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ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- Todd Bright has stepped down as the CEO of Lifestyle Family Fitness, St. Petersburg, FL.
Geoff Dyer, Lifestyle Family Fitness founder and vice chairman, says Bright left the company to pursue missionary work on behalf of his church. John Simmons, a Lifestyle Family Fitness board member, is the company's new CEO.
Bright was elected president of the company three years ago and had been the CEO for about 18 months. Dyer says he tried to talk Bright out of the decision, but added that Bright left for all the right reasons.
"Todd, for the last half of his life, has dedicated himself to his church," Dyer says. "His purpose in life has been to give back to others. He has been spending more and more of his free time working with other families and counseling them. He's an amazing guy. He's a unique individual."
Simmons had recruited Bright to Lifestyle from Eckerd Drugs, where Simmons had served as chief financial officer while Bright was a vice president there. Simmons has served on the Lifestyle board for seven years.
"He'll be a great fit for the company," Dyer says of Simmons. "He understands the business model and has a thorough understanding about business."

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This Just In: Student 4 Life Graduates
After 10 years of post-secondary education, including:
– 2 years of community college general sciences (graduating with a DEC – Sciences de la Nature and an IB Diploma)
– 3 years of psychology (graduating with a B.A. Psych)
– 1 year of easy courses to qualify for pharmacy school
– 4 years of pharmacy school (graduating with a B.Sc. Pharm),
I finally get to step out into the real world. Within a few months, I should be able to live in a real apartment, take cheap ramen out of my diet (upgrading to expensive ramen), quit obsessing over money, and work no more than 37 hours a week.
I get asked the question often, so I'll answer it before it comes up again. No, I didn't start young. I'm just really immature for my age.
The last month, simply put, sucked. I knew it would be rough, but knowing it and living through it are, yeah, two different things. My licensing exams, all three of them, were in the last week of May, mixed in with graduation formalities and a cross-country move. For a month, I put my life on hold and reviewed everything I had learned in the past 4 years. And ate a lot of fast food. Like tons of fast food. As in, I'll be doing sit-ups for weeks to recover from all the fast food.
Of course, nothing ever goes as planned and, because clearly I wasn't going through enough hell, my roommate came up with the wonderful idea of re-doing the kitchen as I'm trying to study and pack. (Which didn't help in resisting the fast food cravings.) So while I'm stressed out of my mind, I was woken every morning and kept up every night by noise, dust, kitchen supplies all over the place and strangers breathing down my neck.
By the night before my first exam, my room (and state of mind) looked like this:
Please don't tell any future landlords.
My lowest point, however, I think was on my last day in Newfoundland. I had my grad party that night (a big formal affair), and spent all day packing boxes. I was stressing because I was nowhere near done, but needed to get ready for grad. I stepped into the shower, only to discover than the renovation guys had cut off the hot water. I tried washing my hair in cold water, but it didn't work out for me.
I'll leave the scene of me sitting in a ball on the floor of my room with my wet hair sticking up, boxes and unpacked belongings scattered around me, to your imagination. It's funny now, but I probably would have yelled at anyone telling me it was funny at the time.
Mixing Raiding and School
There's enough I can say on the topic to write a series of stand-alone posts, but the end of it is, and I might change my mind a few years from now, that it was worth raiding throughout pharmacy school.
I raided late at night (mostly because that's when my guilds raided, but it did help since I'd usually study until 9:30 or 10pm) and was therefore tired and cranky all day. I missed a lot of class because I was up late raiding. Heck there were courses I never went to outside of exams.
But I don't regret it. My grades were average. Maybe they would have been slightly above average if I hadn't been raiding. But even now that I don't have to be in denial anymore, I still don't regret it.
I know it sounds weird coming from someone who just did 10 years of college of, but I'll say it: I hate school. I hate it. I've always hated it. I like learning. I like the fields I studied. I like being around intelligent and inspiring individuals. But I hate the pressure, I hate the competitiveness, I hate grades, I hate having to sit still all day, I hate having no money. School has always been a waiting game for me. Bite the bullet, do what they tell you and the ordeal will end eventually. (I also hated being a kid and can't understand people who miss being kids. Being a kid was another, awful, waiting game. I'm thankful every day that it's over.)
