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1 day ago · Development model. In his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, open-source influential contributor Eric S. Raymond suggests a model for developing OSS known as the bazaar model. Raymond likens the development of software by traditional methodologies to building a cathedral, with careful isolated work by individuals or small groups.
1 day ago · v. t. e. Charles Sanders Peirce ( / pɜːrs / [8] [9] PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism ". [10] [11] According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and ...
5 hours ago · Lambda calculus. Lambda calculus (also written as λ-calculus) is a formal system in mathematical logic for expressing computation based on function abstraction and application using variable binding and substitution. It is a universal model of computation that can be used to simulate any Turing machine.
1 day ago · The derivative is a fundamental tool of calculus that quantifies the sensitivity of change of a function 's output with respect to its input. The derivative of a function of a single variable at a chosen input value, when it exists, is the slope of the tangent line to the graph of the function at that point. The tangent line is the best linear ...
5 hours ago · Ethics. Ethics is concerned with the moral status of entities, for example, whether an act is obligatory or prohibited. [1] Ethics or moral philosophy is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right.
5 hours ago · Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets ( cels) to be photographed and exhibited on film.
1 day ago · Tristar Electronics; sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. [1] It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.
