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- adjective probability theory Of a
probability distribution , such that any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples.
Etymologies
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Abstract: We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non contingent mobility.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Does Mobility Decrease Cooperation? 2006
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If I could find my way into this room every night for another thirty years and kill him little by little each night, it was still just the small miserable life of an old senile memoryless man to whom his own evil no longer meant anything even if I snarled the name of every victim into his wrinkled little face.
Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008
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Abstract: We explore the minimal conditions for sustainable cooperation on a spatially distributed population of memoryless, unconditional strategies (cooperators and defectors) in presence of unbiased, non contingent mobility.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Does Mobility Decrease Cooperation? 2006
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Like many colonial masters, they resemble the turtle -- mother turtle leaves, memoryless as soon as she lays and covers her eggs.
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October 25, 2006, 1: 34 pm bontril says: bontril protestor leveled precedents Episcopalianizes Darwinism memoryless
The Volokh Conspiracy » House Approves Penalties for False Web Records: 2004
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Canada. memoryless atrocities entrusted torpedoes,
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To be alone, mindless and memoryless between the sea, under the sombre wall – front of Australia.
Kangaroo 2004
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Or ten minutes under a misused hypnoprobe could produce a memoryless idiot.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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Both of us were memoryless, excepting her recollection of Paul.
Lazarre Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
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It is convenient within queueing theory to work with probability distributions which exhibit a memoryless property, so that the mathematics involved can be simplified.
The Code Project Latest Articles Kerry Cakebread 2010
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