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  2. RAS syndrome - Wikipedia

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    A limited amount of redundancy can improve the effectiveness of communication, either for the whole readership or at least to offer help to those readers who need it. A phonetic example of that principle is the need for spelling alphabets in radiotelephony. Some instances of RAS syndrome can be viewed as syntactic examples of the principle.

  3. Termination of employment - Wikipedia

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    A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...

  4. Layoff - Wikipedia

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    The redundancy compensation payment for employees depends on the length of time an employee has worked for an employer which excludes unpaid leave. If an employer can't afford the redundancy payment they are supposed to give their employee, once making them redundant, or they find their employee another job that is suitable for the employee.

  5. Huw Edwards shares ‘reality check’ after BBC redundancy ...

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    Insiders reportedly said the letters, received by all senior news presenters and presenters, have caused morale to ‘plummet’ Huw Edwards shares ‘reality check’ after BBC redundancy letters ...

  6. Redundancy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the English phonemes /p/ and /b/ in the words pin and bin feature different voicing, aspiration, and muscular tension. Any one of these features is sufficient to differentiate /p/ from /b/ in English. [2] Generative grammar uses such redundancy to simplify the form of grammatical description. Any feature that can be predicted on ...

  7. Huffman coding - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and information theory, a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression.The process of finding or using such a code is Huffman coding, an algorithm developed by David A. Huffman while he was a Sc.D. student at MIT, and published in the 1952 paper "A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes".

  8. Don't repeat yourself - Wikipedia

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    "Don't repeat yourself" (DRY), also known as "duplication is evil", is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place.

  9. Jack Dorsey is about to overhaul Block in a reorg he warns ...

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    Jack Dorsey is in reassembly mode at Block, the fintech company that owns the popular payment services Cash App and Square, as well as music streaming service Tidal.. In a note to employees this ...