Are ribbon campaigns making us loopy?

Knowing Which Foods Are Making Us Sick

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Are health economics making us sick?

Loopy Logic

In this paper we describe a new logic-based stochastic modeling language. It is an extension of the Bayesian logic programming approach of Kersting and De Raedt [1]. We specialize the Kirsting and De Raedt formalism by suggesting that product distributions are an effective combining rule for Horn clause heads. We use a refinement of Pearl’s loopy belief propagation [2] for the inference algorit...

Loopy SAM

Smoothing approaches to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem in robotics are superior to the more common filtering approaches in being exact, better equipped to deal with non-linearities, and computing the entire robot trajectory. However, while filtering algorithms that perform map updates in constant time exist, no analogous smoothing method is available. We aim to rectify...

Making Formality Work For Us

Formal reasoning is notoriously long and arduous; in order to use it to reason eeectively in the construction of programs it is, therefore, paramount that we design our notations to be both clear and economical. Taking examples from AI, from imperative programming, from the use of the Bird-Meertens formalism and from category theory we demonstrate how the right choice of what to denote and how ...