Obituary: Yorick Wilks

Book Review: Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical, and Design Issues edited by Yorick Wilks

This book is an edited collection of chapters on artificial companions (ACs) resulting from a workshop. It purports to discuss the philosophical and ethical issues associated with ACs, what ACs should be like and how to construct them, and to provide examples of special-purpose ACs. Table 1 shows the chapters of the book and their respective authors. When I bought a vacuum-cleaning robot called...

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A high-dimensional Wilks phenomenon

A theorem by Wilks asserts that in smooth parametric density estimation the difference between the maximum likelihood and the likelihood of the sampling distribution converges toward a chi-square distribution where the number of degrees of freedom coincides with the model dimension. This observation is at the core of some goodness-of-fit testing procedures and of some classical model selection ...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...