Sailing close to the statistics

Sepsis and therapeutic hypercapnia: sailing too close to the wind?

ALMOST a decade ago, the landmark study of low tidal volume ventilation (6 vs. 12 ml/kg ideal body weight) in the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) showed that a strategy leading in some cases to carbon dioxide retention (permissive hypercapnia) reduced mortality by a remarkable 25%. Lung protective ventilation is now the standard of care for acute lung injury and ARDS. Lack of obvious...

(Sailing to) Byzantium: the Kantian Sublime

(sailing to) byzantium: the kantian sublime

aestheticians and moralphilosophers alike are inclined to the view that there is no particular!j beneficial effect on moral life ofa developed aesthetic sensibility. the usual supporting witness is the pitiless nazi ss officer with a refined tastefor mozart and torture. but though his testimony can hard!j be gainsaid, there is an unnoticed and unwarranted narro1ving of the scope ofaesthetic sen...

Reinforcement Sailing

This thesis examines applying reinforcement learning to sailing. We give two conceptually different models of a simple sailing boat. Standard tabular reinforcement learning is shown to be ineffective in controlling these naturally continuous models. We examine a method [Smith, 2001b] which adaptively quantises both the state and action spaces and show that it has similar performance to the tabu...

Close to close packing ∗

For various lattice gas models with nearest neighbour exclusion (and, in one case, second-nearest neighbour exclusion as well), we obtain lower bounds on m, the average number of particles on the non-excluded lattice sites closest ∗We dedicate this work to the memory of Ann Stell, beloved friend of OP and beloved wife of GS.