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Essay in the Style of Douglas Hofstadter EWI Explanatory Note

The following article was written in the style of my good friend the writer and cognitive scientist Doug Hofstadter. It was written not by a human being, but by my computer program EWI (an acronym for " experiments in writing intelligence "). EWI was fed the texts of two of Hofstadter's books—namely, Gödel, Escher, Bach (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980) and Metamagic...

Explanatory note on detection of statistical significance in long-term trends

(2) Downward infrared radiation Measurements of downward infrared radiation have been conducted since the early 1990s at Tsukuba. A time-series representation of five-year running mean downward infrared radiation until 2010 shows an increasing trend at a rate of about 0.4 W/m per year (Figure 3.3-5). This is consistent with the trend seen in the results of analysis using data from all BSRN stat...

An Explanatory Note on the Basel II IRB Risk Weight Functions - July 2005

How to Negotiate Ambitious Global Emissions Abatement A Statement of Key Principles and an Explanatory Note

1 Peter Cramton is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and an expert on market design; Axel Ockenfels is Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne and Director of the Cologne Laboratory of Economic Research. Ockenfels thanks the German Science Foundation for support through the Leibniz program and the research unit “Design & Behavior” (FOR 1371). Steven Stoft consults...

Explanatory Lineage

As data analytics becomes mainstream, and the complexity of the underlying data and computation grows, end-users will increasingly rely on visualizations to present simplified statistics that summarizes interesting properties in the data. It is even more important to provide tools that help analysts understand the underlying reasons when they see anomalous results. We envision adding a new expl...