For Mine Own Sake

Language for Its Own Sake

he Mainland Scandinavian languages, i.e. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, are so closely related that the speakers often use their own language when communicating with each other (so-called semi-communication, Haugen 1966). However, communication is not perfect and sometimes fails. Previous investigations (Maurud 1976, Bø 1978, Börestam 1987, Delsing & Åkesson 2005) aimed at getting a general imp...

Ageing selected for its own sake

Ageing has a negative impact on individual fitness. From this, it has been inferred that ageing could not have arisen as an adaptation. Two alternative hypotheses were proposed more than 40 years ago: (1) that ageing has been selected as a side-effect of fertility maximization (‘antagonistic pleiotropy’) and (2) that ageing is a manifestation of mutational load (‘mutation accumulation’). There ...

Mine Own Executioner

When Cryptocurrencies Mine Their Own Business

Bitcoin and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies employ a consensus protocol called Nakamoto consensus which reward miners for maintaining a public blockchain. In this paper, we study the security of this protocol with respect to rational miners and show how a minority of the computation power can incentivize the rest of the network to accept a blockchain of the minority’s choice. By deviating fr...

Metadata Mine-ing (my Own Web Index)

The quantity and complexity of information on the Web is growing rapidly. While several simple interactive search tools exist to help locate items of interest on the Web, the increasing sophistication of uses and the sheer quantity of data together indicate a need for techniques to locate relevant application-speciic information. To this end, we describe a two-stage, customizable, information i...