Rule 34 (novel) revelations by Edward Snowden, Stross announced that there would be no third book in the planned trilogy. ""Halting State" wasn't intended to be predictive when I started writing it in 2006. Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?)" Rule 34 (novel) Rule 34 is a near-future science fiction novel by Charles Stross. It is a loose sequel to "Halting State", and was released on 5 July
Zadeh's Rule Zadeh's Rule In mathematical optimization, Zadeh's rule (also known as Least-entered rule) is an algorithmic refinement of the simplex method for linear optimization. The rule was proposed around 1980 by Lotfi A. Zadeh, and has entered the folklore of convex optimization since then. Zadeh offered a reward of $1,000 to anyone who can show that the rule admits polynomially many iterations or to prove that there is a family of linear programs on which the pivoting rule requires subexponentially many iterations to find the optimum. Zadeh's rule belongs to the family of history-based improvement rules which, during a run of