Are two heads better than one?

Optimally interacting minds.

In everyday life, many people believe that two heads are better than one. Our ability to solve problems together appears to be fundamental to the current dominance and future survival of the human species. But are two heads really better than one? We addressed this question in the context of a collective low-level perceptual decision-making task. For two observers of nearly equal visual sensiti...

On Stateless Multihead Finite Automata and Multihead Pushdown Automata

A stateless k-head two-way deterministic finite automaton (k-head 2DFA), has only one state, hence the designation stateless. Its transitions depends solely on the symbols currently scanned by its k heads, and in every such transition each head can move one cell left, right, or remain stationary. An input, which is delimited by end markers, is accepted if the machine, when started with all head...

بررسی عملکرد پوشش‌های گراولی و مصنوعی در زهکش‌های زیرزمینی

In this research, the hydraulic behavior of two kinds of envelopes including synthetic envelope, PP450 and gravel envelope with USBR standard in two soil tank models with silty loam texture was investigated. Three water heads including 55, 75 and 105 cm (water logging) from drain level were used. The discharge of pipe drain in the steady state condition for gravel envelope and at 55, 75 and 105...

Scientific collaboration: do two heads need to be more than twice better than one?

Epistemic accounts of scientific collaboration usually assume that, one way or another, two heads really are more than twice better than one. We show that this hypothesis is unduly strong. We present a deliberately crude model with unfavorable hypotheses. We show that, even then, when the priority rule is applied, large differences in successfulness can emerge from small differences in efficien...

Two Heads are Better than One A Case Study of the Coworking Community in the Netherlands

Two (or more) heads are better than one.