Jawa, Islam dan Nusantara

JaWa: Java with Assertions

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

Yang Dan

Yang Dan Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, Berkeley Yang Dan is a Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She grew up in Beijing and studied physics as an undergraduate student at Peking University. She conducted her PhD research in the lab of Mu-ming Poo a...

Order Dan

Proof. There are three cases: (1) A and B are in the same column. Then, since in each column we picked the shortest student, A is shorter than B. (2) A and B are in the same row. Then, since in each row we picked the tallest student, B is taller than A. (3) A and B are neither in the same row, nor in the same column. Let C be a student who is in the same row as A and in the same column as B. Th...

Dan Sperber

An objection to the memetic approach to culture Memetics is one possible evolutionary approach to the study of culture. Boyd and Richerson's models (1985, Boyd this volume), or my epidemiology of representations (1985, 1996), are among other possible evolutionary approaches inspired in various ways by Darwin. The memetic approach is based on the claim that culture is made of memes. If one takes...