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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Document Parsing, Document based Embeddings and Word Embeddings

For our examples in this post, we would use the following sentence as input:

sentence = "Thomas Jefferson began building Monticello at the age of 26."

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For the fundamental building blocks of NLP, there are equivalents in a computer language compiler:

# tokenizer — scanner, lexer, lexical analyzer
# vocabulary — lexicon
# parser — compiler
# token, term, word, sentence, or n-gram — token, symbol, or terminal symbol

N-gram: two-gram, three-gram or four-gram... so on.

For sentence: Thomas Jefferson began building Monticello at the age of 26.

Two-grams: “Thomas Jefferson”, “Jefferson began”, “began building”, ...

Three-grams: “Thomas Jefferson began”, “Jefferson began building”, ...

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One Hot Vector

Each row of the table is a binary row vector, and you can see why it’s also called a one-hot vector: all but one of the positions (columns) in a row are 0 or blank. Only one column, or position in the vector, is “hot” (“1”). A one (1) means on, or hot. A zero (0) means off, or absent. And you can use the vector:
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0]
to represent the word “began” in your NLP pipeline.

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One-hot vector Representation of a Document

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One hot encoding of a categorical column

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Word Frequency Vector Representation of the Corpus

If you summed all these one-hot vectors together, rather than “replaying” them one at a time, you’d get a bag-of-words vector. This is also called a word frequency vector, because it only counts the frequency of words, not their order.

Ex 1:

Ex 2:

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Explaining Construction of "Word Frequence Vector Representation"

1) Thomas Jefferson began building Monticello at the age of 26.

2) Construction was done mostly by local masons and carpenters.

3) He moved into the South Pavilion in 1770.

4) Turning Monticello into a neoclassical masterpiece was Jefferson's obsession.

We have 26 and 1770 as Numbers.

First step to building vocabulary is sorting the words:

Sorting the words:

1770, 26, Construction, He...

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Dot product / Inner product / Scalar product

Geometric Definition

In Euclidean space, a Euclidean vector is a geometric object that possesses both a magnitude and a direction. A vector can be pictured as an arrow. Its magnitude is its length, and its direction is the direction to which the arrow points. The magnitude of a vector “a” is denoted by ||a||. The dot product of two Euclidean vectors a and b is defined by:

An application of dot product

Sent0 = I am Ashish.
Sent1 = Maybe am not.

Words: I am Ashish Maybe not

Sent0 1 1 1 0 0
Sent1 0 1 0 1 1

SENT0.SENT1 = (1 * 0) + (1 * 1) + (1 * 0) + (0 * 1) + (0 * 1)
= 1

Number of common words in these two sentences is “1”.

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Several Python libraries implement tokenizers, each with its own advantages and disadvantages

# spaCy — Accurate , flexible, fast, Python

# Stanford CoreNLP — More accurate, less flexible, fast, depends on Java 8

# NLTK — Standard used by many NLP contests and comparisons, popular, Python

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Treebank Word Tokenizer

An even better tokenizer is the Treebank Word Tokenizer from the NLTK package. It incorporates a variety of common rules for English word tokenization. For example, it separates phrase-terminating punctuation (?!.;,) from adjacent tokens and retains decimal numbers containing a period as a single token. In addition, it contains rules for English contractions. For example, “don’t” is tokenized as ["do", "n’t"]. This tokenization will help with subsequent steps in the NLP pipeline, such as stemming. You can find all the rules for the Treebank Tokenizer at: nltk.tokenize.treebank

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Stop Words

Stop words are common words in any language that occur with a high frequency but carry much less substantive information about the meaning of a phrase. Examples of some common stop words include:

 a, an
 the, this
 and, or
 of, on

Historically, stop words have been excluded from NLP pipelines in order to reduce the computational effort to extract information from a text. Even though the words themselves carry little information, the stop words can provide important relational information as part of an n-gram. Consider these two examples:

 Mark reported to the CEO
 Suzanne reported as the CEO to the board

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Document Parsing Ends Here And: Word Embeddings Begin.
Word Embeddings

One of the most exciting recent advancements in NLP is the “discovery” of word vectors. This chapter will help you understand what they are and how to use them to do some surprisingly powerful things. You’ll learn how to recover some of the fuzziness and subtlety of word meaning that was lost in the approximations of earlier chapters.

