Review: William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure by Gilbert Ware

? Review of ‘ Reliable Reasoning ’ by Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni

The aim of the book is to give a non-technical introduction to statistical learning theory at undergraduate level. Statistical learning theory is concerned with the reliability of rules for classifying a new case—e.g., diagnosing a disease in a new patient—on the basis of other features of the case and a large stock of past cases and their features and classifications. The book is based on a co...

Algebra Notes: Gilbert&Gilbert

Sets and Intervals • An interval with round brackets such as (a, b) means all the numbers between a and b not including a and b. We call this interval an open interval. • An interval with square brackets such as [a, b] means all the numbers between a and b including a and b. We call this interval a closed interval. • An interval with one square bracket and one closed bracket is called a clopen ...

Grace Under Pressure: a drama-based approach to tackling mistreatment of medical students.

A positive and respectful learning environment is fundamental to the development of professional identities in healthcare. Yet medical students report poor behaviour from healthcare professionals that contradict professionalism teaching. An interdisciplinary group designed and implemented a drama-based workshop series, based on applied theatre techniques, to help students develop positive profe...

Review of haplotype complementarity under mutational pressure

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William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)