President Glad He Was Wrong

But he knew it was wrong: evaluating adolescent culpability.

Forensic psychiatric evaluators of adolescent defendants are often asked to address open-ended questions that affect what court an adolescent will be tried in and what sentence he might receive. Such questions often involve the extent to which the adolescent should be considered less culpable than an adult who has committed a similar offense. Assessing partial or diminished culpability in an ad...

Was Meduna's theory really wrong?

To the Editors Few treatments in psychiatry were discovered and developed based on a previously developed theory. The therapeutic effects of the first antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs, for example, were serendipitously observed before a theory on how they work was described. By contrast, convulsive therapy was developed in Budapest by Dr. Lazlo Meduna based on facts that led him to forese...

Ron was wrong, Whit is right

We performed a sanity check of public keys collected on the web. Our main goal was to test the validity of the assumption that different random choices are made each time keys are generated. We found that the vast majority of public keys work as intended. A more disconcerting finding is that two out of every one thousand RSA moduli that we collected offer no security. Our conclusion is that the...

What was wrong with Australia's journal ranking?

Oh, wait, reasoning was wrong! Let's replay

Decision making by real time rule-based reasoners is prone to errors. Modern systems must implement decisions based on partial, statistical, or approximate information. If a part of the information is missing or corrupted, the reasoner might be misled into reaching wrong conclusions. Systems using monotonic static logic are less affected, as they must be more careful in their decisions by desig...