In the previous chapters, we ignored the nearby context of a word. We ignored the words around each word. We ignored the effect the neighbors of a word have on its meaning and how those relationships affect the overall meaning of a statement. Our bag-of-words concept jumbled all the words from each document together into a statistical bag. In this chapter, you’ll create much smaller bags of words from a “neighborhood” of only a few words, typically fewer than 10 tokens. You’ll also ensure that these neighborhoods of meaning don’t spill over into adjacent sentences. This process will help focus your word vector training on the relevant words.

Word Vectors or Word Embeddings

Word vectors are numerical vector representations of word semantics, or meaning, including literal and implied meaning. So word vectors can capture the connotation of words, like “peopleness,” “animalness,” “placeness,” “thingness,” and even “conceptness.” And they combine all that into a dense vector (no zeros) of floating point values. This dense vector enables queries and logical reasoning.
Labels: Artificial Intelligence,Natural Language Processing,Python,Technology,

Index of Word Meanings

Idioms, Phrases and Quotes

Word Meanings

For Beginners

Word Meanings (Beginner's Day 3 (16 Words))

Index of Word Meanings

Passage:

I was born in a small village called Taktser, in the northeast of Tibet, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Wood Hog Year of the Tibetan calendar—that is, 1935, Taktser is in the district called Dokham, and that name is descriptive, for Do means the lower part of a valley that merges into the plains, and Kham is the eastern part of Tibet where the distinctive race of Tibetans called Khampa lives. Thus Dokham is the part of Tibet where our mountains begin to descend to the plains of the east, towards China. Taktser itself is about 9,000 feet above the sea.

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north-east
noun
noun: northeast
the direction or a region halfway between north and east
उत्तर और पूर्व के मध्‍य की दिशा या क्षेत्र, पूर्वोत्तर या उत्तर-पूर्व

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called
कॉल्‍ड्‌

adjective
to have a particular name
कोई विशेष नाम होना

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descriptive
डिˈस्क्रिप्‌टिव़्‌

adjective
that describes somebody/something, especially in a skilful or interesting way
वर्णनात्‍मक, वर्णनप्रधान

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descriptive
डिˈस्क्रिप्‌टिव़्‌

adjective
that describes somebody/something, especially in a skilful or interesting way
वर्णनात्‍मक, वर्णनप्रधान

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merge
मज्‌

verb
3rd person present: merges
1.
to become part of something larger
में विलय या विलीन हो जाना, अपने से बड़े का हिस्‍सा बन जाना
Three small companies merged into one large one.Three small companies merged into one large one.
This stream merges with the river a few miles downstream.

2.
to join things together so that they become one
वस्‍तुओं का मिलाकर एक कर देना

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lower
‍ˈलोअ(र्‌)
adjective

below something or at the bottom of something
निचला

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valley
‍ˈव़ैलि
noun
the low land between two mountains or hills, which often has a river flowing through it
दो पर्वतों या पहाड़ों के बीच की नीची भूमि प्रायः जिससे होकर नदी बहती है; घाटी, वादी

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plain
प्‍लेन्‌
Learn to pronounce
noun
plural noun: plains
a large area of flat land with few trees
कम वृक्षों वाला बड़ा समतल इलाक़ा; बड़ा सपाट मैदान

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born
बॉन्‌

verb
to come into the world by birth; to start existing
जन्‍म लेना, पैदा होना; अस्तित्व का आरंभ होना
I was born in Lucknow but I grew up in Varanasi.I was born in Lucknow but I grew up in Varanasi.
The idea of free education for all was born in the nineteenth century.
His unhappiness was born out of a feeling of frustration.

adjective
1.
having a natural ability to do something
जन्‍मजात, प्राकृतिक गुण संपन्‍न
She’s a born leader.She’s a born leader.

2.
born in the place or state mentioned
निर्दिष्ट स्‍थान पर या अवस्‍था में जन्‍मा

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begin
बिˈगिन्‌

verb
1.
to start doing something; to do the first part of something
(कोई काम) आरंभ करना, शुरू करना; पहले चरण का आरंभ करना
Shall I begin or will you?Shall I begin or will you?
I began [started steading] reading this novel last month and I still haven’t finished it.

2.
to start to happen or exist, especially from a particular time
कोई घटना शुरू होना, प्रारंभ होना, विशेषतः किसी ख़ास समय से

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11.

descend
डिˈसै᠎̮न्‍ड्‌

FORMAL
verb
to go down to a lower place; to go down something
नीचे आना; उतरना
The plane started to descend and a few minutes later we landed.

