When Choices Are Mistakes

How universal are human mate choices ? Size doesn ’ t matter when Hadza foragers are choosing

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How universal are human mate choices? Size doesn’t matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate

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Mistakes are lessons of the past.

Conversational adequacy: mistakes are the essence

We argue that meta-dialog and meta-reasoning, far from being of only occasional use, are the very essence of conversation and communication between agents. We give four paradigm examples of massive use of meta-dialog where only limited object dialog may be present, and use these to bolster our claim of centrality for meta-dialog. We further illustrate this with related work in active logics. We...

How random are a learner's mistakes?

Given a random binary sequence $X^{(n)}$ of random variables, $X_{t},$ $t=1,2,...,n$, for instance, one that is generated by a Markov source (teacher) of order $k^{*}$ (each state represented by $k^{*}$ bits). Assume that the probability of the event $X_{t}=1$ is constant and denote it by $\beta$. Consider a learner which is based on a parametric model, for instance a Markov model of order $k$,...