Such beautiful solitude, isn't it?

Working Paper Department of Economics Is It Beautiful to Be Small, or Is It a Burden?

Mistakenly seeking solitude.

Connecting with others increases happiness, but strangers in close proximity routinely ignore each other. Why? Two reasons seem likely: Either solitude is a more positive experience than interacting with strangers, or people misunderstand the consequences of distant social connections. To examine the experience of connecting to strangers, we instructed commuters on trains and buses to connect w...

The Practical Importance of Knowledge (Such as It Is)

Matt Weiner Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Abstract In Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne argues for a view on which whether a speaker knows that p depends on whether her practical environment makes it appropriate for her to use p in practical reasoning. It may seem that this view yields a straightforward account of why knowledge is important, based on the role of k...

Beautiful Interpolants

We describe a compositional approach to Craig interpolation based on the heuristic that simpler proofs of special cases are more likely to generalize. The method produces simple interpolants because it is able to summarize a large set of cases using one relatively simple fact. In particular, we present a method for finding such simple facts in the theory of linear rational arithmetic. This make...

The ISNT rule and differentiation of normal from glaucomatous eyes.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the ISNT rule (that normal eyes show a characteristic configuration for disc rim thickness of inferior > or = superior > or = nasal > or = temporal), widely used for clinical evaluation of the optic nerve head, can differentiate normal from glaucomatous eyes. METHODS All subjects underwent complete eye examination, including achromatic automated perimetry, simul...