Starting Points in Critical Pedagogy (Review)

Critical Notice Rational Starting Points

Epistemic justification has been claimed to be a special case of argument by philosophers such as Accordingly for each attempt, epistemic justification is the occasion of the arguer making a case for some conclusion based on other premises, when the audience and the arguer are the same person. The dialectical model of argument is used to inform how it is that a subject could come to justify her...

Critical Pedagogy: An Overview

why a critical pedagogy? what is critical pedagogy?

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Poor starting points in machine learning

Poor (even random) starting points for learning/training/optimization are common in machine learning. In many settings, the method of Robbins and Monro (online stochastic gradient descent) is known to be optimal for good starting points, but may not be optimal for poor starting points — indeed, for poor starting points Nesterov acceleration can help during the initial iterations, even though Ne...

Starting Points ́ Effects on Risk-Taking Behavior

We formally represent the effects of prior gains and losses in a simple dynamic preference calculus based on prospect theory's value function and thoughts adapted from aspiration level theories. We investigate our predictions in questionnaire experiments. Since we document a strong effect of prior gains and losses in our main study on entrepreneurial decision making, findings are consistent wit...