On the Apocalypse that No One Noticed

Segregation That No One Seeks

This paper examines a series of Schelling-like models of residential segregation, in which agents prefer to be in the minority. We demonstrate that as long as agents care about the characteristics of their wider community, they tend to end up in a segregated state. We then investigate the process that causes this, and conclude that the result hinges on the similarity of informational states amo...

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A Dinosaur Comments on the Coming Apocalypse: Does Anybody Else See That Asteroid?

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Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

UFace: Your Universal Password That No One Can See

With the advantage of not having to memorize long passwords, people are more interested in adopting face authentication for use with mobile devices. However, since facial images are widely shared in social networking sites, it becomes a challenging task to securely employ face authentication for web services to prevent attackers from impersonating the legal users by using the users’ online face...