Not Wicked, Perhaps, but Tacky

Repetitive perhaps, but certainly not boring

Parental Advice: Given Perhaps, but Not Received.

We all think we give good advice, and we think we do it well. We’ve mastered the anticipatory guidance section of the well-child or nursery visit. We have our formula: we cover the salient topics, throw in some personal experience, and assume our parental advice on child rearing has been received and understood. Unfortunately, as shown by Eisenberg et al in this issue of Pediatrics, we appear t...

Perhaps Unidimensional Is Not Unidimensional

Miller (1956) identified his famous limit of 7 ± 2 items based in part on absolute identification-the ability to identify stimuli that differ on a single physical dimension, such as lines of different length. An important aspect of this limit is its independence from perceptual effects and its application across all stimulus types. Recent research, however, has identified several exceptions. We...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Perhaps Not a Free Lunch But At Least a Free Appetizer

This work is a product of the Collaborative Research Center 531, \Computational Intelligence", at the University of Dortmund and was printed with nancial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Abstract It is often claimed that Evolutionary Algorithms are superior to other optimization techniques, in particular, in situations where not much is known about the objective function to be op...