I’ve Had Enough!

I have had enough!

I apologize for making some of you nervous, and perhaps even resentful, but I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! I do not like the new unethical face of my profession, where incessant seeking of more money has replaced service to the public, honesty, and self-respect. Numerous areas of major ethical concern in dentistry are identified in this article. The ongoing, if not accelerating, degeneration of professiona...

'Had we but world enough, and time'.

This paper will cover a general discussion of changes and improvement in software. I will focus on some special aspects of the evolutionary process, and propose to extend those techniques and approaches.

Had enough of that crummy stuff.

I recall, more than a decade ago, sitting in my tent in some boreal wilderness and being able to read my e-mail. To do so, all I needed was a small strap-on device that enabled my laptop to access the phone network. Back then, my IT department assured me that such accessories would soon be built in to all computers. And the advent of 3G promised high-speed, low-cost, hasslefree online access ev...

The Makeready Arch Ive

Discrimination- Ive Io

This paper presents a new approach to constructive induction, Discrimination-Based Constructive induction(DBC), which invents useful predicates in learning relations. Triggered by failure of selective induction, DBC finds a minimal set of variables forming a new predicate that discriminates between positive and negative examples, and induces a definition of the invented predicate. If necessary,...