Listen while you sleep

Learn While You Sleep

Grow rich while you sleep

We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in Belgium and the Netherlands. The data allow us to distinguish between ‘regular guests’, who booked prior to the announcement of the promotion campaign and guests ...

Cortical plasticity: Learning while you sleep?

Sleep has been suggested to facilitate memory consolidation or learning, but there has been little direct evidence of a link between synaptic plasticity and sleep. A recent study suggests a role for sleep in the plastic changes that the visual cortex undergoes in response to occlusion of one eye early in life.

MATE: An Experiment While You Sleep Test Bed

Collaboration among design systems is rapidly becoming a focus of research in automated design (Klein 1992) (Lander and Lesser 1992) (Maher et. al. 1993 ). The construction collaborative design systems involves issues relating to the integration of heterogeneous databases and tools, multi-user interfaces, and design documentation, as well as issues of interagent communication and coordination. ...

You Are What You Eat... Listen to, Watch, and Read

This article describes a data driven method for deriving the relationship between personality and media preferences. A qunatifiable representation of such a relationship can be leveraged for use in recommendation systems and ameliorate the “cold start” problem. Here, the data is comprised of an original collection of 1,316 Okcupid dating profiles. Of these profiles, 800 are labeled with one of ...