Fasti Triumphales Populi Romani

Vox populi or vox Dei?

t may interest readers to know that Australia has had an unexpected fallout of the 2000 Sydney Olympics—an increase in the population! At a time when politicians are calling for an increase in birth rates, it is pleasing to note that sports medicine is doing its best for the nation. A recent newspaper report noted that 35 overseas athletes who came to Australia for the Olympics did not actually...

Romani Global Diaspora

It has long been obvious that the general health status of Roma is much worse than that of non-Roma. Surveys have found that European Roma are disproportionately unvaccinated, have poorer-than-average nutrition, and experience higher rates of infant mortality and tuberculosis. Estimates in 12 European Union (EU) member states suggest that Roma live 7–20 fewer years than non-Roma.1 However, the ...

Romani genetic linguistics and genetics: Results, prospects and problems

VOX POPULI: Automatic Generation of Biased Video Sequences

We describe our experimental rhetoric engine Vox Populi that generates biased video-sequences from a repository of video interviews and other related audio-visual web sources. Users are thus able to explore their own opinions on controversial topics covered by the repository. The repository contains interviews with United States residents stating their opinion on the events occurring after the ...

Vox Populi: Collecting High-Quality Labels from a Crowd

With the emergence of search engines and crowdsourcing websites, machine learning practitioners are faced with datasets that are labeled by a large heterogeneous set of teachers. These datasets test the limits of our existing learning theory, which largely assumes that data is sampled i.i.d. from a fixed distribution. In many cases, the number of teachers actually scales with the number of exam...