THE KHRUSHCHEV THAW

The Lisbon Agenda as a New Khrushchev Call

The fact that the global scene is becoming more and more competitive and the position of the European Union is increasingly challenged by old and new world powers is a widely recognized fact. The awareness of this constantly growing pressure on the EU, its economic and social systems, in particular from the process of globalization stimulates numerous debates on the future of the continent. Eur...

David Thaw

Freeze-Thaw Bayesian Optimization

In machine learning, the term “training” is used to describe the procedure of fitting a model to data. In many popular models, this fitting procedure is framed as an optimization problem, in which a loss is minimized as a function of the parameters. In all but the simplest machine learning models, this minimization must be performed with an iterative algorithm such as stochastic gradient descen...

Is the January Thaw a Statistical Phantom?

JANUARY 2002 AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | M eteorological conditions that tend to occur on or near a specific calendar date more frequently than chance might suggest have been termed singularities (e.g., Huschke 1959) or calendaricities, a term introduced by Brier et al. (1963) to avoid confusion with the mathematical usage of “singularities.” These features are commonly identified as cons...

Phototrophs in subarctic thaw lakes

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