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Letter from Edwin E. Ferguson, Regional Attorney, War Relocation Authority, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, November 25, 1942
No full textLetter from Edwin E. Ferguson to Ernest Besig, in which Ferguson writes that the San Francisco War Relocation Authority office will be moving to Washington. Ferguson expresses fondness for Besig.The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Sparse Gaussian processes revisited: Bayesian approaches to inducing-variable approximations
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Decision-theoretic sparsification for Gaussian process preference learning
No full textWe propose a decision-theoretic sparsification method for Gaussian process preference learning. This method overcomes the loss-insensitive nature of popular sparsification approaches such as the Informative Vector Machine (IVM). Instead of selecting a subset of users and items as inducing points based on uncertainty-reduction principles, our sparsification approach is underpinned by decision theory and directly incorporates the loss function inherent to the underlying preference learning problem. We show that by selecting different specifications of the loss function, the IVM’s differential entropy criterion, a value of information criterion, and an upper confidence bound (UCB) criterion used in the bandit setting can all be recovered from our decision-theoretic framework. We refer to our method as the Valuable Vector Machine (VVM) as it selects the most useful items during sparsification to minimize the corresponding loss. We evaluate our approach on one synthetic and two real-world preference datasets, including one generated via Amazon Mechanical Turk and another collected from Facebook. Experiments show that variants of the VVM significantly outperform the IVM on all datasets under similar computational constraints.M. Ehsan Abbasnejad, Edwin V. Bonilla, and Scott Sanne
Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers
No full textThe object of this thesis, entitled "Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers," has been to determine how much Theodoret, a Christian writer of the fourth and fifth centuries, knew about the Greek pagan writers in so far as one is able to judge by noting the writers referred to, the number of references made to each, the passages quoted, and the contents of each reference or quotation in the first six of his twelve sermons, entitled, "Graecarum Affectionum Curatio." |Before considering the presentation of the matter, it would perhaps be well to first consider what has been taken as a single reference, because, not infrequently, a writer is referred to more than once in a few lines. If all citations have been made in regard to a single theme, they have been considered as one reference. But if they concern different themes, as for example, the enumeration of philosophical opinions, they . have been regarded as several references. For this reason there may be two or more numbers placed among the references of various writers which are identical and seem to indicate the same reference. |In regard to the presentation of the matter, the writer has set aside a short introductory chapter on Theodoret’s life, and works, and the contents of the sermons. The writers themselves have been classified according to ancient and epic, or lyric and iambic poets, dramatists, historians, aid philosophers, and a separate chapter devoted to each group. |The material given about each author is that only which can be obtained from the references in the first six sermons. The object in each instance has been to treat each as completely as possible, and when direct quotations have not been used in giving the subatance(sic) of a reference an endeavor has been made to keep the phrases used by Theodoret. |The matter occasionally presented in the foot-notes is not from the sermons. but from references on Greek literature. |Then in a concluding chapter, various speculations on Theodoret’s knowledge of the Greek pagan writers, how much of them he read, and whence he obtained his material, are set forth.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
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