In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery

In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery

I gave lectures entitled "Ugly Symmetry" at several conferences and many institutes during past six years. Obviously the Hargittai couple share more or less the same opinion with me. Therefore, it is my pleasure to read this interesting book In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery [2,3]. I have communicated with the first author, Istvan Hargittai, many times and bothered him with my pa...

‘all of our stories are our own’: investigating the structure of brief personal experience narratives from pakistan

narratives provide a structured medium to construct and collect human experiences into a sequential word order. the current qualitative study employs the method of narrative analysis to investigate such twenty-five narratives belonging to the pakistani context, obtained from the collection of narratives archived on ‘the humans of new york’ (2015) blog. labov’s natural narrative model (1972) has...

Making Our Own Luck

QuickCheck-style property-based random testing [4] requires efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates. Writing such generators by hand can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language, Luck, in which generators are expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight annotations controlling both the distribution of generate...

The cosmic web in our own backyard.

On the largest scales, matter is strung out on an intricate pattern known as the cosmic web. The tendrils of this web should reach right into our own cosmic backyard, lacing the Galactic halo with lumps of dark matter. The search for these lumps, lit up by stars that formed within them, is a major astronomical endeavor, although it has failed to find the huge expected population. Is this a dark...

Surgical Dissection of the Facial nerve in Parotidectomy: Our Personal Experience