Between Treacherous Objectives

Playing cooperatively with possibly treacherous partner

We investigate an alternative concept of Nash equilibrium, m-equilibrium, which slightly resembles Harsanyi-Selten risk dominant equilibrium although it is a different notion. M-equilibria provide nontrivial solutions of normal form games as shown by comparison of the Prisoner’s Dilemma with the Traveler’s Dilemma. They are also resistant on the deep iterated elimination of dominated strategies.

Treacherous Allies: Foreign Language Grammar Checkers

This article discusses the use of a French computerized grammar checker as a learning and teaching resource. As is well known, foreign language grammar checkers can give unreliable, even farcical results, but that does not necessarily mean that they cannot be effectively used by foreign language teachers. After some discussion of the nature of foreign language grammar checkers, the article pres...

Optimal Black-Box Reductions Between Optimization Objectives

The diverse world of machine learning applications has given rise to a plethora of algorithms and optimization methods, finely tuned to the specific regression or classification task at hand. We reduce the complexity of algorithm design for machine learning by reductions: we develop reductions that take a method developed for one setting and apply it to the entire spectrum of smoothness and str...

The Contradiction/Correspondence between Secondary Educational System’s Objectives and Regulations

The Contradiction/Correspondence between Secondary Educational System’s Objectives and Regulations F. Mohammadi* M. Noghaanidokht Bahmani, Ph.D. ** M. Kermaani, Ph.D. *** K. Khaaleghpanaah, Ph.D. ****    To improve the quality of education in Iran any contradiction between the regulations and objectives needs to be rectified and correspondences strengthened. To this end,...

Adamant and Treacherous: Serbian Historians on Religious Conversions