Bannalia: trivial notes on themes diverse

Tim Harford recounts in his book The Logic of Life an anecdote about the authors of Freakonomics , Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: ...

In a recent article , Andrew Koenig argues that break statements are harmful because they make it harder to deduce the program context at l...

Consider the sentence Rationalism has many followers. What in principle looks like a rather dull N+V+O statement does not however allow for ...

Suppose a company's HR department wishes to establish a statistical model for their personnel performance in order to set up outcome pre...

We redo the hysteresis analysis we conducted on gas prices, now for a longer period of time and using much more data than before: Average w...

C++ associative containers are almost universally implemented on top of a structure known as a red-black tree . An rb tree node has approxi...

As we have discussed before , the famous Arrow's Theorem is equivalent to this basic theorem on ultrafilters : Every ultrafilter on a f...