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Ersatz model tests

This paper describes how statistical methods can be tested on computer-generated data from known models. We explore bias and percentile tests in detail, illustrating these with examples based on insurance claims and financial time series.

ersatz – a Software Platform for Making Art

The developments of digital technology provide opportunities for artists to radically rethink the notion of mediums as entities that are containers to be filled with the content of their artwork. Digital technologies provide the capability for artists to create their own functional mediums along with a particular artwork. However, this technological creativity can create daunting development ta...

Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart eory, and Ersatz Fundamentality

Many philosophical theories make comparisons between objects, events, states of affairs, worlds, or systems, and many such theories deliver plausible verdicts only if some of the elements they compare are ranked as ‘best.’ When the relevant ordering does not have such ‘best’ or ‘tied for best’ elements the theory wrongly falls silent or gives badly counterintuitive results. I call these limit a...

"Ersatz Comedy in the Third Reich"

Programming a Parallel Computer: The Ersatz Brain Project

There is a complex relationship between the architecture of a computer, the software it needs to run, and the tasks it performs. The most difficult aspect of building a brain-like computer may not be in its construction, but in its use: How can it be programmed? What can it do well? What does it do poorly? In the history of computers, software development has proved far more difficult and far s...