A detailed analysis of suicide rates between 1960 and 1971 for England and Wales and for Scotland confirms that all age-sex subgroups have shown a marked decline in suicide due to domestic gas, corresponding in time to the fall in the CO content. After considering data on the effects of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Eighth Revision, accident mortality, some personal charact...

Consider a standard regression setup: we have data {(x, y)}. See figure 1 – a story I am sure you already know... (a) assumes that there is no uncertainty in the world/data and tries to model the data. This assumption ties you down to model every observation literally; e.g., in a Bayesian setup with a GP without observation noise. Eventually, this prohibits generalization, simplification, abstr...

While extremes tend to capture attention, the ordinary is often most of the story. So it may be with the structure-mapping process. The structure-mapping process can account for such pinnacles of thinking as analogy and metaphor, which can lead to overlooking the mundane, incremental use of structure mapping. Consequently, the current discussion shifts focus to the value of close comparisons be...

Award-winning fiction writer Kirsty Gunn reflects on the current climate of short-story publishing in United Kingdom, and considers way rhetoric sickness health has become attached to discussions form.

Pointing out relevant information to a user is one application of focus+context techniques in information visualization. We present a method for doing this which uses selective blur to direct the user’s attention. This method is based on the depth of field (DOF) effect used in photography and cinematography, and is therefore both familiar to users and perceptually effective. Because this method...

This paper undertakes the modelling experiment of translating excerpts of the natural language play “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into a RDF structure, so that it is accessible by machines on a word or concept level. Thereby, it is crucial that statements made in the logic of the play can be distinguished from the usual, general purpose Linked Open Data. The goal is to find a standard c...