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A practitioner of the force of destiny

Is there any Justification for this web page?

I love my iPad, it is the perfect tool that I have been waiting for since the invention of the Apple Newton in 1993. Given that so much of what I desire instanous access to is now on my iPad … Continue reading

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‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

Ripped from the pages of Stanford UNIVERSITY. As story that I have always tried to live ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of … Continue reading

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How do they figure the distance between celestial bodies?

How do they figure the distance between celestial bodies? November 7, 2000 Dear Straight Dope: I’ve been wondering–what is the process that we use to measure the distance of objects in space? How do we really know that a planet … Continue reading

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NCR NEAT 399 or simply NEAT 3

The NCR 499 Although not the first programming language, and by far not my favorite, that I taugh myself, NEAT 3 on a NCR 499 computer was my first professional consulting contract about the spring, summer period of 1979. The Bergen News, as … Continue reading

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The Top 10 Reasons Leaders Fail

Ripped from the pages of CNBC.COM is something worth thinking about; Where does a person honestly rank themselves. The Moral Failure of Leaders: Business, Sports and Politics by Jack Stark, PhD, author of “The Championship Formula: How to Transform Your … Continue reading

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Unix/Linux Administration Logical Volume Management Guide

Ripped from the pages http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/LVM.htm   Unix/Linux Administration Logical Volume Management Guide ©2005 Wayne Pollock, Tampa Florida USA. All Rights Reserved. Adapted from the LVM How-to page from The Linux Documentation Project website.   LVM (Logical Volume Management) Overview: In … Continue reading

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Bonds

Bonds are loans that investors make to corporation and goverments. The borrowers get the cash they need while the lender earn interest. Has fixed maturity date when the bond expires and the loan must be paid back in full at … Continue reading

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OpenMP fast track

Ripped from the page ”Guide into OpenMP: Easy multithreading programming for C++” By Joel Yliluoma, September 2007; last update in December 2008 Abstract This document attempts to give a quick introduction to OpenMP (as of version 3.0), a simple C/C++/Fortran compiler … Continue reading

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Marginal distribution

In probability theory and statistics, the marginal distribution of a subset of a collection of random variables is the probability distribution of the variables contained in the subset. The term marginal variable is used to refer to those variables in … Continue reading

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Joint probability distribution

In the study of probability, given two random variables X and Y that are defined on the same probability space, the joint distribution for X and Y defines the probability of events defined in terms of both X and Y. … Continue reading

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