The Cause of My Identity Crisis
BETSY is a windows-based program that classifies text based on trained material. It was designed for automated essay scoring and can be applied to any text classification task. (Bayesian Essay Test Scoring sYstem)
Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. Betsy made its most intense landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans; at the time it was the costliest hurricane in the history of the United States, and, as the first hurricane to cause over a billion dollars in damages, earned the nickname "Billion-Dollar Betsy". -Wikipedia
In "The Betsy," released in 1978, the patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and his grandfather. During flashbacks, a parallel set of problems is revealed in the family's past, problems that persist into the present, and the race car driver gets deeper into the web of deception and corporate intrigue.
The aim of the BETSY project is to have multimedia streams on wireless hand-held devices seamlessly adapted to fluctuating network conditions and available terminal resources while reducing the energy consumption of the stream processing. This way the user can enjoy true multimedia experiences with freedom of movement in a networked home or at any hot-spot. To achieve this, we need to be able to make trade-offs between the use and consumption of network and terminal resources, such as bandwidth use, CPU consumption, memory needed and power consumption by the terminal, while guaranteeing end-to-end timeliness - required for streaming data. The results of the BETSY project will make this possible. The BETSY project has started September 1st 2004 and will last for 2 1/2 years. It is part of the IST FP6 program in the area of embedded systems.
The preceding is what comes of being very bored with a Google search engine. I invite you to type your first name into Google and see what you find. It is fun!
posted by incurable optimist @ 4:17 PM
4 Comments:
The "Oggie" cheer is done either prior to the game or prior to the second half instead of something simple like "Lions." It goes something like this:
One player--Oggie oggie oggie!
Rest of team--Oy oy oy!
One player--Oggie oggie oggie!
Rest of team--Oy oy oy!
One player--Oggie!
Rest of team--Oy!
One player--Oggie!
Rest of team--Oy!
One player--Oggie oggie oggie!
Rest of team--Oy oy oy!
It's a take-off on a cheer done by many of Australia's Olympic teams, I think.
Well, it's a good thing that you're the only one who reads my blog, then.
Hmmm. If I see any of Australia's olympic teams while I'm here, I'll try to confirm that.
In response to an earlier post, I think we don't so much need a revival of blogs as a commitment to post comments, and then a revival. I think it's a pretty general fact that people get easily discouraged and quit blogging when no one replies. It's a bit like whistling in the dark.
I plan to go through a major blog renewal when I'm back in the states. I think the other thing is that my blog tends to be too random. While I may keep the one up that I've kept previously (and not written in for who knows how long), I think I may start a "theology of song" blog that has more of a purpose and a focus, instead of keeping up with people, who, as previously stated, tend not to respond.
I'd like to say I'm mad impressed that you have kept this up all the while!
May I become more disciplined in the reading of it :-)
It is indeed a take-off of an Australian cheer...however, they do not say Oggie. They say "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oy oy oy", which, considering their country of origin, makes significantly more sense.
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