Stupid Judgments

Going Stupid with EcoLab

In 2005, Railsback et al. proposed a very simple model (Stupid Model) that could be implemented within a couple of hours, and later extended to demonstrate the use of common ABM platform functionality. They provided implementations of the model in several agent based modelling platforms, and compared the platforms for ease of implementation of this simple model, and performance. In this paper, ...

It's the Anthropology, Stupid!

These virtual machines communicate in turn with a number of virtual servers in various clouds. Your work machine talks to a corporate cloud and to services run by subcontractors such as safesforce.com. Your play machine might, according to taste, talk to an assortment of game servers, porn servers or bridge clubs. Your serious personal machine will talk to your bank; you might have other machin...

It's Diagnostics, Stupid

To stem the spiraling cost of cancer treatment, a concerted effort is urgently needed to develop molecular diagnostics to better identify the patients that respond to expensive targeted therapies. Opportunities and obstacles in the development of such drug response biomarkers are discussed here.

What is stupid?

Stupid Columnsort Tricks

Leighton’s columnsort algorithm sorts on an r × s mesh, subject to the restrictions that s is a divisor of r and that r ≥ 2s2 (so that the mesh is tall and thin). We show how to mitigate both of these restrictions. One result is that the requirement that s is a divisor of r is unnecessary; columnsort sorts correctly whether or not s divides r . We present two algorithms that, as long as s is a ...