Brown Responds: Why Hillary Clinton Is Wrong and Bernie Sanders Is Right

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton The President? Disambiguating Names Across Documents

A number of research and software development groups have developed name identification technology, but few have addressed the issue of cross-document coreference, or identifying the same named entities across documents. In a collection of documents, where there are multiple discourse contexts, there exists a manyto-many correspondence between names and entities, making it a challenge to automa...

Left is right, right is wrong.

correspondence correspondence Left is right, right is wrong T he cover illustration of the August 2009 issue of EMBO reports, although aesthetically pleasing, is unfortunately erroneous and could come as a shock to researchers in the chromatin field. Canonical nucleosomes are indeed left-handed, such as the nucleosomes in the left 'column' of chro-matin fibres on the cover. However, in the righ...

Why is cheating wrong?

It seems so obvious that cheating is wrong that providing a justification is not a main concern: most of the research is empirical and focuses on quantification and correlations. I look at a number of reasons why cheating may be wrong: it provides an unfair advantage over other students, it hinders learning, and it is dishonest. They are unexpectedly weak (often not proving that cheating is wro...

Why is research fraud wrong?

What is Bayesian statistics and why everything else is wrong

We use a single example to explain (1), the Likelihood Principle, (2) Bayesian statistics, and (3) why classical statistics cannot be used to compare hypotheses. 1. The Slater School The example and quotes used in this paper come from Annals of Radiation: The Cancer at Slater School by Paul Brodeur in The New Yorker of Dec. 7, 1992. We use the example only to make a point, not a serious analysi...