A FEW GOOD BOOKS

Good Books and Imprecise Probability

This paper explores the related questions of (i) whether there is a pragmatic presumption against imprecise probabilities and (ii) how imprecise probabilities should be integrated into a normative theory of rational choice. Elga (2008) argues that one rather natural way of effecting this integration allows an agent to reject each of a series of bets that promises a positive payout. A number of ...

Read any good books lately?

While emphasizing the place of books and experience with patients in medical education, it was not only medical texts that Osler felt students should read and know. He had a recommended list of bedside books for medical students (Table 1). In some cases Osler, the most famous of McGill professors, was recommending a body of work rather than a book, and although he was not explicit in what we sh...

Good Predictions Are Worth a Few Comparisons

Most modern processors are heavily parallelized and use predictors to guess the outcome of conditional branches, in order to avoid costly stalls in their pipelines. We propose predictorfriendly versions of two classical algorithms: exponentiation by squaring and binary search in a sorted array. These variants result in less mispredictions on average, at the cost of an increased number of operat...

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Large generalized books are p-good

Let B (r) q = Kr−1 + qK1 be the graph consisting of q distinct r-cliques sharing a common (r − 1)-clique. We prove for p ≥ 2, r ≥ 3 fixed and q large r ( Kp+1, B (r) q ) = p (q + r − 2) + 1.