All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality … Read more
6.1 Heterogeneity Here we explore heterogeneous effects with respect to universities’ religion, fields of study, changes in the knowledge frontier, whether sons were appointed during their father’s lifetime, and different types of academic institutions.Footnote 33 Protestant vs. catholic institutions The … Read more
The ELF object file format is adopted by many UNIX-like operating systems. While I’ve previously delved into the control structures of ELF and its predecessors, tracing the historical evolution of ELF and its relationship with the System V ABI can … Read more
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer Fritz Ruehr, Willamette University Freshman Haskell programmer fac n = if n == 0 then 1 else n * fac (n-1) Sophomore Haskell programmer, at MIT (studied Scheme as a freshman) fac … Read more
Introduction James Stroud had a problem. The evolutionary biologist had spent several years studying lizards on a small island in Miami. These Anolis lizards had looked the same for millennia; they had apparently evolved very little in all that time. … Read more
The musician Steve Albini and I had been chatting for about a half hour, going over the particulars of his daily routine, the financial viability of his business, and various other prosaic and uncontroversial subjects, when it suddenly seemed appropriate … Read more
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INDIANAPOLIS — The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientists at IUPUI, along with … Read more
Luca Zanolini In this document we present the evolution of the proof-of-stake consensus protocol of Ethereum, called Gasper, aiming at a self-contained reference for future study and research. Implementation We include in boxes of this kind the (explained) implementation of … Read more