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Snark Theorem
Snark may refer to: Fictional creatures * Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) * Zn'rx, a race of fictional aliens in Marvel Comics publications, commonly referred to as "Snarks" * Corporal Snark, a minor character in ''Catch-22'' (1961) by Joseph Heller * A species of creature in ''The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage'' * The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel ''In the Ocean of Night'' (1977) by Gregory Benford * A fictional creature from the TV series ''The Troop'' * A fictional creature from the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', fictional even in the fictional world * A beetle-like creature from ''Half-Life'' which doubles as a biological weapon. Aircraft and missiles * SM-62 ''Snark'', an American intercontinental nuclear cruise missile * Sopwith Snark, a British experimental fighter plane * Barber Snark, a New Zealand kit-built tandem-seater light aircraft Ships * ''Snark'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Snark (Lewis Carroll)
The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll. "Snark" is a portmanteau of "snake" and "shark". This creature appears in Carroll's nonsense poem '' The Hunting of the Snark.'' His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so.''The Annotated Snark'', edited by Martin Gardner, Penguin Books, 1974 The origin of the poem According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an ''agony in eight fits'' – was the final line, ''For the snark was a boojum, you see''. Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer was he did not know and could not explain. Later commentators have offered many analyses of the work. One such likens the contemporary Commissioners in Lunacy individually to the ten hunters, noting that Carroll's favourite uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge, himself a member of the commission had, like the poem's Baker, met his end in a "chasm"—L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Snark Sailboat
The Snark is a line of lightweight sailboats, at its introduction a two-person, lateen, lateen-rigged sailboat manufactured and marketed by Meyers Boat Company of Adrian, Michigan. The Snark was conceived and marketed by Snark Products, Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey and was marketed with numerous slight variations, most prominently as the Sea Snark, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark. Other Snark models include the Sunchaser (4-person, made in lateen and sloop-rigged versions), and the Sea Skimmer (board-style 2-person sloop-rigged). Among discontinued Snark models are the Triumph trimaran, the Mach I, the Sundancer and the Sea Swinger. Meyers suspended production of all models in about 2018 and as of 2023 there has been no resumption. The sailboat was marketed heavily in numerous co-branding campaigns. ''The New York Times'' reported that the Sea Snark outsold all other sailboats in 1970 and that over 48,000 Sea Snarks were sold in an 18-month period in 1971 via a mail order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Sarcasm
Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although it is not necessarily ironic. Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection with which it is spoken or, with an undercurrent of irony, by the extreme disproportion of the comment to the situation, and is largely context-dependent. Etymology The word comes from the Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (''sarkasmós'') which is taken from σαρκάζειν (''sarkázein'') meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".Oxford English Dictionary It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to '' The Shepheardes Calender'' by Edmund Spenser: However, the word ''sarcastic'', meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly cutting or caustic", does not appear until 1695. Usage In its entry on irony, Dictionary.com describes sarcasm thus: In sarcasm, rid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Bianchi (company)
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A., commonly known as Bianchi () is the world's oldest bicycle manufacturing company in existence, having pioneered the use of equal-sized wheels with pneumatic rubber tires. The company was founded in Italy in 1885 and in addition to bicycles it produced motorcycles from 1897 to 1967. In 1955 the joint-venture Autobianchi was created together with Fiat and Pirelli for the manufacturing of cars – Autobianchi was subsequently sold to Fiat in 1969. Throughout its modern era, Bianchi has been associated with the Italian Giro d'Italia and Tour de France winners, Fausto Coppi, Marco Pantani and Felice Gimondi. Bianchi bicycles History Edoardo Bianchi, a 21-year-old medical instrument maker, started his bicycle-manufacturing business in a small shop at 7 Via Nirone, Milan in 1885. Bianchi pioneered the front-wheel caliper brake. One of his first developments was to make the front wheel smaller and use the chain invented by Frenchman Vincent to reduce peda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Conway's Game Of Life
The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a von Neumann universal constructor, universal constructor or any other Turing machine. Rules The universe of the Game of Life is Square tiling, an infinite, two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square ''cells'', each of which is in one of two possible states, ''live'' or ''dead'' (or ''populated'' and ''unpopulated'', respectively). Every cell interacts with its eight ''Moore neighborhood, neighbours'', which are the cells that are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur: # Any live cell with fewer than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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David Denby (film Critic)
David Denby (born 1943) is an American journalist. He served as a film critic for ''The New Yorker'' until December 2014. Early life and education Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and a master's degree from its journalism school in 1966. Career Journalism Denby began writing film criticism while a graduate student at Stanford University's Department of Communication. He began his professional life in the early 1970s as an adherent of the film critic Pauline Kael—one of a group of film writers informally, and sometimes derisively, known as "the Paulettes." Denby wrote for '' The Atlantic Monthly'', the ''Boston Phoenix'', and ''New York'' before arriving at ''The New Yorker''. His first article for the magazine was published in 1993, and beginning in 1998, he served as a staff writer and film critic, alternating his critical duties week by week with Anthony Lane. Denby participated in the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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BitTorrent Client
