While this work has been wildly successful in shaping both the machine learning [19, 16, 11] and systems fields [14, 15, 1], it also ignores a big part of real-world machine learning. In particular, much of the work in Learning Systems has operated under the fiction: the world hands me a static, potentially very large, dataset and I train an accurate, potentially complex, model. This fiction de...

Sensational interests, i.e. a curiosity for the violent and macabre, are reputedly common in mentally disordered offenders. However, ostensibly well-adjusted individuals are also interested in these topics. We tested the hypothesis that individual differences in sensational interests may partially reflect intrasexual competition for status and have an underlying evolutionary function. Several p...

The performance of markets with hidden information is of central importance in microeconomic theory. We present the results of a comprehensive experiment that distinguishes between the two crucial forms of hidden information, private and common values, in different contracting environments. Contracting environments vary by the degree of power that the screening market side has over the trades o...

Ports act as the nodes connecting water transport with land transport and play pivotal roles in logistics networks. The rapid rise in international freight volume has led to a faster growth in the throughputs of many ports. With the development of containerization, services provided by different ports could be substitutable with each other, especially those in the same region which are more com...

In this paper we will demonstrate how a science fiction storyboard was used as a means for delivering and discussing future technology and design innovations. We present a case in which an illustrated storyboard exemplified the interactions of an experienced-centered technology design concept – a winter caretaking system for a smart city and two devices that could assist its citizens. In the sc...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

ABSTRAC T ORPHANHEROES AND HEROINES ARE familiar characters in children’s literature, particularly in the fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This type of protagonist has its roots in folktales. An analysis of fifty folktales from different cultures reveals that, while the details of orphan stories vary, there are some universal elements. A comparison of these patterns to a l...

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Narrative fiction can engage readers in generating imaginative recreations of the inner worlds of doctors and patients, which are largely inaccessible through typical clinical case analysis. Fiction about medicine can yield insight into patients' subjective experience of illness and can highlight the need for an empathetic response from doctors to patients affected by illness. Mark Salzman's no...