Disjunctive sequence

A disjunctive sequence is an infinite sequence (over a finite alphabet of characters) in which every finite string appears as a substring. For instance, the binary Champernowne sequence

formed by concatenating all binary strings in shortlex order, clearly contains all the binary strings and so is disjunctive. (The spaces above are not significant and are present solely to make clear the boundaries between strings). The complexity function of a disjunctive sequence S over an alphabet of size k is p_S(n) = kⁿ.

Any normal sequence (a sequence in which each string of equal length appears with equal frequency) is disjunctive, but the converse is not true. For example, letting 0ⁿ denote the string of length n consisting of all 0s, consider the sequence

obtained by splicing exponentially long strings of 0s into the shortlex ordering of all binary strings. Most of this sequence consists of long runs of 0s, and so it is not normal, but it is still disjunctive.

A disjunctive sequence is recurrent but never uniformly recurrent/almost periodic.

Lexicon (cardgame)

Lexicon is a card game published by Winning Moves UK, and formerly by Waddingtons, in the United Kingdom. It was originally created by David Whitelaw in 1933. Certain copies came with a 1936 competition slip wherein £1000 was offered in cash prizes . Several subsequent versions have been released.

Lexicon (disambiguation)

The lexicon of a language is its vocabulary.

Lexicon is also a synonym for a dictionary or encyclopedic dictionary, and may also refer to:

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Near

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Near (company)

Near is a privately held location intelligence platform founded in Nov 2012 having direct presence in Australia, Japan, South East Asia, India, Europe, and USA. Near is headquartered in Singapore.

History

Near was founded as AdNear in Bangalore by Anil Mathews, who served as the CEO of the company. Instead of GPS, the platform used data from mobile towers and wifi networks to determine a person’s location, though it later added GPS to the location data as well. The Near platform utilizing this data was launched in November 2012. In 2013, the company moved its headquarters from Bangalore to Singapore. The company has received funding from venture capital firms Sequoia Capital,JP Morgan Private Equity Group,Telstra Ventures and Global Brain Corporation. It raised $6.5 million in Series A funding, and the $19 million raised in its 2014 Series B fundraising was the most raised by any company that year. In 2015, the company changed its name from AdNear to Near.

Platform

As of February 2014, the platform had about 100 million profiled users taken from forty thousand or so mobile apps into which Near has been integrated, by summer 2014 250 million users had been profiled, and by October 500 million had been profiled. By the summer of 2015, they had profiled about 700 million users. Platforms users have included seven of the eleven largest automobile companies began using the platform, as well as additional Fortune 100 companies.

Near (Death Note)

Nate River (Japanese: ネイト・リバー, Hepburn: Neito Ribā), universally referred to by the mononym Near (ニア, Nia), is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Near is the younger of the two successors of L who was investigating the methods of identifying Kira, the in-universe name given to the mysterious serial killer who murdered criminals by means of the eponymous Death Note. He becomes the leader of the SPK (Special Provision for Kira), an organization that looks into the Kira case, and in the end, succeeds in uncovering Kira's identity. He is voiced by Noriko Hidaka in the Japanese anime, and by Cathy Weseluck in the English version. In the Japanese TV Drama, he is portrayed by Mio Yūki.

Creation and conception

Tsugumi Ohba, writer of Death Note said that he introduced Near and Mello together as L individually could not defeat Kira. Ohba felt that introducing one character individually would produce a "repeat" of the struggle between Light and L, so he instead wanted a story involving three combatants fighting each other. Ohba said that he let Obata create the character designs and asked him to make both characters look "a little "L-ish"". Ohba said that he "wavered" in their ages and considered making the characters the sons of L. Ohba added that he did not initially develop their personalities as he wanted to "reveal" them through their actions.

Hood (band)

Hood are an English indie rock band from Leeds, formed in 1991. The band consists of brothers Chris and Richard Adams, and friends (including, at times, Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson of The Remote Viewer, and Nicola Hodgkinson of Empress).

History

Hood's first releases were very limited vinyl singles on various small independent record labels.

In 1994, record labels Fluff and Slumberland Records released Hood's first full length album, Cabled Linear Traction. Slumberland also released 1996's Silent '88, and the following year Happy Go Lucky Records released Structured Disasters, a compilation of tracks from singles. All featured a large number of short tracks (many of less than a minute), a mixture of indie rock, noise experiments reminiscent of Sonic Youth or Pavement, and an increasing interest in electronics.

In 1997, Domino Records signed Hood and released the single "Useless". Produced by Matt Elliott (better known as the Third Eye Foundation), it was a far more straightforward and tuneful song than any they had released so far. Elliott toured with the band, and produced the albums Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys and The Cycle of Days and Seasons. Like the single, these abandoned the short songs and instrumental snippets for longer pieces, with a pastoral sound similar to Bark Psychosis or Talk Talk. The band continued to release singles for other labels; "The Weight", for 555 Recordings, was a return to the older style with eight tracks on a 7" disc.