I Will Magnify Thee

How long, O Bayesian network, will I sample thee? A program analysis perspective on expected sampling times

Bayesian networks (BNs) are probabilistic graphical models for describing complex joint probability distributions. The main problem for BNs is inference: Determine the probability of an event given observed evidence. Since exact inference is often infeasible for large BNs, popular approximate inference methods rely on sampling. We study the problem of determining the expected time to obtain a s...

Shall I compare thee? Simile understanding and semantic categories

The purpose of this article is to present a few research findings on the process of understanding simile, where special attention was given to the semantic relationship between its three major components: Tenor (hereafter T), Vehicle (hereafter V) and Predicate (hereafter P). By manipulating different degrees of conventionality among these three components and the explicit presence of a P, eigh...

“I KISSED THEE ERE I KILLED THEE”: PERFORMING RACE AND GENDER IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO AND RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON A Thesis by ALICIA PAGE ANDRZEJEWSKI

Small departures from rationality magnify fluctuations

This note shows that introducing into the economy a few number of agents who do not support sunspots theories magnifies endogenous business cycles fluctuations when the current state of the economic system is sensitive enough to traders' forecasts, or equivalently, in presence of indeterminacy. Citation: Gauthier, Stéphane, (2004) "Small departures from rationality magnify fluctuations." Econom...

"Will I be pretty, will I be rich?": the missing self in antidepressant commercials.