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    Gambler's fallacy 1 Gambler's fallacy The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1] . Also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, which is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely. For example, if a fair coin is tossed repeatedly and tails

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    Heads or Tails? A settling of business by a simple rule of luck. Luck made by two polar opposites fighting to see who will get on top. Both cannot be on top at the same time, yet both coexist. The same is true with hot and cold: cold ice is not found in the presence of a scorching hot sun. When asked which one is greater, heads or tails, hot or cold, light or dark, one cannot determine because they are equal opposites. "Ignorance is bliss," and ,"Knowledge is power," are two observations of the laws

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    Such abstract ideas and emotions are detailedly brought about by Yoshimoto’s usage of the four seasons of the year to provide a main timeline of the events concerning Mikage’s encounters with death, as well utilizing cosmos as a form of pathetic fallacy during the more miniscule experiences. In the grand scheme of the story, there

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    1. Availability Heuristic Concept Availability heuristic can be defined as making a choice based on immediate and easy examples that comes to the mind more easily when evaluating a decision. Even though availability heuristic has many pros such as saving time when making a choice, it does come with cons. This is because the availability heuristic distorts our understanding of real threats and risks. For example, Tom is a 10-year-old boy that adores puppies and loves playing with them. One day he

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    atmosphere. He uses four main types of literacy techniques that are: · Juxtaposition · Pathetic fallacy · Omniscient viewpoint · And cliffhangers The meaning of these are as followed: · Juxtaposition – this is where two completely different facts are put next to each other to make a comparison that stands out clearly and completely changes the atmosphere. · Pathetic fallacy – this is where the weather matches the mood of some one. · Omniscient viewpoint – the author

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    This script is provided as a means to collect system and/or software configuration for investigations by EMC. To Install : Extract the tar file into a suitable directory using following command, command: tar -xvf emcgrab_<os>_<version>.tar Please ensure that your filesystem has at least 500M free of disk space for temporary files that may be generated during its processing. If running ECC 5.x the resulting tar file could be very large. Please NOTE: 1. The script will prompt

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    In today's society networking is pivotal structure in the way information is transferred and received between people. In the business world we need to send information to people to at fast rates to meet user satisfaction. Imagine places like wall street that is the mecca of business that constantly send information back and forth to get the right information to keep investor aware or up to date on a forever changing stock market. Picture one the biggest libraries in america the library of congress

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    The purpose of this lab activity is to get one used to the basics of Windows file systems including RAID, Disk Spanning and Dynamic Disks. We also worked on Linux machine to explore the processes of file system by working through LVM (Logical Volume Management). We started by launching the Domain Controller server FluxWinDC01 instance and a new instance FluxWindowsFSLab with additional four Elastic Block Store (EBS) drive storage. After remotely connecting to the Domain Controller, we access the

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    In this assignment, I will write a two to three page paper titled “Logical Design, Part 1” whereas I am a recently hired consultant for ACME Global Consulting to procure requirements for a large database. In this scenario, “Logical Design, Part 1”, I will develop a database management systems to convince a set of clients of the benefits of using the Entity–Relationship model (E-R) in developing a database. In addition, my management would like the following points addressed in my design: (1)

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    Contents Introduction 2 Types of database 2 Network Database 2 Object Database 2 Flat File Database 3 Relational Database 3 Database methodologies 4 Conceptual Model 5 Logical Model 5 Physical Model 6 Explanation of Logical Data Model 7 Entities and Attributes 7 Relationships 8 One to Many 8 One to One 9 Entity Relationship Diagrams 9 INTRODUCTION This report is about different types of database and explaining the advantages and disadvantages of network databases and object databases

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