Inside “Inside Out”

Inside Out

I have alwayswanted to be adoctor.Manyaspects ofmedicine enthralled me: research, diagnosis, and the possibility of improving a patient’s quality of life, in particular.Walking the corridors of a hospital felt exhilarating. At 15 I had a volunteer position at the local hospital. Although my assignments were answering phones, directing visitors, and, my favorite, delivering goods topatients, I f...

Morphological Segmentation Inside-Out

Morphological segmentation has traditionally been modeled with non-hierarchical models, which yield flat segmentations as output. In many cases, however, proper morphological analysis requires hierarchical structure— especially in the case of derivational morphology. In this work, we introduce a discriminative joint model of morphological segmentation along with the orthographic changes that oc...

Philosophy inside Out

Philosophy is often conceived in the Anglophone world today as a subject that focuses on questions in particular ‘‘core areas,’’ pre-eminently epistemology and metaphysics. This article argues that the contemporary conception is a new version of the scholastic ‘‘self-indulgence for the few’’ of which Dewey complained nearly a century ago. Philosophical questions evolve, and a first task for phi...

Inside-out electromagnetic cloaking.

We introduce a novel concept of an inside-out (or inverse) cloak for electromagnetic waves based on the coordinate transformation of Maxwell's equations. This concept can be employed for creating absorbing non-reflecting media as matching layers in numerical simulations. In contrast to the commonly used perfectly matched layers, such absorbing boundaries are characterized by physically meaningf...

Risks Inside-Out