15+ ways to increase the effective potency of your medicines and therefore decrease your dosage

Fourteen Ways to Fool Your Synchronizer

Transferring data between mutually asynchronous clock domains requires safe synchronization. However, the exact nature of synchronization sometimes eludes designers, and as a result synchronization circuits get “optimized” to the point where they do no longer operate correctly. This paper reviews a number of such cases, analyzes the causes of the errors, and offers a correct synchronizer circui...

Three Practical Ways to Improve Your Network

This paper presents three simple techniques for improving network service using relatively unknown features of many existing networks. The resulting system provides greater reliability, enhanced security, and ease of management. First, it addresses the application of IP anycast to provide reliable recursive DNS service. Next, it explains the use of unicast reverse path forwarding and its useful...

How to Increase Your “Power”

For a researcher, the power refers to the possibility of proving the difference between the two different groups. In other words, the probability that the test correctly rejects the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis. Generally, statistically significant results are obtained if statistical tests are performed with enough numbers. In the usual case, the clinical difference is not so...

Is justice good for your sleep? (And therefore, good for your health?)

In this paper, we present an argument strengthening the view of Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy and Ichiro Kawachi that justice is good for one’s health. We argue that the pathways through which social factors produce inequalities in sleep more strongly imply a unidirectional and non-voluntary causality than with most other public health issues. Specifically, we argue against the ‘voluntarism obj...

Effective modern C++: 42 specific ways to improve your use of C++11 and C++14