[1006.5169] Hyperbolic Geometry of Complex Networks – Interesting. Learning about Network Theory – A brief introduction, with links to resources. NetworkX v1.1 – "NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks." [1006.1786] Measuring Meaning on the World-Wide Web – A brief paper exploring [...]

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An occasional porting problem you may encounter when compiling programs for OpenSolaris is the absence of d_type in the directory entry structure returned by readdir(3C). I hit this issue when experimenting with mu as a search solution for my accumulated email. A trivial example of the failure you might see would be caused by the [...]

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We went on the Marine Science Institute‘s cruise today, which was in part to celebrate World Oceans Day 2010. Part of the cruise involved sampling the bay floor and a short trawl with a net. (All animals caught are returned to the bay later in the day.) Ben got to hold a juvenile leopard shark.

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[1006.0200] The 1958 Pekeris-Accad-WEIZAC Ground-Breaking Collaboration that computed Ground States of Two-Electron Atoms (and its 2010 Redux) – Koutschan and Zeilberger examine and "re-enact" Pekeris's 1958 calculation of the ground state of the two-electron atom. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures – "This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and [...]

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