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Peter Schäfer : Mirror of His Beauty

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Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Post-human body and beauty.

The article calls into question the very possibility of a post-human aesthetics, starting from the following premise: rather than post-human, it is more correct to speak of post-natural, indicating by this expression a reality produced through a new type of evolution, which does not simply change human nature, but de-natures it, radically transforming it into an artefact. This post-nature which...

Polymatroid Prophet Inequalities

Consider a gambler and a prophet who observe a sequence of independent, non-negative numbers. The gambler sees the numbers one-by-one whereas the prophet sees the entire sequence at once. The goal of both is to decide on fractions of each number they want to keep so as to maximize the weighted fractional sum of the numbers chosen. The classic result of Krengel and Sucheston (1977-78) asserts th...

Prophet: Automatic Patch Generation via Learning from Successful Human Patches

We present Prophet, a novel patch generation system that learns a probabilistic model over candidate patches from a large code database that contains many past successful human patches. It defines the probabilistic model as the combination of a distribution over program points based on error localization algorithms and a parameterized log-linear distribution over modification operations. It the...

To air is human, to prevent is divine.

As we’ve mentioned, there’s plenty of reason to believe that the overexcited cop thought that he was firing his Taser. That’s a conclusion that even the victim’s attorney implicitly conceded. “It doesn't matter if he was reaching for a Taser or not. At the end of the day, it's what [the officer] did that counts.” Meanwhile nervous BART officials avoided all talk of race and promised what bureau...