Happy families

“ Happy Families Are All The Same ”

Happy families: a twin study of humour.

The objective of this study was to estimate how much of an individual's appreciation of humour is influenced by genetic factors, the shared environment or the individual's unique environment. A population-based classical twin study of 127 pairs of female twins (71 monozygous (MZ) and 56 dizygous (DZ) pairs) aged 20-75 from the St Thomas' UK Adult Twin Registry elicited responses to five 'Far Si...

Happy Chatbot, Happy User

We compare our own embodied conversational agent (ECA) scheme, BotCom, with seven other complex Internet-based ECAs according to recentlypublished information about them, and highlight some important attributes that have received little attention in the construction of realistic ECAs. BotCom incorporates the use of emotions, humor and complex information services. We cover issues that are likel...

Code You Are Happy to Paste: An Algorithmic Dictionary of Exponential Families

We describe a library and a companion website designed to ease the usage of exponential families in various programming languages. Implementation of mathematical formulas in computer programs is often error-prone, difficult to debug and difficult to read afterwards. Moreover, this implementation is heavily dependent of the programming language used and often needs an important knowledge of the ...

"EEG happy families": the fun way to learn about common EEG abnormalities.

Correspondence to: Dr Geraint Fuller, Gloucester Royal Hospital, Great Western Road, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK; [email protected]. co.uk _________________________ T he electroencephalogram (EEG) is an important test for neurologists. However, many neurological trainees only have limited exposure to EEG and most will not have directly reported EEGs. When you report EEGs rather than look at illu...