Facilities requiring expansion were also common wall construction, and the EHRA team converted the facilities into aerobic digesters and sludge thickeners.
Engineering design and construction phase services of water, sewer, drainage and paving for four subdivision sections and off-site channel (123 acres out of a 400 acre subdivision). There was 60-feet of elevation difference on this site and wooded lots were left in their natural state which required the installation of retaining walls.
Identified as a top priority during the development of the District’s Parks Master Plan, this portion of trail was the first phase of over two miles of planned trails to provide connectivity and recreation for District residents.
EHRA conducted a traffic engineering study to identify the impacts of a proposed master development located near the intersection of FM 1488 and Peoples Road in the City of Conroe.
A 720-acre gated master planned community located off Telge Road, just north of Willow Creek. See how EHRA was involved in this project.
A new computer program works smarter, not harder, to solve problems faster than its predecessors. The algorithm is designed to find the best solution to a given problem among all possible options. Whereas other computer programs winnow down the possibilities one at a time, the new program — presented July 12 at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Stockholm — rules out many choices at once.
For instance, imagine a computer is assigned to compile movie recommendations based on a particular film. The ideal recommendation list would include suggestions that are both similar to the original flick — say, in the same genre — yet different enough from each other to give the viewer a variety of choice. A traditional recommendation system would pore over an entire movie library to find films that best met those criteria and add films to its roster of recommendations one by one, a relatively slow and tedious process.
By contrast, the new program starts by randomly picking a bunch of movies from the library. Among that sample, the system keeps the movies that strike the best balance between relevance to the original film and diversity, and discards the rest. From that smaller pool, the algorithm again chooses films at random and keeps only the best of the bunch. That strategy helps the algorithm build its rec list far faster.
The new algorithm, built by Harvard University computer scientists Yaron Singer and Eric Balkanski, compiled movie suggestions more than 10 times as fast as a standard recommender system. In another trial, it devised optimal routes for cabs in New York City about six times as fast as a conventional automated dispatcher.
This program could also speed up data processing for everything from drug discovery to social media analytics, engineering and analyses of genetic data.
Source: Science News