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We recently put forward an argument, the Unfolding Argument (UA), that integrated information theory (IIT) and other causal structure theories are either already falsified or unfalsifiable, which provoked significant criticism. It seems that we and the cri ...

Elsevier2022

Towards a pragmatist dealing with algorithmic bias in medical machine learning

Machine Learning (ML) is on the rise in medicine, promising improved diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic clinical tools. While these technological innovations are bound to transform health care, they also bring new ethical concerns to the forefront. One ...

2021

How long does stimulus processing last?

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer

How a stimulus is processed is at the very heart of all vision research. However, there is only little research about how long the processing of a stimulus lasts. One reason is that visual processing is often explicitly or implicitly thought to be feedforw ...

2021

Urgency

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun, Teresa Sze Wing Cheung

In a time when the depletion of reason seems to have become a normality—and a fundamental disruption of the ecosystem forecasts its imminence through abnormal climate events—the question that comes to mind, first and foremost, is about the foundations of s ...

Birkhäuser2020

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In this paper, an alternative to the traditional methodology related to signal processing-like subjects is proposed. These are subjects that require a deep mathematical and theoretical basis, but the practical goal is not often emphasized, which drives stu ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

2018

USENIX ASSOC2018

High-Precision MRI Reconstruction Algorithm for 3D Sphere Packings

Daniele Mari, Arnaud Comment, Riccardo Balzan, Alessandro Luigi Sellerio

Packings of granular materials are complex systems consisting of large sets of particles interacting via contact forces. Their internal structure is interesting for several theoretical and practical reasons, especially when the model system consists in a l ...

Springer Verlag2015

A survey of uncertainty principles and some signal processing applications

Benjamin Ricaud

The goal of this paper is to review the main trends in the domain of uncertainty principles and localization, highlight their mutual connections and investigate practical consequences. The discussion is strongly oriented towards, and motivated by signal pr ...

Springer2014

Shifting Network Tomography Toward A Practical Goal

Patrick Thiran, Denisa Gabriela Ghita, Can Karakus

Boolean Inference makes it possible to observe the congestion status of end-to-end paths and infer, from that, the congestion status of individual network links. In principle, this can be a powerful monitoring tool, in scenarios where we want to monitor a ...

2011

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