A male given name transferred from the surname.
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clifford
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll is a fun read.
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Quick take
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of clifford gathered in one view.
A habitational surname from Old English.
A village and civil parish in west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO2445).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for clifford.
noun
A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun
A habitational surname from Old English.
noun
A village and civil parish in west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO2445).
noun
A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4244).
Example sentences
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll is a fun read.
In the end the Clifford algebra is just a vector space, so that shouldn't be a problem.
The post makes it appear that using cross product to express Faraday's law is somehow related to Clifford Algebras.
The bitstream was reverse engineered by Clifford Wolf and others as part of the IceStorm project [1].
Can someone comment on what you gain by choosing Clifford Algebras over Exterior Algebras?
However it might become problematic that the dimension of the Clifford algebra is 2^n, where n is the dimension of the original space.
Would love to read Scott Aaronson on Clifford Algebras (and computation, of course).
At its heart is the use of Clifford algebra to unify otherwise disparate mathematical languages, particularly those of spinors, quaternions, tensors and differential forms.
By Clifford Click, from ~20 years of experience with just Hotspot.
I hadn't realised until now that it was Clifford Stoll who actually sent these!
If I want to compute a derivative of a function expressed on a clifford algebra, does that make sense and is it possible?
# The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage / Clifford Stoll.
Quote examples
> “We are probably the most risk-seeking investors in the world,” said Matt Clifford, EF’s co-founder.
This is a great quote, but the reality is more like: "If we didn't start a firm that invests in companies before they exist, we wouldn't have any dealflow." > Despite the risk-–30% of the entrepreneurs EF funds drop out without ever creating a company –Clifford said he has no difficulty finding investors for his venture firm.
(In spacetime, not just space, so the space of bivectors has dimension (4 choose 2) = 6 = 3+3, which is the right amount for representing E and B.) Then the Clifford-algebra analogue of the "del" operator from conventional vector calculus does div-like things and curl-like things in the right combination to encode all of the Maxwell equations.
Proper noun examples
We're using Yosys [2] for Verilog synthesis, also written by Clifford.
And I read Clifford‘s original books, original papers, and it was all about process.
Clifford Stoll is always a fascinating character to watch.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use clifford in a sentence?
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll is a fun read.
What does clifford mean?
A male given name transferred from the surname.
What part of speech is clifford?
clifford is commonly used as noun.