Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire … Read More

The NIST metric is based on the BLEU metric, but with some alterations. Where BLEU simply calculates n-gram precision adding equal weight to each one, NIST also calculates how informative a particular n-gram is. That is to say when a … Read More

The fundamental bet in craps is the pass line bet, in which one bets that the dice will pass (that is, roll the point number before rolling a 7). A pass line bet is also won if the come-out roll … Read More

McDonald’s, represented by the Golden Arches, is one of the world’s most famous brands In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a company, product or service. A brand typically includes a name, logo, … Read More

A wide variety of systems of interconnected components are called networks. Specific examples include: transport networks, roads, railroads, shipping routes and airlines, pipelines (gas, petroleum, water, sewage), electric circuits – a network of electrical components. electricity networks (electric power – … Read More

When evaluating a hand before the flop, it’s useful to have some idea of how likely the hand is dominated. A dominated hand is a hand that is beaten by another hand (the dominant hand) and is extremely unlikely to … Read More

Opinion Opinii (Puncte de vedere) 1. Perhaps you will be good enough to let me have your views on this point. 2. I am much in favour of increased collaboration with… 3. It is doubtful we can make more progress … Read More

Remedies Avoid infection If the initial dialog box is shown, disconnecting from the internet BEFORE closing it may prevent the download and any infection. Switching to a different browser rather than Internet Explorer may reduce vulnerability to this and other … Read More

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.”[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers … Read More

Non-Computational Approaches In the field of library science, language identification is important for categorizing materials. As librarians often have to categorize materials which are in languages they are not familiar with, they sometimes rely on tables of frequent words and … Read More

When facing two opponents, for any given starting hand the number of possible combinations of hands the opponents can have is (50/2)(48/2) = 1,381800 hands. For calculating probabilities we can ignore the distinction between the two opponents holding A♠ J♥ … Read More

A few spyware vendors, notably WhenU and 180 Solutions, have written what the New York Times has dubbed “stealware”, and what spyware-researcher Ben Edelman terms affiliate fraud, also known as click fraud. These redirect the payment of affiliate marketing revenues … Read More