A REFLECTION ON FINDING MY TRUE SELF

Finding my place.

On the first day of my internship, at about 8:00 in the morning, I was paged to the CCU. There a patient who was assigned to my service was undergoing resuscitation after cardiac arrest. Running after my resident, we arrived at the bedside of an 89-year-old man with end-stage congestive heart failure. The bed was surrounded by cardiology fellows, nurses, residents, a ventilator, crash cart, and...

Finding the True Frequent Itemsets

Frequent Itemsets (FIs) mining is a fundamental primitive in data mining that requires to identify all itemsets appearing in a fraction at least θ of a transactional dataset D. Often though, the ultimate goal of mining D is not an analysis of the dataset per se, but the understanding of the underlying process that generated D. Specifically, in many applications D is a collection of samples obta...

Expressing the "True Self" on Facebook

Follow the crowd or my conscience? An experimental study of information, self-reflection, and social preferences

In a modified dictator game, I test experimentally the robustness of social preferences to (1) information about others’ behavior and (2) self-reflection about the morally right behavior. I find that whereas information has a strong effect on people’s moral judgments, it has virtually no effect on their revealed preferences. In contrast, self-reflection changes social preferences substantially....

Bond - True Self - Avoiding Walk on Z

Thètrue' self-avoiding walk with bond repulsion is a nearest neighbour random walk on Z, for which the probability of jumping along a bond of the lattice is proportional to exp(?g number of previous jumps along that bond). First we prove a limit theorem for the distribution of the local time process of this walk. Using this result, later we prove a local limit theorem, as A ! 1, for the distrib...