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Learning an Artist's Style: Just What Does a Pigeon See in a Picasso?
Judgments of style in art, music, and literature are commonplace, although the mechanisms providing for this structural sensitivity are not well understood. Watanabe, Sakamoto, and Wakita (1995) showed that pigeons trained to discriminate colour slides of paintings of Picasso from those of Monet could generalise this discrimination not only to new paintings of Picasso and Monet, but also to paintings of other cubist and impressionist painters. These results suggest that the bases for such judgments of artistic style may be simpler than normally thought. This tacit sensitivity to artistic style is explored in terms of a simple PCA network model applied to pixel-maps of the paintings. The eigenvectors obtained from the singular value decomposition of sets of these pixel-maps provide for descriptions of the stimuli in terms of visual “macro-features”. These macro-features provide a simple basis not only for recognising previously-experienced paintings, but for the successful discrimination of novel paintings into various style categories. A summary of simulations of the performance of Watanabe et al.’s pigeons using precisely the same stimuli and tasks is provided. The results suggest that the eigen-decomposition is a necessary first-step, and that the bases for judgments of style may indeed be quite simple
Estimating Earnings Differentials among Military Veterans
This thesis analyzes whether the decision to enter the military offers a different investment in human capital as indicated by the civilian earning of veterans. Using seven one month samples from the Current Population Survey, I run three linear regressions to compare the earnings of veterans by gender, the earnings of female veterans and non-veterans, and the earnings of male veterans and non-veterans. It appears that, between 2005 and 2013, veterans enjoyed a wage premium which existed for both male and female veterans. These results suggest that military service acts as a screening device or a bridge to employment in the civilian labor force. Additionally, female veterans earn less than male veterans in the civilian labor force. Even though female veterans are more successful in the civilian labor force than women with no military experience, they still suffer a gender wage gap
Could the Pioneer anomaly have a gravitational origin?
If the Pioneer anomaly has a gravitational origin, it would, according to the
equivalence principle, distort the motions of the planets in the Solar System.
Since no anomalous motion of the planets has been detected, it is generally
believed that the Pioneer anomaly can not originate from a gravitational source
in the Solar System. However, this conclusion becomes less obvious when
considering models that either imply modifications to gravity at long range or
gravitational sources localized to the outer Solar System, given the
uncertainty in the orbital parameters of the outer planets. Following the
general assumption that the Pioneer spacecraft move geodesically in a
spherically symmetric spacetime metric, we derive the metric disturbance that
is needed in order to account for the Pioneer anomaly. We then analyze the
residual effects on the astronomical observables of the three outer planets
that would arise from this metric disturbance, given an arbitrary metric theory
of gravity. Providing a method for comparing the computed residuals with actual
residuals, our results imply that the presence of a perturbation to the
gravitational field necessary to induce the Pioneer anomaly is in conflict with
available data for the planets Uranus and Pluto, but not for Neptune. We
therefore conclude that the motion of the Pioneer spacecraft must be
non-geodesic. Since our results are model independent within the class of
metric theories of gravity, they can be applied to rule out any model of the
Pioneer anomaly that implies that the Pioneer spacecraft move geodesically in a
perturbed spacetime metric, regardless of the origin of this metric
disturbance.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures. Rev. 3: Major revision. Accepted for publication
in Phys. Rev. D. Rev. 4: Added two reference
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