Advice to a Newbie

From Logarithmic Advice to Single-Bit Advice

Building on Barak’s work (Random’02), Fortnow and Santhanam (FOCS’04) proved a time hierarchy for probabilistic machines with one bit of advice. Their argument is based on an implicit translation technique, which allow to translate separation results for short (say logarithmic) advice (as shown by Barak) into separations for a single-bit advice. In this note, we make this technique explicit, by...

Advice to Mothers

How to Buy Advice∗

A decision maker, whose payoff is influenced by an unknown stochastic process, seeks the advice of an advisor, who may be informed about the process. We identify a sufficient condition on the correlation between the advisor’s information and the true stochastic process, called conservativeness, for which there exists a strategy D of the decision maker that will yield him an almost first-best pa...

A Narrative of Fear: Advice to Mothers.

Taking present-day research into so-called new momism and intense mothering as a starting point, this article argues that the current mothering discourse, rather than articulating a new phenomenon, perpetuates a regulative discourse developed in the nineteenth century, in advice books written by medical doctors for pregnant women and new mothers. Both the Victorian and the present-day texts pla...

Advice for Manufacturers Advice from Experienced Manufacturers to Aspiring Manufacturers

Part of the second goal of the project was to develop information that could help organizations hoping to develop and commercialize medical devices to understand the managed care market environment and to prepare accordingly. We asked interview respondents representing manufacturers to offer advice for such organizations. Interview respondents generally offered extensive and thoughtful answers ...