Basic electronics textbooks list three fundamental passive circuit elements: resistors, capacitors and inductors. But nearly forty years ago, Leon Chua predicted the existence of a fourth, the memristor — in effect a nonlinear resistor with memory. A pa
Whizzing around the world, following a travel influencer on an emotional journey towards self-discovery, I flew throughUs Against the Likesin one sitting. I instantly clicked with the characters, the story and the vacation spots! OMG the destinations!! Marie has such a gift for setting! There...
The Librarian File System (LFS) Suite The Machine from HPE consists of a set of compute nodes that each host a portion of Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM). The FAM of all nodes is combined into a global pool visible from any node. In addition, a separate Top-of-Rack-Management Server (To...
The temporal sequence of SWS and REM sleep in the normal sleep cycle suggests that these sleep stages have complementary roles in memory consolidation: during SWS, system consolidation promotes the re-activation and redistribution of select memory traces for long-term storage, whereas ensuing REM slee...
A Death bed repentance: to the memory of Samuel Butler (by Aleister Crowley)[short story] An Hymn for the American people (by Aleister Crowley)[poem] For: Julie Weber and her Magick Theater from the cycle “Dark space and bright stars” (by Grady L. McMurtry)[poems] ...
Particle systems are most useful when they can handle large quantities of particles, which means that performance and smart memory management is very important. Like collision detection, building your own particle system can be fun and educational, but if you need to achieve something complex at a...
Virginia Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) P. Lo, D.K.W. Chiu, A. Cho, B. Allard (Eds.), Conversations with leading academic and research library directors: International perspectives on library management, Chandos, Cambridge, MA...
Kiela was content with her job as a librarian in the stacks of the Great Library of Alyssium. She and her sentient spider plant assistant, Caz, don’t interact with many people but who needs people when you can organize books? Then, when a rebellion sweeps through the city, the library...
My mother was a librarian and instilled the ideals of librarianship in me at a young age. Look around you Bozo Boy, everything in this house has a place and everything’s in its place. If you’re going to be my man, take heed. POSTSCRIPT He went crazy and flipped over the ...
The revolution in microbiota research over the past decade has provided invaluable knowledge about the function of the microbial species that inhabit the human body. It has become widely accepted that these microorganisms, collectively called ‘the micro