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12.

towards
टˈवॉड्‌ज़्‌

preposition
1.
in the direction of somebody/something
किसी की ओर खींचना
I saw Kamal walking towards the station.I saw Kamal walking towards the station.
a first step towards world peace
2.
near or nearer a time or date
किसी समय या तारीख़ के निकट या अधिक निकट

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13.

above
अˈबव़्‌

preposition , adjective , adverb
1.
in a higher place
उच्‍चतर स्‍थान में; ऊपर
The people in the flat above make a lot of noise.The people in the flat above make a lot of noise.
The coffee is in the cupboard above the sink.The coffee is in the cupboard above the sink.
2.
in an earlier part (of something written)
(लिखित कथन के प्रसंग में) उपर्युक्त, पूर्वोक्त
Contact me at the above address [the address above].Contact me at the above address [the address above].
Opposite:
below
3.
more than a number, amount, price, etc.
किसी संख्‍या, राशि, क़ीमत आदि से अधिक
children aged 11 and abovechildren aged 11 and above
You must get above 50 per cent to pass the exam.You must get above 50 per cent to pass the exam.
above-average temperaturesabove-average temperatures
Opposite:
below
4.
with a higher position in an organization, etc.
किसी संगठन आदि के उच्‍चतर पद पर
The person above me is the department manager.The person above me is the department manager.
Opposite:
below
5.
too proud to do something
अभिमानवश किसी कार्य को तुच्‍छ समझना
He seems to think he’s above helping with the cleaning.He seems to think he’s above helping with the cleaning.

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14.

foot
फ़ुट्‌

noun
plural noun: feet
1.
the lowest part of the body, at the end of the leg, on which a person or animal stands
पैर, पाँव
to get/rise to your feet [stand up]to get/rise to your feet [stand up]
I usually go to school on foot [walking].I usually go to school on foot [walking].
a foot brake/pedal/pump [one that is operated by your foot]a foot brake/pedal/pump [one that is operated by your foot]
2.
having or using the type of foot or number of feet mentioned
निर्दिष्ट प्रकार के (बायाँ या दायाँ) पैर वाला या निर्दिष्ट संख्‍या (चार, छह आदि) पैरों वाला
There are no left-footed players in the team.There are no left-footed players in the team.
a four-footed creaturea four-footed creature
3.
the part of a sock, etc. that covers the foot
ज़ुराब आदि का वह हिस्‍सा जो पैर को ढकता है (जुराब का पैर)
4.
the bottom of something
किसी वस्‍तु का तला
There’s a note at the foot of the page.There’s a note at the foot of the page.
the foot of the stairsthe foot of the stairs
the foot of the bedthe foot of the bed
Opposite:
top
5.
measurement of length; 30.48 centimetres
लंबाई की एक माप; 30.48 सेंटीमीटर
‘How tall are you?’ ‘Five foot six (inches).’‘How tall are you?’ ‘Five foot six (inches).’
a six-foot high walla six-foot high wall

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country
‍ˈकन्‌ट्रि

noun
noun: country; noun: the country; plural noun: countries
1.
an area of land with its own people, government, etc.
किसी भूक्षेत्र में रहनेवाले लोग, उनकी सरकार आदि, देश
India, Sri Lanka and other Asian countriesIndia, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries
There was rain over much of the country during the monsoons.There was rain over much of the country during the monsoons.
2.
the people who live in a country
देश के निवासी
a survey to find out what the country really thinksa survey to find out what the country really thinks
3.
land which is away from towns and cities
देहात, ग्रामीण क्षेत्र (शहरों और क़स्‍बों से दूर)
Do you live in a town or in the country?Do you live in a town or in the country?
4.
an area of land
ज़मीन का इलाक़ा; भूक्षेत्र
We looked down over miles of open country.We looked down over miles of open country.
hilly countryhilly country

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16.

our
आ(र्‌)
determiner
possesive pronoun: our
of or belonging to us
हमारा (जिसके हम स्‍वामी हैं या जो हमसे संबंधित है)
Our house is at the bottom of the road.Our house is at the bottom of the road.
This is our first visit to Shimla.

