John Martin Fischer’s Death, Immorality, and Meaning in Life puts forth a view of the individual experiences that could provide us with sources endless fascination, motivation, value if only we live forever to continue enjoy them. In this article I advocate for more caution about embracing picture by pointing three points tension. First, argue taking meaningfulness life be holistic is not compa...

Dictionary learning has played an important role in the success of sparse representation. Although synthesis dictionary learning for sparse representation has been well studied for universality representation (i.e., the dictionary is universal to all classes) and particularity representation (i.e., the dictionary is class-particular), jointly learning an analysis dictionary and a synthesis dict...

Giving positive feedback to good solutions is a common base technique in model-based search algorithms, such as Ant Colony Optimization, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, or Neural Networks. In particular, the reinforcement of components of good solutions by positive feedback is known as a successful technique in tackling hard combinatorial optimization problems. We show by a simple model-...