• Posts Tagged ‘algorithms’

    Markov chain paper title generator

    January 5, 2012 • Article

    Gene Stanley is a prolific and influential physicist who has been one of the biggest pioneers of interdisciplinary science of the last several decades. His H-Index is an obscene 111. I work on econophysics, which he basically invented, so I encounter his papers regularly. After seeing a few dozen of his econophysics papers, their titles [...]

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    Elevator algorithms

    December 24, 2011 • Article

    A recent post on HN got me thinking (and reading) about elevator scheduling algorithms.  As it turns out, this is an active area of extensive research. Manufacturers tend to use slightly different algorithms and treat them as trade secrets. But in practice, their algorithms are similar, because the theoretical optimization criteria are roughly the same: provide [...]

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