Many proponents of computationalism, the view that cognition is computation, are busy trying to practice what they preach: they are trying to build artificial persons. Two such proponents are the philosophers John Pollock and Daniel Dennett. In his last two books, How to Build a Person [45] and Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person [44], Pollock argues that in the future hi...

Fish proteins have been reported to be more satiating than meat proteins. The objective was to determine the effect of different animal protein pre-meals on satiety. A total of ten intact female hounds were fed pork loin, beef loin, chicken breast, salmon fillet or pollock fillet. Each pre-meal was fed to contain 100 g protein. Blood was collected at 0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 90 and 120 min postprandia...

This paper reports on the development of Nimbi, which is an early computer game implemented at the Danish Computer Company Regnecentralen in 1962-63. Nimbi is a variant of the ancient game Nim. The paper traces the primary origins of the development of Nimbi. These include a mathematical analysis from 1901 of Nim that “killed the game” as the outcome could be predicted quite easily; the desire ...

Abstract Random forest (RF) is one of the algorithms choice in many supervised learning applications, be it classification or regression. The appeal such tree-ensemble methods comes from a combination several characteristics: remarkable accuracy variety tasks, small number parameters to tune, robustness with respect features scaling, reasonable computational cost for training and prediction, th...

The standard Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) age-structured stock assessment model has no spatial dimension. To better understand its dynamics on finer spatial and temporal scales, an age-specific movement (ASM) model was developed. The ASM model stratifies the assessment data into two regions (northwest [NW] and southeast [SE] EBS), includes movement, and allow...

Media coverage was vital in establishing the popular reputation of Abstract Expressionists. Reporting regularly relied on photographic portraits to present these artists as modernist innovators who were an extension (or even a replacement for) work art. Jackson Pollock came epitomize Expressionist artist, with “action” photographs capturing his radical painting method. Pollock’s contemporary, A...