Slides from a short Powerpoint deck titled "Does It Matter How
Many Prisoners Are Disabled?", which used a lot of Gazelle screen shots, are available Click here |
To the left is shown the famed S- or sigmoid curve. In its simplest form the equation is |
The GAZELLE application, one of thirty in our DEEDS ABIDE suite, makes heavy use of higher order sigmoid curves. The bulk of the Gazelle forms were written during 22 hours at the Intel Atom Coding Contest in San Francisco September 15-16 WITHOUT much caffeine. No sleep, some cold water and Mozart piano sonatas. Next sample Gazelle screen shot. Click here |
Fans of trigonometry will note a similarity to the arctangent and the hyperbolic arctangent. There are also algebraic curves like |
A gallery of screenshots of the Gazelle application forms more or
less in the order written are available. Click here |
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financial situation and go straight to education plans, tests and lessons Click here |