format is used to produce formatted output. format outputs the characters of control-string, except that a tilde (~) introduces a directive. The character after the tilde, possibly preceded by prefix ...

Grateful Dead Setlists: 1993 These setlists were taken from the 1993 Year in Review and Useless DeadStats by Eric J. Simon (simon@xtal0.harvard.edu) and Randy Jackson, which bears the following ...

Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river. Behind them was the ...

When designing any agent-based system, it is important to determine how sophisticated the agents' reasoning will be. Reactive agents simply retrieve pre-set behaviors similar to reflexes without ...

The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

Andy recounts the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage in 2023.

As much as Andy loves PostgreSQL, there is one part that is terrible and causes many headaches for people. Learn what it is and why it sucks.

Before submitting your stories make sure they are in the standard manuscript format. This is described in many, many "How to Write" books -- and I strongly recommend that you read at least one such ...

I see names like 'Qin', 'Xu', 'Zhu', and I am not sure how to say Chinese names like these. What you see is pinyin, literally 'spell out the sound'. It's a system for romanizing Chinese ideograms, ...

The names and naming practices for this handout were primarily taken from a series of books called Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Catalog of passengers to the New World). The books contain lists of ...

Note that within a single game of Rhode Island Hold 'Em, the same player is first to act in each betting round. The player who is first to act changes after each game.

The Acme Project Acme is a simple, generic software architecture description language (ADL) that can be used as a common interchange format for architecture design tools and/or as a foundation for ...