On Individual Risk
... 1. Infinite populations do not exist in the real world, so any such set is an idealisation. 2. Notwithstanding that the great statistician Sir Ronald Fisher manipulated “proportions in an infinite population” with great abandon and to generally good effect, this is not a well-defined mathematical co ...
... 1. Infinite populations do not exist in the real world, so any such set is an idealisation. 2. Notwithstanding that the great statistician Sir Ronald Fisher manipulated “proportions in an infinite population” with great abandon and to generally good effect, this is not a well-defined mathematical co ...
Specification: The Pattern That Signifies Intelligence By William A. Dembski
... cheating is possible. Thus, for a 10-year prison sentence, if we assume the prisoner can flip a coin once every five seconds (this seems reasonable), the prisoner will perform 12 tosses per minute or 720 per hour or 5,760 in an eight-hour work day or 34,560 in a six-day work week or 1,797,120 in a y ...
... cheating is possible. Thus, for a 10-year prison sentence, if we assume the prisoner can flip a coin once every five seconds (this seems reasonable), the prisoner will perform 12 tosses per minute or 720 per hour or 5,760 in an eight-hour work day or 34,560 in a six-day work week or 1,797,120 in a y ...
Word - The Open University
... on one hand and meaning or function on the other. This free course, Grammar matters, introduces you to one particular way of understanding how meanings relate systematically to different aspects of grammar – the functional approach of Michael Halliday and others, known as Systemic Functional Linguis ...
... on one hand and meaning or function on the other. This free course, Grammar matters, introduces you to one particular way of understanding how meanings relate systematically to different aspects of grammar – the functional approach of Michael Halliday and others, known as Systemic Functional Linguis ...
Bruno de Finetti and Imprecision
... familiar concepts of coherence of subjective probabilities – having fair odds that avoid sure loss – and exchangeable random variables – where permutation symmetric subjective probabilities over a sequence of variables may be represented by mixtures of iid statistical probabilities. Each of these co ...
... familiar concepts of coherence of subjective probabilities – having fair odds that avoid sure loss – and exchangeable random variables – where permutation symmetric subjective probabilities over a sequence of variables may be represented by mixtures of iid statistical probabilities. Each of these co ...
probability, logic, and probability logic
... logic. Thus we will consider in §3 various interpretations of probability. According to the classical interpretation, probability and possibility are intimately related, so that probability becomes a kind of modality. For objective interpretations such as the frequency and propensity theories, proba ...
... logic. Thus we will consider in §3 various interpretations of probability. According to the classical interpretation, probability and possibility are intimately related, so that probability becomes a kind of modality. For objective interpretations such as the frequency and propensity theories, proba ...
On two hypotheses concerning psycholinguistics
... that way.^ To take a simple example, in the LG and in the CG, Pronominalization must follow Passivization, in order that an abstract structure of the form "John killed John" may be converted into the grammatical "John was killed by himself" rather than into the ungrammatical "^Himself was killed by ...
... that way.^ To take a simple example, in the LG and in the CG, Pronominalization must follow Passivization, in order that an abstract structure of the form "John killed John" may be converted into the grammatical "John was killed by himself" rather than into the ungrammatical "^Himself was killed by ...
Multilingual Lexical Representation
... Tlinks can be viewed as constraining the relationship between structures in the source and target languages. If the SL output of some tlink unifies with some part of the structure that results from parsing a sentence, then the structure given to the TL sentence is constrained to include the TL outpu ...
... Tlinks can be viewed as constraining the relationship between structures in the source and target languages. If the SL output of some tlink unifies with some part of the structure that results from parsing a sentence, then the structure given to the TL sentence is constrained to include the TL outpu ...
1 The syntax/morphology interface Heidi Harley, University of
... Within a given language, plural subjects can require plural forms of finite verbs, derivational affixation can change a verb's argument structure requirements, and comparative clauses can be introduced by adjectives which must be appropriately inflected. Complex word-internal structure in polysynthe ...
... Within a given language, plural subjects can require plural forms of finite verbs, derivational affixation can change a verb's argument structure requirements, and comparative clauses can be introduced by adjectives which must be appropriately inflected. Complex word-internal structure in polysynthe ...
PROCESSING COMPLEX SENTENCES FOR INFORMATION
... documents of interest. The keywords with the boolean operators applied on them are used to identify the documents that satisfy the search constraints. The boolean query methodology is followed by literature search interfaces like PubMed. The keyword retrieval, while simple, returns a large number of ...
... documents of interest. The keywords with the boolean operators applied on them are used to identify the documents that satisfy the search constraints. The boolean query methodology is followed by literature search interfaces like PubMed. The keyword retrieval, while simple, returns a large number of ...
Learning from satisfying assignments
... the techniques of Anderson et al. (algorithmic convex geometry and Independent Component Analysis) are rather disjoint from the techniques in this paper. On the hardness side, Naor [Nao96] constructed a family F of explicit distributions such that under cryptographic assumptions, there is no efficie ...
... the techniques of Anderson et al. (algorithmic convex geometry and Independent Component Analysis) are rather disjoint from the techniques in this paper. On the hardness side, Naor [Nao96] constructed a family F of explicit distributions such that under cryptographic assumptions, there is no efficie ...
FG 2006: The 11th conference on Formal
... multiple adjunction induce ambiguity; the derivation tree represents multiple derived trees. In the case at hand, the derivation is ambiguous as to which quantifier scopes higher than the other. This ambiguity in the derivation tree thus models the set of valid scopings for the sentence. In essence, ...
... multiple adjunction induce ambiguity; the derivation tree represents multiple derived trees. In the case at hand, the derivation is ambiguous as to which quantifier scopes higher than the other. This ambiguity in the derivation tree thus models the set of valid scopings for the sentence. In essence, ...
