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JEP 429: Extent-Local Variables to Promote Immutability in Java

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JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables Aims to Improve Java Code Readability

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Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 4: Thread groups, volatility, and thread-local variables

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...
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Bounds on the Expectation of a Convex Function of a Random Variable: With Applications to Stochastic Programming

This paper is concerned with the determination of tight lower and upper bounds on the expectation of a convex function of a random variable. The classic bounds are those of Jensen and ...