WHEN the most terrible storm in living memory struck southern Myanmar on the night of May 2nd-3rd, the people under it probably did not know what hit them.
Until, that is, the biggest natural disaster in living memory struck Sumatra's western coast and Medan became the headquarters of the international relief effort.
Cercas's meditation on memory struck an extraordinary chord with the Spanish public, shooting to the top of the bestseller lists and staying there.
MOSCOW, May 25 - The most serious blackout in recent memory struck Moscow on Wednesday, disrupting the lives of nearly two million residents in large sections of the city and outlying areas and stranding people in subways, elevators and trains.
While they appear easy to parallelize due to the independence of computing each pairwise interaction from all others, development of techniques to address multi-layered memory hierarchies, mapping within the restrictions imposed by the small and low-latency on-chip memories, striking the right balanced between concurrency, reuse and memory traffic etc., are crucial to obtain high-performance.
Like flashes of lightning, memories striking back one after the other You whisper to yourself: "please make it stop" Over and over again.
These memories strike me, now, with their unbelievable cleanliness.
Statistical decision theory is based on Bayesian approaches, and the parallels between an organism making decisions based on updated knowledge of the environment (formalized as 'prior' and 'posterior' distributions, before and after information acquisition) and the workings of the adaptive immune system, with its updatable immunological memory, are striking.
But it's Sweeney Todd that continues to haunt my memory and strikes me as a work of art as good as any in 20th-century musical theatre.
He is just old enough to remember the Ash Wednesday Storm, the March, 1962, nor'easter that was, until recently, the worst storm in living memory to strike the Shore.
