Adventure in a Bun

On Bun hed Typing

A Triangular Adventure

It all starts with an elegant construction and surprising discovery made by Karleen Davis and Sam Johnson, students in my "Cat:Dog" ("Circles and Triangles: Diamonds of Geometry") class this semester. Karleen and Sam were just playing around, looking for interesting things to do with a triangle. One thing they tried was this. Starting with a random triangle ABC, they took H, its orthocenter, an...

GLIMPSE - A Statistical Adventure

This paper describes advances in the development of a know ledge-based front-end for the s ta t is t ics package GLIM 3.77, employing logic programming methods and tools, including sigmaPR0L0G and APES. The domain of application computer-based s ta t i s t i ca l analysis requires that a changing knowledge base be handled by the system, GLIMPSE*. The developing system is suitable for users with...

A twilight adventure.

Many years ago, before the age of the internet, I picked up a collection of short stories called A Month of Mystery, edited by the film director Alfred Hitchcock. Most of the stories were humdrum, but one of them struck me as a masterpiece. It was by an American writer from the early 20th century named Melville Davisson Post. Although I never came across his writing again, his name stuck in my ...

Bun splitting: a practical cutting stock problem

We describe a new hierarchical 2D-guillotine Cutting Stock Problem. In contrast to the classic cutting stock problem, waste is not an issue. The problem relates to the removal of a defective part and assembly of the remaining parts into homogeneous size blocks. The context is the packing stages of cake manufacturing. The company’s primary objective is to minimise total processing time at the su...