Summary: We prove that the elements of the Hanoi Towers groups $\cal H_m$ have depth bounded from above by a poly-logarithmic function $O(\log^{m-2}n)$, where $n$ is the length of an element. Therefore the word problem in groups $\cal H_m$ is solvable in subexponential time $...
In-depth analysis of the educational goals and practices of teachers in Brazilian slums demonstrates how they construct different levels of resistance to violence despite contextual restrictions. Teachers combined a restrictive approach with an ethic of care to create peaceful alternatives, while making ...
Ayn Rand’s idea of rationality is one of the most misunderstood concepts in her Objectivist philosophy. It seems that almost everyone just assumes they know exactly what rationality means. Then, upon learning that Rand advocates consistent rationality, tend to judge Rand’s philosophy by their pre...
The results of the norming procedure reveal that the previews in these conditions lead to different degrees of similarity to the meaning of the sentence when replaced by the target (7.2, 4.9, and 1.9 for the synonym, semantically related and unrelated previews on a 9-point scale, respectively)...
People prefer to use abbreviations and acronyms in online learning communities. Considering such informal characteristics of the network language, a synonym dictionary composed of synonym and acronym is also used for the term filtering. In this way, the different terms expressing the same meaning are...
Wide&Deep model structure: Combine the discrete features with the depth model to judge whether the compound concept is reasonable. Graph Embedding feature: Introduce related information between phrase collocations, such as "food" can be matched with "crowd", "cooking method", "quality", etc. ...
Philosophers sometimes use “naïve realism” as a synonym for “direct realism,” and there are many different theories that could be called “direct realist.” But here I will take “naïve realism” to be one specific sort of direct realist theory: the sort of approach to perception exe...
In-depth “It’s not hard to fathom why universities – and the polytechnics and art schools that pre-dated them – have been such fertile ground for bands. But here’s a thing. Although there’s a lengthy list of bands that formed at university, songs about university are in relatively...
As for word-level insertion, Wei and Zou (2019) select a random synonym of a random word in a sentence that is not a stop word, then insert that synonym into a random position in the sentence. This process is repeated n times. In the task of spoken language understanding, Peng et al...
Exploring this synonym pair would make for an intriguing word inquiry with students or a blog post here at a later stage. Words and their synonyms, no matter how close, vary in nuance as Thoreau senses above, as different as the tree species I have been observing here in Buffalo. We ...