judgment mistake

Correcting Darwin's Other Mistake

Review of: Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods and Applications of Selection Experiments. Edited by Theodore Garland, Jr. and Michael R. Rose, 2009. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, California. 752 pp. Hardcover ISBN 9780520247666, $75.00; Paperback ISBN 9780520261808, $45.00. It has become a cliché to say that evolutionary biologists need multiple types of approaches to be effective....

Perceptron Mistake Bounds

We present a brief survey of existing mistake bounds and introduce novel bounds for the Perceptron or the kernel Perceptron algorithm. Our novel bounds generalize beyond standard margin-loss type bounds, allow for any convex and Lipschitz loss function, and admit a very simple proof.

Fake, mistake, replicate.

On April 10 economist John R. Lott, Jr., formerly of the American Enterprise Institute, filed a defamation lawsuit against economist Steven D. Levitt of the University of Chicago and HarperCollins, the publisher of Levitt's 2005 book, Freakonomics. At issue is what Levitt meant when he wrote that scholars could not "replicate" Lott's results, referring to Lott's 1998 book, More Guns, Less Crime...

Fano’s inequality is a mistake

for every i. One can remark that for the first time, these inequalities were indicated by Margherita Piazzola-Beloch in [1]. She was a pupil of G. Castelnuovo, her paper presents the text of her thesis , G. Castelnuovo was the adviser of the thesis. Thus all (including G. Fano ) the subsequent authors of the variants or generalizations of the Fano inequality are out of the historical responsibi...

Psychopathic disorder : a category mistake ?

Although the concept ofpsychopathy retains its currency in British psychiatry, apparently being meaningful as well as useful to practitioners (1), it is often taken to refer to a purely legal category with social controlfunctions rather than a medical diagnosis with treatment implications. I wish, in this briefarticle, to suggest that it is essentially, and most usefully, an ethical category wh...

Human cloning: brave new mistake.