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Getting a new idea adopted, even when it has obvious advantages, is difficult. Many innovations require a lengthy period of many years from the time when they become available to the time when they are widely adopted. Therefore, a common problem f...

Concurrent programming is unintuitive and hard, but quite important. People do PhDs, spend careers and win Turing awards researching on concurrent programming and distributed computing. Yet, most programmers never have to deal with it.Super consci...

Many decisions are based on beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future value of the dollar. These beliefs are usually expressed in statements such as "I think t...

In the paper, Self-Organized Criticality: An Explanation of 1/f Noise, authors show a very simple iterative procedure which generates some interesting results. This procedure is quite easy to code up and we can verify the results. What is this pro...

In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanic...