“Against all odds”: Head chefs profiled

standing against all odds

I was born in a small town of Punjab, India. My father was in army. After a few years of retirement, he passed away. My mother is a house wife. I have 3 brothers and an elder sister. All of them are married. All of them are healthy and there is no congenital history of any kind of blindness. Since my childhood I didn't have any disease or severe illness. I studied in my home town and in 1990, g...

How to Gamble Against All Odds

A decision maker observes the evolving state of the world while constantly trying to predict the next state given the history of past states. The ability to benefit from such predictions depends not only on the ability to recognize patters in history, but also on the range of actions available to the decision maker. We assume there are two possible states of the world. The decision maker is a g...

Against All Odds: When Logic Meets Probability

This paper is a light walk along interfaces between logic and probability, triggered by a chance encounter with Ed Brinksma. It is not a research paper, or a literature survey, but a pointer to issues. I discuss both direct combinations of logic and probability and structured ways in which logic can be seen as a qualitative version of probability theory. I end by sketching a concrete program fo...

Against all odds? Improving the understanding of risk reporting.

Against all odds: anti-IgE for intrinsic asthma?

For many years, pathogenetic concepts and the results of clinical trials supported the view that anti-IgE treatment is specifically effective in allergic asthma. However, there is now growing clinical and mechanistic evidence suggesting that treatment with the anti-IgE antibody omalizumab can be effective in patients with intrinsic asthma. Therefore, large and well-controlled clinical trials wi...