Raiding kept me sane. It let me be around like-minded people (I both adore and admire all of the classmates with whom I've had the honour of sharing several years of my life, but I had very little in common with the majority of them. I was cursed with the personality of an engineer but the brain of a liberal arts person.) It gave me something to look forward in the evenings. It gave me something to work at for my own pleasure, something on which I was never graded.
I know some people take raiding and competition very seriously, but not me. I raid because I love to raid. I do a good job because I like doing a good job. Oh, I'll joke about healing meters, but that's all it is, joking. Same goes for my blog. I'll jokingly brag about stats but blogging is really where I get away from the numbers and the mediocracy that's so often rubbed in my face. The blog does what it wants. I don't do adds, I'd never accept to write about WoW for money. The blog and raiding are the two places where it doesn't matter if I do well or not. The blog and raiding are where I can sit back and enjoy the journey, without worrying about whether or not my life will be screwed up at the destination.
When I Stopped Concentrating on Raiding
I quite raiding seriously at the beginning of January. I miss a lot. You guys have no idea. No amount of emo whining can really translate how much I miss it.
You know how some women get to about 30 without every wanting kids, then suddenly starting hating everyone with kids and can't live with themselves until they get pregnant? (I really hope this doesn't happen to me. Pregnancy is just uggg. I'll adopt, thank you very much.) Anyway, that's what it's like. I can't read Twitter during general raid hours anymore. I fight back tears whenever I'm asked about my WoW life. I rage at anyone who complains about seeing raid content too often. (I wish I was in a position to be in raid burnout!)
Still, I grit my teeth and tell myself it was for the better. It was nice, not being exhausted during clerkship. I did a good job because I wasn't tired. Not good enough to be "above average", but hopefully I made a difference in a few people's lives.
I got to meet a lovely guild who welcomed me with open arms and understood that I was only going to be with them for a few months. (I'll have another post dedicated to them later this week.) I actually plan on leaving my alts with them when I move on. While I missed raiding in a more intense environment, their jokes, their familiarity, their rich lives outside of game and their laid back attitude made my hiatus enjoyable. I tried to stay distant – no use in getting attached when I know I'll be leaving – but they managed to break me a few times. By now my raid leader, Thespius, probably knows more about me than he ever wanted to. He'll be spending his next few months trying to erase his memory.
I'm terrified that I won't find my ideal guild after I move. Working late hours on the West Coast isn't conducive to progression raiding.The fact that I don't have any end boss kills (lets not even talk about heroics) doesn't help either. I know that a lot of guilds are recruiting, so if you're running a late night, 25 man progression raid team and are looking for a dedicated holy paladin, hit me up.
My Grad Present to Myself: Traveling Across the Country
In a couple of hours, I'll be taking a flight to Edmonton, to look for a place to live. I decided to turn my trip back East into a (well-deserved, if I do say so myself) vacation. I picked up a Discovery Pass (no, I can't take the train. I'd love to take the train, but trains in Canada are waaaaaay more expensive than trains in the US!) and plan to make full use of it. Cities on the itinerary are:
If you're in one of those cities and care to buy me coffee (or let me buy my own coffee if you're a cheapo) let me know! Fannon is also planning a meetup in Edmonton this Friday (June 3), so if you're in the area and want in, give him a shout.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what my room looked like after exams were over with and my move was under control…Beyond WoW
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58 Comments on "This Just In: Student 4 Life Graduates"
June 1, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Congratulations, Ophelie. I'm proud of you. 🙂
Also, that first picture looks like it could easily be called "Nap Time for Old Farts."
June 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Congratulations! 😀 You must be so glad. And good luck on being able to get back into your beloved raiding!
June 1, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Grats on surviving. Also Congratulations for obtaining the degree as well. I remember what it was like and I only did 6 years – at UBC. It does get better – a bit anyway. The pressure points change and you are more self-motivated but it is better. No doubt. Well done.
June 1, 2011 at 9:34 pm
So, whats your next degree on….? Grats!
June 1, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I'm happy for you, although I'm a bit shocked by how stressful your month has been. You should have posted about it, even briefly; I would have made certain to pray for you. Good luck on your future endeavors and on attaining employment!
June 2, 2011 at 3:00 am
Grats! Looks like I could comfortably sleep on that junk that's on the floor 🙂
June 2, 2011 at 4:35 am
is a late night west coast guild the same as an oceanic guild? or are we too late for you?
