It Can Be So Simple

Transvenous lead extraction: Can it be simple yet safe?

The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

Any (True) Statement Can Be Generalized So That It Becomes Trivial: A Simple Formalization of D. K. Faddeev’s Belief

In his unpublished lectures on general algebra, a well-known algebraist D. K. Faddeev expressed a belief that every true mathematical statement can be generalized in such a way that it becomes trivial. To the best of our knowledge, this belief has never been formalized before. In this short paper, we provide a simple formalization (and proof) of this belief. D. K. Faddeev’s belief. In the 1970s...

It can be smart to be dumb

An important problem in game theory is why bounded rationality occurs, e.g., why altruism to non-kin occurs. Previous explanations involved computational limitations of the players, repeated play among the players etc. As an alternative, we introduce a pre-play step in which each player i chooses a “persona”, i.e., a ficticious utility function she commits to use in the game. By adopting differ...

Learning can ’ t be fun , can it ?

Inspired by research by Carrie Heeter et al. and the MIT Games-to-Teach project we set up a small scale empirical study on two educational games on Art aimed at primary school children. We found that both boys and girls liked to play these games; that one game scored better on our ‘fun-index’ and that girls had less mouse skills and lacked certain game skills. This did not, however, affect thei...