Comparing MaxEnt and Noisy Harmonic Grammar

MaxEnt grammar is a probabilistic version of Harmonic Grammar in which the harmony scores of candidates are mapped onto probabilities. It has become the tool of choice for analyzing phonological phenomena involving probabilistic variation or gradient acceptability, but there is a competing proposal for making Harmonic Grammar probabilistic, Noisy Harmonic Grammar, in which variation is derived by adding random ‘noise’ to constraint weights. In this paper these grammar frameworks, and variants of them, are analyzed by reformulating them all in a format where noise is added to candidate harmonies, and the differences between frameworks lie in the distribution of this noise. This analysis reveals a basic difference between the models: in MaxEnt the relative probabilities of two candidates depend only on the difference in their harmony scores, whereas in Noisy Harmonic Grammar it also depends on the differences in the constraint violations incurred by the two candidates. This difference leads to testable predictions which are evaluated against data on variable realization of schwa in French (Smith & Pater 2020). The results support MaxEnt over Noisy Harmonic Grammar.

Implementation of AHP and SAW Methods for Optimization of Decision Recommendations

Differences in interest in decision making are one of the things that must be facilitated in decision support applications. The most basic difference of interest in decision making is the difference in the weight of the importance of each criterion used. Each decision maker has their own interest in the criteria used. If these differences can be facilitated properly, the resulting decision recommendations can be optimal, in this case more in line with the interests of the users. The model is designed using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Simple Additive Weight (SAW) methods, using 5 criteria. The final result of the AHP method is in the form of criteria weights that are in accordance with the interests of decision makers and in accordance with the consistency of the comparisons that have been given. The resulting weight will be used in the final calculation of SAW, namely in the calculation of alternative weights. By using AHP, the weight of the criteria becomes more subjective according to the interests of decision makers. Thus, the resulting alternative recommendations become more optimal because they are in accordance with the needs of decision makers.

ANALISIS STRUKTUR GEDUNG IRNA (INSTALASI RAWAT INAP) RUMAH SAKIT UMUM PASAMAN BARAT MENGGUNAKAN SNI BETON BERTULANG 2847:2019 DAN SNI GEMPA 1726:2019

Indonesia continues to follow the development of building standards in the world which are dynamically changing for the better and safer, both in loading regulations, planning for concrete structures, steel structures, and planning for earthquake resistance. The latest planning standard methods reviewed in this study are SNI-03-1726-2019, SNI-03-2847-2019 and RSNI-03-1727-2020 replacing SNI-03-1726-2012, SNI-03-1727-2013, and SNI-03-2847-2013. The basic difference in SNI-03-1726:2012 compared to SNI-03-1726:2019 is in the coefficients of Fa and Fv, namely the coefficient of soil sites for a long earthquake period of 1 second and in SNI-03-2847:2019 which refers to ACI 318M-14 Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete. The results of this study found that this change in the modeling of the West Pasaman Regional General Hospital met the requirements for the SNI-03-1726-2019 earthquake design and the SNI-03-2847-2019 reinforced concrete design.

Web Mercator Projection – One of Cylindrical Projections of an Ellipsoid to a Plane

The Web Mercator projection is a projection of a relatively recent date. There has been a lot of controversy about its application. Some believe that this projection is not a projection of either the sphere or the surface of the ellipsoid. Therefore, in this paper, several projections of the surface of a rotational ellipsoid into a plane are investigated and it is shown that the Web Mercator projection is one of such projections. Namely, although the equations of this projection are identical to the equations for the projection of the sphere, the basic difference is in the choice of the area of definition, i.e., the domain of the projection. Furthermore, we have shown that the Web Mercator projection can also be interpreted as double mapping: mapping an ellipsoid to a sphere according to the normals and then mapping the sphere to the plane according to the formulas of the Mercator projection for the sphere. The Web Mercator projection is not a conformal projection, but it is close in properties to the Mercator projection.

