Feast Of Love Streaming
Galeno Kent
Standing on a cobble beach where the river meets the sea, I stare across the glassy swells, listen to the gentle lap of waves on shore, and inhale the scent of salt and seaweed. An oily disturbance at the surface gives me a target, and I cast.
Past research has shown that salmon eggs can provide enormous growing opportunities for stream fishes. But how many eggs are enough? How are these eggs divvied up amongst the different sizes and species of fish?
To answer these questions, we added different (but realistic) amounts of pink salmon eggs (ranging from 6 to 3,575 eggs) to different stream reaches in the Keogh River. After adding eggs and waiting for half an hour, we captured all the fish in each reach, and gently flushed their stomachs to see how many eggs each fish had eaten.
We discovered that as we increased the number of eggs added, not only did individual fish eat more eggs, but a greater diversity of sizes and species ate eggs. In other words, more eggs mean more sizes and species of fish can benefit.
In contrast, during times with low salmon abundance (and low numbers of eggs in the river), the largest and most competitive species of fish dominate over smaller and less competitive species and monopolize consumption of the salmon eggs.
In general, smaller fish (particularly sculpins) were less likely to eat eggs than larger fish, with small fish needing more eggs before they could join the feast. Gram for gram, coho were the most competitive species. Young steelhead generally ate more eggs than coho, but only because there were lots of young steelhead that were larger than most of the coho.
So why does it matter if small fish get to eat salmon eggs? Research I led previously showed that the number of spawning pink salmon can be linked to steelhead migrating to sea at younger smolt ages (Bailey et al. 2018). In fact, while steelhead smolt numbers are still limited by density dependence (the habitat can only support so many fish), higher numbers of spawning pink salmon actually increase the number of smolts produced per female spawner.
Similarly, there is evidence that more pink salmon spawners can increase the numbers of juvenile coho (Michael 1995). Thus, there is some evidence that high abundances of spawning salmon can benefit stream fishes such as juvenile coho or steelhead.
Overall, this work shows that: 1) the sizes and species of fish that benefit from salmon runs depends on the size of the salmon run; and 2) we should be concerned when annual returns of normally abundant salmon species (such as sockeye) are dwindling, because reduced egg-eating may handicap the growth and survival of smaller and less competitive fishes, including the juveniles of the species we love to fish for.
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Lord God, we adore you because you have come to us in the past.
You have spoken to us in the Law of Israel.
You have challenged us in the words of the prophets.
You have shown us in Jesus what you are really like.
Lord God, we adore you because you still come to us now.
You come to us through other people and their love and concern for us.
You come to us through men and women who need our help.
You come to us as we worship you with your people.
Lord God, we adore you because you will come to us at the end.
You will be with us at the hour of death.
You will still reign supreme when all human institutions fail.
You will still be God when our history has run its course.
First Week
All-powerful God, increase our strength of will for doing good that Christ may find an eager welcome at his coming and call us to his side in the kingdom of heaven, where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Second Week
God of power and mercy open our hearts in welcome. Remove the things that hinder us from receiving Christ with joy so that we may share his wisdom and become one with him when he comes in glory, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Third Week
Lord God, may we, your people, who look forward to the birthday of Christ experience the joy of salvation and celebrate that feast with love and thanksgiving. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Fourth Week
All-powerful God, your eternal Word took flesh on our earth when the Virgin Mary placed her life at the service of your plan. Lift our minds in watchful hope to hear the voice which announces his glory and open our minds to receive the Spirit who prepares us for his coming. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
All this was a long time ago, I remember.
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their dogs.
I should be glad of another death.
To operate machine learning systems at scale, teams need to have access to a wealth of feature data to both train their models, as well as to serve them in production. GO-JEK and Google Cloud are pleased to announce the release of Feast, an open source feature store that allows teams to manage, store, and discover features for use in machine learning projects.
Developed jointly by GO-JEK and Google Cloud, Feast aims to solve a set of common challenges facing machine learning engineering teams by becoming an open, extensible, unified platform for feature storage. It gives teams the ability to define and publish features to this unified store, which in turn facilitates discovery and feature reuse across machine learning projects.
For production deployments, machine learning teams need a diverse set of systems working together. Kubeflow is a project dedicated to making these systems simple, portable and scalable and aims to deploy best-of-breed open-source systems for ML to diverse infrastructures. We are currently in the process of integrating Feast with Kubeflow to address the feature storage needs inherent in the machine learning lifecycle.
Feature data are signals about a domain entity, e.g: for GO-JEK, we can have a driver entity and a feature of the daily count of trips completed. Other interesting features might be the distance between the driver and a destination, or the time of day. A combination of multiple features are used as inputs for a machine learning model.
Feast solves these challenges by providing a centralized platform on which to standardize the definition, storage and access of features for training and serving. It acts as a bridge between data engineering and machine learning.
Feast handles the ingestion of feature data from both batch and streaming sources. It also manages both warehouse and serving databases for historical and the latest data. Using a Python SDK, users are able to generate training datasets from the feature warehouse. Once their model is deployed, they can use a client library to access feature data from the Feast Serving API.
There is a growing ecosystem of tools that attempt to productionize machine learning. A key open source ML platform in this space is Kubeflow, which has focused on improving packaging, training, serving, orchestration, and evaluation of models. Companies that have built successful internal ML platforms have identified that standardizing feature definitions, storage, and access, was critical to that success.
For this reason, Feast aims to be both deployable on Kubeflow and to integrate seamlessly with other Kubeflow components. This includes a Python SDK for use with Kubeflow's Jupyter notebooks, as well as Kubeflow Pipelines.
Feast provides a consistent way to access features that can be passed into serving models, and to access features in batch for training. We hope that Feast can act as a bridge between your data engineering and machine learning teams, and we would love to hear your feedback via our GitHub project. For additional ways to contribute:
The Assumption is a Holy Day of Obligation, which means Catholics are obligated to attend Mass this day. Your local parish probably offers a vigil Mass (which means a Mass held the evening before the feast, because, in keeping with the Jewish roots of Christianity, a holy day begins at sundown) and a few Masses during the day on the Assumption. Make it a priority to get to Mass. We gather to show our love and affection for Our Blessed Mother and by doing so we bring glory to her Son.
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