By "singularity" is meant the shift towards smarter-than-human technology: the era of non-biological intelligence and, by extension, the merger of human and machine intelligence.
Even the extension issue involved the merger, with Time Warner demanding a bargaining deadline for eight months from now -- presumably after federal regulators had already acted on the AOL deal.
UK firm BAE and the Franco-German Airbus-owner EADS had to decide by shortly after the end of the London trading day on Wednesday whether to ask the Takeover Panel for an extension to their $45bn £28bnn) merger talks.
The need to compare compound datasets arises from various scenarios, like mergers, library extension programs, gap analysis, combinatorial library design, or estimation of QSAR model applicability domains.
Disney had wanted the shorter 24-day extension, presumably to retain the merger issue as leverage in the talks.
Then the Strict Consensus Merger (and by extension also SuperFine+MRL), applied to the set t 1, t 2,..., t k, will return the species tree T. Comment: SuperFine+MRL has two steps: first it computes the Strict Consensus Merger (SCM), and then it resolves high degree nodes in the SCM tree using MRL.
Updated at 11.09am GMT 10.07am GMT Dixons and Carphone Warehouse have been given an extension to let them continue their merger talks.
Elsewhere, Uber's ride-hailing service is scheduled to be closed on April 16 in the Philippines where, like Singapore, the regulator had handed down a week-long extension while it looked into the merger deal.
Statistics Canada constructs LEAP, and by extension the LWF database, to handle mergers and acquisitions in a retrospective manner.
The agenda for the meeting had been an extension of its $3 billion credit lines, but the merger talks superseded that discussion.
