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Age of Enlightenment

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Machine Learning for Modeling Stock Returns

Throughout history, the pace of knowledge and information sharing has evolved into an unthinkable speed and media. At the end of the XVII century, in Europe, the ideas that would shape the "Age of Enlightenment" were slowly being developed in coffeehouses, ...

EPFL2024

For the House Poor: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing

Theodora Giovanazzi

Conference abstract: A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of thi ...

2023

The Fifth Typology: A Symposium on Type and Architecture

Constantinos Marcou

A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous deﬁnitions and by offering a new interpretation of this rather elusive, but ...

2023

Things that Talk: On a new perspective for engaging with scientific instruments

Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu

Our contribution will propose a new approach for engaging with scientific instruments inspired by a recent exhibition which we have designed and organized. Inverting the current trope of presenting history through many objects, the exhibition weaved togeth ...

2023

An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing

Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Marion Kramer

Censuses are structured documents of great value for social and demographic history, which became widespread from the nineteenth century on. However, the plurality of formats and the natural variability of historical data make their extraction arduous and ...

2023

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

Comparing human and machine performances in transcribing 18th century handwritten Venetian script

Frédéric Kaplan, Sofia Ares Oliveira

Automatic transcription of handwritten texts has made important progress in the recent years. This increase in performance, essentially due to new architectures combining convolutional neural networks with recurrent neutral networks, opens new avenues for ...

2018

Comparing human and machine performances in transcribing 18th century handwritten Venetian script

Sofia Ares Oliveira

2018

Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics

Matthew Skjonsberg

Every thesis calls for its antithesis, and every revolution prompts a counterrevolution—this takes place within the same generation as well as across intergenerational oscillations (Gassett 1958, Sennett 1974). Enlightenment thinkers were critical of the H ...

Taylor & Francis / CRC Press2014

Obtaining natural-like flow releases in diverted river reaches from simple riparian benefit economic models

Paolo Perona

We propose a theoretical river modeling framework for generating variable flow patterns in diverted-streams (i.e., no reservoir). Using a simple economic model and the principle of equal marginal utility in an inverse fashion we first quantify the benefit ...

Elsevier2013

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