Reply to Bratthauer, Wheeler and Tavassoli

Mehdi Tavassoli

54 patients with localized or primary malignant melanoma had circulating cytoplasmic antibody. A few patients formerly positive but who had converted to negative, and some who on clinical grounds had a primary lesion but who had negative tests for cytoplasmic antibody, were found to have developed metastatic lesions. It is postulated that the halo naevus represents a seldom seen interim stage n...

? Calibration and convexity : response to Gregory Wheeler ?

In his ‘Objective Bayesian calibration and the problem of non-convex evidence’, Gregory Wheeler criticises the principle I invoke in Williamson (2010) for calibrating degrees of belief with chances. Bayesian epistemologists commonly appeal to some sort of Calibration norm that says that degrees of belief should be calibrated to known chances. Typically they invoke a principle variously known as...

Wheeler Graphs: Variations on a Theme by Burrows and Wheeler

The famous Burrows-Wheeler Transform was originally defined for single strings but variations have been developed for sets of strings, labelled trees, de Bruijn graphs, alignments, etc. In this talk we propose a unifying view that includes many of these variations and that we hope will simplify the search for more. Somewhat surprisingly we get our unifying view by considering the Nondeterminist...

Burrows Wheeler - Alternatives to Move to Front

The Burrows Wheeler Transform, first published in 1994, is a relatively new approach to text compression and has already proven to produce excellent results. However, there has been much research directed towards improving the efficienc y of the Move to Front algorithm with varying degrees of complexity. This paper examines a relatively simple technique using a dual modeling system and achieves...

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