Koko
Koko or KOKO may refer to:
People, animals, and plants
Places
Kokoï
Kokoï is a town in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso. The town has a total population of 1,027.
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Koko (dog)
Koko (9 April 2005 – 18 December 2012) was an Australian canine film actor and fundraiser, an Australian Kelpie who best known for his role as Red Dog the title character of the 2011 film Red Dog. He was owned by Nelson Woss, a producer of Red Dog.
Biography
Koko was born in Victoria, Australia in 2005 to breeders Carol and Len Hobday and initially trained as a show dog. He won Best Exhibiting Group, Working Dogs in January 2006. It was quite unusual for a dog so young to win in that group. Koko came to prominence in 2011 for his work in Red Dog, which was based on a true story about a dog in a mining town and the relationships that he develops. He won the Golden Collar Award for Best Dog in a Foreign Film in Los Angeles for his portrayal. A painting of Koko with producer Nelson Woss by artist Adam Cullen was a finalist in the 2012 Archibald Prize.
In 2012, Koko was retired after he was diagnosed with congestive heart disease. However, he still continued to make appearances for the RSPCA and for Perth's Shenton Park Dog Refuge in return for donations.
Mem
Mem (also spelled Meem or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Mēm 
, Hebrew Mēm מ, Aramaic Mem 
, Syriac Mīm ܡܡ, and Arabic Mīm م. Its value is [m].
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Mu (Μ), Etruscan 
, Latin M, and Cyrillic М.
Origins
Mem is believed to derive from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water,
which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, mem (
), ultimately coming from Proto-Semitic *maʾ-/*may-.
Hebrew Mem
Hebrew spelling: מֵם
Hebrew pronunciation
Mem represents a bilabial nasal [m].
Variations on written form/pronunciation
In Hebrew, Mem, like Kaph, Nun, Pe, and Tzadi, has a final form, used at the end of words: its shape changes from מ to ם.
Significance
In gematria, Mem represents the number 40 in both the Standard and Mispar Gadol Methods of Gematria; However, (mem sofit) final mem's value is 40 in the Standard Method and 600 in the Mispar Gadol method. The Standard Method adds the values of Tav and Resh (400+200) to denote the value of mem sofit.
Mem (given name)
Mem is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Mem (computing)
For other meanings, see Mem (disambiguation)
In Computational complexity theory, computing efficiency, Combinatorial optimization, Supercomputing, computational cost (Algorithmic efficiency) and other computational metrics, MEMS is a measurement unit for the number of memory accesses used or needed by a process, function, instruction set, algorithm or data structure.
Example usage: "A typical search tree in a (10 x 10 Sudoku or Latin square) requires a node of about 75 mems (memory accesses) for processing, to check validity. Therefore the total running time on a modern processor would be roughly the time needed to perform 2×1020 mems." (Donald Knuth, 2011, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, p. 6).
Reducing MEMS as a speed and efficiency enhancement is not a linear benefit, as it trades off increases in ordinary operations costs.
PFOR Compression
This optimization technique also is called PForDelta
Although lossless compression methods like Rice, Golomb and PFOR are most often associated with signal processing codecs, the ability to optimize binary integers also adds relevance in reducing MEMS tradeoffs vs. operations. (See Golomb coding for details).
