Prof. Meldola and Mr. Herbert Spencer as Critics

Reevaluating progressive eugenics: Herbert Spencer Jennings and the 1924 immigration legislation.

From 'circumstances' to 'environment': Herbert Spencer and the origins of the idea of organism-environment interaction.

The word 'environment' has a history. Before the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of a singular, abstract entity--the organism--interacting with another singular, abstract entity--the environment--was virtually unknown. In this paper I trace how the idea of a plurality of external conditions or circumstances was replaced by the idea of a singular environment. The central figure behind this shif...

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Procedural Personas as Critics for Dungeon Generation

This paper introduces a constrained optimization method which uses procedural personas to evaluate the playability and quality of evolved dungeon levels. Procedural personas represent archetypical player behaviors, and their controllers have been evolved to maximize a specific utility which drives their decisions. A “baseline” persona evaluates whether a level is playable by testing if it can s...

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Let X be a smooth, projective algebraic variety over an algebraically closed field k, and let H(X) denote a Weil cohomology theory. The existence of algebraic cycles on X×X inducing as correspondences the various Künneth projectors π : H(X) → H (X) is one of the standard conjectures of Grothendieck, [8], [9]. It is known in general only for the cases i = 0, 1, 2d − 1, 2d where d = dimX. The pur...