Results tagged “paper” from manAmplified

Interesting presentation given at C4, Actors: A Unifying Design Pattern for Scalable Concurrency.

Something interesting I found at OSCON is Djinni. Seems there are a number of papers on Compressed Annealing (via Scholar). This is apparently an improvement over Simulated Annealing.

If you work with distributed systems, HTTP referenceable services, and specifically caching systems, you probably should check out On the Intrinsic Locality Properties of Web Reference Streams.

A Distributed Lock Manager can be found on the IBM OSS site.

Unskilled and Unaware of It.

"People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it."

A new online book Understanding Metadata from NISO.