Beginner’s Luck: <i>Aspergillus</i> section <i>Flavi</i>

Moral Luck

The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes or because of its adequacy to achieve some proposed end; it is good only because of its willing, i.e., it is good of itself And, regarded for itself, it is to be esteemed incomparably higher than anything which could be brought about by it in favor of any inclination or even of the sum total of all inclinations. Even if it sho...

Beginner’s Luck

Beginners Need Powerful Systems

Computing systems are often very hard for most people to approach. To some extent this is because of the inherent difficulty of giving machines the ability to communicate in ways which people find natural: not enough is understood about speech and how it is decoded, about the structure and functions of natural languages, about how the average person thinks about problems and processes. However ...

Quantum computing for beginners

The paper introduces the basic concepts and principles behind quantum computing and examines in detail Shor’s quantum algorithm for factoring very large numbers. Some basic methodological principles and guidelines for constructing quantum algorithms are stated. The aim is not to provide a formal exposition of quantum computing but to identify its novelty and potential use in tackling NP-hard pr...

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