Regulation is no bad thing

Regulation is no bad thing.

No such thing as a bad day.

This is an excerpt from Hamilton Jordan's book No Such Thing as a Bad Day reprinted with permission.

Is Guilt by Association a Bad Thing?

In this paper we study a classification model that mimics guilt by association. We consider a population consisting of known adversaries, covert adversaries, and benign individuals. In our model we associate a suspicion score with each individual. The scores for the covert and benign populations are initially set to 0, while the known adversaries have a fixed score of 1. The scores change dynam...

There is no Such Thing as Attention

Given that the core issues of attention research have been recognized for millenia, we do not know as much about attention as we should. I argue that the reasons for this failure are (1) we create spurious dichotomies, (2) we reify attention, treating it as a cause, when it is an effect, and (3) we equate a collection of facts with a theory. In order to correct these errors, we need a new techn...

Laminopathies: Too Much SUN Is a Bad Thing

SUN proteins accelerate the pathological progression of laminopathies. Although the mechanisms remain to be elucidated, an intriguing possibility is that high levels of SUN proteins lead to a hyperactive DNA damage response.