Resistive Computation: A Critique

A Novel Human Computation Game for Critique Aggregation

We present a human computation game based on the popular board game Dixit. We ask the players not only for annotations, but for a direct critique of the result of an automated system. We present the results of the initial run of the game, in which the answers of 15 players were used to profile the mistakes of an aspect-based opinion mining system. We show that the gameplay allowed us to identif...

Critique: Fast Contact Force Computation for Non-Penetrating Rigid Bodies

In this paper, Baraff presents an algorithm for computing the contact forces between objects with static and dynamic friction. Unlike previous methods used to solve the problem where the problem was transformed into an optimization problem, Baraff's algorithm can be implemented by programmers with little experience in numerical programming. Further, his approach is faster and more reliable than...

Forensic psychiatry: critique of a critique.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...

Critique and Commentary: A Critique on Gems of Dari Language, Arash Amraei

A Critique of Ecofeminism

Since Francoise d'Eaubonne first coined the term eco-feminisme in 1974, a growing number of feminists and environmentalists have been concerned with the links between the domination of women and the domination of nature in Western culture. Although the concept of ecofeminism has come to mean quite different things to different ecofeminists, Karen Warren suggests that it is at least based on the...