Is the "drug holiday" harmful?

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Forgetting Exceptions is Harmful

We show that in language learning, contrary to received wisdom, keeping exceptional training instances in memory can be beneecial for generalization accuracy. We investigate this phenomenon empirically on a selection of benchmark natural language processing tasks: grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, part-of-speech tagging, prepositional-phrase attachment, and base noun phrase chunking. In a rst ser...

Is Consistency Harmful?

One of the major goals of most early concept learners was to find hypotheses that were perfectly consistent with the training data. It was believed that this goal would indirectly achieve a high degree of predictive accuracy on a set of test data. Later research has partially disproved this belief. However, the issue of consistency has not yet been resolved completely. We examine the issue of c...

Is prostitution harmful?

A common argument against prostitution states that selling sex is harmful because it involves selling something deeply personal and emotional. More and more of us, however, believe that sexual encounters need not be deeply personal and emotional in order to be acceptable--we believe in the acceptability of casual sex. In this paper I argue that if casual sex is acceptable, then we have few or n...

Is Aid Volatility Harmful?

This paper studies the causal e¤ect of aid volatility on the economic performance of developing countries in 2000-2009 period. We construct a time-varying measure of aid volatility using autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). We control for the endogeneity of aid ‡ows by using as instruments for aid volatility three characteristics of donor counitres: (i) their budget de…cits ; (...