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Tags: Word Meanings,Communication Skills,

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Chapter 4 - Manju bua drawing comparison between two infants viz Anushka and myself

Index of Journals

When Anushka was three, Manju bua once told me that this new girl in the family has striking similarities in her nature with the ones that I had when I was of her age. I was adamant. I used to be stiff about my decisions. Whether I would be right or wrong, most of the times I would be wrong though, but adamant. That is exactly what bua told me. In addition, of course, historians write history in the favor of the last victorious person. Moreover, as I have grown too much to recall anything from the time when I was an infant, Manju bua and all others like grandma and aunt won. 

Therefore, that means I was a mess as a child.

I would demand what I would feel like. There will be times when whole house will be standing on one side, and I on the other. Buaji continues, "Not that others were wrong, but you were still not listening to them." 

Anushka was just climbing on her shoulders via chest as she was sitting on bed with Prachi and me. Looking at her bua told me that I used to act in exactly the same way, crying, howling, but never telling the problem or putting my wish before anybody. So what would one do in such a situation other than being violent? Then she slaps Anushka to shut her up. 

Bua would now ask me if I still had in my mind some old memories from the times when I was in Tri Nagar. I said no. She asks in bewilderment, "so since what time you can still recollect vividly?" 

That answer to her question was eighth and then she reminds me of Maharaja Agrasen Public School, where I studied until fourth standard. She told me the names of the other two Ashish(s) I had in my class when I was in first class, Ashish Kumar and Ashish Kanojia.  

“It’s Kanojia!” I had always thought that it is Kalonjia, whatever! 

I ask her the question I had always wanted to know the answer of which,” How old was I when you got married?” I was merely in first. Ah! Okay, so that is why I can hardly think of you and me together in Tri Nagar. 

Labels: Behavioral Science, Biography, Emotional Intelligence, Indian Politics, Journal, Politics, Psychology

Word Meanings (Beginner's Day 2 (15 Words))

Index of Word Meanings

1.

people
/ˈpiːp(ə)l/
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Law
Grammar
Religion
noun
1.
human beings in general or considered collectively.
"the earthquake killed 30,000 people"
Similar:
human beings
persons
individuals
humans
mankind
humankind
the human race
Homo sapiens
humanity
the human species
mortals
(living) souls
personages
men
women
and children
folk
peeps
2.
the members of a particular nation, community, or ethnic group.
"the native peoples of Canada"
Similar:
race
tribe
clan
ethnic group
strain
stock
caste
nation
country
population
populace
breed
folk
seed
verb
(of a group of people) inhabit (a place).
"an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans"
Similar:
populate
settle (in)
colonize
establish oneself in
inhabit
live in

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2.

land
/land/
Learn to pronounce
See definitions in:
All
Geography
Farming
Transportation
noun
1.
the part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water.
"the reptiles lay their eggs on land"
Similar:
terra firma
dry land
solid ground
coast
coastline
shore
Opposite:
sea
2.
a country or state.
"the valley is one of the most beautiful in the land"
Similar:
country
nation
state
nation state
fatherland
motherland
homeland
realm
kingdom
empire
republic
commonwealth
province
territory
district
region
area
domain
verb
1.
put (someone or something) on land from a boat.
"he landed his troops at Hastings"
2.
come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface.
"we will shortly be landing at Gatwick"
Similar:
touch down
alight
make a landing
come in to land
come down

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3.

fear
/fɪə/
Learn to pronounce
noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm.
"I cowered in fear as bullets whizzed past"
Similar:
terror
fright
fearfulness
horror
alarm
panic
agitation
trepidation
dread
consternation
dismay
distress
anxiety
worry
angst
unease
uneasiness
apprehension
apprehensiveness
nervousness
nerves
timidity
disquiet
disquietude
discomposure
unrest
perturbation
foreboding
misgiving
doubt
suspicion
the creeps
the willies
the heebie-jeebies
the shakes
the collywobbles
jitteriness
twitchiness
butterflies (in the stomach)
funk
blue funk
the (screaming) abdabs
the Joe Blakes
worriment
inquietude
phobia
aversion
antipathy
bugbear
bogey
nightmare
neurosis
complex
mania
abnormal fear
irrational fear
obsessive fear
bête noire
hang-up
Opposite:
calmness
confidence
verb
be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or harmful.
"I hated him but didn't fear him any more"
Similar:
be afraid of
be fearful of
be scared of
be apprehensive of
dread

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4.

