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Bayesian Optimization for a Better Dessert

We present a case study on applying Bayesian Optimization to a complex real-world system; our challenge was to optimize chocolate chip cookies. The process was a mixed-initiative system where both human chefs, human raters, and a machine optimizer participated in 144 experiments. This process resulted in highly rated cookies that deviated from expectations in some surprising ways – much less su...

Maobing Tu

The electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions between lignin and enzymes play essential roles in the effective enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass. The negative effect of lignin has been closely associated with pretreatment efficiency and substrate hydrolysability. However, remarkably we have found contrasting effects of hardwood organosolv lignin (EOL-SG) and softwood organosolv l...

Et tu bipolar II?

There is currently lively debate as regards the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Generally, there is consensus that bipolar I disorder, characterised by mania, is distinct as compared to unipolar major depression. This is demonstrated to some extent across the phenomenology, population characteristics, genetics and neurobiology of the two phenotypes. However, the diagnosis of bipolar II disorder ...

“De quoi tu parles?”: A diachronic study of sociopragmatic interrogative variation in French films

The French interrogative system, which allows for variation among several distinct syntactic structures, constitutes a domain in which normative prescription and actual usage differ greatly (Elsig, 2009). Although many sociolinguistic studies have examined this variation (e.g., Ashby, 1977; Behnstedt, 1973; Coveney, 1989, 2002; Fox, 1989; Myers, 2007; Quillard, 2000), most can be characterized ...