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Source Broadcasting to the Masses: Separation has a Bounded Loss
This work discusses the source broadcasting problem, i.e. transmitting a
source to many receivers via a broadcast channel. The optimal rate-distortion
region for this problem is unknown. The separation approach divides the problem
into two complementary problems: source successive refinement and broadcast
channel transmission. We provide bounds on the loss incorporated by applying
time-sharing and separation in source broadcasting. If the broadcast channel is
degraded, it turns out that separation-based time-sharing achieves at least a
factor of the joint source-channel optimal rate, and this factor has a positive
limit even if the number of receivers increases to infinity. For the AWGN
broadcast channel a better bound is introduced, implying that all achievable
joint source-channel schemes have a rate within one bit of the separation-based
achievable rate region for two receivers, or within bits for
receivers
Education, Rent Seeking and Growth
This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education. Nonetheless, according to this paper, governments are better off by investing in public education. We view education as a means to build personal character, thereby affecting macroeconomic long run equilibrium by reducing the number of individuals who are engaged in private rentseeking activities. We show that education is more efficient than ordinary law enforcement because it has a long-run effect. The policy implication of this result is that even when education does not increase human capital, compulsory schooling will be beneficial in pulling underdeveloped economies out of poverty.Rent Seeking, Decency, Education, Growth
EDUCATION, RENT SEEKING AND GROWTH
This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education. Nonetheless, according to this paper, governments are better off by investing in public education. We view education as a means to build personal character, thereby affecting macroeconomic long run equilibrium by reducing the number of individuals who are engaged in private rentseeking activities. We show that education is more efficient than ordinary law enforcement because it has a long-run effect. The policy implication of this result is that even when education does not increase human capital, compulsory schooling will be beneficial in pulling underdeveloped economies out of poverty.Rent Seeking, Decency, Education, Growth
Comparison Graphs: A Unified Method for Uniformity Testing
Distribution testing can be described as follows: samples are being drawn
from some unknown distribution over a known domain . After the
sampling process, a decision must be made about whether holds some
property, or is far from it. The most studied problem in the field is arguably
uniformity testing, where one needs to distinguish the case that is uniform
over from the case that is -far from being uniform (in
). In the classic model, it is known that
samples are necessary and sufficient
for this task. This problem was recently considered in various restricted
models that pose, for example, communication or memory constraints. In more
than one occasion, the known optimal solution boils down to counting collisions
among the drawn samples (each two samples that have the same value add one to
the count), an idea that dates back to the first uniformity tester, and was
coined the name "collision-based tester".
In this paper, we introduce the notion of comparison graphs and use it to
formally define a generalized collision-based tester. Roughly speaking, the
edges of the graph indicate the tester which pairs of samples should be
compared (that is, the original tester is induced by a clique, where all pairs
are being compared). We prove a structural theorem that gives a sufficient
condition for a comparison graph to induce a good uniformity tester. As an
application, we develop a generic method to test uniformity, and devise
nearly-optimal uniformity testers under various computational constraints. We
improve and simplify a few known results, and introduce a new constrained model
in which the method also produces an efficient tester.
The idea behind our method is to translate computational constraints of a
certain model to ones on the comparison graph, which paves the way to finding a
good graph
Review of Theatre of the Oppressed - Roots & Wings: A Theory of Praxis
Theatre of the Oppressed - Roots & Wings: A Theory of Praxis by Barbara Santos is a necessary, previously unwritten, ontology of Theatre of the Oppressed with a feminist twist. It is a gift and a fantastic resource
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