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ANTS
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Determined Sequences, Continued Fractions, and Hyperelliptic Curves
In this report I sanitise (in the sense of `bring some sanity to') the arguments of earlier reports detailing the correspondence between sequences (M +hS)-<h< of divisor...
Alfred J. van der Poorten
SYNTHESE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On what we can ensure
: The Conjunction Principle says, roughly, that if the truth of a conjunction can be brought about, then the truth of each conjunct can be brought about. The current essay argues t...
Benjamin Schnieder
JCSS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A New Proof of the Weak Pigeonhole Principle
The exact complexity of the weak pigeonhole principle is an old and fundamental problem in proof complexity. Using a diagonalization argument, Paris, Wilkieand Woods 16] showed ho...
Alexis Maciel, Toniann Pitassi, Alan R. Woods
SYNTHESE
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
A resource-bounded agent addresses the newcomb problem
In the Newcomb problem, the standard arguments for taking either one box or both boxes adduce what seem to be relevant considerations, but they are not complete arguments, and att...
John L. Pollock
NIPS
2008
13 years 8 months ago
An ideal observer model of infant object perception
Before the age of 4 months, infants make inductive inferences about the motions of physical objects. Developmental psychologists have provided verbal accounts of the knowledge tha...
Charles Kemp, Fei Xu