eastern
/ˈiːst(ə)n/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
1.
situated in, directed towards, or facing the east.
"the eastern slopes of the mountain"
2.
living in or originating from the regions or countries to the east of Europe.
"an Eastern mystic"

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5.

all
/ɔːl/
predeterminer · determiner · pronoun
used to refer to the whole quantity or extent of a particular group or thing.
"all the people I met"
Similar:
each of
each one of the
every one of the
every single one of the
every
each and every
every single
the whole of the
every bit of the
the complete
the entire
the totality of the
in its entirety
complete
entire
total
full
utter
perfect
all-out
greatest (possible)
maximum
everyone
everybody
each/every person
the (whole) lot
each one
each thing
the sum
the total
the whole lot
everything
every part
the whole amount
the total amount
the entirety
the sum total
the aggregate
Opposite:
no
none of the
little
none
nobody
nothing
adverb
1.
completely.
"dressed all in black"
Similar:
completely
fully
entirely
totally
wholly
absolutely
utterly
outright
thoroughly
altogether
quite
in every respect
in all respects
without reservation
without exception
Opposite:
partly
not at all
2.
(in games) used after a number to indicate an equal score.
"after extra time it was still two all"

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6.

his
/hɪz/
determiner
1.
belonging to or associated with a male person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified.
"James sold his business"
2.
used in titles.
"His Excellency"
pronoun
used to refer to a thing or things belonging to or associated with a male person or animal previously mentioned.
"he took my hand in his"

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7.

translate
/transˈleɪt,trɑːnsˈleɪt,tranzˈleɪt,trɑːnzˈleɪt/
Learn to pronounce
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Biology
Religion
Physics
Mathematics
verb
1.
express the sense of (words or text) in another language.
"several of his books were translated into English"
Similar:
interpret
render
gloss
put
express
convert
change
construe
transcribe
transliterate
2.
move from one place or condition to another.
"she had been translated from familiar surroundings to a foreign court"
Similar:
relocate
transfer
move
remove
shift
convey
transport

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8.

desperate
/ˈdɛsp(ə)rət/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
1.
feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
"a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth"
Similar:
despairing
hopeless
anguished
distressed
in despair
suicidal
miserable
wretched
desolate
forlorn
disheartened
discouraged
demoralized
devastated
downcast
resigned
defeatist
pessimistic
distraught
fraught
overcome
out of one's mind
at one's wits' end
beside oneself
at the end of one's tether
dolorous
Opposite:
cheerful
composed
2.
(of a person) having a great need or desire for something.
"I am desperate for a cigarette"
Similar:
in great need of
urgently requiring
craving
in want of
lacking
wanting


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9.

visit
/ˈvɪzɪt/
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Computing
Biblical
verb
1.
go to see and spend time with (someone) socially.
"I came to visit my grandmother"
Similar:
pay someone a call
pay someone a visit
pay a call on
pay a visit to
go to see
come to see
look in on
stay with
spend time with
be the guest of
stop by
drop by
pay a call
pay a visit
come to stay
call on
call in on
holiday with
visit with
go see
pop in on
drop in on
blow in on
drop round to see
look up
2.
inflict (something harmful or unpleasant) on someone.
"the mockery visited upon him by his schoolmates"
Similar:
happen to
overtake
befall
come upon
fall upon
hit
strike
noun
an act of going to see a person or place as a guest, tourist, etc.
"I'll pay him a visit soon"
Similar:
social call
call

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10.

grateful
/ˈɡreɪtfʊl,ˈɡreɪtf(ə)l/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received.
"I'm grateful to you for all your help"
Similar:
thankful
filled with gratitude
appreciative
indebted
obliged
obligated
under obligation
in your debt
beholden
Opposite:
ungrateful
ARCHAIC
received or experienced with gratitude; welcome.
"the grateful shade"

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11.

interpreter
इन्ˈटप्रिट(र्‌)
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person whose job is to translate what somebody is saying immediately into another language
एक भाषा से दूसरी भाषा में मौखिक अनुवाद करने वाला व्‍यक्ति, मौखिक अनुवादक; भाष्‍यकार

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12. Tibet

The term 'Tibet' refers to the political state ruled by the Dalai Lamas; it does not refer to the ethnic border areas such as Amdo and Kham 

Tibet definition: an autonomous region of SW China; formerly a theocracy and the centre of Lamaism :

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas, in the People's Republic of China. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well ...

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13.

