Understanding Anomalies in Interleaved Execution
Anomalies Due to Interleaved Execution
Two actions on the same data object conflict if at least one of them is a write.
Common Anomalies
- Reading Uncommitted Data (WR Conflicts)
- Unrepeatable Reads (RW Conflicts)
- Overwriting Uncommitted Data (WW Conflicts)
Anomalies Due to Interleaved Execution
Two actions on the same data object conflict if at least one of them is a write.
1.Reading Uncommitted Data (WR Conflicts)
2.Unrepeatable Reads (RW Conflicts)
3.Overwriting Uncommitted Data (WW Conflicts)
Anomalies Due
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Understanding Specialty Risk: Key Concepts
Fundamental Concepts of Specialty Risk: The probability that an activity or condition will result in a particular loss.
Key Definitions
- Hazard: Any condition or habit that can be expected with reasonable certainty to cause physical harm.
- Incident: An undesired event that could damage or impair the efficiency of an operation.
- Accident: An undesired event that results in physical harm (injury or illness) to a person, or damage to property.
- Quasi-Accident: An undesired
Core Philosophical Ideas: Marxism, Nihilism, Platonism, Rationalism
Marxism and Communism
Marx envisioned a new social order called communism. This new social order aims to move beyond capitalism, allowing its contradictions to emerge and generate its negation. Communism represents a stateless society, without classes and without private property, where humanity will ultimately be free from these contradictions. A challenge noted in practice is that the transition envisioned, the dictatorship of the proletariat resulting from the cessation of class struggle, has
Read MoreDescartes’ Philosophy: Reason, Method, and Existence
Descartes’ Philosophical Journey
He received a scholastic education, educated by the Jesuits. He lived during the scientific revolution and against Galilean processes, including the Thirty Years’ War.
The Central Questions of Modernity
The problems of knowledge, its source, and veracity are central questions of modernity. Man took refuge in that which is universal and offers some security: reason. Descartes opens a new phase in the seventeenth century called rationalism. The rationalists reject realism
Read MoreUnderstanding Dualism: Mind-Body Theories and Philosophies
Understanding Dualism: Mind and Body
Dualist Theory: The human being cannot be reduced to either the mind or the body alone; it is composed of two components: “mind” and “brain” or “soul” and “body.”
Platonic Dualism
According to Platonic dualism, the human beings we see in this world are composed of body and soul, but this union is a simple accident. In reality, the soul is immaterial and immortal and existed before joining the body, so the true human being *is* its soul. Separated from the body,
Read MoreUnderstanding Obedience: Miller, Huemer, and Political Authority
Understanding Obedience: Miller and Huemer’s Perspectives
While Miller focuses on why the state is necessary for society to function well, Huemer is more interested in understanding why people actually obey political authority in the first place. He argues that our obedience often comes from psychological and social habits rather than clear, rational thinking. Through things like national symbols, voting rituals, and public ceremonies, people are raised to see the state as something natural and trustworthy.
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