Rethinking Fate or ‘Maktub’ in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist through Taoism

Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator

The papers in this series are intended for internal use and are distributed by the author. Copies may be ordered from the library of the Department of Computer Science. Abstract alchemist is a general purpose transformation generating environment which supports specii-cation, generation, and execution of data transformations. alchemist allows an abstract spec-iication of the transformation thro...

Problem of Evil in Taoism

This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil. Causal evils are those evils that are said to be the causes of other evils; consequential evils are those that are said to be the consequences of the causal evils. Causal evils originate from human will, an...

Ken Jacobs, Alchemist

Alchemist: Learning Guarded Affine Functions

We present a technique and an accompanying tool that learns guarded affine functions. In our setting, a teacher starts with a guarded affine function and the learner learns this function using equivalence queries only. In each round, the teacher examines the current hypothesis of the learner and gives a counter-example in terms of an input-output pair where the hypothesis differs from the targe...

Rethinking assessment through learning technologies

This paper describes a range of computer assisted assessment (CAA) research and development activities and discusses how CAA is enabling a rethinking of broader learning, teaching and assessment strategies. It includes four mini case studies which illustrate the diverse range of activities in this area. The first mini case study describes a review of the work of the CAA centre in the UK and a d...