Sunday, June 28, 2009

Syntactic sugar

Syntactic sugar

"In computer science, syntactic sugar in a language is syntax designed to make things easier to read or to express, while alternative ways of expressing them exist."

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Jerboa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jerboa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The jerboa (from Arabic يربوع yarbū' or Hebrew יַרְבּוֹעַ yarbōa' ) form the bulk of the membership of the family Dipodidae. Jerboas are jumping desert rodents found throughout Asia and Northern Africa."

Levenshtein distance

Levenshtein distance

"In information theory and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a metric for measuring the amount of difference between two sequences (i.e., the so called edit distance)."

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Shimenawa

Shimenawa

"Shimenawa (標縄・注連縄・七五三縄?, , lit. 'enclosing rope') are lengths of braided rice straw rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion"

Cellular Potts model

Cellular Potts model

"The cellular Potts model is a lattice-based computational modeling method to simulate the collective behavior of cellular structures."

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

St. Petersburg paradox

St. Petersburg paradox

"In economics, the St. Petersburg paradox is a paradox related to probability theory and decision theory. It is based on a particular (theoretical) lottery game (sometimes called St. Petersburg Lottery) that leads to a random variable with infinite expected value, i.e. infinite expected payoff, but would nevertheless be considered to be worth only a very small amount of money."

Monday, June 01, 2009

De Morgan's laws

De Morgan's laws

"In formal logic, De Morgan's laws are rules relating the logical operators 'and' and 'or' in terms of each other via negation, namely:

NOT (P OR Q) = (NOT P) AND (NOT Q)
NOT (P AND Q) = (NOT P) OR (NOT Q)"