(This article was written by Bradley Orner, an engineer and former Amway distributor of 3.5 years.) In the past there have been many postings here dealing with the statistics of success in Amway. Here ...

Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...

Linkage are composed of links and lower pairs. The simplest closed-loop linkage is the four-bar linkage, which has three moving links, one fixed link and four pin joints. A linkage with one link fixed ...

I'm a professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. I am also affiliated with the Robotics Institute. I'm interested in multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, ...

In Nyquist, all functions are subject to transformations. You can think of transformations as additional parameters to every function, and functions are free to use these additional parameters in any ...

To anyone who has makes a serious study of Amway and the problems that have for so long plagued it, one thing becomes overwhelmingly obvious: if there is any one primary cause for almost all those ...

The advent of large-scale training has produced a cornucopia of powerful visual recognition models. However, generative models, such as GANs, have traditionally been trained from scratch in an ...

I wrote this article in 1994 in response to a request posted to a discussion group. Since then, I've seen it in various places around the Net. This version is essentially the same as the earlier, but ...

Since its inception, Lisp has associated with each symbol a kind of tabular data structure called a property list (plist for short). A property list contains zero or more entries; each entry ...

(eq x y) is true if and only if x and y are the same identical object. (Implementationally, x and y are usually eq if and only if they address the same identical memory location.) It should be noted ...

SEPA readings are from Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach. They are optional (since the text is optional), but may be a useful supplement to the lectures. Other (non-SEPA) ...

The Marxen-Buntrock 5-state busy beaver. Running on an initially empty tape, the machine appears to be caught in some kind of loop, Yet, it halts after an absolutely astonishing 47,176,870 steps. This ...