Study's conclusion is misleading and cannot be generalised

On Digital Images Which Cannot be Generated by Small Generalised Stochastic Automata

Small Generalised Stochastic Automata Bruce Litow and Olivier de Vel1 Abstract It is known, chie y through the work of Culik and Kari that generalised stochastic automata (GSA) can be used to compress digital (pixel) images. A theoretical account of GSA-based image compression has not been carried out. This paper contributes to such an account by exhibiting a family of images such that a member...

Recanalization rates can be misleading.

Recanalization Rates Can Be Misleading To the Editor: We read with interest Rha and Saver’s1 review of relationships between recanalization and outcome and commend them on their comprehensive review of pertinent literature. However, we disagree with their main conclusion that recanalization may substitute for measurement of clinical outcome. The central finding that leads Rha and Saver1 to thei...

Consumer Advertising Can Be Misleading

David Oaks I would like to thank PLoS Medicine for publishing Lacasse and Leo’s important and methodical Essay that debunks the “chemical imbalance” advertisements for psychiatric drugs [1]. Why would the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approve such ads? Our human rights group, MindFreedom International, has been asking that question for a long time. On behalf of MindFreedom, U...

Why Machines Cannot be

Mental processes are abstracted from a subset of the physical universe ; these, in turn, lead to the world of ideas. Although these ideas include quantum logic, no credible way has yet been found that constructs machines which use superimposed possibilities in the style of quantum logic, more general in computing power to machines based on classical logic. Machine theories are based exclusively...

Confidence Intervals On Subsets May Be Misleading