June 2, 2011 at 6:46 am
Congrats!!! 10 years of uni @_@ least u had WoW for the latter/harder ish parts:D
Hope u keep updating once u transition into working life. Love the blog:)
June 2, 2011 at 6:47 am
You've achieved something really fantastic here – I'm inspired! I hope the trip is everything you want it to be and best of luck moving forward into that new job 🙂
June 2, 2011 at 7:18 am
Congrats on your graduation! Enjoy that well-deserved vacation 🙂
June 2, 2011 at 12:35 pm
June 3, 2011 at 8:23 am
Big congrats on your graduation! Have a great time on your trip letting your hair down 🙂
June 3, 2011 at 7:02 pm
"The blog and raiding are where I can sit back and enjoy the journey, without worrying about whether or not my life will be screwed up at the destination."
Best perspective EVER. ❤
June 3, 2011 at 10:23 pm
June 3, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Congratulations and very well done. You've more than earned it.
/goes back to lurking.
June 3, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Congrats, best of luck with everything in the future.
June 6, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Huge congrats on finishing school! Best of luck in raiding and joining the professional workforce.
June 8, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Gratz, well deserved! Best of luck with the license exams. And the room looks much better now.
June 11, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Every time I see a success story like this I feel a little fuzzy inside. Sadly for me, I worked more on being a healer in WoW than IRL and didn't get through med school as unscathed as you did…but I'm learning and have stopped raiding too. So though it sucks bawls to cut back on WoW to do silly stuff like real life, you know it was for the better. And yay now you get to go back to raiding, and STILL kick arse enough to spot silly prescriptions written by overworked idiots like me in the morning!
Big gratz. B.Sc Pharm title and achi > Loremaster title and achi 🙂
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Having seen the abuse Ricky Gervais unleashed on the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Mel Gibson and Angelina Jolie at last year's Golden Globes, the mind reels at the prospect of the British funnyman MCing the show as a lame duck.
Gervais has vowed that this will be his last time serving as host for the Golden Globes, which is too bad, because last year he managed to turn a normally staid affair into a high wire act. He goofed on McCartney's divorce, Jolie's serial adoptions, Gibson drinking problems... hell, even bought a round of beers for the house.
And in addition to Gervais' shenanigans, there are some trophies to hand out. When the nominations were announced back on Dec. 14, the belles of the ball were "The King's Speech" with seven nominations, including Best Film, and "Glee," which had five nominations, including Best Musical or Comedy. Much has changed for "The King's Speech" since then.
Despite its near-perfect Awards pedigree: The Royal Family, a WW II backdrop, a disability and triumph of the human spirit--too say nothing of Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter—the reign of "The Kings Speech" was short lived.
In no time at all, "The Social Network," David Fincher's's dark recounting of the birth of Facebook, propelled by Aaron Sorkin's patented quick-fire dialog, started winning every award in sight. Thus far it's won Best Picture from the International Press Academy, National Board of Review, as well as the film critics societies of Boston, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, LA, New York, San Francisco and DC.
It would appear that the best hope for "The King's Speech" will be Colin Firth in the Best Actor, Drama category. Many felt Firth got robbed last year, when his performance in "A Single Man" was overlooked in favor of Jeff Bridges' work in "Crazy Heart." Lucky for Firth, Bridges poses no threat to him this year. In fact Bridges' and his "True Grit" cohort pose no threat to anyone, as the film was curiously ignored by the HFPA. Weird.
It's easier for TV shows to hold onto their frontrunner status, as there aren't dozens of separate guilds and bodies giving out awards, sending signals about the will of the people to the HFPA voters. And so "Glee" remains the odds-on favorite to be the big winner among TV shows. It returns as the reigning Best Comedy champ, and still has Matthew Morrison, Lea Michelle, Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer in the hunt for each of the acting awards. And with no new strong entries from the world of sitcoms lurking, "Glee"s status remains safe.
Until someone beats "Mad Men," winner of the last three Best Drama Series awards, the hyper-stylized '60s drama has to be considered a best bet, but it does face two high-profile newcomer challengers, HBO's Prohibition gangster epic from executive producer Martin Scorsese, "Boardwalk Empire," and AMC's zombie apocalypse saga, "The Walking Dead." The gut says it could be a coin-toss between "Mad Men" and "Walking Dead," but it may be hard for voters to ignore Scorsese.
