David Herman: Basic Elements of Narrative

3 Elements of Basic Probability

Our principal goal, in this section, is to quickly review the basic ideas and concepts of probability theory. For additional background and examples, please consult the text used for your prerequisite probability class and/or the following books: 1 What is Stochastic Modeling? Stochastic modeling concerns the use of probability to model real-world situations in which uncertainty is present. Sin...

David Oliver: Challenging the victim narrative about NHS doctors.

In July, I posted some tweets arguing that doctors still have high professional status, public respect, secure and relatively well paid careers, and a great deal of hard power and soft influence. I said that doctors shouldn’t describe themselves using the language of hapless, impotent victims of the state. Plenty of doctors agreed with me, often those who had taken on difficult service leadersh...

Elements, Principles and the Narrative of Affinity

In the eighteenth century, the concept of ‘affinity’, ‘principle’ and ‘element’ dominated chemical discourse, both inside and outside of the laboratory. Although much work has been done on these terms and the methodological commitments which guided their usage, most studies over the past two centuries have concentrated on their application as relevant to Lavoisier’s oxygen theory and the new no...

Basic Elements of Logical Graphs

We considers how a particular kind of graph corresponds to multiplicative intuitionistic linear logic formula. The main feature of the graphical notation is that it absorbs certain symmetries between conjunction and implication. We look at the basic definitions and present details of an implementation in the functional programming language Standard ML. This provides a functional approach to gra...

Basic Elements of Electrical Conduction