If You Can’t Measure Performance, Can You Improve It?

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It

Start of the lab: 2006 Size of the lab: Currently ten—size has fluctuated between five and 20 Research field: Systems and synthetic biology In 2005, I was working in the bioinformatics group of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont. The company was downsizing its research and development effort. At the same time, synthetic biology was emerging as a new discipline, and I wanted t...

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If You Can Draw It, You Can Recognize It: Mirroring For Sketch Recognition

Humans use sketches drawn on paper, on a computer, or via hand gestures in the air as part of their communications. To recognize shapes in sketches, most existing work focuses on offline (post-drawing) recognition methods, trained on large sets of examples which serve as a plan library for the recognition method. These methods do not allow on-line recognition, and require a very large library (...

If You Can Hide behind It, Can You Hide inside It?

Let K and L be compact convex sets in Rn. Suppose that, for a given dimension 1 ≤ d ≤ n − 1, every d-dimensional orthogonal projection of L contains a translate of the corresponding projection of K. Does it follow that the original set L contains a translate of K? In other words, if K can be translated to “hide behind” L from any perspective, does it follow that K can “hide inside” L? A compact...