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Hard disks are electro-mechanical devices that wear out. Predicting their working life is something of a black art, and most influenced by the wear and tear they sustain, particularly when they’re spun up, and even their specific manufacturing batch. Solid-state … Read more

12 Dec 2016 Robert Vanderbei has written a beautiful series of articles and talks about a method for finding the radius of the earth based on a single photograph of a sunset over a large, calm lake. Vanderbei’s analysis is … Read more