Entrepreneurship and Juju (Black Magic)

Voodoo, Black Magic and the Hawaiian Kahuna.

AutoMode: Relational Learning With Less Black Magic

Relational databases are valuable resources for learning novel and interesting relations and concepts. Relational learning algorithms learn the Datalog definition of new relations in terms of the existing relations in the database. In order to constraint the search through the large space of candidate definitions, users must tune the algorithm by specifying a language bias. Unfortunately, speci...

Hoodoo: Black Magic or Healing Art?

Magic supergravities, N 8 and black hole composites

Sergio Ferrara,* Eric G. Gimon, and Renata Kallosh Physics Department, Theory Unit, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via Enrico Fermi, 40,00044 Frascati, Italy Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Theoretical Physic...

Function Words in Authorship Attribution. From Black Magic to Theory?

This position paper focuses on the use of function words in computational authorship attribution. Although recently there have been multiple successful applications of authorship attribution, the field is not particularly good at the explication of methods and theoretical issues, which might eventually compromise the acceptance of new research results in the traditional humanities community. I ...