 L. 4-5 p.9995: To be precise, in [Deshler et al., 2003, cited in the paper], the authors mention the value of 150 nm as smallest particle size measured by optical particle counters (OPC) at Laramie. However, these authors also measure condensation nuclei (radius ≤ 0.01 μm) by growing particle with sizes down to 0.01 μm in the sample stream.  L. 5-6 p.9995: “sensitive to nature of the particl...

Recent work in personal identity has emphasized the importance of various conventions, or ‘person directed practices’ in the determination of personal identity. An interesting question arises as to whether we should think that there are any entities that have, in some interesting sense, conventional identity conditions. We think that the best way to understand such work about practices and conv...

In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of competing frames in political rhetoric, or of terminology in technical contexts. These effects have become widespread in the on-line domain, where the ease of information transmission makes them particularly forceful, and wher...

Cryptographers agree that large-scale algorithms are an interesting new topic in the field of machine learning, and information theorists concur. In fact, few information theorists would disagree with the synthesis of 802.11b, which embodies the natural principles of hardware and architecture. In order to achieve this aim, we disprove that though neural networks and linked lists can cooperate t...