Tibetan
/tɪˈbɛt(ə)n/
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noun
1.
a native of Tibet or a person of Tibetan descent.
2.
the Sino-Tibetan language of Tibet, spoken by about 4 million people in Tibet and in neighbouring areas of China, India, and Nepal.
adjective
relating to Tibet, its people, or its language.

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14.

explain
इक्‌ˈस्‍प्‍लेन्‌
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verb
1.
to make something clear or easy to understand
समझना, स्‍पष्‍ट करना
She explained how I should fill in the form.She explained how I should fill in the form.
I don’t understand this. Can you explain it to me?
2.
to give a reason for something
किसी बात का कारण बताना
The manager explained to the customers why the goods were late.The manager explained to the customers why the goods were late.

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15.

alone
अˈलोन्‌
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adjective , adverb
1.
without any other person
अकेला; बिना किसी अन्‍य व्‍यक्ति के
The old man lives alone.The old man lives alone.
2.
only
केवल
You alone can help us.You alone can help us.

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Censorship in India, Torrenting and Tribler (Aug 2021)

1: Censorship in India (Part 1)
Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.
Note: You can still open the link the Tor Browser.



2: Censorship in India (Part 2)
Censorship of trackers (discovered using qBit)


3: Now comes in the Tribler. What's that?


4: Getting the Magnet link for a Torrent download via qBitTorrent


5: Paste the Magnet link from qBit to Tribler


Then wait for Metadata to load.

6: Trackers information in Tribler


7: Peer info in Tribler


8: Caveat: Performance Issue in Tribler

Labels: Cyber Security, Indian Politics, Politics, Technology, Web Development, Web Scraping

Friday, August 6, 2021

Types of Noodles as Packaged Food (Aug 2021)

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Tags: Journal,Investment,Management,Technology,

Chapter 3 (Manju bua, Cobra and Mongoose)

Index of Journals

Back around when we were kids (second and third), Manju bua had once told a short to me (to us actually, the kids, Anu, Prashant, Srishti and me. It was ‘The story of a Snake, and a pet Mongoose’. 

A family of four, the husband, the wife, and the infant baby, and the pet Mongoose lived happily in a house. Once the husband and wife had to go out of the house, and they could not have taken the baby with them. They sorted out a plan to let Mongoose take care of the sleeping baby being in the house, and they would be able go and come back care free. They dressed up, fed and put baby to rest in his swing-baby-bed, teach Mongoose to take care of the house and the baby, and never leave the door until they return. They left peacefully. The morning had already turned into afternoon; the Mongoose hadn’t moved from his place, baby slept peacefully. Light dimmed further and putting Mongoose on test. A snake had found its way here. The Mongoose stood in its way to the baby. Blood shedding, jaw dropping, screeching, scratching, screaming, wild-fighting happened between the two. The snake pushed the blood trail from the door steps to the baby. The wounded snake leapt to the baby bed; and Mongoose to the snake’s neck. A little bad timing of either one could have taken the baby’s life away. Mongoose got the snake by its neck, and ended the duel. Red mouthed, blood bathed Mongoose came back and sat down just the way the master had seen him sitting last on the door. The couple came back and was horrified with the blood spread everywhere. They see the gory Mongoose running to them, and presume that their baby was eaten up by the animal. The owner picks up a bamboo stick, and smashes the life out of the speechless animal’s head. The Mongoose lays lifeless as the husband-wife run from over it to see the baby. The baby had just woken up from a peaceful sleep, staring at its parents from its wide and dumb eyes, by its bed side laid the snake’s body, and the couple cried forever for what they had done.

I was very small when she must have told me this story. She could make the voice, the childish, cute, loveable convincing voice that a seven year old can’t connect to. Manju buaji has always had a way with children, it is just that now she doesn’t have the energy, but the mother nature-traits are still there, seen when she would have to talk Anushka (her younger daughter who’s just entered first grade) out/ into something. The story itself and buaji’s story-telling art left an impression on my mind.
I read this story again in my sixth standard supplementary Hindi text book.

Note: Mongoose is called Nevla in Hindi.

Tags: Psychology,Emotional Intelligence,Behavioral Science,Biography,Journal,Indian Politics,Politics,

Thursday, August 5, 2021

LinkedIn Machine Learning Assessment Dump (Aug 2021)



































Tags: Technology,Artificial Intelligence,Machine Learning,Deep Learning,