Against Nature? or, Confessions of a Darwinian Modernist

Adaptation toward Changing Environments: Why Darwinian in Nature?

The processes of adaptation in a multi-agent system consist of two complementary phases: 1) learning, occurring within each agent's individual lifetime, and 2) evolution, occurring over successive generations of the population. In this paper, we observe the dynamics of such adaptive processes in a simple abstract model, where each neural network is regarded as an individual capable of learning,...

Confessions of a Formal Methodist

Confessions of a Pragmatic Statistician

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Constructions of Active Womanhood and New Femininities: From a Feminist Linguistic Perspective, is Sex and the City a Modernist or a Post-Modernist TV Text?

Sex and the City has been the subject of close scrutiny within feminist scholarship in terms of whether it is considered to be a reactionary or progressive text. While this debate is valuable within a modernist feminist paradigm, it makes less sense from a post-modernist feminist perspective. Using both semiotic and feminist post-structuralist methods of textual analysis, this paper shows that ...