SFS? Not likely

SFS? Not likely…

SFS (Shape From Shading) theory is based upon the Lambertian paradigm. Our visual demonstrations imply that this paradigm fails to apply to the conventional stimuli used to probe vision.

More likely than not

The likelihood ratio method [BG96] provides a tool for the calculation of hedge ratios and risk parameters with Monte Carlo calculations. In this article, we present the extension of existing likelihood ratio methods to multiple underlyings and to higher order sensitivities such as the crossderivatives on the underlyings, and how the method can be used in a displaced diffusion [Rub83] framework...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

Wormholes and Time Travel ? Not Likely

Wormholes have been advanced as both a method for circumventing the limitations of the speed of light as well as a means for building a time machine (to travel to the past). Thus it is argued that General Relativity may allow both of these possibilities. In this note I argue that traversable wormholes connecting otherwise causally disconnected regions, violate two of the most fundamental princi...

The Advancement of NFS Benchmarking: SFS 2.0

With the release of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s (SPEC) System File Server (SFS) Release 1.0 benchmark suite in April 1993, the characterization of NFS server performance grew from a small and not widely accepted set of benchmarks, to a single industry standard benchmark. This paper will provide a historical look at the success of SFS 1.01 and how it has driven server capab...