In this article we aim to return labor (particularly the most vulnerable members of the labor market) to the core of the comparative political economy of advanced democracies. We formulate a framework with which to conceptualize cheap labor in advanced democracies. We propose that to understand the politics of cheap labor, the weakest members of the labor market need to be divided into two stru...

The AIDA-YAGO dataset is a popular target for whole-document entity recognition and disambiguation, despite lacking a shared evaluation tool. We review evaluation regimens in the literature while comparing the output of three approaches, and identify research opportunities. This utilises our open, accessible evaluation tool. We exemplify a new paradigm of distributed, shared evaluation, in whic...

This paper presents a new light field capture system where the main design goal is low cost. To minimize cost we use an off-the-shelf flatbed scanner as the digitizing element. However, intrinsic properties of scanners can adversely affect resultant images. We will survey these properties and their effects in raw outputs. Image manipulation techniques will then be discussed so that proper light...

Model distillation compresses a trained machine learning model, such as a neural network, into a smaller alternative such that it could be easily deployed in a resource limited setting. Unfortunately, this requires engineering two architectures: a student architecture smaller than the first teacher architecture but trained to emulate it. In this paper, we present a distillation strategy that pr...

We consider a cheap-talk setting that mimics the situation where an incumbent firm (the sender) is endowed with incentives to understate the true size of the market demand to two potential entrants (the receivers). Although our experimental data reveals that senders’ messages convey truthful information and this is picked up by the receivers, this overcommunication (relative to standard theoret...

The advent of affordable sophisticated audio solutions for the home PC market has paved the way for low-cost true three-dimensional spatial audio, which can produce a sound effect from any 3D position source. The home entertainment market has guided the development of audio solutions for PCs through hardware support for stereo and Dolby R ©Surround Sound versions 4.1, 5.1, and 7.1. However, the...