Brexit para Dummies

Brexit and health services.

Epistemic Modality for Dummies∗

Epistemic modals are interesting in part because their semantics is bound up both with our information about the world and with how that information changes as we share what we know. Given that epistemical modals are dependent in some way on the information available in the contexts in which they are used, it’s not surprising that there is a minor but growing industry of work in semantics and t...

Hausdorff Dimension For Dummies

phenomena in two dimensions. I spent most of the academic years 2013-2015 in Bonn, Germany (at the Max-Planck Institut and then the Hausdorff Center). In general, the Hausdorff dimension of a product is at least the sum of the dimensions of the two spaces. Does equality hold if one space is Euclidian? So let be. I find this discussion in Wikipedia very good: Fractal dimension Imagine a particul...

RAMBO for Dummies

RAMBO and RAMBO II are algorithms for emulating shared memory in a distributed asynchronous environment with nodes joining and leaving the system dynamically. This report tries to describe RAMBO and RAMBO II to people without background in I/O automata.

FM-index for Dummies

The FM-index is a celebrated compressed data structure for full-text pattern searching. After the first wave of interest in its theoretical developments, we can observe a surge of interest in practical FM-index variants in the last few years. These enhancements are often related to a bit-vector representation, augmented with an efficient rankhandling data structure. In this work, we propose a n...