Annotations of Byzantium

Holistic Healing in Byzantium Epistemologies and Methodologies

The tradition of healing in Orthodox Christianity emphasizes the human being as a psychosomatic unity. In Western society, however, the practice of healing is often separated into disciplines that independently address the body, the mind, and the soul. Orthodox Christian physicians, psychologists, and religious leaders trained in Western institutions may therefore find a conflict between modern...

The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium

While machine learning is going through an era of celebrated success, concerns have been raised about the vulnerability of its backbone: stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recent approaches have been proposed to ensure the robustness of distributed SGD against adversarial (Byzantine) workers sending poisoned gradients during the training phase. Some of these approaches have been proven Byzantin...

(Sailing to) Byzantium: the Kantian Sublime

Byzantium in Bing: Live Virtual Acoustics Employing Free Software

A Linux-based system for live auralization is described, and its use in recreating the reverberant acoustics of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, for a Byzantine chant concert in the recently inaugurated Bing Concert Hall is detailed. The system employed 24 QSC full range loudspeakers and six subwoofers strategically placed about the hall, and used Countryman B2D hypercardioid microphones affixed to the ...

Timetabling with Annotations Timetabling with Annotations

One of the peculiarities of university timetabling problems lies in their huge complexity and the easy transition between complex constrained system to an over-constrained one. The Faculty of Informat-ics timetabling problem represents very complex scheduling and resource allocation problem as individual timetable for every student has to be scheduled with respect to course pre-enrollment infor...