Responsiveness, If You Can Afford It: Policy Responsiveness in Good and Bad Economic Times

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Inequality in Policy Responsiveness?

If You Can Draw It, You Can Recognize It: Mirroring For Sketch Recognition

Humans use sketches drawn on paper, on a computer, or via hand gestures in the air as part of their communications. To recognize shapes in sketches, most existing work focuses on offline (post-drawing) recognition methods, trained on large sets of examples which serve as a plan library for the recognition method. These methods do not allow on-line recognition, and require a very large library (...

If You Can Hide behind It, Can You Hide inside It?

Let K and L be compact convex sets in Rn. Suppose that, for a given dimension 1 ≤ d ≤ n − 1, every d-dimensional orthogonal projection of L contains a translate of the corresponding projection of K. Does it follow that the original set L contains a translate of K? In other words, if K can be translated to “hide behind” L from any perspective, does it follow that K can “hide inside” L? A compact...

Socially Situated Life - like Agents : If It Makes You Happy Then It Can ' T Be That Bad ? !

This paper discusses the psychological basis of believ-ability. Story-telling, empathy, historical grounding (autobiography), andècological grounding' in an environment are identiied as factors which are relevant to the way how humans understand the (social) world. It is suggested that applying such criteria to the construction of artiicial lifelike agents is more relevant than trying to achiev...