Some Facts and Thoughts about Light-Emitting Animals

Some assumptions and facts about arithmetic facts

In the present review we will deal with the following questions: What are arithmetic facts? How are they related to other cognitive functions? What are characteristic features of fact retrieval performance in healthy adult subjects? Which typical patterns of breakdown can be observed in acalculia? How do current models account for the representation of and access to arithmetic facts?

Some thoughts about classification

The paper contains some general remarks on the high art of data analysis, some philosophical thoughts about classification, a partial review of outliers and robustness from the point of view of applications, including a discussion of the problem of model choice, and a review of several aspects of robust estimation of covariance matrices, including the pragmatic choice of a weight function based...

Some Thoughts about Commitment Protocols

From the seminal paper by Singh [1], commitments protocols have been raising a lot of attention. The key feature of commitment protocols is their declarative nature, which allows specifying them in a way which abstracts away from any reference to the actual behaviour of the agents. By doing so, commitment protocols respect the autonomy of agents. After more than ten years from the introduction ...

Some thoughts about schizoid dynamics.

Some Facts about X-Rays

X-rays were discovered by the German physicist W. C. Röntgen in 1895 when he accidentally noticed that fluorescent materials showed a faint glow when placed near a cathode-ray tube powered by a high voltage induction coil. Although others had observed similar phenomena earlier, Röntgen was the first one who concluded that he had found “a new kind of rays”. He called them “X-rays” (X = unknown) ...