Cheating Probabilities? Probably Not

Probably Intersecting Families are Not Nested

It is well known that an intersecting family of subsets of an nelement set can contain at most 2n−1 sets. It is natural to wonder how ‘close’ to intersecting a family of size greater than 2n−1 can be. Katona, Katona and Katona introduced the idea of a ‘most probably intersecting family.’ Suppose that A is a family and that 0 < p < 1. Let A(p) be the (random) family formed by selecting each set ...

Are baboons learning "orthographic" representations? Probably not

The ability of Baboons (papio papio) to distinguish between English words and nonwords has been modeled using a deep learning convolutional network model that simulates a ventral pathway in which lexical representations of different granularity develop. However, given that pigeons (columba livia), whose brain morphology is drastically different, can also be trained to distinguish between Englis...

Why implicit attitudes are (probably) not beliefs

Should we understand implicit attitudes on the model of belief? I argue that implicit attitudes are (probably) members of a different psychological kind altogether, because they seem to be insensitive to the logical form of an agent’s thoughts and perceptions. A state is sensitive to logical form only if it is sensitive to the logical constituents of the content of other states (e.g., operators...

Cheating Cheating Detectors

In this paper we present a new cheating technique that is successful at defeating cheating detectors and could become popular with students. The idea is to use obfuscating code transformations (such as those found in the SANDMARK tool) to apply a sequence of minor code transformations to a copied programming assignment. This purpose is to produce a copy that will defeat detection. We show that ...

Quantum Conditional Probabilities Are Not Probabilities of Quantum Conditional