The End Externalities Manifesto: Restatement, Loose Ends, and Unfinished Business

Loose Ends

Most research projects produce generalizations to be pursued, conjectures to be proved, and special cases to be pondered–often meant to be dealt with at a later date. In this talk, I’ll give examples of such postponements from my own work that I hope will be interesting. Notation is pretty standard, I think. An [n; k]q code is a linear code of length n and dimension k over the …nite …eld Fq of ...

Loose ends

T wo is the fundamental number for genetics; all of us are the products of single zygotic events but the zygote is formed from two gametes, and two different sets of chromosomes make up our genomes. When I first learnt genetics, it was about diploids, and meiosis and the generation of haploid gametes was central to its understanding. Incidentally, lacking a classical education, I thought haplo ...

Loose ends of psychiatric research.

Reading psychiatric research literature of the last several decades frequently gives the impression of fragmentation, where old research topics are abandoned for newer ones without proper follow-up that would place the existing data into a coherent structure. Such perspective is increasingly relevant though, as medical research draws more and more on methods that allow exploratory analyses of l...

Tying up syntactic loose ends

Sydney Brenner's Loose Ends and False Starts

I need not have worried. As Sydney himself put it in the introduction to Loose Ends, a collection of his best columns from the first three years published in book form: “[Peter] accepted no excuses about being late for deadlines and I am pleased to say I managed to meet all of these, if only by microseconds in some cases”. Whether microseconds, hours or, occasionally, a couple of days before th...