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ATLAS is often recommended as a way to automatically generate an optimized BLAS library. While its performance often trails that of specialized libraries written for one specific hardware platform , it is often the first or even only optimized BLAS implementation available on new systems and is a large improvement over the generic BLAS ...
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.
3D Atlas is a is an educational multimedia software application developed by Creative Wonders and published by Electronic Arts. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It consists of the original 3D Atlas as well as 3D Atlas 97 and 3D Atlas 98 .
A black swan (Cygnus atratus) in Australia. The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on a Latin expression which presumed that black swans did ...
Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd., formerly Orient Longman India, commonly referred to as Orient Longman, is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana. [4] [5]
Black Swan Data is a London-based technology and data science company that produces a social prediction SaaS platform called Trendscope. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Trendscope uses predictive data science and proprietary Natural Language Processing to analyze Social data conversations that help businesses identify potential trends and customer behaviors.
Digital Universe Atlas is a free open source software planetarium application, available under the terms of the Illinois Open Source License, and running on Linux, Windows, macOS (10.5 and above), AmigaOS 4, and IRIX.
The novel won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (South Asia and Europe); was long listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, was one of Time 's "Best Books of the Year" (No. 4 Fiction), [10] and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [11] It was shortlisted for the 2011 Walter Scott Prize. [12]