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PROTECTING PROPERTY RIGHTS WITH STRICT SCRUTINY: AN ARGUMENT FOR THE SPECIFICALLY AND UNIQUELY ATTRIBUTABLE STANDARD
This article analyzes three levels of scrutiny states have applied to regulatory takings cases. These include \u27judicial deterrence , rational nexus , and specifically and uniquely attributable . The author argues that the first two standards are inefficient and concludes in favor of the specifically and uniquely attributable standard
The Messianic Zeal: A Case of Radical Aesthetics in Black Cultural Production
This essay examines artwork by popular artists D’Angelo, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and 2pac Shakur and compares their articulations to a larger discourse of messianic symbolism in (black) American popular culture. In this paper, messianic symbolism is a discursive chain of symbols that invoke the Black experience. Artists extend the legacy of earlier representations of black messianism by similarly representing themselves as Jews, saviors or folk heroes with a specific mission to save a world burdened by racial strife and oppression. These qualities manifest in lyrics, album covers, and other late 20th century rhetoric
Twisted Alexander Invariants of Twisted Links
Let L be an oriented (d+1)-component link in the 3-sphere, and let L(q) be
the d-component link in a homology 3-sphere that results from performing
1/q-surgery on the last component. Results about the Alexander polynomial and
twisted Alexander polynomials of L(q) corresponding to finite-image
representations are obtained. The behavior of the invariants as q increases
without bound is described.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
GPU Based Path Integral Control with Learned Dynamics
We present an algorithm which combines recent advances in model based path
integral control with machine learning approaches to learning forward dynamics
models. We take advantage of the parallel computing power of a GPU to quickly
take a massive number of samples from a learned probabilistic dynamics model,
which we use to approximate the path integral form of the optimal control. The
resulting algorithm runs in a receding-horizon fashion in realtime, and is
subject to no restrictive assumptions about costs, constraints, or dynamics. A
simple change to the path integral control formulation allows the algorithm to
take model uncertainty into account during planning, and we demonstrate its
performance on a quadrotor navigation task. In addition to this novel
adaptation of path integral control, this is the first time that a
receding-horizon implementation of iterative path integral control has been run
on a real system.Comment: 6 pages, NIPS 2014 - Autonomously Learning Robots Worksho
Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Representation Shifts
For any knot, the following are equivalent. (1) The infinite cyclic cover has
uncountably many finite covers; (2) there exists a finite-image representation
of the knot group for which the twisted Alexander polynomial vanishes; (3) the
knot group admits a finite-image representation such that the image of the
fundamental group of an incompressible Seifert surface is a proper subgroup of
the image of the commutator subgroup of the knot group.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
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