Scaling Reliably

Explaining programs reliably

Science isaboutflndingbetter explanations [3],andto dosoitisguidedby ‰sthetics, such asOccam’sRazor, anda conviction thatrealit y isflxed.Incomputerscience,instead, we buildtheobjects we explain, andwe changethem.Computerscience, then,isaboutflnding betterexplanations forthingsthatcanbe changedto helpimprovetheexplanations. A allthemetresofpapercomputerbooksshow,thereisa highdemandeven forconve...

Older males signal more reliably.

The hypothesis that females prefer older males because they have higher mean fitness than younger males has been the centre of recent controversy. These discussions have focused on the success of a female who prefers males of a particular age class when age cues, but not quality cues, are available. Thus, if the distribution of male quality changes with age, such that older males have on averag...

Reliably Networking a Multicast Repository

In this paper we consider the design of a reliable multicast facility over an unreliable multicast network. Our multicast facility has several interesting properties: it has different numbers of clients interested in each data packet, allowing us to tune our strategy for each data transmission; it has recurring data items, so that missed data items can be rescheduled for later transmission; and...

Trinder, P. et al. (2017) Scaling reliably: improving the scalability of the Erlang distributed actor platform. ACM Transactions on Programming

Can histopathologists reliably diagnose molar pregnancy?

AIMS To assess the degree of difficulty in diagnosing partial mole by analysing intraobserver and interobserver agreement among a group of pathologists for these diagnoses. METHODS Fifty mixed cases of partial mole, complete mole, and non-molar pregnancy were submitted to seven histopathologists, two of whom are expert gynaecological pathologists; the other five were district general hospital...