Newton as alchemist

Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator

The papers in this series are intended for internal use and are distributed by the author. Copies may be ordered from the library of the Department of Computer Science. Abstract alchemist is a general purpose transformation generating environment which supports specii-cation, generation, and execution of data transformations. alchemist allows an abstract spec-iication of the transformation thro...

Ken Jacobs, Alchemist

Alchemist: Learning Guarded Affine Functions

We present a technique and an accompanying tool that learns guarded affine functions. In our setting, a teacher starts with a guarded affine function and the learner learns this function using equivalence queries only. In each round, the teacher examines the current hypothesis of the learner and gives a counter-example in terms of an input-output pair where the hypothesis differs from the targe...

Newton as Philosopher

Isaac Newton as a Probabilist

In 1693, Isaac Newton answered a query from Samuel Pepys about a problem involving dice. Newton’s analysis is discussed and attention is drawn to an error he made. On November 22, 1693, Samuel Pepys wrote a letter to Isaac Newton posing a problem in probability. Newton responded with three letters, first answering the question briefly, and then offering more information as Pepys pressed for cla...