Diamonds are for men, too

Men Are Dogs (and Women Too)

One of the primary differences between humans and other animals is our capacity for high level cognition and the use of language. Historically, AI has understandably focused on duplicating these aspects of human behavior, and selected its architectures accordingly. However, humans are nevertheless social mammals and share a large part of the mammalian behavior repertoire, such as feeding, as we...

Diamonds are forever , files are not

This work was motivated by the observation that not all objects are equally important. In many scenarios, the importance also wanes with time. We leveraged this importance notions to reduce the management overhead for less important objects. In our system, all objects were explicitly annotated by the content creators using a temporal importance metric. The storage system used these hints to man...

Diamonds are forever: the cortisone legacy.

The year 1946 was not only the year that the Society for Endocrinology was founded, but also the year that Edward Kendall's compound E (cortisone) was first synthesised by Louis Sarett. By 1948, sufficient quantities of compound E were available for the rheumatologist Philip Hench to test it successfully for the first time in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. It was immediately hailed as a '...

Diamonds are a Philosopher's Best Friends

The knowability paradox is an instance of a remarkable reasoning pattern (actually, a pair of such patterns), in the course of which an occurrence of the possibility operator, the diamond, disappears. In the present paper, it is pointed out how the unwanted disappearance of the diamond may be escaped. The emphasis is not laid on a discussion of the contentious premise of the knowability paradox...

When Deer Are Too Dear and Elk Are Too Elegant