Bambo Can Go

The author analyses Tuwim’s Bambo, the Black Boy and tries to point to a number of interpretative paradoxes that have accumulated around its multiple readings. Particular attention is paid to the racial readings of the poem. What is more, the author discusses a variety of contemporary contexts in which the famous poem functions; these are often politically incorrect readings and interpretations which make no sense of the historical context in which the work was originally written. The article offers a detailed analysis of the origins of the poem and the circumstances in which found its way to the school primer. The poem is seen as expressing the need for accepting otherness and fighting cultural stereotypes.Zadanie „Stworzenie anglojęzycznych wersji wydawanych publikacji” finansowane w ramach umowy nr 948/P-DUN/2016 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę

Bilitranslocase and anthocyanins role in the gastrointestinal tract

Bilitranslocase (BTL) is a organic anion transporter expressed in liver and in several extra-hepatic tissues. This membrane protein transports different substrates as pyrrolic molecules, nucleotides, flavonoids. Anthocyanins, one of the most represented flavonoids class are known to have antioxidant activity. They act as anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-proliferative molecules by interfering with different intracellular pathways. Some chronic colon diseases results in an increase in the pro-inflammatory machinery that are associated with a 5-fold increased risk of developing colon cancer. The expression and the role of BTL in the gastrointestinal tract in normal and pathological condition, as well as its role as anthocyanins transporter in colon cancer cells will be take into account in Trans2care project

Leveraging app relationships and distribution patterns to identify malicious software

Software distributors, such as the operators of online software repositories or stores, scan and analyze the software they host to flag potentially harmful applications (PHAs). The scans are typically performed offline and are based solely on app-level features and do not take into account structural relationships between different apps and devices. This disclosure describes an app ecosystem-based approach to detect PHAs via analysis of contextual information, such as app install statistics and installation distribution patterns. Relevant contextual information about each app obtained user permission is leveraged to build a machine learning pipeline to flag PHAs for further review. The ecosystem-based approach makes it difficult for malicious actors to evade detection. The techniques can be applied online at app install time and are complementary to detection mechanisms that involve direct analysis of apps

Bambo zrobił swoje

The author analyses Tuwim’s Bambo, the Black Boy and tries to point to a number of interpretative paradoxes that have accumulated around its multiple readings. Particular attention is paid to the racial readings of the poem. What is more, the author discusses a variety of contemporary contexts in which the famous poem functions; these are often politically incorrect readings and interpretations which make no sense of the historical context in which the work was originally written. The article offers a detailed analysis of the origins of the poem and the circumstances in which found its way to the school primer. The poem is seen as expressing the need for accepting otherness and fighting cultural stereotypes

Distill-and-Compare: Auditing Black-Box Models Using Transparent Model Distillation

Black-box risk scoring models permeate our lives, yet are typically proprietary or opaque. We propose Distill-and-Compare, a model distillation and comparison approach to audit such models. To gain insight into black-box models, we treat them as teachers, training transparent student models to mimic the risk scores assigned by black-box models. We compare the student model trained with distillation to a second un-distilled transparent model trained on ground-truth outcomes, and use differences between the two models to gain insight into the black-box model. Our approach can be applied in a realistic setting, without probing the black-box model API. We demonstrate the approach on four public data sets: COMPAS, Stop-and-Frisk, Chicago Police, and Lending Club. We also propose a statistical test to determine if a data set is missing key features used to train the black-box model. Our test finds that the ProPublica data is likely missing key feature(s) used in COMPAS.Comment: Camera-ready version for AAAI/ACM AIES 2018. Data and pseudocode at https://github.com/shftan/auditblackbox. Previously titled "Detecting Bias in Black-Box Models Using Transparent Model Distillation". A short version was presented at NIPS 2017 Symposium on Interpretable Machine Learnin

