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Chinese New Year (Traditional Chinese: 春節 or 農曆殮. Chinese: 春节 or 农历新年; Pinyin: Chūnjíe or Nî.. also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival ... important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

An attempt to understand the notion better led Robin Gan... student and friend) in 1980 to analyze machine computati... human-computation acted out by a Turing machine). Gandy'... and analysis of, "cellular automata", "Conway's game of ... "parallelis

Basic general information about the markup languages: cr...
↓ Creator ↓ License ↓ First public release ...
avg Ulrich von Zadow LGPL 2003 0.7.0 text editor or ...
GladeXML GNOME LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+
... 3. ^ XForm

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
Newmark say

Cross-validation is the statistical practice of partitio... data into subsets such that the analysis is initially pe... single subset, while the other subset(s) are retained fo...
The initial subset of data is called the training set; t ...
The theory

data URI scheme
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... nd data URIs have now been implemented in most browsers.

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY, also known as Single Point o... process philosophy aimed at reducing duplication, partic... computing. The philosophy emphasizes that information sh... duplicated, because duplication increases the difficulty... decrease cl

The Extensible Metadata Platform or XMP is a specific ty... markup language used in PDF, photography and photo editi... It was first introduced by Adobe Systems in April 2001 a...
XMP defines a metadata model that can be used with any d ...
XMP records

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
# Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ...
# A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ...
# Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ...
... ally rewardi

John Elfreth Watkins, Jr What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years The Ladies' Home Journal, 1900 "Anyone unable to walk 10 miles in a stretch will be considered a weakling."

Directory structure
The protocol accesses LDAP directories, which follow the ...
* A directory is a tree of directory entries.
* An entry consists of a set of attributes.
... the other server and returns the results to the client.

Linked Data
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Linked Data is a term used to describe a recommended bes ...

M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mo... money transfer service for Safaricom, Kenya's largest mo... operator.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment... developing world, M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdr... money easil

Magic debug values
Magic debug values are specific values written to memory ...
Since it is very unlikely, although possible, that a 32- ...
Famous and common examples include:
... in a live environment to reduce errors[citation needed].

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

The hand of microchip implant hobbyist Amal Graafstra, j... operation to insert an RFID tag. The yellow coloration c... used to disinfect the hand for surgery.

NoSQL database or Post Relational databases are umbrella... loosely defined class of non-relational data stores that... history of relational databases and ACID guarantees. Dat... under this term may not require fixed table schemas, and...
Trends in c

SCAR is AOL's instant messaging and presence information... for Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime. Currently... for AOL's two main instant messenging systems: ICQ and AIM.

Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ, ?) or Pecha Kucha Night... format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and... It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytha... Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young... meet, netwo

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

In linguistics, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) state... systematic relationship between the grammatical categori... a person speaks and how that person both understands the... in it. Although it has come to be known as the Sapir–W... it rather w

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

Rogers' bell curve
The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the ad ...
The demographic and psychological (or "psychographic") p ...
The report summarised the categories as:
... , had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated