Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?

What You Can’t Expect When You’re Expecting

It seems natural to choose whether to have a child by reflecting on what it would be like to actually have a child. I argue that this natural approach fails. If you choose to become a parent, and your choice is based on projections about what you think it would be like for you to have a child, your choice is not rational. If you choose to remain childless, and your choice is based upon projecti...

What were you expecting? Using Expectancy Features to Predict Expressive Performances of Classical Piano Music

In this paper we present preliminary work examining the relationship between the formation of expectations and the realization of musical performances, paying particular attention to expressive tempo and dynamics. To compute features that reflect what a listener is expecting to hear, we employ a computational model of auditory expectation called the Information Dynamics of Music model (IDyOM). ...

Hidden signals of climate change in intertidal ecosystems: What (not) to expect when you are expecting

Eventually Consistent Transactions

When distributed clients query or update shared data, eventual consistency can provide better availability than strong consistency models. However, programming and implementing such systems can be difficult unless we establish a reasonable consistency model, i.e. some minimal guarantees that programmers can understand and systems can provide effectively. To this end, we propose a novel consiste...

"It's not what you were expecting, but it's still a beautiful journey": the experience of mothers of children with Down syndrome.

AIM The purpose of this study was to describe qualitatively the experience of parenting for mothers of a child with Down syndrome and to explore what if any was the role of spirituality and organized religion in this experience. METHOD A homogenous sample of eight mothers of children between 7 and 12 years of age with Down syndrome was recruited through a population-based source of families o...