The need for Bayesian inference arises in military intelligence, medical diagnosis and many other practical applications. The problem is that human inferences are generally conserv...
What do you do to make sense of a mass of information on a given topic? Paradoxically, you likely add yet more information to the pile: annotations, underlining, bookmarks, cross-...
Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier, Shawn Bowers, M...
One of the previous articles in this column was devoted to the zero-one laws for a number of logics playing prominent role in finite model theory: first-order logic FO, the extens...
■ The rapid detection of affective signals from conspecifics is crucial for the survival of humans and other animals; if those around you are scared, there is reason for you to ...
We invoke concepts from the theory of hypergraphs to give a measure of the closeness of family resemblance, and to make precise the idea of a composite likeness. It is shown that f...