We Can Do Better than “Adolescence”

When can we do better than autarky?

This paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of nonautarkic contract in a risk sharing model with two-sided lack of commitment. Verifying the condition takes just one Gaussian elimination of a matrix. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Can we do better than dobutamine?

Automated Link Generation: Can we do Better than Term Repetition?

Most current automatic hypertext generation systems rely on term repetition to calculate the relatedness of two documents. There are well-recognized problems with such approaches, most notably, they are vulnerable to the linguistic effects of synonymy (many words for the same concept) and polysemy (many concepts for the same word). I propose a novel method for automatic hypertext generation tha...

Limits to vision: can we do better than nature?

Non-invasive wavefront sensing of the human eye provides the necessary information to design corrections which minimize the monochromatic optical errors of the eye beyond simple sphere (defocus) and cylinder (astigmatism). These "ideal" corrections must move with the eye, maintaining proper alignment with the eye's optics. Viable modes of correction include contact lenses, refractive surgery an...

Query-Based Sampling: Can we do Better than Random?

Many servers on the web offer content that is only accessible via a search interface. These are part of the deep web. Using conventional crawling to index the content of these remote servers is impossible without some form of cooperation. Query-based sampling provides an alternative to crawling requiring no cooperation beyond a basic search interface. In this approach, conventionally, random qu...