The Naked, Vulnerable, Crazy Girl

Automated Classification of Quilt Photographs Into Crazy and Non- crazy

This work addresses the problem of automatic classification and labeling of 19thand 20th-century quilts from photographs. The photographs are classified according to the quilt patterns into crazy and non –– crazy categories. Based on the classification labels, humanists try to understand the distinct characteristics of an individual quilt-maker or relevant quilt-making groups in terms of their ...

A Crazy Methodology

Despite the great popularity in the social sciences of macroquantitative, comparative research during the last two decades and despite the hope laid into the approach to be able to carefully test theories about social macrofenomena, it has had only limited lasting impact on theory building. Symptomatic is the lack of robustness of findings. The cause of this problem is the difficulty of dealing...

Excusing the Crazy: The Insanity Defense Reconsidered

The crazy-paving pattern on computed tomography.

CMAJ • OCTOBER 5, 2010 • 182(14) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1545 An otherwise healthy 46-year-old man presented with a six-month history of exercise-related shortness of breath and dry cough. His oxygen saturation was 86% on room air. Testing of pulmonary function showed a moderately restrictive ventilatory defect, with diffusion capacity of 45% of the predicted values...

War with Crazy Types∗

We introduce a model of war and peace in which leaders believe that their adversaries might be crazy types that always behave aggressively, regardless of whether it is optimal to do so. In the model, two countries are involved in a dispute. The dispute can end in a peaceful settlement, or it can escalate to “limited war” or “total war.” If it is common knowledge that the leaders of countries ar...