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“You just think about what you always can do better. Right now, what I’m doing is grieving with the families…There will be time that we’ll go through and think about how we can make our society better…but right now I really think it’s the time to grieve with our families.” – Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on “Fox & Friends” today discussing what needs to be done in the immediate aftermath of the Orlando shootings.
Cambridge, MA - December 12, 2016 – Today, Talla, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence company, announced the launch of their workflow automation platform for human resources departments. Talla allows businesses to amplify the speed, collaboration and transparency that chat applications like Slack and HipChat are known for. By allowing businesses to manage specific processes, like employee onboarding, training and information gathering, Talla frees HR departments from much of the monotonous work that commonly keeps them from the core of their jobs.
Though we’ve seen rapid innovation in other business verticals, human resources has been overdue for the automation and insights already available to other business teams, like marketing or sales. Much of the HR software stack has not caught up to other available tools, even within otherwise technologically progressive companies. The recent rise of messaging platforms has given HR a centralized command center through which their internal business processes can be run. As a leader in this movement known as ChatOps, Talla gives HR teams a highly configurable way to automate their time-intensive processes, all from within their team’s existing communication tools.
“Chat apps like Slack and Hipchat have considerably changed the way people work by increasing collaboration, speeding up workflows and increasing alignment through a rich and transparent history of day-to-day business discussions,” said Rob May, CEO of Talla. “Talla’s new platform allows these chat applications to do much more, turning them into command centers that businesses can use to run more effectively.”
Talla for HR is designed to be easily customizable, allowing users to complete everything from simple tasks to automating complicated workflows. Though information from Talla is delivered and collected conversationally through a bot in the chat platforms it sits in, unlike traditional bots, which are static and constrained to specific workflows, Talla uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to adapt to various tasks and is trained by employees.
Talla for HR is available now for download. Talla will soon launch integrations with major HR applications that will allow departments to pull data and actions from these apps into the Chatops workflows.
“The future of the workplace is here, and is overwhelmingly powered by chat,” said May. “While email ushered in a new standard of communication, we are now taking the next step in redefining the way people work.”
About Talla
Talla gives you the power to turn your chat platform into a command center for your company. Talla combines the tools, processes, and intelligent automation you need to manage information workflows within messaging systems, including Slack. Use Talla to enable business processes in chat, such as onboarding employees, training on new skills, polling, and building out custom experiences. You’ll be able deliver and gather important information for your team, keeping everyone knowledgeable, engaged, and productive. Founded in 2015, Talla is based in Cambridge, MA. Learn more at talla.com.
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namespace tests\PhpParser\Node;

use Mockery as m;
use PhpParser\Node\Identifier;

class IdentifierTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
/**
* @var mixed
*/
protected $_name = null;
/**
* @var array
*/
protected $_attributes = [];
/**
* @var \PhpParser\Node\Identifier
*/
protected $identifier;

public function setUp()
{
    parent::setUp();

    $this->_name = null;
    $this->_attributes = [];
    $this->identifier = new \PhpParser\Node\Identifier($this->_name, $this->_attributes);
}

public function testGetSubNodeNames0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->getSubNodeNames();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}

public function testToString0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->toString();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}

public function testToLowerString0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->toLowerString();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}

public function testIsSpecialClassName0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->isSpecialClassName();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}

public function test__toString0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->__toString();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}

public function testGetType0()
{
    // TODO: Your mock expectations here

    $actual = $this->identifier->getType();
    $expected = null; // TODO: Expected value here
    $this->assertEquals($expected, $actual);
}
}
What does it mean to visualize culture? If information flows through people, how is this animated across time and space? To what extent does information flow enhance or diminish the “identifiable” cultural matrix?
“Charting Culture” is a video based on a paper by Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas. Essentially, the visualization charts migratory patterns of historically-prominent individuals, data of which was gathered from Freebase, a Google-owned information repository of people, places and things. By plotting the birth and death locations of 120,000 individuals important enough to have their births and deaths recorded, “Charting Culture” illustrates the ebb and flow of culture as embodied in the data patterns of a few significant humans from 600 BCE to 2012 CE.
The accessibility of this visualization is what, in my opinion, makes this video so enjoyable. And yet as I watched “Charting Culture” I couldn’t help but feel Walter Benjamin rolling over in his grave, an index finger in air, chiming in with the all-too-familiar, something-is-not-right axiom about historiography:
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another.” (Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 256)
The problem with this video is that it fails to be open about the parameters of its data. Claiming to represent “humanity’s cultural history” is a textbook Eurocentric claim, ignoring other fundamental data, such as, for example, inner migratory patterns of cultural figures not recorded by European courts. And this is, of course, only one such example. The data, albeit pretty, is a redemptive story.
The visualization, however, is a damn cool melange of art and statistics. It stands as a fine example of what one can do with a question, a penchant for data mapping, and the desire to illustrate by example.In many developing countries ensuring a secure supply of food with appropriate levels of micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals is challenging. Deficiency of the essential micronutrient cobalamin (known as vitamin B12), for instance, is estimated to affect over 40% of the global population. Vitamin B12 is an important nutrient in human health, where severe deficiency can cause anaemia, gastrointestinal problems and neurological symptoms, including neural tube defects in the developing foetus. Mild deficiency has also been implicated in ischaemic heart disease and cognitive impairment associated with pre-senile dementia. Plants neither make nor require B12. The vitamin is made only by certain bacteria. Humans gain most of their B12 from dairy products while ruminants gain theirs from commensal enteric bacteria. Vegetarians are at particular risk of B12 deficiency, as are subsistence farmers who have a limited range of foods in their diets, and those who rely heavily on imports of processed food such as island state populations.
Commercially available vitamin supplements are too expensive for subsistence farmers and islanders living on less than $2 per day. One way to enhance B12 status in these groups might be to develop simple, low cost systems to grow and process edible microalgae enriched in B12 that can be consumed directly by humans or to enhance animal feed.
Alison Smith and her group in Plant Sciences have developed methods to co-culture algae and benign bacteria certified for human consumption to deliver high amounts