This paper presents the results of an experiment with human subjects investigating their ability to discover a mistake in a model used for engineering design. For the purpose of this study, a known mistake was intentionally placed into a model that was to be used by engineers in a design process. The treatment condition was the experimental design that the subjects were asked to use to explore ...

We establish a mistake bound for an ensemble method for classification based on maximizing the entropy of voting weights subject to margin constraints. The bound is the same as a general bound proved for the Weighted Majority Algorithm, and similar to bounds for other variants of Winnow. We prove a more refined bound that leads to a nearly optimal algorithm for learning disjunctions, again, bas...

Correspondence The character who best represents hyperactivity in the book is Fidgety Philip (Zappel-Philipp) (fig. 1 b) [5]. He was not able to sit quietly at the table at family dinner (fig. 1 b). He kept rocking his chair despite his parents' repeated admonitions. These behav-ioral characteristics are consistent with many of the ICD-10 criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A...

In the earlier publication (Nielsen aka Nurzynski, 2013) we have discussed the common mistake, which is often made when interpreting hyperbolic-type distributions, the mistake consisting in seeing them as being made of two distinctly different trajectories, slow and fast, each requiring unnecessarily a different interpretation with an additional mandatory explanation of a non-existing transitio...