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Extracting low-dimensional psychological representations from convolutional neural networks
Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in cognitive modeling as a
means of deriving representations for complex stimuli such as images. While the
predictive power of these networks is high, it is often not clear whether they
also offer useful explanations of the task at hand. Convolutional neural
network representations have been shown to be predictive of human similarity
judgments for images after appropriate adaptation. However, these
high-dimensional representations are difficult to interpret. Here we present a
method for reducing these representations to a low-dimensional space which is
still predictive of similarity judgments. We show that these low-dimensional
representations also provide insightful explanations of factors underlying
human similarity judgments.Comment: Accepted to CogSci 202
Urban heritage conservation and rapid urbanization : insights from Surat, India
Currently, heritage is challenged in the Indian city of Surat due to diverse pressures, including rapid urbanization, increasing housing demand, and socio‐cultural and climate changes. Where rapid demographic growth of urban areas is happening, heritage is disappearing at an alarming rate. Despite some efforts from the local government, urban cultural heritage is being neglected and historic buildings keep being replaced by ordinary concrete buildings at a worryingly rapid pace. Discussions of challenges and issues of Surat’s urban area is supported by a qualitative dataset, including in‐depth semi‐structured interviews and focus groups with local policy makers, planners, and heritage experts, triangulated by observation and a photo‐survey of two historic areas. Findings from this study reveal a myriad of challenges such as: inadequacy of urban conservation management policies and processes focused on heritage, absence of skills, training, and resources amongst decision makers and persistent conflict and competition between heritage conservation needs and developers’ interests. Furthermore, the values and significance of Surat’s tangible and intangible heritage is not fully recognized by its citizens and heritage stakeholders. A crucial opportunity exists for Surat to maximize the potential of heritage and reinforce urban identity for its present and future generations. Surat’s context is representative of general trends and conservation challenges and therefore recommendations developed in this study hold the potential to offer interesting insights to the wider planners and conservationists’ international community. This paper recommends thoughtful integration of sustainable heritage urban conservation into local urban development frameworks and the establishment of approaches that recognize the plurality of heritage values
Optical Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae
We present 432 low-dispersion optical spectra of 32 Type Ia supernovae (SNe
Ia) that also have well-calibrated light curves. The coverage ranges from 6
epochs to 36 epochs of spectroscopy. Most of the data were obtained with the
1.5m Tillinghast telescope at the F. L. Whipple Observatory with typical
wavelength coverage of 3700-7400A and a resolution of ~7A. The earliest spectra
are thirteen days before B-band maximum; two-thirds of the SNe were observed
before maximum brightness. Coverage for some SNe continues almost to the
nebular phase. The consistency of the method of observation and the technique
of reduction makes this an ideal data set for studying the spectroscopic
diversity of SNe Ia.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, 109 pages
(including data table), 44 figures, full resolution figures at
http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/matheson/Iaspec.ps.g
Supersensitive measurement of angular displacements using entangled photons
We show that the use of entangled photons having non-zero orbital angular
momentum (OAM) increases the resolution and sensitivity of angular-displacement
measurements performed using an interferometer. By employing a 44
matrix formulation to study the propagation of entangled OAM modes, we analyze
measurement schemes for two and four entangled photons and obtain explicit
expressions for the resolution and sensitivity in these schemes. We find that
the resolution of angular-displacement measurements scales as while the
angular sensitivity increases as , where is the number of
entangled photons and the magnitude of the orbital-angular-momentum mode
index. These results are an improvement over what could be obtained with
non-entangled photons carrying an orbital angular momentum of per
photonComment: 6 pages, 3 figure
An alternative construction of B-M and B-T unitals in Desarguesian planes
We present a new construction of non-classical unitals from a classical
unital in . The resulting non-classical unitals are B-M unitals.
The idea is to find a non-standard model of with the
following three properties: 1. points of are those of ; 2.
lines of are certain lines and conics of ; 3. the points in
form a non-classical B-M unital in .
Our construction also works for the B-T unital, provided that conics are
replaced by certain algebraic curves of higher degree.Comment: Keywords: unital, desarguesian plane 11 pages; ISSN: 0012-365
Finite Doubly Transitive Affine Planes
AbstractIn this article, we classify the finite affine planes admitting doubly transitive collineation groups
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