”Millions of programmers use StackOverflow to get high quality answers to their programming questions every day. There has evolved an effective culture of moderation to safe-guard it. More than six thousand new questions is asked on StackOverflow1 every weekday. Currently about 6% of all new questions end up ”closed”. The goal of this paper is to build a classifier that predicts whether or not ...

Falls are undesirable in humanoid robots, but also inevitable, especially as robots get deployed in physically interactive human environments. We consider the problem of fall prediction: to predict if the balance controller of a robot can prevent a fall from the robot’s current state. A trigger from the fall predictor is used to switch the robot from a balance maintenance mode to a fall control...

Perhaps the greatest mystery surrounding dinosaurs concerns whether they were endotherms, ectotherms, or some unique intermediate form. Here we present a model that yields estimates of dinosaur body temperature based on ontogenetic growth trajectories obtained from fossil bones. The model predicts that dinosaur body temperatures increased with body mass from approximately 25 degrees C at 12 kg ...

This study evaluated the relationship between specific cognitions and state anger. Clinical outpatients (23%), workplace recruits (37%), and college students (40%) (N 236, mean age 31.68) completed a questionnaire, the Anger Episode Record (AER), which asked them to describe an experience that elicited feelings of irritation, annoyance, anger, fury, or rage. They rated the intensity of their an...

Epstein has argued that an explanation's capacity to make predictions should play a minor role in its evaluation . This view contradicts centuries of scientific practice and, at least, decades of philosophy of science. We argue that the view is not only unfounded but seems to arise from a mistaken fear that ABM models are in need of defense against the criticism that they don't necessarily fore...

Metrics such as VarcoV (standard deviation of vocalic interval duration divided by the mean) and %V (proportion of total utterance duration comprised of vocalic intervals) provide empirical support for long-held notions about rhythmic distinctions between languages. Furthermore, listeners can discriminate languages with distinct rhythm metric scores purely on the basis of the durational informa...

In this paper we show how to predict a large class of pseudorandom number generators. We consider congruential generators which output a sequence of integers k SO.Sl,... where si is computed by the recurrence si r I: ai @j(so,sl,...Si_l) (mod ml for j=l integers m and Ctj , and integer functions @j , j=l,...,k. Our predictors are @cient, provided that the jimctions Oj are computable (over the i...

We set out to investigate whether TV ratings and mentions of TV programmes on the Twitter social media platform are correlated. If such a correlation exists, Twitter may be used as an alternative source for estimating viewer popularity. Moreover, the Twitter-based rating estimates may be generated during the programme, or even before. We count the occurrences of programme-specific hashtags in a...

Diagrammatic models of argument have grown in prominence in recent years. While they have been applied in a number of tutoring contexts, it has not yet been shown that student-produced diagrams can be used to effectively grade students or predict their future performance. We show that manually-assigned diagram grades and automatic structural features of argument diagrams can be used to predict ...

Time series forecasting is of fundamental importance for a variety of domains including the prediction of earthquakes, financial market prediction, and the prediction of epileptic seizures. We present an original approach that brings a novel perspective to the field of long-term time series forecasting. Nonlinear properties of a time series are evaluated and used for long-term predictions. We u...