This check is required for cases where the number of elements in an array is not evenly divisible by the thread block size, and as a result the number of threads launched by the kernel is larger than the array size

do not need to be specified as device variables

y[i] = x[i] + y[i];

Some claimed that under OOP writing tests is harder and it requires extra care to refactor

In the original position, representative individuals are asked to deliberate behind a veil of ignorance about what principles of justice they would choose to regulate their social cooperation and competition

it's that the only way to understand politics is to embrace a variety of methodological approaches that can compensate for the complications of personality, culture, history, beliefs, and pure chance inherent when human beings vie for power

The trouble with rational choice is not that it exists within the profession alongside other methodologies; the trouble with rational choice is that it is dominating the profession and displacing those other methodologies

Green and Shapiro then proceeded to apply their critical framework to other major works of rational choice theory on American politics. Time and again they came to the same conclusion: If rational choice theorists had bothered to conduct even rudimentary empirical testing of their elegant theories, they would have discovered that the theories simply don't describe the real world of politics

But, Green and Shapiro asked, since people in other countries have been known to vote despite the risk of death as a consequence, how can it be said to be "low-cost"

"There is some danger of turning this journal into the `William H. Riker Review.'"

Political theorists had little patience for a theory that they believed reduced all human behavior to a set of interests and preferences independent of things such as values, culture, or history

and this was in no small part because the entire discipline of political science had developed a severe inferiority complex during the intervening years

They mostly found their way into second-tier institutions, many of which were best known as engineering schools, such as Cal Tech and Carnegie-Mellon

But beneath that question lurks a second issue more important to those of us outside the academy: whether political scientists have an obligation to do work that is not merely interesting as an intellectual enterprise but also helps us govern ourselves.

The next generation of political scientists looks increasingly like Shepsle and less like Wilson

If you ask Shepsle, Krehbiel, or their fellow rational choicers how they've gotten so far so fast, they will tell you it's simply because they are that good—and because they are the only ones in the field who carry out work that qualifies as science

the rational choice theorists believe those constitute lesser forms of inquiry

The rational choicers believe their quest for universal and logically consistent theories makes them the only true practitioners of political science