A prehistoric touchstone from France

Touchstone { a Lightweight Processor Benchmark Touchstone { a Lightweight Processor Benchmark

Benchmarks are valuable for comparing processor performance. However, porting and running processor benchmarks on new platforms can be di cult. Touchstone, a simple addition benchmark, is designed to overcome portability problems, while retaining performance measurement accuracy. In this paper, we present experimental results that show Touchstone correlates strongly with processor performance u...

A tick from a prehistoric Arizona coprolite.

Ticks have never been reported in archaeological analyses. Here, we present the discovery of a tick from a coprolite excavated from Antelope Cave in extreme northwest Arizona. Dietary analysis indicates that the coprolite has a human origin. This archaeological occupation is associated with the Ancestral Pueblo culture (Anasazi). This discovery supports previous hypotheses that ticks were a pot...

Inconsistency as a Touchstone for Coherence Measures

The debate on probabilistic measures of coherence has focused on evaluating sets of consistent propositions. In this paper we draw attention to the largely neglected question of whether such measures concur with intuitions on test cases with inconsistent propositions and whether they satisfy general adequacy constraints on coherence and inconsistency. While it turns out that, for the vast major...

A Tick From a Prehistoric Arizona Coprolite (Galley Proofs)

Ticks have never been reported in archaeological analyses. Here, we present the discovery of a tick from a coprolite excavated from Antelope Cave in extreme northwest Arizona. Dietary analysis indicates that the coprolite has a human origin. This archaeological occupation is associated with the Ancestral Pueblo culture (Anasazi). This discovery supports previous hypotheses that ticks were a pot...

A Prehistoric Revolution