Frontline innovation is free but not easy

Simple is not easy

I review and challenge the views on simplicity and its role in linguistics put forward by Ludlow (2011). In particular, I criticize the claim that simplicity—in the sense pertinent to science—is nothing more than ease of use or “user-friendliness”, motivated by economy of (cognitive) labor. I argue that Ludlow’s discussion fails to do justice to the diversity of factors that are relevant to sim...

Compassionate care: not easy, not free, not only nurses

1 Compassion has historically been defined as an underpinning principle of work conducted by health professionals, especially nurses. Numerous definitions of compassionate care exist, incorporating a range of elements. Most include a cognitive element: understanding what is important to the other by exploring their perspective; a volitional element: choosing to act to try and alleviate the othe...

Following the guidelines is the easiest and safest of all, but life is not easy

Cent Eur J Urol 2013; 66: 163 DOI: 10.5173/ceju.2013.02.art13 Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder is a rare entity. Is this cancer different from other forms of transitional cell carcinomas? Do we have special recommendations for patients suffering from small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder? Yes we do! It is a very aggressive histological type of cancer that develops within the ur...

2048 is (PSPACE) Hard, but Sometimes Easy

We prove that a variant of 2048, a popular online puzzle game, is PSPACE-Complete. Our hardness result holds for a version of the problem where the player has oracle access to the computer player’s moves. Specifically, we show that for an n × n game board G, computing a sequence of moves to reach a particular configuration C from an initial configuration C0 is PSPACE-Complete. Our reduction is ...

Innovation: needed, but not rocket science.