Critical appraisal tools - “Relax, itʼs much worse than you think”

Chip-firing may be much faster than you think

A new bound (Theorem 4.4) for the duration of the chip-firing game with N chips on a n-vertex graph is obtained, by a careful analysis of the pseudo-inverse of the discrete Laplacian matrix of the graph. This new bound is expressed in terms of the entries of the pseudo-inverse. It is shown (Section 5) to be always better than the classic bound due to Björner, Lovász and Shor. In some cases the ...

Model Checking: One Can Do Much More Than You Think!

Model checking is an automated verification technique that actively is applied to find bugs in hardware and software designs. Companies like IBM and Cadence developed their in-house model checkers, and acted as driving forces behind the design of the IEEE-standardized temporal logic PSL. On the other hand, model checking C-, C#and .NETprogram code is an intensive research topic at, for instance...

You have more capital than you think.

Senior executives typically delegate the responsibility for managing a firm's derivatives portfolio to in-house financial experts and the company's financial advisers. That's a strategic blunder, argues this Nobel laureate, because the inventiveness of modern financial markets makes it possible for companies to double or even triple their capacity to invest in their strategic assets and compete...

It's Later Than You Think.

If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, it s later than you think always becomes the most wanted book. Many peo...

It's easier than you think.