“Shakespeare was wrong”: Counter-discursive intertextuality in Gail Jones’sSorry

Was Meduna's theory really wrong?

To the Editors Few treatments in psychiatry were discovered and developed based on a previously developed theory. The therapeutic effects of the first antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs, for example, were serendipitously observed before a theory on how they work was described. By contrast, convulsive therapy was developed in Budapest by Dr. Lazlo Meduna based on facts that led him to forese...

The Discursive Function of Place in "The Night when Sohrab was killed" by Bijan Najdi

One of the important functions of every Semiotic system is its local function. In a discourse, places have various roles such as objective, acting, being, abstract, narrative and mythical. In addition they have referential, narrative, tensional, metaphorical and transcendental functions and they play a role in creation of meaning. By strengthening objective and physical aspects of place, its co...

Ron was wrong, Whit is right

We performed a sanity check of public keys collected on the web. Our main goal was to test the validity of the assumption that different random choices are made each time keys are generated. We found that the vast majority of public keys work as intended. A more disconcerting finding is that two out of every one thousand RSA moduli that we collected offer no security. Our conclusion is that the...

What was wrong with Australia's journal ranking?

Oh, wait, reasoning was wrong! Let's replay

Decision making by real time rule-based reasoners is prone to errors. Modern systems must implement decisions based on partial, statistical, or approximate information. If a part of the information is missing or corrupted, the reasoner might be misled into reaching wrong conclusions. Systems using monotonic static logic are less affected, as they must be more careful in their decisions by desig...