The Inherent Irrationality of Judgment Proofing

On the Heritability of Choice, Judgment, and “Irrationality”

Despite the very long history of research on heritable traits, we still know very little about genetic effects on judgment and choice, including consumer decision making. Building on recent advances in epigenetics, we hypothesize that people inherit a general prudence tendency, which affects their predisposition to choose options that vary on the prudence dimension. We use a classic twins study...

Questioning Answering By Pattern Matching, Web-Proofing, Semantic Form Proofing

In this paper, we introduce the University at Albany’s question answering system, ILQUA. It is developed on the following methods: pattern matching over annotated text, web-proofing and semantic form proofing. These methods are currently used in other QA systems, however, we revised them to work together in our QA system.

Future proofing

far the fastest growing agricultural producer with output expected to increase by more than 40 per cent between now and 2019. Production growth is also expected to be well above 20 per cent in China, India, the Russian Federation and the Ukraine. But the report warns that increased global food production could still lead to a large section of the global population going hungry. Although the wor...

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

The Irrationality of n √ 2

In this paper we will show the irrationality of n √ 2 for all natural numbers n ≥ 2.