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Mazes are in vogue at the moment, from NBO's Westworld, to the return of the British cult TV series, The Crystal Maze. But mazes have been around for millennia and one of the most famous mazes, the Labyrinth home of the Minotaur, plays a starring role in Greek mythology.

Which begs the question: what is the difference between a maze and a labyrinth? Although considered synonymous by some, it is generally accepted that a labyrinth contains only one path, often spiralling around and folding back on itself, in ever-decreasing loops, whereas a maze contains branching paths, presenting the explorer with choices and the potential for getting very, very lost.

While designing a maze can be a rewarding human task, computer scientists and mathematicians have a love of maze-generating algorithms. The algorithms tend to fall into two principal types: ones which start with a single, bounded space and then sub-divide it with walls (and doors) to produce ever smaller sub-spaces; and others which start with with a world full of disconnected rooms and then demolish walls to create paths/routes between them.

Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game. Explore an abandoned farm and a not-so-abandoned underground research facility as you uncover the mysteries around Maize, and possibly learn a bit about yourself. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The MacArthur Maze (or simply the Maze, also called the Distribution Structure) is a large freeway interchange near the east end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California. It splits Bay Bridge traffic into three freeways—the Eastshore (I-80/I-580), MacArthur (I-580) and Nimitz (I-880).

The great escape

There are techniques for escaping from mazes, but first you need to be sure what kind of maze it is. Most methods work for 'simple' mazes, that is, ones with no sneaky short-cuts via bridges or 'passage loops' – circular paths that lead back to where they started.

So, assuming it is a simple maze, the method that many people know is 'wall-following'. Essentially, you place one hand on a wall of the maze (it doesn't matter which hand as long as you are consistent) and then keep walking, maintaining contact between your hand and the wall. Eventually, you will get out. This is because if you imagine picking up the wall of a maze and stretching its perimeter to remove any corners, you will eventually form something circle-like, part of which must form part of the maze's outer boundary. This method of escape may not work, however, if the start or finish locations are in the maze's centre.

But some mazes are deliberately designed to frustrate, such as the Escot Gardens' beech hedge maze in Devon, which contains no fewer than five bridges, and so far from 'simple'.

Fear the light mac os. Another method of maze escape, known as Trémaux's algorithm, works in all cases.

Imagine that, like Hansel and Gretel in the fairy story, you are able to leave a trail of 'breadcrumbs' behind you as you navigate your way through the maze and then remember these rules: if you arrive at a junction you have not previously encountered (there will be no crumbs already on the trail ahead), then randomly select a way to go. If that leads you to a junction where one path is new to you but the other is not, then select the unexplored path. And if choosing between a once or twice-used path, choose the path used once, then leave a new, second trail behind you. The cardinal rule is never, ever select a path already containing two trails. This method is guaranteed, eventually, to get you out of any maze.

Everyday mazes

So how is any of this maze stuff useful? Well, from the perspective of architecture and urban design, we want to avoid accidentally creating mazes. Mazes are fun, but are not necessarily something we want in our everyday lives – or in our way when we just want to get to work.

In the 1980s, the architectural theorist, Bill Hillier, observed that many of the most socially problematic housing estates were those that appeared to be somewhat 'maze-like' in their layout. This begged the theoretical question: how do we actually measure the 'maze-iness' of a place?

To answer this, Hillier developed the measure of 'intelligibility', which is the relationship between what is immediately visible from a single location in a maze/housing estate/neighbourhood and how accessible that same place is from other locations in the area. The measure ranges from 0 to 1: environments that score highly (greater than 0.5) tend to be quite intelligible, easy to understand and navigate, and frequently desirable – for example Barnsbury, in London.

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Conversely, places with a low intelligibility score tend to be confusing, hard to navigate and, ultimately, maze-like – London's Barbican Estate, although architecturally lauded, is so confusing that visitors need to follow the yellow lines in order to find their way around.

It was this measure of intelligibility that we used to design the game levels in the recent SeaHeroQuest game, a game designed to measure people's navigational skills in order to further dementia research.

We 'reverse-engineered' intelligibility in order to produce game levels that were more, or less, maze-like, to ensure a range of challenges for the players. Lombardis world mac os. Therefore, the mathematics of maze design is just as applicable in modern, dementia-battling apps as it was in distant Greek mythology.

