Reply to RJ Kaplan

Biological Theory and the Metaphysics of Race: A Reply to Kaplan and Winther

In Kaplan and Winther’s recent article (Biol Theory. doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0, 2012) they argue for three bold theses: first, that ‘‘it is illegitimate to read any ontology about ‘race’ off of biological theory or data’’; second, that ‘‘using biological theory to ground race is a pernicious reification’’; and, third, that ‘‘race is fundamentally a social rather than a biological category.’...

Technical Correspondance - On The Utility Of Computing Inferences In Data Base Query Systems, Reply To Joshi And Kaplan

As Joshi and Kaplan suspected (point 3), the users of this system did indeed thoroughly understand the data base. This makes quite a difference in thinking about the relative importance of facilities in a natural language query system. In particular, such users tend to check strange answers, so that a reply of "no" , as in their point 4, would p robab ly result in an additional question of " H ...

Kaplan–Meier Estimator

The Kaplan–Meier estimator is a nonparametric estimator which may be used to estimate the survival distribution function from censored data. The estimator may be obtained as the limiting case of the classical actuarial (life table) estimator, and it seems to have been first proposed by Böhmer [2]. It was, however, lost sight of by later researchers and not investigated further until the importa...

Statement for Matthew Kaplan

Academic research is offers a fascinating opportunity to shape the technology of the future. My own research has focused non-photorealistic rendering (NPR). Whereas traditional rendering attempts to photorealistically simulate the world around us, NPR includes many diverse topics such as simulating traditional artistic media for both rendering and user interaction and exploring alternative meth...

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