‘I Think I Stick Out a Bit’: The Classification of Reproductive Decision-Making

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Oops!...I think I scanned a malware

This article presents a proof-of-concept illustrating the feasibility of creating a covert channel between a C&C server and a malware installed in an organization by exploiting an organization’s scanner and using it as a means of interaction. We take advantage of the light sensitivity of a flatbed scanner, using a light source to infiltrate data to an organization. We present an implementation ...

I am therefore I think

This article offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates conscious operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations. Its agenda is to link formal (mathematical) descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The argument has two parts: the first calls on the lawful dynamics of any (weakly mixing ergodic) s...

"I Think You Think I Think You're Lying": The Interactive Epistemology of Trust in Social Networks

W investigate the epistemology of trust in social networks. We posit trust as a special epistemic state that depends on actors’ beliefs about each others’ beliefs as well as about states of the world. It offers new ideas and tools for representing the core elements of trust both within dyads and larger groups and presents an approach that makes trust measurable in a noncircular and predictive, ...

''i Think I Can, I Think I Can'': Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior Author's Personal Copy

High failure rates and low average returns suggest that too many people may be entering markets as entrepreneurs. Thus, anticipating how one will perform in the market is a fundamental component of the decision to start a business. Using a large sample obtained from population surveys conducted in 18 countries, we study what variables are significantly associated with the decision to start a bu...