The idea of a helper robot has been around for decades, but it has already begun to gain more real-world traction, especially in countries such as Japan where an aging population could cause shortages in support staff.
first of all thank Delacor for offering the DQMH Framework. I started developing with Labview half a year ago and found your framework two months ago. Until now it works like a charm and I'm very happy with it. From time to time I found myself wondering how things work out, but mostly I found something online, e.g. joergs blogpost about helper loops which helped me a lot. Now to my question.
I've build a cloneable module with a helper loop. This modul has two private requests to wake up and set to sleep the helper loop. Now what happens is, that this private requests from clone A wakes up / sets to sleep clone B's helper loop. Shure, the event is the same, and I didn't think about that before.
Now what I would do is to add the moduleID in the private requests. In the helper loop I would then create a case structure and use the Addressed to This Module.vi like it is used in the EHL. But wouldn't it be much nicer, if the event in clone B doesn't get fired at all, when clone A is doing something?
By design, DQMH creates one set of events for any module, be it singleton or cloneable. Depending on how exactly your helper loops work, that could be a problem. Every time you call the Start Helper or Stop Helper Loop, all of the clones will leave the "wait for timeout" state and execute the corresponding case. That means that your timeout counter is reset.
If you rely on the helper loop's timing in such a way, you have to create some other, local communication channel. If your timing works differently, it might not do much harm to send the DQMH event and just discard it in all but the addresses modules.
If using the Addressed to This Module.vi is not enough for your case, meaning you are waking up and putting to sleep the helper loop events at different times and your code cannot cope with the disruption, then you can create a local event then. Instead of relying on the Private wake-up helper loop and set to sleep helper loop, create a local pair of events. To do this, you can create your events directly in the DQMH Main.vi. The picture below shows the creation of the local helper loop events, the MHL firing the Wake up Helper Loop.vi and the destruction of the local events outside the event handler loop. Note that you have to pass along the user event references because these events only exist in this block diagram.
I believe Alex said he was already doing that (his words: "In the helper loop I would then create a case structure and use the Addressed to This Module.vi like it is used in the EHL. But wouldn't it be much nicer, if the event in clone B doesn't get fired at all, when clone A is doing something?" .
The only reason I would go with the solution I proposed above was if the problem he might be having is that anytime any of the clones fire the private wake-up helper loop event, any event structure that is registered for the cloneable module events and is handling the wakeup helper loop will get their structure timer restarted. Since all of them share the same code, we know that all of them are going to have their Wake up Helper Loop event case executed, and the timer for that event structure will be reset, even if the event case decides "this event is not addressed to me".
This is not an issue if your application is always waking up all of the cloneable instance helper loops and putting them to sleep all at the same time. But if you had an application where they are starting and sleeping at different times, this might be an issue. Or if you have one particular clone instance that keeps waking up and going to sleep at a very high rate, none of the other clones would get their timeout event case to execute.
Thank Joerg specifically for poiting out that the clones will leave the "wait for timeout" state! I thought my problem of one clone affecting another clone would be gone, if I just use the Addressed to This Module.vi in the helper loop - but it isn't, because I was relying on the timing of the timeout case. After rereading your Update from 2018-02-12 on your mentioned Bloqpost, yeah well - you had already said it. But I would suggest to make it more clear that clones may call events and thus affect the timeout case from other clones. At least for me as a beginner this wasn't clear. I should learn not to rely to much on a framework - or better: one should really understand the used techniques.
The cloneable in the Start Help Case takes a "waiting time" parameter and wires it to the timout. When the timeout is reached, it makes a broadcast, that it has "perfomed it task" and stopps the helper loop. This works like a charm, if you only have one clone running and i was using this as a timer module to realise a duration alarm for one modul, which should log data every 5 minutes...
A comment: there is no particular reason that you have to use similar communication techniques for "helper" loops as you use between Modules, and there is an advantage in using comms that are inherently (and obviously) encapsulated inside one Module. Also simpler. Here is a quick demo of a Channel-based helper loop, with adjustable timeout:
The Holiday helper Tree program was started in the fall of 1994 by Georgia Southern staff member, Eileen Sconyers Smith, who served as the senior administrative assistant in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology for 33 years. Mrs. Eileen has always had a passion for serving others, and in the early days of her career began searching for a way to involve the campus community in serving others. In 1994, the first Holiday Helper Tree was opened and students, faculty, and staff provided gifts for approximately 250 individuals from 5 organizations in Bulloch County.
Triple transfection is the most common method for rAAV production and does not require co-infection with adenovirus; a helper plasmid provides adenoviral genes. Aldevron's pALD-HELP has several advantages:
With Aldevron's pALD-HELP, clients do not need to manufacture a custom batch of helper plasmid because Aldevron maintains it as an in-stock product, providing a high-quality and consistent source, helping reduce timelines and cost.
T cell functional differentiation is mediated by lineage-specific transcription factors. T helper 17 (Th17) has been recently identified as a distinct Th lineage mediating tissue inflammation. Retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor gamma (ROR gamma) was shown to regulate Th17 differentiation; ROR gamma deficiency, however, did not completely abolish Th17 cytokine expression. Here, we report Th17 cells highly expressed another related nuclear receptor, ROR alpha, induced by transforming growth factor-beta and interleukin-6 (IL-6), which is dependent on signal transducer and activator of transcription 3. Overexpression of ROR alpha promoted Th17 differentiation, possibly through the conserved noncoding sequence 2 in Il17-Il17f locus. ROR alpha deficiency resulted in reduced IL-17 expression in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, ROR alpha and ROR gamma coexpression synergistically led to greater Th17 differentiation. Double deficiencies in ROR alpha and ROR gamma globally impaired Th17 generation and completely protected mice against experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Therefore, Th17 differentiation is directed by two lineage-specific nuclear receptors, ROR alpha and ROR gamma.
Laravel includes a variety of global "helper" PHP functions. Many of these functions are used by the framework itself; however, you are free to use them in your own applications if you find them convenient.
Sometimes it may be useful to perform an action whenever a fake sleep occurs in your application code. To achieve this, you may provide a callback to the whenFakingSleep method. In the following example, we use Laravel's time manipulation helpers to instantly progress time by the duration of each sleep:
This was the perfect quick and easy comfort food for a Monday night. I followed the recipe exactly and we loved it. I cut the recipe in half an it was perfect for two with enough left for lunch tomorrow. Sometimes you just need some hamburger helper but the ingred. list freaks me out. Thanks for a better option.
this was the easiest recipe, came home from a late shift at work and needed something quick and easy for my kids and I. Threw it together in less than 20 min and it was delicious. I dont like hamburger helper, never have. My kids were shocked to see it cuz they love it. then I told them it wasnt actually HH. They were shocked. I substitued ground turkey, added onion and nutmeg and used flour for thickner cuz i didnt have corn startch. I also substituted velveeta cuz we were out of chedder and didnt wanna run to the store. Super easy and very tasty. Thank you for sharing this.
Sandboxing in macOS prevents Things from talking to other apps directly, so when you use Quick Entry with Autofill to retrieve information such as links, Things uses the helper app (which lives outside the sandbox) as an intermediary.
The noop helper (short for "no operation") will receive an options hash. This options hash contains a function(options.fn) that behaves like a normal compiled Handlebars template. Specifically, the function will take a contextand return a String.
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