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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: A Pragmatic Approach to Nonprecedential Opinions in the Federal Appellate Courts

A Meta-heuristic for Subset Problems

In constraint solvers, variable and value ordering heuristics are used to netune the performance of the underlying search and propagation algorithms. However, few guidelines have been proposed for when to choose what heuristic among the wealth of existing ones. Empirical studies have established that this would be very hard, as none of these heuristics outperforms all the other ones on all inst...

If You Can't Beat Them Join Them: Handcrafted Features Complement Neural Nets for Non-Factoid Answer Reranking

We show that a neural approach to the task of non-factoid answer reranking can benefit from the inclusion of tried-and-tested handcrafted features. We present a novel neural network architecture based on a combination of recurrent neural networks that are used to encode questions and answers, and a multilayer perceptron. We show how this approach can be combined with additional features, in par...

So You Think You Can't Dance? (The Mysterious Case of the Guy with Two Left Feet)

So you think you can't dance? (The mysterious case of the guy with two left feet) Mathieu did not just suddenly come to realize this problem, and he did not give up easily. He spent most of his 23 years of life studying music (various instruments , voice) and dance (Latin dance lessons, and he even performed in a dance troupe at a family amusement park!), only to find, time after time, that he ...

Neural veils and the will to historical critique: why historians of science need to take the neuro-turn seriously.

Taking the neuro-turn is like becoming the victim of mind parasites. It's unwilled (although there are those who will it at a superficial level for various strategic reasons). You can't see mind parasites; they make you think things without allowing you to know why you think them. Indeed, they generate the cognitive inability to be other than delighted with the circumstances of your affected co...