on 31-May-2018 (Thu)

On the whole, the world loves TV sci-fi series Westworld .

It's about killer robots in the wild west, features warped old-timey renditions of Radiohead songs, and Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan co-created it.

foreseeable

Anthony Hopkins plays Robert Ford, the co-founder and Park Director of Westworld.

The Caribbean island of Barbados has elected its first woman prime minister since gaining independence from Britain in 1966.

Ms Mottley, a 52-year-old lawyer, is reported to have once told a teacher at her secondary school that she would become the country's first female PM.

byword ˈbʌɪwəːd / noun noun: byword ; plural noun: bywords ; noun: by-word ; plural noun: by-words

1. a person or thing cited as a notable and outstanding example or embodiment of something. "his name became a byword for luxury"

   synonyms:

   perfect example of, classic case of, model of, exemplar of, embodiment of, incarnation of, personification of, epitome of, typification of ; More synonymous with ; rare avatar of "the Court of Chancery had become a byword for administrative delay"

   • a word or expression summarizing a thing's characteristics or a person's principles. "‘Small is beautiful’ may be the byword for most couturiers"

     synonyms:

     slogan , motto , maxim , axiom , dictum , mantra , catchword , watchword , formula , cry , battle cry , rallying cry ; More nickname , middle name ; rare apophthegm "reality was his byword"

byword ˈbʌɪwəːd / noun noun: byword ; plural noun: bywords ; noun: by-word ; plural noun: by-words

1. a person or thing cited as a notable and outstanding example or embodiment of something. "his name became a byword for luxury"

   synonyms:

   perfect example of, classic case of, model of, exemplar of, embodiment of, incarnation of, personification of, epitome of, typification of ; More synonymous with ; rare avatar of "the Court of Chancery had become a byword for administrative delay"

   • a word or expression summarizing a thing's characteristics or a person's principles. "‘Small is beautiful’ may be the byword for most couturiers"

     synonyms:

     slogan , motto , maxim , axiom , dictum , mantra , catchword , watchword , formula , cry , battle cry , rallying cry ; More nickname , middle name ; rare apophthegm "reality was his byword"

pplication Programming Interface

The term API is an acronym, and it stands for “Application Programming Interface.”

Think of an API like a menu in a restaurant. The menu provides a list of dishes you can order, along with a description of each dish. When you specify what menu items you want, the restaurant’s kitchen does the work and provides you with some finished dishes. You don’t know exactly how the restaurant prepares that food, and you don’t really need to.

Similarly, an API lists a bunch of operations that developers can use, along with a description of what they do. The developer doesn’t necessarily need to know how, for example, an operating system builds and presents a “Save As” dialog box. They just need to know that it’s available for use in their app.

This isn’t a perfect metaphor, as developers may have to provide their own data to the API to get the results, so perhaps it’s more like a fancy restaurant where you can provide some of your own ingredients the kitchen will work with.

But it’s broadly accurate. APIs allow developers to save time by taking advantage of a platform’s implementation to do the nitty-gritty work. This helps reduce the amount of code developers need to create, and also helps create more consistency across apps for the same platform. APIs can control access to hardware and software resources.

APIs Make Life Easier for Developers

Let’s say you want to develop an app for an iPhone. Apple’s iOS operating system provides a large number of APIs—as every other operating system does—to make this easier on you.

If you want to embed a web browser to show one or more web pages, for example, you don’t have to program your own web browser from scratch just for your application. You use the WKWebView API to embed a WebKit (Safari) browser object in your application.

If you want to capture photos or video from the iPhone’s camera, you don’t have to write your own camera interface. You use the camera API to embed the iPhone’s built-in camera in your app. If APIs didn’t exist to make this easy, app developers would have to create their own camera software and interpret the camera hardware’s inputs. But Apple’s operating system developers have done all this hard work so the developers can just use the camera API to embed a camera, and then get on with building their app. And, when Apple improves the camera API, all the apps that rely on it will take advantage of that improvement automatically.

This applies to every platform. For example, do you want to create a dialog box on Windows? There’s an API for that. Want to support fingerprint authentication on Android? There’s an API for that, too, so you don’t have to test every different Android manufacturer’s fingerprint sensor. Developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel over and

Odyssey has a better claim than most. Twenty-four books long, it runs to more than 12,000 lines of hexameter verse (the poetic form used in Greek epic and Latin epic after it)
and the terrifying Scylla and Charybdis
keep tabs on Penelope (Odysseus’ long-suffering wife) and trace the smaller-scale wanderings of Telemachos (their rather immature son).
Perhaps the most famous of Odysseus’ adventures appears in Book 9, when he and his men arrive on the island of the Cyclopes. Polyphemos – a one-eyed giant with an appetite for human flesh
most recent series of Prison Break was clearly written by Odyssey fans: Michael Schofield has been held for seven years in a prison named Ogygia (the name of Calypso’s island and the same duration of imprisonment, though Odysseus has a rather nicer time of things than Schofield)

La investigaci´on en Educaci´on matem´atica ha estado principalmente centrada en los aspectos cognitivos, dejando un poco de lado los aspectos afectivos.

puramente intelectual

la determinaci´on, las emociones, juegan un papel importante.