Western democracies have become neoliberal with all the disproportions of economic and political power that emerged in capitalist society. The acquired free market not only deforms integrity society balance, but also it has virtually impossible for democracy as a form government to exist. As scale became global, entity gone global creating led be ruled by entities rather than ones. Howev...

Research in machine learning has typically addressed the problem of how and when to learn, and ignored the problem of formulating learning tasks in the first place. This paper addresses this issue in the context of the CASTLE system,1 that dynamically formulates learning tasks for a given situation. Our approach utilizes an explicit model of the decision-making process to pinpoint which system ...

JCB • VOLUME 214 • NUMBER 3 • 2016 234 At the age of seven, Frederic Bard’s father taught him about the atomic composition of water molecules. Bard was fl abbergasted to learn that water is not simply “made of water.” He became fascinated by the idea that deeper truths about the world were waiting to be discovered, and in middle school he fell in love with biology. Noticing his interest in clas...

What should we do when artificial intelligence (AI) goes wrong? AI has huge potential to improve the safety of societally critical systems, such as healthcare and transport, but it also introduce new risks amplify existing ones. For instance, biases in widely deployed diagnostic systems could adversely affect care a large number patients (Fraser et al. 2018), hidden weaknesses perception autono...

Desire has been a marginal topic in TESOL. This study investigated whether and to what extent English learning affects Taiwanese young females’ aspiration toward western males. Four hundred ninety-nine respondents filled out a questionnaire that investigates their English learning experience and aspiration to cross–culture marriage with western males. Sixteen were interviewed. Results showed co...