masking

I am trying to implement a sequence-to-sequence task using LSTM by Keras with Tensorflow backend. The inputs are English sentences with variable lengths. To construct a dataset with 2-D shape [batch_number, max_sentence_length], I add EOF at the end of line and pad each sentence with enough placeholders, e.g. "#". And then each character in sentence is transformed to one-hot vector, now the dataset has 3-D shape [batch_number, max_sentence_length, character_number]. After LSTM encoder and decoder layers, softmax cross entropy between output and target is computed. To eliminate the padding

I'm trying to draw an image, with a source Bitmap and an alpha mask Bitmap , using the System.Drawing.Graphics object. At the moment I loop X and Y and use GetPixel and SetPixel to write the source color and mask alpha to a third Bitmap , and then render that. However this is very inefficient and I am wondering if there is an faster way to achieve this? The effect I'm after looks like this: The grid pattern represents transparency; you probably knew that. Yes, the faster way to do this is to use Bitmap.LockBits and use pointer arithmetic to retrieve the values instead of GetPixel and SetPixel

One neat typographic effect often seen headlines in magazines etc, is to select a really bold font and put an image inside of the text. Here's a random example of the effect: In web design, there is no way to do this with plain html/css/js. It could be done with flash or with a bitmap image but those techniques obviously have some big drawbacks. I wonder if it is possible to do this with SVG though? I have never ever used SVG, but if this is possible, it might be worth trying to wrap my head around it. For instance, would it be possible to let a javascript go through the page and look for

<![CDATA[ var $ = jQuery; String locale = getUserLocale(); $(document).ready(function() { if (!isEmptyNull(locale) && locale.equals("zh_CN")) { $("input[id*='text12']").mask('9999年99月99日'); } else { $("input[id*='text12']").mask('99/99/9999'); } }); ]]> <p:calendar id="text12" styleClass="calendar" maxlength="10" pattern="# {pc_Test.dateDisplayFormat}"></p:calendar> If the locale is equal to 'zh_CN', the masking would be '9999年99月99日' . Otherwise, it would would be '99/99/9999' . When I remove the if else command, it works. But if I put the if else command inside, it doesn't work. How do I

With the code below, I am successfully masking part of my drawing, but it's the inverse of what I want masked. This masks the inner portion of the drawing, where I would like to mask the outer portion. Is there a simple way to invert this mask? myPath below is a UIBezierPath . CAShapeLayer *maskLayer = [[CAShapeLayer alloc] init]; CGMutablePathRef maskPath = CGPathCreateMutable(); CGPathAddPath(maskPath, nil, myPath.CGPath); [maskLayer setPath:maskPath]; CGPathRelease(maskPath); self.layer.mask = maskLayer; With even odd filling on the shape layer ( maskLayer.fillRule = kCAFillRuleEvenOdd; )