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MANSCI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Valuing Money and Things: Why a $20 Item Can Be Worth More and Less Than $20
The study of risky decision-making has long used monetary gambles to study choice, but many everyday decisions do not involve the prospect of winning or losing money. Monetary gam...
A. Peter McGraw, Eldar Shafir, Alexander Todorov
SIGOPS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Why panic()?: improving reliability with restartable file systems
The file system is one of the most critical components of the operating system. Almost all applications running in the operating system require file systems to be available for ...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhi...
BIRTHDAY
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Why Sets?
Sets play a key role in foundations of mathematics. Why? To what extent is it an accident of history? Imagine that you have a chance to talk to mathematicians from a far-away plane...
Andreas Blass
SYNTHESE
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
What ought probably means, and why you can't detach it
: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems‟ by their failure to license modus ponens. I examine three such principles (a self-reliance principle and...
Stephen Finlay
CEEMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The "Dance or Work" Problem: Why Do not all Honeybees Dance with Maximum Intensity
A honeybee colony has to choose among several nectar sources in the environment, each fluctuating in quality over time. Successful forager bees return to the hive and perform dance...
Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim