Questions tagged [information-theory]
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Optimal variable-time logging of a real-time data stream
Cross-posted from stats stackexchange
Say I have a logging utility in my application that I use for recording timestamped diagnostic log messages. I want to add tracking of some performance metrics to ...
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What is the size of the number 65535 in bytes? [closed]
As I got to know there are 256 possible combinations to get for 1 byte. If I understand it correctly, it should mean that you can display any number out of numbers 0-255 and this very number would use ...
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Is a memory of all possible permutations of a kilobyte block and pointers possible?
This is a hard enough idea to wrap my head around and I would greatly appreciate any edits/help to get it more readable for those in-the-know.
Is it theoretically possible to have a hard drive that ...
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Pros and cons for choosing between different return types
This is in context of a client-server architecture, although I don't think the architectural setting is needed to put up the problem.
I have a function whose output can be classified into different ...
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What defines the dimensionality of an array?
I know that when we speak about an array having 1, 2, or 4 dimensions, we mean arrays like this:
1: [0]
2: [0,0]
3: [0,0,0]
4: [0,0,0,0]
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Is the first 'axis' of an array the only thing that ...
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Are there any formalized/mathematical theories of software testing?
Googling "software testing theory" only seems to give theories in the soft sense of the word; I have not been able to find anything that would classify as a theory in the mathematical, information ...
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Minimizing data sent over a webservice call on expensive connection
I am working on a system that has many remote laptops all connected to the internet through cellular data connections.
The application will synchronize periodically to a central database. The ...
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