Even if you're not into awards shows (if not what are you doing down here?), Sunday night's show should be worth the price of admission if only to see how well—or rather, poorly—Gervais behaves himself when he has no intention of coming back.


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Updated 3:00 p.m. ET: Outside of a 33-yard touchdown pass from Shawn Petty to Kevin Dorsey, not much went right for Maryland in the second half and Florida State rolled to a 41-14 win over the Terps.
FSU was efficient all around on offense and aided by Maryland mistakes. Running back Devonta Freeman led all offensive players with 148 yards rushing and a pair of touchdowns. The Terps, on the other hand, couldn't get much going with Petty filling in at quarterback.
The Seminoles have punched their ticket to Charlotte for the ACC championship. Who they'll play is still undetermined, but depending on whether or not Miami self-imposes a bowl ban, it could be one of four teams from the ACC Coastal. Virginia Tech is still alive — barely — at 2-4 in conference play, but the Hokies are in a tight game with Boston College. Duke and Georgia Tech play a critical conference game later today, and Miami plays a late out-of-conference game against South Florida.
While the ACC Coastal division remains up for grabs (is that the right term?), the ACC Atlantic can be locked up today with a win by No. 10 Florida State over Maryland.
So far, this game's going as expected. The Seminoles lead 27-0 at the half. FSU's offense is working efficiently, but the 'Noles defense has only allowed 36 yards. That's outstanding obviously, but the Terps are still trying to MacGyver an offense with converted linebacker Shawn Petty in at quarterback.
Barring a complete second-half turnaround, this one looks over and Florida State would be able to punch its ticket to the ACC championship game because of a head-to-head tiebreaker over Clemson. A BCS championship appearance, while not out of sight, is a stretch. Florida State would need chaos and more chaos just to have a chance to head to Miami.
But the 'Noles are certainly off to a good start today.


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This information below is based on the presentation & Enchantment book by Guy Kawaski. I wanted to learn more about this Enchanting individual after watching the InBound Marketing (through HubSpot) presentation (you can see below). Then I read the book it really changed my perspective about understanding people and their needs. There are so many tips from the book and the presentation but here a couple of things I got out of it:
Visit your site and make sure you have: a mission & value statement, "Who We Are", FAQ's, Sitemap
Reduce # of choices, people buy more when there are less to choose from.
Present the big option, then the small choices, then it seems reasonable by contrast.
Enchant everyone that influences, businesses tend to influence the father of the household but in Guy's household, the daughter is the decision-maker.
- Know them,
- Analyze them through three lists of features & capabilities such as:
- What we both can do
- What we can do but they cannot do
- What we cannot do but they can do
3. Finally frame thy competition"
- pointers to useful, inspiring, entertaining content (try to add links when doing this on Twitter)
- Personal insights, observations, or content
- Advice & Assistance" (Also keep it positive!)


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Biggest trial: Acquitted wife rapist Dale Crawford goes on trial February 5 for the rape and murder of his second wife, Sarah Crawford, whose nude body was found in a Charlottesville hotel room November 22, 2004.
Most regretful: The House of Delegates sidesteps the controversy over apologizing for the Commonwealth's wholehearted commitment to slavery almost 150 years ago and instead rewrites a resolution to express the state's profound regret and denounce the "most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation's history," Bob Gibson reports in the Daily Progress.
Biggest ouster from a nonprofit: Philip Dukes, MACAA executive director, is out after 19 months. A statement from Board of Directors chair Robert Smith says, "MACAA needs to move in a different direction, and that will require new leadership." COO Gary Nickelsen has been appointed interim exec director.
Worst driving: Just Curry on the Corner is the victim of a hit and run February 1, NBC29 reports.
Latest child porn plea: Former Albemarle High girls' soccer coach Raja Charles Jabbour pleads guilty February 1 to possessing child porn– including depictions of bestiality– and using the Internet to entice young girls to have sex, according to Liesel Nowak in the DP. Jabbour's plea agrees to nine years in prison and deportation for the Lebanese citizen.
Worst home invasion: A hammer-wielding man enters a residence in Rio Hill Apartments around 11:17am February 5 and demands money from the female victim, according to a release.
Worst domestic dispute: David G. Sloan, 37, is shot in the chest at Avon Court February 4. Both Sloan and an unidentified woman are taken to the hospital, and Sloan is charged with domestic assault and battery.
Worst sandwich fracas: A warrant is issued for Morgan State basketball coach Todd Bozeman for shaking a Mulligan's restaurant manager in Farmville following his team's 75-73 loss to Longwood February 3. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bozeman was upset about receiving 52 ham and turkey sandwiches instead of 52 Philly cheese steak and chicken sandwiches.
Latest embezzlement from a Catholic church: A former church secretary is charged with felony embezzlement from St. Peter's Catholic Church in Richmond, the T-D reports. Bernadine Brown is videotaped putting Sunday collection money in her purse.
Biggest takeover: LexisNexis sells its local printing operation employing 90 people to Cadmus Communications in Richmond, Brian McNeill reports in the Progress. The $8.5 million deal also includes a digital printing operation in New York.
Biggest fundraising crunch: The Charlottesville High School Orchestra must raise $120,000 in the next 50 days so all 120 band members can compete in London in April. So far the orchestra has raised $200K– enough for 90 students. Donations will be accepted at a free concert February 8 at CHS.
Coldest: Charlottesville and Albemarle cops who jump into the Atlantic February 3 to raise money for Special Olympics Virginia at the 15th Polar Plunge in Virginia Beach.
Most like Blue Ridge Outdoors: The Daily Progress urges readers to vote for one of four covers to launch its eerily familiar outdoors mag, Our Great Outdoors, which debuts March 4.
Most bizarre astronaut story: Lisa Nowak, a crew member on a space shuttle flight last year, is charged with kidnaping and attempted murder of a woman the 43-year-old married mother of three thought was a romantic rival for another astronaut. Nowak, not to be confused with Progress reporter Liesel Nowak, drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper so she wouldn't have to stop.


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The looming federal spending cuts of the sequester could have broad local effects that touch the public school system, university research, services for the poor, homeless and seniors and health care.
The looming federal spending cuts of the sequester could have broad local effects that touch the public school system, university research, health care, and services for the poor, homeless and seniors.
The county's Meals on Wheels program for seniors gets the majority of its $500,000 annual budget from the federal government, said Anthony Clarizio, executive director of ElderCare of Alachua County.
The program currently serves approximately 300 people daily and has a waiting list of almost 600 people, Clarizio said.
"Any cuts to this program would be devastating and would add seniors back to the waiting list, taking meals away from people who are receiving them," Clarizio said. "The need is greater than what we are currently serving."
For Alachua County Public Schools, the cuts would mean less money to assist students from low-income households through programs such as Title I, Head Start and free and reduced meals as well as less funding to programs for disabled students, spokeswoman Jackie Johnson said.
The district receives $39 million a year in federal money for those programs, Johnson said. It's unclear right now how much each program would lose and how many students would be affected, she said.
"There are a lot of unknowns right now," Johnson said
The 10-year cuts scheduled to begin Friday would trim 5.1 percent annually from non-defense discretionary programs and almost 8 percent from defense.
Because the cuts take effect mid-fiscal year, the White House Office of Management and Budget says the reductions would be more pronounced this year — 9 percent for nondefense programs and 13 percent for defense.
For the University of Florida, an approximately 5 percent loss in research funding could mean $14 million less annually, said David Norton, UF's vice president for research.
"We anticipate that there will be a significant decrease in the number of research awards coming to the university because of sequestration," Norton said.
Norton said the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation already have slowed the flow of research monies to universities because of the looming sequester.
Dr. David Guzick, the senior vice president for health affairs for the UF&Shands Health System, said the cuts will be two-pronged. The Health Science Center would stand to lose roughly $5 million of the $100 million it sees annually in research monies from the National Institute of Health.
Medicare funding also will take a 2 percent cut, which translates to $4 million a year for Shands, Guzick said.
To make up for it, the hospital will look to reduce costs without cutting staff or the quality of care and to increase revenues from other categories of patients, he said.
For the Florida Department of Health, federal grant funding for HIV/AIDS testing, chronic disease prevention, nutrition programs and immunizations will see cuts.
Currently, the Women, Infants and Children program, which provides healthy foods, nutrition education and counseling to families in need, and the Ryan White Grant, which serves individuals with HIV/AIDS who cannot afford medical care, are the largest grant awards that might be affected, department spokeswoman Ashley Carr said in a statement.
The White House has projected a $1.4 million loss leading to 35,900 fewer HIV tests annually in Florida.
