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60% of medieval knight tales lost to time

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New research suggests that an enormous amount of chivalric manuscripts disappeared. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Researchers have recreated the evolutionary trees of medieval texts. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


3 myths about cursive handwriting

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It's not faster, and it's not legally required for signatures. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Writing in cursive won't make you write faster. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Resolution of Simpson's paradox via the common cause principle

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Simpson's paradox poses a challenge in probabilistic inference and decisionmaking. Our study revisits the paradox by re-estimating its frequency with an unbiased data generation process and reaffirms that it is not an artifact of deficient data collection. Thus, it can lead to incorrect recommendations in fields as diverse as statistics, psychology, and artificial intelligence. We show that the paradox can be resolved by assuming a minimal -- though not necessarily observed -- common cause (or screening) variable for the involved random variables. In our approach, conditioning on this minimal common cause establishes the correct association between events, which coincides with the conditioning (i.e., fine-grained) option of the original Simpson paradox. This resolution applies to both discrete cases of binary variables and continuous settings modeled by Gaussian variables. For a non-minimal common cause, the resolution of the paradox is possible, but detailed knowledge of the common cause is required. Our findings extend traditional understandings of the paradox and offer practical guidance for resolving apparent contradictions in probabilistic inference, ultimately enhancing decision-making processes. This point is illustrated by several examples.




Learning Conjoint Attentions for Graph Neural Nets Supplementary Materials

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To prove Theorem 1, we need to consider the two directions of the iff conditions. If we are given h(c1,X1) = h(c2,X2), we are able to prove that the conditions mentioned in the theorem are necessary by showing contradictions occur when they are not satisfied. As Eq. (4) equals Eq. (6), we have: X Obviously, the above equation does not hold as the terms in the summation operator are positive. We may now assume S1 = S2 = S. Eliminating the irrational terms in Eq. (4), we have: X Eq. (9) can be simplified and rewritten as: ยต1(x) ยต2(x) = However, the RHS of Eq. (10) can be an irrational number. It is obvious that the above equality does not hold as the RHS is an irrational number, while LHS is a rational number.


Outline of the Supplementary Material

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In this section, we provide more information on the application backgrounds, including the detailed structures of the RAS and VAS, the structures of the simulated advertising system. We also discuss the importance and universality of the IBOO problem in auto-bidding, which acts as the motivation of this work.


TempEL: Linking Dynamically Evolving and Newly Emerging Entities

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The dataset and the baseline code will be made publicly available in a dedicated GitHub repository upon acceptance. License TempEL is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CCBY-SA 4.0).1 Maintenance The maintenance and extension to further temporal snapshots of TempEL will be carried out by the authors of the paper. Additionally, we will make the code public to create potential new variations and extensions of TempEL using a number of hyperparameters (see Sections A.4 and A.5 for further details). A.2 Datasheet for TempEL In this section we provide a more detailed documentation of the dataset with the intended uses. We base ourselves on the datasheet proposed by [1]. A.2.1 Motivation For what purpose was the dataset created? The TempEL dataset was created to evaluate how the temporal change of anchor mentions and that of target Knowledge Base (KB; i.e., modification or creation of new entities) affects the entity linking (EL) task. This contrasts with the currently existing datasets [9, 7, 8, 6], which are associated with a single version of the target KB such as the Wikipedia 2010 for the widely adopted CoNLL-AIDA[2] dataset. We expect that TempEL will encourage research in devising new models and architectures that are robust to temporal changes both in mentions as well as in the target KBs. Who created the dataset and on behalf of which entity?


Muharaf: Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic Dataset for Cursive Text Recognition

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We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic (Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic. Each document image is accompanied by spatial polygonal coordinates of its text lines as well as basic page elements. This dataset was compiled to advance the state of the art in handwritten text recognition (HTR), not only for Arabic manuscripts but also for cursive text in general. The Muharaf dataset includes diverse handwriting styles and a wide range of document types, including personal letters, diaries, notes, poems, church records, and legal correspondences. In this paper, we describe the data acquisition pipeline, notable dataset features, and statistics. We also provide a preliminary baseline result achieved by training convolutional neural networks using this data.


Long-lost page from Greek manuscript discovered in French art museum

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This section from Archimedes Palimpsest has a mixture of ancient geometry and Byzantine prayers. The missing page still has traces of geometric diagrams based on Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse's work. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Archimedes Palimpsest is a Byzantine prayerbook written in 1229, but the artifact holds more than what immediately meets the eye. The original writing on its pages was erased and replaced--making it a palimpsest--a common practice during the medieval period for expensive writing materials made from animal-skin like parchment.