Unlearning Inherited Histories or Introducing Entangled Memories from the Baltics

Entangled Histories and Close Encounters

AS WE REWRITE the history of the post-1945 years in the aftermath of the political upheavals of 1989, we are only now rediscovering what was amply obvious to contemporaries: that occupied Germany in the immedi­ ate postwar period was the unlikely, unloved, and reluctant host to hun­ dreds of thousands of its former victims, housed both inside and outside refugee camps mainly in the American zon...

Unlearning from Demonstration

When doing learning from demonstration, it is often the case that the demonstrator provides corrective examples to fix errant behavior by the agent or robot. We present a set of algorithms which use this corrective data to identify and remove noisy examples in datasets which caused errant classifications, and ultimately errant behavior. The objective is to actually modify the source datasets ra...

The Baltics - - Banking Crises Observed

Entangled Histories: German Veterinary Medicine, c.1770–1900

Medical historians have recently become interested in the veterinary past, investigating the development of animal health in countries such as France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. An appreciation of the German context, however, is still lacking - a gap in the knowledge that the present article seeks to fill. Providing a critical interpretation of the evolution of t...

Entangled histories: Climate science and nuclear weapons research

Climate science and nuclear weapons testing have a long and surprisingly intimate relationship. The global networks that monitored the Fukushima radiation plume and forecasted its movement are the direct descendants of systems and computer models developed to trace fallout from weapons tests. Tracing radioactive carbon as it cycles through the atmosphere, the oceans, and the biosphere has been ...