I Can Do Better Than That!

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Can we do better than dobutamine?

Anything you can do I can do better.

Newly introduced drugs or treatments may not be substantively more effective than current therapies, but these drugs or treatments may have distinct advantages in terms of lower costs or fewer or less severe side effects. Demonstrating the utility of a novel treatment is thus unlike usual hypothesis testing, in which researchers seek to prove that treatments differ (i.e., that one treatment is ...

Can Neural Networks Do Better Than the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Bounds?

Gerald Tesauro IBM Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 \Ve describe a series of careful llumerical experiments which measure the average generalization capability of neural networks trained on a variety of simple functions. These experiments are designed to test whether average generalization performance can surpass the worst-case bounds obtained from formal learning ...

Automated Link Generation: Can we do Better than Term Repetition?

Most current automatic hypertext generation systems rely on term repetition to calculate the relatedness of two documents. There are well-recognized problems with such approaches, most notably, they are vulnerable to the linguistic effects of synonymy (many words for the same concept) and polysemy (many concepts for the same word). I propose a novel method for automatic hypertext generation tha...