In the department's statement, Carr said that "after careful budget review," the department believed "the impact will be minimal" on WIC and the HIV/AIDS program.
Cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development will reduce available funding for the Community Development Block Grant program, from which Gainesville receives funding. Also losing funding will be the area's two housing authorities and shelter programs for the homeless.
Herbert Hernandez, the new executive director of the Alachua County Housing Authority, estimated that the agency could lose approximately 50 of its 750 housing vouchers. Hernandez said that would not happen through evictions. Instead, when current voucher recipients leave the program or pass away, those vouchers would not be reissued.
Worker furloughs are expected to hit the Environmental Protection Agency. If those furloughs last for extended periods, that could delay the still-unstarted cleanup of the Koppers Superfund site because EPA officials in Atlanta are supposed to oversee the project, county Environmental Protection Director Chris Bird said.
Unemployment checks will be sliced by more than 9 percent.
FloridaWorks, the regional workforce board that assists the unemployed with job training and finding employment, eventually will see cuts.
Executive Director Kim Tesch-Vaught said the agency's budget — $21.7 million this year — is fully funded by the federal government. She said the cuts are likely 12 to 15 months away because federal funding for workforce boards flows down in two-year increments.
Staff writer Kristine Crane contributed to this report.


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Some Playing with Derivatives
This is a summary of what I've been playing with in case people find it interesting.
In general, there are three ways to find the derivative of a function:
- Do the symbolic manipulation of formulae that we all learned in school when we were 16 years old. This assumes that one has the function as an algebraic expression of some kind in terms of known quantities.
- Do it numerically, by computing (f(x + h) – f(x)) / h for some small value of h. This suffers from numerical inaccuracies, and will generally cause rises in the blood pressure of numerical analysts.
- Calculate the value of the function and its derivative simultaneously at a given point of evaluation.
The last option seems to have a lot of names: automatic differentiation, algorithmic differentiation, and a few more. Just for fun, I wrote an implementation of a very simplified version of it in Haskell.
The Implementation
module AD where data AD a = AD a a instance Eq a => Eq (AD a) where (AD x dx) == (AD y dy) = x == y instance Show a => Show (AD a) where show (AD x dx) = show x ++ " + " ++ show dx ++ " eps" instance Num a => Num (AD a) where (AD x dx) + (AD y dy) = AD (x + y) (dx + dy) (AD x dx) - (AD y dy) = AD (x - y) (dx - dy) (AD x dx) * (AD y dy) = AD (x * y) (dx * y + x * dy) negate (AD x dx) = AD (negate x) (negate dx) abs (AD 0 _) = error "not differentiable: |0|" abs (AD x dx) = AD (abs x) (dx * signum x) signum (AD 0 _) = error "not differentiable: signum(0)" signum (AD x dx) = AD (signum x) 0 fromInteger i = AD (fromInteger i) 0 instance Fractional a => Fractional (AD a) where (AD x dx) / (AD y dy) = AD (x / y) ((dx * y - x * dy) / y^2) recip (AD x dx) = AD (1 / x) ((-dx) / x^2) fromRational x = AD (fromRational x) 0 instance Floating a => Floating (AD a) where pi = AD pi 0 exp (AD x dx) = AD (exp x) (dx * exp x) sqrt (AD x dx) = AD (sqrt x) (dx / (2 * sqrt x)) log (AD x dx) = AD (log x) (dx / x) (AD x dx) ** (AD y dy) = AD (x ** y) (dx * y * (x ** (y-1)) + dy * (x ** y) * log x) sin (AD x dx) = AD (sin x) ( dx * cos x) cos (AD x dx) = AD (cos x) (-dx * sin x) asin (AD x dx) = AD (asin x) ( dx / sqrt (1 - x^2)) acos (AD x dx) = AD (acos x) (-dx / sqrt (1 - x^2)) atan (AD x dx) = AD (atan x) (dx / (1 + x^2)) sinh (AD x dx) = AD (sinh x) (dx * cosh x) cosh (AD x dx) = AD (cosh x) (dx * sinh x) asinh (AD x dx) = AD (asinh x) (dx / sqrt (x^2 + 1)) acosh (AD x dx) = AD (acosh x) (dx / sqrt (x^2 - 1)) atanh (AD x dx) = AD (atanh x) (dx / (1 - x^2)) diff :: Num a => (AD a -> AD t) -> a -> t diffNum :: Num b => (forall a. Num a => a -> a) -> b -> b diffFractional :: Fractional b => (forall a. Fractional a => a -> a) -> b -> b diffFloating :: Floating b => (forall a. Floating a => a -> a) -> b -> b diff f x = let AD y dy = f (AD x 1) in dy diffNum f x = let AD y dy = f (AD x 1) in dy diffFractional f x = let AD y dy = f (AD x 1) in dy diffFloating f x = let AD y dy = f (AD x 1) in dy
Essentially, this declares a data type to represent the pair of a number and its first derivative. It then defines how to perform primitive math operations on that data type, for three of Haskell's numerical type classes. Note that basically the entire implementation consists of talking about how derivatives fare in the face of certain operations. In fact, you may recognize a lot of it from the algebra of differentials in calculus. For example, if z = xy, then dz = x dy + y dx, and so forth. (One quick note, because someone else asked me about this. The exponentiation operator ** is complicated because both the base and the exponent could be non-constant. So it must use both the power rule and the exponentiation rule.)
