A Name for Anna

Anna: A KVS For Any Scale

Modern cloud providers offer dense hardware with multiple cores and large memories, hosted in global platforms. This raises the challenge of implementing high-performance software systems that can effectively scale from a single core to multicore to the globe. Conventional wisdom says that software designed for one scale point needs to be rewritten when scaling up by 10−100× [1]. In contrast, w...

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Most mathematicians consider themselves, at least to some degree, to be both educators and researchers. Yet few embrace or even respect the subject at the intersection of these fields: research in mathematics education. Mathematicians rarely apply their own logical acumen to assessment of teaching and learning, nor do they often read the vast and growing literature in educational research. They...

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So far studies on language comprehension adopting the embodied and grounded perspective have underlined the similarities between language and action. In line with the idea of neural re-use, this chapter shows that language reflects some characteristics of action organization, but also that it builds on these characteristics, and modifies them in sophisticated ways. In the first part evidence is...

Anna Pajor

Multivariate models of asset returns are very important in financial applications. Asset allocation, risk assessment and construction of an optimal portfolio require estimates of the covariance matrix between the returns of assets (see e.g. Aguilar and West (2000), Pajor (2005a, 2005b)). Similarly, hedges require a covariance matrix of all the assets in the hedge. There are two main types of vo...