Wit and/or Humor

The liveliest effusion of wit and humor.

biochemistry, and in science in general, is a topic that has been left in the hands of the social scientists for too long. Although some [1] provide interesting perspectives, too often their epistemology of humor within the scientific milieu is, inevitably, of limited scope. Too often, in the course of deconstructing the semiotic architecture of scientific humor, the signifier has been confused...

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Although version spaces provide a useful conceptual tool for inductive concept learning, they often face severe computational difficulties when impls mented. For example, the G set of traditional boundary-set implementations of version spaces can have size exponential in the amount of data for even the most simple conjunctive description languages [Haussler, 19881. This paper presents a new rep...

Automatic Call-Routing wit

Call-routing is now an established technology to automate customers’ telephone queries. However, transcribing calls for training purposes for a particular application requires considerable human effort, and it would be preferable for the system to learn routes without transcriptions being provided. This paper introduces a technique for fully automatic routing. It is based on firstly identifying...

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Mathematical Wit and Mathematical Cognition

The published works of scientists often conceal the cognitive processes that led to their results. Scholars of mathematical practice must therefore seek out less obvious sources. This article analyzes a widely circulated mathematical joke, comprising a list of spurious proof types. An account is proposed in terms of argumentation schemes: stereotypical patterns of reasoning, which may be accomp...