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Time management in distributed simulation | Possibly Wrong
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On science, mathematics, and computing. Update: Chutes and Ladders is long, but not *that* long. Hangman, Scrabble, and Google Books →. Time management in distributed simulation. March 22, 2015. Much of my work involves discrete event simulation. Where a simulation advances, in discrete jumps, from one “interesting” point in time (called an. In particular– and the question that motivated this post– what is. And why does my simulation need to know about it? This protocol can help to understand. The end re...
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June | 2015 | Possibly Wrong
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On science, mathematics, and computing. Monthly Archives: June 2015. June 21, 2015. I often need to display or record output of floating-point values, in a human-readable decimal format. This is easy enough in most programming languages… unless you need the representation to be one-to-one, so that distinct finite values always produce distinct output. … Continue reading →. IBM Research Ponder This: August 2016 Puzzle. Twisty lattice paths, all alike. Category theory without categories. Good Math, Bad Math.
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Higher-Order Perl (Chinese translation)
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Higher-Order Perl (Chinese translation). Translated by Jiahai Teng. The book was published in July 2013. Copies are available in bookstores in China and from online booksellers:. The index was not included in the printed book. You can download it from here. No errors have been reported yet. Return to: Mark Dominus blog. Chinese-language contact jhteng@gmail.com.
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The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive | Slate Star Codex
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Open threads at the Open Thread tab every Sunday and Wednesday. The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive. January 11, 2015. Ozy recently taught me the word “phatic”. It means talking for the sake of talking. The classic example is small talk. “Hey.” “Hey.” “How are you? 8221; Fine, and you? 8221; “Fine.” No information has been exchanged. Even if the person involved wasn’t fine, they’d still say fine. Indeed, at least in this country giving an information-bearing response to “how are you? And I mean, you are...
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politics – djehuti.com - The Armory
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Djehuti.com – The Armory. Mac and Music geekery. Not much heraldry talk. December 30, 2014. A friend forwarded me some links about how the EU’s moronic regulators think that they can somehow force non-EU businesses to collect EU VAT taxes on online sales. This is moronic arrogance of the worst sort. Let me see if… Continue Reading →. On the Timing of the Jobs Address. September 8, 2011. The Universe of Discourse.
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EU VAT Arrogance – djehuti.com - The Armory
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Djehuti.com – The Armory. Mac and Music geekery. Not much heraldry talk. December 30, 2014. A friend forwarded me some links. About how the EU’s moronic regulators. Think that they can somehow force non-EU businesses to collect EU VAT taxes on online sales. This is moronic arrogance of the worst sort. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. What grounds does the EU think that they have to regulate any portion of this transaction whatsoever? A fresh coat of paint. The Universe of Discourse.
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2012 September 16 « The Unapologetic Mathematician
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Mathematics for the interested outsider. As might be surmised from irreducible modules. For a Lie algebra. Is one that contains a nontrivial proper submodule — one other than. Is a submodule we can form the quotient. This is the basic setup of a short exact sequence. The question is, does this sequence split? That is, can we write. As the direct sum of. And some other submodule isomorphic to. First of all, let’s be clear that direct sums of modules do make sense. Indeed, if. No Indeed, let. In this case,.
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Perl Weekly Issue #211 - 2015-08-10 - CPAN Day is Sunday 16th August
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Issue #211 - 2015-08-10 - CPAN Day is Sunday 16th August. Don't miss the next issue! There is a new version of the MongoDB driver coming for Perl 5, and David would like you to try out the first release candidate. This Sunday, 16th August, is CPAN Day, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of the first upload to CPAN. I still don't know what a monad is. Morgan Stanley Budapest Perl developer for cloud. Front-end with AngularJS, Back-end with Perl Dancer and MongoDB - Save 100 Euro. Aristotle has creat...
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Higher-Order Perl | LinuxInsight
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Skip to main content. Infinite loops in 5 seconds. How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)? How fast is your disk? Finally user-friendly virtualization for Linux. First benchmarks of the ext4 file system. How to optimize PostgreSQL database size. Iostat - Linux I/O performance monitoring utility. Ubuntu vs Debian: this is amazing! Linux Kernel in a Nutshell. The /proc filesystem documentation. Oracle10g on Debian Linux HOWTO. Linux 4.8-rc4 Kernel Released. On Wed, 2009-...
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