Something to Think About -- What Now?

What do I think about Conway's Law now?

As well as reviewing Patterns the conference hosts a number of " Focus Groups " where participants discuss topics concerned with writing software, software development in general and related topics. In July 2005 Lise Hvatum and myself hosted over four hours of discussion over two days on the subject of " Conway's Law. " This paper describes the groups conclusions and our own thinking on the sub...

What I think when I think about treebanks

In this opinion piece, I present four somewhat controversial suggestions for the design of future treebanks: a) Treebanks should be based on adversarial samples, rather than pseudorepresentative samples. b) Treebanks should include multiple splits of the data, rather than just a single split, as in most treebanks today. c) They should include multiple annotations of each sentence, whenever poss...

What We Think about Multi-particle Amplitudes

Certain classical solutions which serve as generating functions of tree multi-particle amplitudes are constructed in the KK ahler sigma model. The one-loop contribution to the multi-particle amplitudes is computed as the functional determinant in the background of such a classical eld.Topologically nontrivial solutions, that is generating functions of the instanton mediated multi-particle ampli...

Cognitive Distraction : Something to Think About Lessons Learned from Recent Studies June 2013

I Don't Want to Think About it Now: Decision Theory with Costly Computation

Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility, doing so might present serious computational problems. Moreover, computing the outcome of a given act might be difficult. In a companion paper we develop a framework for game theory with costly computation, where the ...