Living Originalism: The Magical Mystery Tour

Grammatical Inference a Magical Mystery Tour

How do children learn language? Is it already in their heads when they are born, or do they acquire language through experience? Is it possible to program a computer to learn a language using techniques which are possibly available to the human infant? Grammatical Inference strives to automatically infer a grammar for a language from a subset of the strings in the language, and possibly also a ...

A Guided Tour of the Living Cell

This overview of cell biology is based on a series of lectures given at Rockefeller University in 1976. De Duve's original audience was a group of high school students; his expanded text is also appropriate for advanced high school students or college students with a good background in biology and chemistry. The text is organized as a "tour" of the cell presented as if the reader could be shrun...

The Magical Mystery Four: How is Working Memory Capacity Limited, and Why?

Working memory storage capacity is important because cognitive tasks can be completed only with sufficient ability to hold information as it is processed. The ability to repeat information depends on task demands but can be distinguished from a more constant, underlying mechanism: a central memory store limited to 3 to 5 meaningful items in young adults. I will discuss why this central limit is...

Originalism and the Colorblind Constitution

The Functions of Ethical Originalism