Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell / 2008
A nice leisure book from a good author.
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The Combinatorics of Network Reliability
Charles J. Colbourn / 1987
This is a book I know when I was reading a paper that cited it. I did not read it from cover to cover but something interesting inside.
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Ridoux and Veitch (2010) Principles of Robust Timing over the Internet (ACM Queue)
PC’s clock is an oscillator and HPET (high performance event timer) to count oscillator ticks. The time function is therefore \(C(t) = C_0 + p(t) \textrm{HPET}(t)\) where \(p(t)\) is the period of clock ticks and HPET is the tick count. Note, \(p(t)\) is varying slowly and therefore \(C(t)\) is not...
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Parallelism by tee in bash
This is what I did in my simulation processing code.
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Reservoir Sampling with Uniform Probability
Assume you have a million lines of data in ordered pairs and you want to plot it in GNU Plot. That’s likely to kill your computer. Indeed, plotting a million dots on a graph does not give more information than that plotting a thousand dots. Therefore, how we can sample...
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