How to Keep a Bad Outcome from Becoming a Lawsuit

How to Keep a Dead Man from Shooting

The state-of-the-art approach to realize consistency in distributed virtual environments (e.g., action games, multi-user virtual reality, and battlefield simulations) is dead reckoning. A fundamental problem of dead reckoning is that participants may perceive different states for the same entity. While these inconsistencies will eventually be repaired, the resulting state of an entity may be in...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

How to give a bad talk

Over the years, I’ve listened to hundreds of scientific presentations, often given by brilliant scientists. A few were memorable; many were dull. Unfortunately, being an expert in your field is no guarantee that you will be an effective presenter. But the good news is that it’s probably easier to learn to be an effective speaker than it is to become a brilliant scientist. And, although presenta...

How to give a bad talk

How to Keep Bad Papers Out of Conferences (with Minimum Reviewer Effort)

Reviewing conference submissions is both labour-intensive and diffuse. A lack of focus leads to reviewers spending much of their scarce time on papers which will not be accepted, which can prevent them from identifying several classes of problems with papers that will be. We identify opportunities for automation in the review process and propose protocols which allow human reviewers to better f...