This session is designed to inspire awe and wonder at the unusualness of the world around us and to inspire the idea that things are stranger than we might at first think and to get the children thinking along the same lines as many philosophers: that the world is not as it seems. Many of the pre-Socratics thought that the world was very different from how we perceive it through our senses. Alt...

A necessary step in any regression analysis is checking the fit of the model to the data. Graphical methods are often employed to allow visualization of features that the data should exhibit if the model was to hold. Judging whether such features are present or absent in any particular diagnostic plot can be problematic. In this article I take a Bayesian approach to aid in this task. The “unusu...

Reasoning proportionally about collections of a sample statistic’s values is central to developing a coherent understanding of statistical inference. This paper discusses key developments that unfolded in a classroom teaching experiment designed to support students constructing such understanding. Instruction engaged students in activities that focused their attention on the variability among o...

Many automated systems for detecting threats are based on matching a new database record to known attack types. However, this approach can only spot known threats and thus researchers have also be­ gun to use unsupervised approaches based on de­ tecting outliers or anomalous examples. A popular method of finding these outliers is to use the dis­ tance to an example’s k nearest neighbors as a me...

The purpose of this article is to highlight the daily life inhabitants camp Swedish King Charles (Carl) XII and his Ukrainian allies, in vicinity Turkish fortress Bender on Dniester River (now territory Republic Moldova), between 1709 1713. sequence time Swedes Cossacks’ staying three alternating locations, their conveniences disadvantages, influence nature development degree comfort buildings ...

There is little consensus regarding the circumstances in which people spontaneously generate causal inferences, and in particular whether they generate inferences about the causal antecedents or the causal consequences of events. We tested whether people systematically infer causal antecedents or causal consequences to minimal social scenarios by using a continuation methodology. People overwhe...

Trivia is any fact about an entity which is interesting due to its unusualness, uniqueness, unexpectedness or weirdness. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for mining entity trivia from their Wikipedia pages. Given an entity, our system extracts relevant sentences from its Wikipedia page and produces a list of sentences ranked based on their interestingness as trivia. At the heart of ou...

Conceptual expansion is a key process that underlies our ability to think creatively. In the present event-related fMRI study, a modified Alternate Uses Task was used to identify brain regions involved during passive conceptual expansion and thereby separately assess the effects of the two defining elements of creative output: Originality (unusualness) and Relevance (appropriateness). Participa...