My Argument With the Type System
The last section is certainly weird. It defines four identical functions, because the type system gets in the way of doing what I really want. What I would like is for the diff function to map functions over the numeric typeclasses to other functions over the same type classes. For example, the derivative of a function with type (Num a => a -> a) will itself have type (Num a => a -> a). The derivative of a function with type (Floating a => a -> a) will itself have type (Floating a => a -> a). But the only way that works is for diff to get a type that depends on AD. That's confusing, because the type AD is an implementation detail; and I'd rather not even export it. The user of this module won't think they've written a function for the type AD; they've just written a function over any type that is an instance of, say, Floating.
To illustrate something closer to what would make me happy, I've also given the same function three better types, in diffNum, diffFractional, and diffFloating. These rank 2 types provide the right level of abstraction; but unfortunately, it's impossible to write only one function that works for all three numeric type classes. Here's what I'd really like to be able to say:
diff :: forall A a. (A :> Floating, A a, Num a) => (forall b. (A b) => b -> b) -> a -> a
Here, I'm using
:> to mean "is a superclass of", and A is meant to quantify over type classes. In other words, the type says that given any type class that's a superclass of Floating, I can pass in a function that's polymorphic over that type class, and get back its derivative (interpreting its domain and range as being, at the very least, numbers). But that's not possible, so the functions above all have some of the advantages, and I've written all of them.
Does It Work?
Glad you asked. Yes and no.
Here's the yes part.
$ ghci -XRankNTypes autodiff.hs > let f x = 3 * x^2 + 2 * x - 3 > let f' = diff f > f' 3 20 > let g x = 1 / sqrt (exp x - asinh x) > let g' = diff g > g' 3 -0.12660691544665373
So far, so good.
The "no" part of the answer is because there are a few specific situations in which the code will give the wrong answer. First, the code I've written often gives a derivative when the derivative is really undefined. Sometimes this is me being sloppy; for example, the log of -1 is undefined, but this code provides a derivative anyway. I could fix this if I were willing to make my code a little uglier. Second, uses of fromRational and fromInteger must be constants, because the code assumes they are. It was pointed out by Luke Palmer that I can define a function of the correct type (Num a => a -> a) by using the Show superclass to convert a value to a string, then read it as an Integer, do all sorts of things to it, and then convert the result back to the type a by using fromInteger. Doing so will give a derivative of zero, even if your function really has a different derivative.
A more nefarious example is this:
f x = if x == 1 then 1 else x^2
This is the same function as f x = x^2. However, asking for the derivative at x = 1 will return 0, because the function returns the constant 1, whose first derivative is 0. In particular, the technique runs into problems right on the boundaries of intervals where the function is defined piecewise. It doesn't appear to me that there's a particularly good way of dealing with this, except to process the source code and modify if statements to refuse to calculate derivatives at those locations. That's far beyond the scope of a little playing with overloading, so I have no intention of doing it.
Extending to Other Cool Stuff
If we just got functions computing values, this wouldn't be very visual. In the effort to avoid introducing GUI libraries, I'll play the old trick of graphing functions sideways in ASCII art. Let's look at the second function in my example above… the weird one with square roots, exponentials, and inverse hyperbolic sines.