The following is a general comparison of Glossary of BitTorrent terms#Client, BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent, BitTorrent protocol. The BitTorrent protocol coordinates segmented file transfer among Glossary of BitTorrent terms#Peer, peers connected in a Glossary of BitTorrent terms#Swarm, swarm. A BitTorrent client enables a user to exchange data as a peer in one or more swarms. Because BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer communications protocol that does not need a server (computing), server, the BitTorrent definition of ''client'' differs from Client (computing), the conventional meaning expressed in the client–server model. Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol, made the first BitTorrent client, which he also called BitTorrent (software), BitTorrent, and published it in July 2001. Many BitTorrent programs are open-source software; others are freeware, adware or shareware. Some download managers, suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Snark Subreddits
Snark subreddits are user created communities on the social platform Reddit (known as subreddits) created to gossip about and express frustration toward, or "snark" on, public figures, largely female influencers such as YouTubers and TikTokers. Members of snark subreddits are known as "snarkers". Some snark subreddits, such as r/Blogsnark, r/NYCinfluencersnark and r/LAinfluencersnark, discuss influencers in general, while others focus on particular individuals or families. "Fundie" snark subreddits—such as r/DuggarsSnark, which discusses the Duggar family of the TLC show ''19 Kids and Counting''—include discussions on Christian fundamentalist influencers and often consist of ex-fundamentalists. Snark subreddits have been criticized, both by critics and by their targets, as a form of cyberbullying and as invasive of their subjects, often getting details wrong, and engaging in harassment that targets women. However, they have also been commended by some for their analysis of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Non-interactive Zero-knowledge Proof
Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but most definitions are related to interaction between users and computers and other machines through a user interface. Interactivity can however also refer to interaction between people. It nevertheless usually refers to interaction between people and computers – and sometimes to interaction between computers – through software, hardware, and networks. Multiple views on interactivity exist. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels: #Not interactive, when a message is not related to previous messages. #Reactive, when a message is related only to one immediately previous message. #Interactive, when a message is related to a number of previous messages and to the relationship between them. One body of research h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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SNARK (theorem Prover)
SNARK, (SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit), is a theorem prover for multi-sorted first-order logic intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering, developed at SRI International. SNARK's principal inference mechanisms are resolution and paramodulation; in addition it offers specialized decision procedures for particular domains, e.g., a constraint solver for Allen's temporal interval logic. In contrast to many other theorem provers is fully automated (non-interactive). SNARK offers many strategic controls for adjusting its search behavior and thus tune its performance to particular applications. This, together with its use of multi-sorted logic and facilities for integrating special-purpose reasoning procedures with general-purpose inference make it particularly suited as reasoner for large sets of assertions. SNARK is used as reasoning component in the ''NASA Intelligent Systems Project''. It is written in Common Lisp and available under the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Snark (graph Theory)
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a snark is an undirected graph with exactly three edges per vertex whose edges cannot be colored with only three colors. In order to avoid trivial cases, snarks are often restricted to have additional requirements on their connectivity and on the length of their cycles. Infinitely many snarks exist. One of the equivalent forms of the four color theorem is that every snark is a non-planar graph. Research on snarks originated in Peter G. Tait's work on the four color theorem in 1880, but their name is much newer, given to them by Martin Gardner in 1976. Beyond coloring, snarks also have connections to other hard problems in graph theory: writing in the ''Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'', Miroslav Chladný and Martin Škoviera state that As well as the problems they mention, W. T. Tutte's ''snark conjecture'' concerns the existence of Petersen graphs as graph minors of snarks; its proof has been long announced but remains un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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MV The Second Snark
MV ''The Second Snark'' is a small passenger ferry, built in 1938 by William Denny and Brothers, William Denny of Dumbarton, later operated by Clyde Marine Services on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. History MV ''The Second Snark'' was built in 1938 by William Denny and Brothers, William Denny for use in their Dumbarton shipyard as a tug and tender, replacing their previous steam driven vessel ''The Snark''. The company went into liquidation in 1963, and the ship was taken over by Brown Brothers (engineering), Brown Brothers. They sold ''The Second Snark'' to Clyde Marine Motoring in 1969. She is listed as a National Historic Ships, National Historic Ship. Having been laid up for over two years at Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Fairlie Harbour, she was restored to her 'as-built' 1938 condition and her passenger certificate renewed in 2011. Layout ''The Second Snark'' is a small vessel, with a passenger capacity of 48. She retains many original features including teak decks, varnished w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |