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  • 11Speed prior — Jürgen Schmidhuber s Speed Prior is a complexity measure similar to Kolmogorov complexity, except that it is based on computation speed as well as programlength. The Speed Prior complexity of a program is itssize in bits plus the logarithm of the …

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  • 12Circumstances prior to the Malayan Emergency — In 1948, the Communists and the British colonial government in Malaya entered a period of guerrilla fighting which has become known to history as the Malayan Emergency. The name derives from the state of emergency declared by the colonial… …

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  • 13Coherent states in mathematical physics — Coherent states have been introduced in a physical context, first as quasi classical states in quantum mechanics, then as the backbone of quantum optics and they are described in that spirit in the article Coherent states (see also [1]). However …

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  • 14Rényi entropy — In information theory, the Rényi entropy, a generalisation of Shannon entropy, is one of a family of functionals for quantifying the diversity, uncertainty or randomness of a system. It is named after Alfréd Rényi. The Rényi entropy of order α,… …

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  • 15precaution — n. 1. Forethought, foresight, timely care, prudence, providence, circumspection, wariness, care. 2. Premunition, prior measure, preventive measure, provision …

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  • 16precaution — I noun alertness, anticipation, attention, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, forearming, foresight, forethought, guarantee, guardedness, heed, needfulness, premunition, preventive measures, prior measure, protection, providence,… …

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  • 17preparation — I noun anticipation, apprenticeship, arrangement, background, basis, building, development, education, equipment, establishment, evolution, foresight, forethought, foundation, groundwork, initiation, instruction, making ready, neophytism,… …

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  • 18History of Seattle before white settlement — Prior to white settlement, thirteen prominent villages existed in what is now the city of Seattle. The people living near Elliott Bay, and along the Duwamish, Black and Cedar Rivers were collectively known as the doo AHBSH , or People of the Doo… …

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  • 19Economic history of South Africa — Prior to the arrival of European settlers in the fifteenth century the economy of what was to become South Africa was dominated by subsistence farming and hunting. In the north, central and east of the country tribes of Bantu peoples occupied… …

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  • 20Childrenswear —    Prior to 1800, children were simply thought of as little adults in regard to clothing attire. Their clothing was a miniature version of adult society. As with adult fashion, direction was initiated in Europe and was further influenced by the… …

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