T.A. Guriev about the evolution of the god Safa

Статья посвящена сравнительному анализу исследовательской концепции происхождения и сущности божества осетинского пантеона Сафы, принадлежащей одному из ведущих осетиноведов Тамерлану Александровичу Гуриеву. Концепция представлена в статье «Геродотова Гестия/Табити и Сафа в осетинской нартиаде» [1]. Сложность, «многослойность» исследуемого объекта по сей день сохраняет дискуссию в научном сообществе. До сих пор не существует однозначного ответа по поводу истоков появления Сафы, его подлинной сущности, образа и характера, этимологии имени. Мы ставим своей целью рассмотреть еще один вариант объяснения ономастики и сакральных функций Сафы, представленных в концепции авторитетного ученого-лингвиста Тамерлана Александровича Гуриева, подвергнуть ее научному анализу и определить степень ее интегрированности в современное осетиноведение. Новизна исследования заключается в предпринятом перекрестном анализе двух разных концепций Сафы – Т.А. Гуриева и Б.А. Алборова, – что позволило обнаружить ряд сходных выводов, к которым оба ученых в разное время пришли совершенно самостоятельно, чем, в свою очередь, косвенно подтверждается их объективность. Существенная разница точек зрения (Б.А. Алборов считал Сафу производным от протоиудейского бога Саваофа, а Т.А. Гуриев – скифской богини Табити) не помешала ученым прийти к общим выводам. К наиболее существенным сходным чертам обеих концепций можно отнести вывод о солярности Сафы (правда, по-разному трактуемой) и о том, что божество на самом деле является результатом маскулинизации. The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the research concept of the origin and essence of the deity Safa of the Ossetian pantheon, which belongs to one of the leading Ossetian scholars Tamerlan Alexandrovich Guriev. The concept is presented in the article "Herodot’s Hestia / Tabiti and Safa in the Ossetian Nartyada" [1]. The complexity, "multi-layered" nature of the object under study to this day keeps the discussion in the scientific community. Until now, there is no unequivocal answer about the origins of the appearance of Safa, his true essence, image and character, the etymology of the name. We aim to consider another version interpreting Safa's onomastics and his sacred functions, presented in the concept of the reknown linguist Tamerlan Aleksandrovich Guriev, subject it to scientific analysis and determine the degree of its integration into modern Ossetian studies. The novelty of the research lies in the undertaken cross-analysis of two different concepts of Safa advanced by T.A. Guriev and B.A. Alborov with the aim of finding a number of similar conclusions, to which both scientists at different times came completely independently, which, in turn, indirectly confirms their objectivity. A significant and basic difference in points of view (BA Alborov considered Safu to be derived from the proto-Jewish god Sabaoth, and T.A. Guriev ‒ the Scythian goddess Tabiti), did not prevent the scientists from coming to general conclusions. The most significant similarities between both concepts include the conclusion about Safa's solarity (though interpreted in different ways) and that the deity is in fact the result of masculinization.

PENDIDIKAN DALAM MASYARAKAT MODERN SEDERHANA

One very basic difference between education in a simple society and modern society is a shift from the need for individuals to learn something that is agreed upon by everyone for their survival, both present and future. The greater the knowledge and complex skills to be learned, the longer it will take for the continuity of social life. The task of education in society is to arouse intellectual curiosity, that is, attention to knowledge that is separate from its practical application. This is not easy, because it requires attitude, discipline and intellect that is not pragmatic, instant and fast-paced. With the existence of educational comparisons in this society, a more balanced, critical comparison of our education system is processed. It is clear, that in education there is no bias in moving complex practices into a culture that is more complex and large and expecting results. On the other hand, the success of a simple society in taking care of certain aspects in encouraging their education will encourage us to overcome our educational problems such as the problem of integrating children into the community into their environment and arousing student interest, motivation and attention during the education period. It is necessary to look for solutions with a greater perspective and optimism. Keywords: Education, Society, Modern, Simple.

Developing MCQA Framework for Basic Science Subjects using Distributed Similarity Model and Classification Based Approaches

In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to improve the performance of multiple choice question answering (MCQA) system using distributed semantic similarity and classification approach. We mainly focus on science-based MCQ which is really difficult to handle. Our proposed method is based on the hypothesis that the relation between question and answer of that question will be high in distributional semantic model rather than other options of that question. We are using IJCNLP shared Task 5 and SciQ dataset for our experiments. We have built three Models (i.e., Model 1, Model 2, Model 3) based on the dataset format. The basic difference between IJCNLP Task 5 and SciQ datasets is that SciQ dataset contains supporting text with questions whereas IJCNLP Task 5 dataset does not contain supporting text. Model 1 and Model 2 are mainly built to deal with IJCNLP Task 5 dataset whereas Model 3 is mainly built for SciQ dataset. Model 2 is mainly built to deal with the dependencies between options (i.e., all of these, two of them, none of them) whereas Model 1 is the basic model for MCQA and it cannot capture the dependencies between options. We also compare the result of SciQ dataset with supporting text (i.e., using Model 3) and without supporting text (i.e., using Model 1). We also compared our system with other existing methods. Though in some cases the performance of our proposed method is not satisfactory, we have noted that our submission is simple and robust that allows it to be more easily integrated into complex applications. This work investigates different techniques for choosing the correct answer of a given question in MCQA system. These experiments may therefore be useful to improve the performance of current science-based question answering (QA) systems. For IJCNLP Task 5 dataset, we achieved 44.5% using Model 2 and PubMed Dataset. Similarly for SciQ dataset we achieved 82.25% using Model 3 and PubMed dataset.

Symmetric Quantile Quantizer Parameterization for the Laplacian Source: Qualification for Contemporary Quantization Solutions

In this paper, we consider the opportunities and constraints, which rest on quantization as a guiding principle for data representation and compression. In particular, we propose a novel model of Symmetric Quantile Quantizer (SQQ) and we describe in detail its parameterization. We suggest a simple method for offline precalculation of its parameters and we examine the inevitable loss of information introduced by SQQ, as an important part of bit optimization task at the traditional network level, which can be globally mapped out in many contemporary solutions. Our anticipation is that such precalculated values can be leveraged in deterministic quantization process. We highlight that this notice heavily relies on the fact that the values of interest are distributed according to the Laplacian distribution, which we consider in the paper. The basic difference of our SQQ and the previously established asymptotically optimal quantizer model, that is, Scalar Companding Quantizer (SCQ), is reflected in the fact that, in SCQ model, both decision thresholds and representation levels are determined in accordance with the specified compressor function, whereas in our SQQ model, a precedence of SCQ model for the straightforward decision thresholds calculation is used, while the representation levels are optimally determined for the specified decision thresholds and assumed Laplacian distribution. As a result, our SQQ outperforms SCQ in terms of signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR). As stated in this paper, there are numerous indications to make us believe that appropriate quantizer parameterization will move us closer to an optimization in the amount of the transferred data in bits, which is strongly dependent on the amount of SQNR.

Optimalisasi Peran Orang Tua Dalam Pembelajaran Daring Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di Kelurahan Sumber Harta

Covid-19 has a very bad impact on human life. Many activities that are hampered are also limited because of this virus. The economic, social, political sectors including education are very affected. As a result, the world of education must carry out the learning process at home online. The most basic difference is that students cannot be directly with the teacher. So that the focus of students is very limited, considering many things that can interfere with student concentration when learning from home. Starting from this, it is what encourages parents to guide their children to learn with courage. is a challenge for parents. The situation is that parents must be technology literate in order to be able to guide children in school and provide full support for children to be able to learn well during the Covid-19 pandemic. This modern education pattern must still be implemented until conditions are back to conducive.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TAOISM AND COMPLEMENTARY REFLECTION (IBUANYIDANDA PHILOSOPHY)

This work examined the thoughts of Taoism as propounded by Lao-Tzu and Complementary Reflection as propounded by Asouzu to discover their nexus and their point of diversion. One basic difference between the two is that complementary reflection is not a religion but Taoism is at once a philosophy and a religion. Notwithstanding the differences in nuances, contents and emphasis, we discovered a striking similarity between the two thoughts – there are geared towards complementarity. However, I believe the major weakness of Taoism over complementary reflection surrounds the concept of Tao, which is a mysterious unverifiable principle of integration.