Here's a test program.
import AD graph f ymin ystep xs = mapM_ (putStrLn . flip replicate '*' . round . (/ ystep) . (subtract ymin)) (map f xs) main = do let g x = 1 / sqrt (exp x - asinh x) graph g 0 (1/75) [0.0, 0.1 .. 4.0] putStrLn "------------------------------------" graph (diff g) (-0.5) (1/175) [0.0, 0.1 .. 4.0] putStrLn "------------------------------------" graph (diff (diff g)) (-0.75) (1/75) [0.0, 0.1 .. 4.0]
That just defines our function g again, and graphs it and its first two derivatives using ASCII art. Here's the result.
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Cale Gibbard / Nov 29 2007 3:30 pm
One solution would be to not export the data constructor for the AD type. Then the only things you can do with values of type AD are to use the provided functions anyway.
augustss / Nov 29 2007 4:01 pm
Perhaps you'll find this interesting. It just the same as Jerzy described in his paper, but it provides all the derivatives, not just the first. http://augustss.blogspot.com/2007/04/overloading-haskell-numbers-part-2.html
The code is in Hackage, in a package called numbers.
Andy / Dec 1 2007 6:46 pm
Hi! Very nice code – it's great to see an elegant language (Haskell) being used in the most elegant area of mathematics (calculus). ( Btw, what license is the code under – is it P.D.? )
– Andy
Barak Pearlmutter / Dec 13 2007 9:50 am
But what if you define f using diff, then apply diff to f?
Turns out you can get the wrong answer, given the way you've
written the code. Jeff Siskind and I went nuts on this issue,
concluding that although diff is referentially transparent,
it cannot be implemented in pure Haskell: you need to use
some dirty trick. We exhibit a bunch of such dirty tricks
in Scheme, but can't do it in Haskell.
One big question is whether some new pure mechanism could
be added that would allow this in Haskell. Existential
types might do the trick, but so far I have not figured out
(details on my publications page, HOSC paper and IFL paper)
Barak Pearlmutter / Dec 15 2007 8:23 pm
Sure! This gives the wrong answer:
diff (\x -> (diff (x*) 2)) 1
(0 instead of 1) and this fails to type check:
diff (\x -> x*(diff (x*) 2)) 1
If you do some unpleasant manual coercion you can get these to give you the right answers,
diff (\x -> (diff ((AD x 0)*) 2)) 1
diff (\x -> x*(diff ((AD x 0)*) 2)) 1
As far as we can tell, that cannot be automated in Haskell.
Barak Pearlmutter / Dec 18 2007 3:51 pm
PS Although insertion of the lift invocations (lift x = AD x 0) cannot be automated, detection of missing invocations can be. This uses branding, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/22308/ for details.
PPS I am currently putting together the best of the forward-mode AD Haskell I've seen to try to make an actual usable version. Of course, this is all basically an exercise before the hard but important part: REVERSE-MODE AD!


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Before I start this discussion, I want to let you all know I am not working for this website. I happen to know a while ago and I like it. I thought some of us here might like it, too.
I just found this online tennis league around our neighborhood. It's called Gladiator Tennis, gtleague.com. You have to pay $35. Once you pay and register for one season, it finds you 7 players (on the same level) around your neighborhood over 7 weeks. You find your best time to work with your opponents and report the score after each match. Because you pay and report the scores, you will feel more competitive. I thought some of us might feel interested.
If you get to register, please mention my name, Christian Han, under Marketing Description. They are offering some kinds of rewards as promotion like a free shirt or something.
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Thank you Bogdan! We used to get a lot of paid leagues joining here trying to poach our members and then they realized it was useless. Thank you for being a loyal member. And thank you too Christian for being a member as well. Please go spread the news about this free group on the Gladiator site.
Well if we wanted to keep stats of matches I think that Tencap would be the way to go. They are now free and open to the public. TO would be used for the set up and tencap would be the spot to enter the results. I'm on it but nobody else is so I rarely use it.
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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag will come face to face with Al Roker next week – the first meeting with the journalist since their tense "Today" interview back in June.
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Upshur County Sherriff Department arrested me for DWI when I was very low on blood but not drunk. I ended up in ETMC Gilmer for an Emergency transfusion. UCSD arrested my son and brother for trespassing while fishing at their home all the while knowing they were innocent.
So I say PISS on UCSD and Sheriff Betterton.


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