Christos Moraitis has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I am proud to say that I haven’t had a haircut in the last 25 years, or so. My doctoral work was centred on the role of free radicals in the heat shock response of yeast, something which I greatly enjoyed, […]
Day: April 4, 2011
Automatic Sarcasm Recognizer – “yeah right”
The Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) at the University of Southern California, US, is one of the few, perhaps the only human-centered information processing lab to have built and tested an ‘Automatic Sarcasm Recognizer’. Lab director Professor Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan and colleagues started out with the premise that : “Sarcasm, also called verbal […]
The Calculated Unlikliness of Big Investment Banks
A new study shows the spectacular nature of the fairly-recent calamity that befell big banks — and of a corresponding assessment made by an Ig Nobel Prize winner. The study is: “How Unlucky is 25-Sigma?” Kevin Dowd, John Cotter, Chris Humphrey and Margaret Woods, arXiv:1103.5672v1 [q-fin.GN], March 24 2008. The authors, at Centre for Risk […]