Apple recently phased out MySQL in favor of PostgreSQL. There are still valid reasons why we might prefer MySQL, such as compatibility with legacy code.

Here are my instructions on how to install MySQL as a permanent service on OS X. These instructions work with or without OS X Server installed. For the most part, installation is straightforward, but read this carefully because there are gotchas where it comes to file permissions.

I've tested these instructions several times on OS X 10.11 El Capitan and 10.10 Yosemite. I think these instructions will probably work on 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks.

Backup your MySQL databases.

You want to back up your MySQL databases before doing a OS X upgrade. The easiest way is to create a mysqldump file. Databases can also be restored from data files, but this is harder and I don't recommend it.

Install or upgrade OS X.

According to your plan.

Download Xcode from the App store and install the command line tools.

Xcode is a dependency for Homebrew, which uses Xcode's gcc compiler to compile everything from source. Once you have Xcode installed, you need to install the command line tools for the gcc compiler to work. From Terminal:

Check the systemwide PATH variable.

Open a Terminal window:

Make sure that /usr/local/bin occurs before /usr/bin. If they don't, then you need to change this order. Edit /etc/pathsusing vi or your favorite text editor. I love and use TextWrangler. Close your Terminal window and open a new Terminal window for this change to take effect.

Obtain Homebrew.

Homebrew is a great package manager for OS X that installs everything in /usr/local/binand does not require sudo.It then symlinks to the expected locations so that the packages can find one another. Robopig mac os. Because the packages are centralized in the Cellar, they are easily updated and removed.

Fix any problems that Homebrew detects.

Follow brew doctor‘s instructions. brew doctor usually complains about Xcode. If I'm guessing the error correctly, here is the solution that brew doctor will suggest (assuming OS X 10.10 – note the version since this affects what you will type into Terminal):

Run brew doctor again. Continue to follow brew doctor‘s instructions until it tells you that 'Your system is ready to brew.'

Install MySQL.

Homebrew has just installed MySQL to run under the current user, which is not what we want for our server, but we will get to that in a moment. First, we will test the mysqld service to see if it launches. In newer versions of MySQL, the command to launch the service is $ mysql.server start.

Modify the .plist file to improve logging.

Using vi or your favorite text editor, modify the .plist file.

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Add these lines within the block:

Set up the MySQL service to launch at boot time as part of a server.

Homebrew's instructions, which I asked you to ignore, would have installed a LaunchAgent for your current user account, so that the mysqld service would start whenever you logged in. This would work great for a personal development machine, but it's not not ideal for a server.

For a server, what we want is for mysqld to start up at boot time by the root account. So, we need to make two changes:

1. the .plist must link into /Library/LaunchDaemons and have the appropriate permissions to be launched by root.
2. the mysql database files in /usr/local/var/mysql must all be owned by _mysql. You might wonder why the owner must be_mysql, since the server starts up as root. This is because whenever mysqld detects that it is being run as root, the process steps down to user _mysql as a security measure. This is typical behavior for services. Apache, for example, steps down to user _www.

Open a Terminal window, and enter:

Important: Now that mysql belongs to root, do not run the $ mysql.server command again! Don't do it. This will result in an aborted launch with permissions errors. You will need to delete the resulting .pid files in /usr/local/var/mysql before mysqld will be able to run again, even as root. Again, don't do it.

Verify that the MySQL service starts up at boot time.

We will reboot the server machine. At boot time, launchctl should load our modified .plist and run mysqld. We will then run the mysql command from Terminal to interface with the mysqld service and verify that it's running.

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If the mysql command fails, then we know that either the LaunchDaemon didn't kick in, or that mysqld failed to start successfully. Again, if this happens it is usually because of a permissions issue. To troubleshoot, check the log files at:

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Restore your MySQL databases.

A full dump from a recent version of MySQL should successfully restore all databases plus the privilege table, which controls users. If there are problems with the privilege table after restoring, then edit out the privilege table from your mysql dump file, and re-create your users manually using a tool like phpmyadmin.

I hope this post helped someone. Paint.ball mac os. Happy monkeying!