Something to Think About: Sometimes I Wonder?

What I think when I think about treebanks

In this opinion piece, I present four somewhat controversial suggestions for the design of future treebanks: a) Treebanks should be based on adversarial samples, rather than pseudorepresentative samples. b) Treebanks should include multiple splits of the data, rather than just a single split, as in most treebanks today. c) They should include multiple annotations of each sentence, whenever poss...

Something about Z-penguins I want to tell

The effects of new heavy particles appearing in extensions of the standard model (SM) can be accounted for at low energies in terms of effective operators. The unprecedented accuracy reached by the electroweak (EW) precision measurements performed at the high-energy colliders LEP and SLC impose stringent constraints on the coefficients of the operators entering the EW sector. Other severe const...

Cognitive Distraction : Something to Think About Lessons Learned from Recent Studies June 2013

How to Think About Algorithms

Thinking: Students are very good at learning how to apply a concrete code to a concrete input instance. They tend, however, to find it difficult to think abstractly about the algorithms. I maintain that the more abstractions a person has from which to view the problem, the deeper his understanding of it will be, the more tools he will have at his disposal, and the better prepared he will be to ...

Think about Neurobrucellosis, When a Man Cries

Neurobrucellosis (N.B) is a rare and severe form of systemic Brucella infection. We introduced an unusual case that “Psychologic Symptoms” was the most prominent complaints of his family. He was a 50-year-old man who has worked in butchery. His problems had begun 2 months prior to his admission with mood disorders, arthralgia, weakness, headache, and night sweats; he has recurrent crying with n...