-7-testing for the yearly holiday card and to @purrtal2 for the fabulous art on the card!! It's something I look forward to every year. )

Picture of the card underneath the read more (so folks who also requested a physical card can still have a chance to see the art in person first!)

Ooo, look what came in the mail today!

A letter from Cave Johnson, Founder & CEO?

No, it's even better! It's my Holiday Card from Portal Holiday Spirit Initiative 2023!

I'm really happy with how these turned out and that it finally arrived! Hopefully other people are receiving their cards too.

If you've received your PHSI 2023 Holiday Card, feel free to post about it, @ me, or DM me and let me know. I'm happy to bring a smile to anyone who wants one this year! ☺️

If you would like to receive a Portal-Themed Holiday Card of your own:

Visit bit.ly/PHSI-2023...

Answer the questions in the forms...

Wait for your card to be sent!

It's that easy! Card Requests are now open, and close on December 20th in order to give me enough time to make and send all the cards before the end of the year. Please submit sooner rather than later so I have time to finish them all!

Nationwide pending home sales moved slightly high in May. After 6 months of declines, pending sales increased 0.7% according to the National Association of Realtors® (NAR).

May pending home sales regional breakdown: The Northeast PHSI jumped 15.4% compared to last month at 86.7, though its down 11.9% from May 2021. The Midwest index retreated 1.7% to 98.6 in May, a year-to-year decline of 8.8%.

The South PHSI increased 0.2% to 119.0 in May, though with a 13.8% drop from the previous year. The West index contracted 5.0% in May to 81.6, down 19.8% from May 2021. Learn more...

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My mother just handed these to me yesterday and said, "Oh you are going to love this!"

She was right. And a happy new year, everyone!

Absolutely love the holiday card I got from @24-7-testing ! I'm gonna have to keep it with my wheatley plush

Thanks @24-7-testing!! Love it ❤