Defensive dentistry

Cosmetic dentistry is still dentistry.

Defensive Forecasting

We consider how to make probability forecasts of binary labels. Our main mathematical result is that for any continuous gambling strategy used for detecting disagreement between the forecasts and the actual labels, there exists a forecasting strategy whose forecasts are ideal as far as this gambling strategy is concerned. A forecasting strategy obtained in this way from a gambling strategy demo...

Defensive Marketing Strategies

This paper analyzes how a firm should adjust its marketing expenditures and its price to defend its position in an existing market from attack by a competitive new product. Our focus is to provide usable managerial recommendations on the strategy of response. In particular we show that if products can be represented by their position in a multiattribute space, consumers are heterogeneous and ma...

Do Doctors Practice Defensive

Extending Defensive Distillation

Machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs carefully modified to force misclassification. Designing defenses against such inputs remains largely an open problem. In this work, we revisit defensive distillation—which is one of the mechanisms proposed to mitigate adversarial examples—to address its limitations. We view our results not only as an effective way of addressing som...