Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?

Can you Trust your Data?

A new program analysis is presented, and two compile time methods for this analysis are given. The analysis attempts to answer the question: “Given some trustworthy and some untrustworthy input, can we trust the value of a given variable after execution of some code”. The analyses are based on an abstract interpretation framework and a constraint generation framework respectively. The analyses ...

Can we trust your data?

A Theoretical Foundation for Count Data Models

For several decades, economists have used the annual demand for trips in order to measure the nonmarket value of recreation sites. Two features of trip demand functions complicate their estimation: trip demand is nonnegative and occurs in integer quantities. The fact that trip demand cannot be negative results in a censored (at zero) data set; failure to account for censoring leads to biased es...

Know Your Fats - Weston A Price Foundation

Coconut oil has a unique role in the diet as an important physiologically functional food. The health and nutritional benefits that can be derived from consuming coconut oil have been recognized in many parts of the world for centuries. Although the advantage of regular consumption of coconut oil has been underappreciated by the consumer and producer alike for the recent two or three decades, i...

How can your parasites become your allies?

Although parasitic infection is usually detrimental, it can be beneficial to the host in some situations. Parasites could help their host by providing a new function or modifying one of the host's life-history traits. We argue that the evolution towards a lasting mutualistic relationship would be more likely when parasites endow hosts with new abilities rather than alter a trait because hosts a...