"Brudnopis" in blanco: rzecz o poezji Władysława Broniewskiego

The book consists of six independent, though tightly intertwined and composed, parts. The first part, entitled Broniewski, almost a politician, is devoted to a specific reception of one of the most popular poets of the PRL period, consisting in, on the one hand, the attempt to “smooth” biographic details at variance with the propaganda doctrine, and, on the other hand, the attempt to justify or explain Władysław Broniewski’s political involvement and his communist sympathies. The second part A long history of one friendship is centred around friendship with Don Kichot, declared in his youthful diary and realized in life and works. It consisted in a clear literary inspiration to act and experience the world according to poetic patterns. Likewise Cervantes’ character, Broniewski joined the army and went to the war right from the library. The third part Soft revolutions of a hard revolutionist concerns above all Broniewski’s pre-war writing. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to his debut book of poems Wiatraki, clearly inspired by Don Kichot. The way the narrator of this and subsequent poetical books (cycles) goes is not on a horse, but on foot, according to the incedere necesse est maxim formulated and skillfully presented by Andrzej Kotliński. Out of an autotellic “walking”, “trudging”, “marching”, “treading”, which transforms the way to nowhere into the way to anywhere, (“the front is anywhere in the world”), the next “non-autotellic” step leads to an equally irrational writing of “the myth on the left hand”. The next, fourth part, Through this bloody world…, mainly concentrates on two war books and a constantly traveled “way to Poland”. The very way, poetically determined by the “dead road-sign” goes directly from the world that is totally ruined after his last pre-war book Krzyk ostateczny, (treated here as a literary interpretation of éschatos and lógos). The wanderer’s way to Poland was indicated by a special map because in the world in which all landmarks were “blurred” (ruined), wandering was to take place not only in a specific direction, but follow traces, at the address of no longer existing towns and streets. In a sense, such an address will lead the reader in the fifth part And there is a fog on Theatrical square. The way will not lead to the ruined towns, but to the address burdened with the legend of one of the most important places in the history of the Polish revolution in 1905. A closed, as the composition of the whole ballad, small space on the square from which one cannot go out, does not make either a topographic or reading orientation easier. A “disastrous step” is made in a place determined by the “echo from the bottom of the legend” in a night and foggy scenery of Ballada o placu Teatralnym. That is why the attention in the fifth part is paid to the ballad involved in questions which are not answered, but which, when avoiding a naïve interpretation, allow for finding lost tragedy. From the very beginning, the book is accompanied by Michel Foucault’s question concerning the lack of possibility to capture all Broniewski’s writings: […] “but what does this »all« mean?” This is responsible for mistrust towards too strong attempts to blend Broniewski many a time signaled in the narration, and those which involved in the propaganda war, postulated the exposition of the complete image of the poet and his works, also taking into account “cracks” and “scratches” in his biography and on his works. A confession made by Broniewski saying that “the most beautiful poems are the unwritten ones”, covers the works of the author of Komuna paryska with the question mark. Not each text was published, some of them – “arranged in memory” – were not even written, and some others were not signed or just nicknamed. The question on this “all”, was answered in the sixth, summarizing, part Outside the drawer. However, the question on “the meaning of »all«” was unanswered somehow on principle

Pożegnanie z Jerozolimą. O Balladach i romansach Władysława Broniewskiego

MACIEJ TRAMER, dr hab., adiunkt w Zakładzie Teorii Literatury Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. Popularyzator, biograf i badacz twórczości Władysława Broniewskiego. Współredaktor (wraz z Marianem Kisielem) pokonferencyjnego tomu Intymność wyrażona (Katowice 2006). Autor następujących książek: Literatura i skandal. Na przykładzie okresu międzywojennego (Katowice 2000); Rzeczy wstydliwe, a nawet mniej ważne (Katowice 2007) oraz Brudnopis „in blanco”. Rzecz o poezji Władysława Broniewskiego (Katowice 2010). Współautor (z Miłoszem Piotrowiakiem oraz z Mariusz Jochemczykiem) Naszego Broniewskiego. Prelekcji warszawskich (Katowice 2009).40341

Without a rough draft: Composing Baczyński

The story of the post-war edition of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s poems entitled Śpiew z pożogi [Song of Fire] (1947) is discussed. The book edited by Stefania Baczyńska and Kazimierz Wyka completely disregarded and differed from the authorial version of Śpiew z pożogi prepared before the outbreak of the Uprising, which was meant to be Baczyński’s official poetic debut. The impact of the post-war edition of Utwory zebrane [Collected works] on the reception of Baczyński’s poetry and the poet’s image in Polish literary culture is discussed