Seamless streamflow forecasting at daily to monthly scales: MuTHRE lets you have your cake and eat it too

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Introduction I always feel guilty when I go see the dentist. We all know the rules—avoid sweets, brush after every meal, floss several times a day. Talking about tool and shop safety gets the same treatment in articles and books– always read the owner’s manual, inspect your tool for hazards daily, make sure your tools are properly grounded (sound familiar?) The challenge I present to you is tha...

If you are over 65--can you have your cake and eat it too?

Two women, in their 70s, are walking on Blackstone Boulevard. Both are 5 feet 2 inches tall. One weighs 146 pounds; the other, 118 pounds. Corresponding body mass index (BMI) is 26.5 (overweight) for the first and 21.6 (normal) for the second. They are both healthy without any chronic medical conditions. Each takes vitamins and calcium supplementation. Which woman has the lower mortality risk? ...

You can have your cake and eat it too: Introducing Dynamical Systems to Cognitive Science

Timothy Van Gelder and Robert Port (PVG) have thrown down the gauntlet to Cognittive Science. Flaunting a young but dynamic tradition of looking to the computer as a possible model of what the brain is, PVG offer to replace this tradition by a new one based on dynamics. The tenets of this shift include a new emphasis on continuous state and time. Through their 500 page edited collection, PVG ho...

The Perfective Paradox: or How to Eat Your Cake and Have It Too

Event Systems: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

This paper addresses the fundamental tradeoffs in event systems between scalability (of event filtering, routing, and delivery mechanisms), expressiveness (when describing interests in events), and event safety (ensuring encapsulation and type-safe interaction with polymorphic events). We point out some ramifications underlying these tradeoffs and we propose a pragmatic approach to handle them....