Cosmetotextiles - Sometimes the Simple Things Work

The Truth Is Sometimes Simple

Note: The following version of this paper does not contain the proofs of the stated theorems. A longer version, complete with proofs, is forthcoming. §1. Introduction. In "The truth is never simple" (1986) and its addendum (1988), Burgess conducts a breathtakingly comprehensive survey of the complexity of the set of truths which arise when you add a truth predicate to arithmetic, and interpret ...

Motion Models that Only Work Sometimes

It is too often that tracking algorithms lose track of interest points in image sequences. This persistent problem is difficult because the pixels around an interest point change in appearance or move in unpredictable ways. In this paper we explore how classifying videos into categories of camera motion improves the tracking of interest points, by selecting the right specialist motion model for...

The Stanford How Things Work Project

We provide an overview of the Stanford How Things Work (HTW) project, an ongoing integrated collection of research activities in the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. The project is developing technology for representing knowledge about engineered devices in a form that enables the knowledge to be used in multiple systems for multiple reasoning tasks, and reasoning methods th...

Simple Things We Don’t Know

This is a quite faithful rendering of a Colloquio De Giorgi I had the honor to give at Scuola Normale Superiore on March 21, 2012. The idea was to explain some open problems in arithmetic algebraic geometry which are simple to state but which remain shrouded in mystery. 1. An interactive game: dimension zero Suppose I give you an integer N ≥ 2, and tell you that I am thinking of a monic integer...

How Antiparasitic Drugs Work-And Sometimes Stop Working!