Secrets will out

How results will out

The Manchester base will be set up as a charitable company limited by guarantee, jointly owned by the funding partners; the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health. Under the scheme half a million middle-aged people will be picked at random and invited by their doctor to provide general information about their health. They will be asked to give a blood sample, ...

Will Basson come out on top?

Will Computers Put Us Out of Work?

In 1996, a world chess champion was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue. Early in 2016 a human master of Go, a game considerably more complex than chess, lost to AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind. As arti cial intelligence (AI) improves, some predict that computers will be able to do any human task. The ctitious “steel-driving man” John Henry died competing against his machine replacement. Will computers ...

Be sure your sins will find you out!

I'm going to come clean. I have a confession to make. Yesterday, my wife and children and I went to a near by state park and took a walk on a walking trail through the woods. I had told the kids that we could very well see some deer. It didn't take long to realize that we wouldn't see any deer with the amount of noise four children can make. Though we didn't see any deer, we did see a snake. We...

Cross-Topic Authorship Attribution: Will Out-Of-Topic Data Help?

Most previous research on authorship attribution (AA) assumes that the training and test data are drawn from same distribution. But in real scenarios, this assumption is too strong. The goal of this study is to improve the prediction results in cross-topic AA (CTAA), where the training data comes from one topic but the test data comes from another. Our proposed idea is to build a predictive mod...