Holy Grandeur Enough for All

Margaret McCartney: Just enough medicine for all.

This summer I swam in the Baltic and learnt the word lagom. This Swedish word is hard to translate: it means “just right”—not too much and not too little. It also has echoes of fairness, neither ostentatious nor sparse. It is not to do with perfection. An etymological translation is “around the team”—that is, enough for everyone to get a fair share. It’s why our rented house had space in the cu...

'Health for All' Alma-Ata Declaration--an elusive Holy Grail.

Runners prepare for Holy Half

As two of the top three Saint Mary’s administrators prepare to step down from their positions this spring — marking a new era at the College — students and faculty have the opportunity to meet two candidates vying for the position of vice president and dean of faculty at open forums this week. Saint Mary’s religious studies p ro fesso r Joe In c a n d e la and Dean of the Faculty a t Colgate Un...

In All Likelihood, Deep Belief Is Not Enough

Statistical models of natural images provide an important tool for researchers in the fields of machine learning and computational neuroscience. The canonical measure to quantitatively assess and compare the performance of statistical models is given by the likelihood. One class of statistical models which has recently gained increasing popularity and has been applied to a variety of complex da...

Fine enough or don ’ t fine at all

This paper explores the results discussed in “A fine is a price” by Gneezy and Rustichini [2000a. A fine is a price. Journal of Legal Studies 29, 1–17] regarding the effect of fines on parents who collect their children late from day-care centers. We suggest a complementary explanation, analyzing a formal model that qualifies but does not lose the predictive power of the deterrence hypothesis. ...