Speculative fiction authors predicate their stories on creative “what-if†questions. Ray Nayler will demonstrate the close relationship of this process to scientific thinking. Using examples from his debut novel The Mountain in the Sea, Ray will discuss how he used a “what-if†question - “what if a species of octopus ...
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New Directions in Property TestingProperty testing algorithms seek to determine whether an unknown massive object has some particular property of interest, or is “far†from having the property, while inspecting only a tiny portion of the object. Recent years have witnessed significant progress on both classic property testing problems and the development of several ...
