Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) is the writer who managed to turn travelogues into a genre d... more Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) is the writer who managed to turn travelogues into a genre deserving to be called an art form. The contrast between Fermor's travelogue and the new configurations and shapes undertaken by travel writing nowadays becomes comforting through the intrinsic qualities of his écriture: the transformative encounters with known and unknown people, the preference for the adventurous less travelled paths (even on foot) of Central and Eastern Europe before WWII (1933-1939), the assessment of historical events through his own feelings and personal history. Fermor raised the stakes by making his real and reflective voyages grow into the very matter of literature (rather than be a mere setting or an annex of it) because of his erudition and because of his genuine capacity to create authentic connections between himself and the people he met, between past and present, between inter-war years and the post-WWII world, between Western and Eastern cultures in th...
In this study, several machine learning methods on the representative stock market index of South... more In this study, several machine learning methods on the representative stock market index of South Korea and the Korean Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) 200 were tested as machine learning has become ubiquitous in the financial field for asset selection. Compared to other major global stock markets, KOSPI has remained relatively flat over time. Despite the extremely low overall market growth, all of the tested models experienced annualized returns between 2.4 and 7.5 times the KOSPI 200 index over the same period. Even after applying an overestimated 0.5% transaction fee per daily trade the models beat out the market by a notable margin. While all tested models outperformed the market significantly, some models outcompeted the other tested models. A highlight of the present research is determining whether predicting class labels or predicting values is preferable in machine learning-driven daily trading algorithms. Four classification models-logistic regression, random forest, deep neural network, gradient-boosted trees-are compared to four prediction models-multiple regression, random forest, deep neural network, gradient-boosted regression trees. Additionally, an equally-weighted ensemble of the classification models is compared to an equallyweighted ensemble of the prediction models. Of the total of ten models, classification techniques which tend to outcompete prediction techniques by a slight margin was shown, and all models outperform the market.
Book review of Russell West-Pavlov: Bodies and Their Spaces: System, Crisis and
Transformation in... more Book review of Russell West-Pavlov: Bodies and Their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2006
„Familiaˮ, nr.2, Februarie, 2015, seria a V-a, anul 51(151), Nr.2 (591), ISSN 1220-3149, online ISSN 1841-0278, pp. 78-83., 2015
Ovidiu Cotruș atrage atenția asupra literaturii inadecvate: cea în care criticul privește printr-... more Ovidiu Cotruș atrage atenția asupra literaturii inadecvate: cea în care criticul privește printr-un ecran al conceptelor la propriul chip, convins că așa arată opera, în loc să găsească „noi unghiuri de adecvare a inteligenței critice la natura reală a obiectului esteticˮ .(Ovidiu Cotruș, Meditații critice).
Analele Universitatii din Oradea Fascicula Limba si Literatura Română, 2010
In Romanticism, imagination (rather than the concept of the oeuvre) is the true meeting point bet... more In Romanticism, imagination (rather than the concept of the oeuvre) is the true meeting point between writer (as a creator) and reader (as a receptor). Later, along with the disintegration of the 'poeta vates' myth, the place of imagination will be taken over by the text itself, in a modern sense. The writer-reader interaction in Romanticism is governed by two new elements: the game (both as a cosmic pattern and as a reading strategy) and the metaphysical desire (a shared passion with the reader). Adevărat joc deschis al realităţilor care se întâlnesc din direcţii opuse, joc al scânteilor contradictorii care se unesc într-o flacără uriaşă, raportul dintre creator şi receptor descoperă în romantism infinitatea interpretărilor al căror punct de coincidenţă este totuşi posibil prin empatie. Actul lecturii este în romantism unul al participaţiei. Jocul (ca simbol cosmic şi punere în relaţie a omului cu lumea) şi dorinţa metafizică (pasiunea) stabilesc o nouă rezolvare a interacţiunii scriitor-cititor, interacţiune care ia de acum cotitura spre calea modernităţii. Raportul scriitor-cititor devine unul al potenţării reciproce, al transmiterii unei forţe creatoare originare. Poeta vates.....
In the realm of culture and spiritual life, the questioning of values and the critique, when not ... more In the realm of culture and spiritual life, the questioning of values and the critique, when not done properly, is at an enormous risk-the risk of eluding the grasp of truth and of meaning-fullness, the annulment of the transcendent principle that urged the quest in the first sense. William Dean's book, The American Spiritual Culture: and the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies, is a brilliant example of how questioning human pursuance of spiritual values can interact with so many layers of the society and of human consciousness that gets to the vision which sustains American "spiritual culture" as a whole and as something distinctive. American pragmatism is regarded by William Dean in connection with the specificity of the American spiritual culture and in connection with religious thinking, however strange this may be. The United States spiritual culture was built, even from its beginnings, "to fit the dimensions of a nation rather than of a person" (p. 12). Unlike in a past-owing country, a past including even religious wars and dissent, on their promised land the Americans could find a natural way for a public religiousness, which they even guaranteed from the very constituency of their states. The public religiousness does not refer to church organization, or its institutions; it refers to the sacredness of the principles shaping the public sphere. The lesser religious confusion is what defined the Americans centuries ago. Nowadays, even this aspect, functioning so well before, is in decline. On their settling, by being compelled to look forward not backward, the Americans did not let success and public domain at the randomness of individualistic arbitrarily chosen laws. The first generations "were not stupidly pragmatic, believing that any consequences whatsoever were equally good. They wanted to know whether a consequence was successful, and that required some standard of success that transcended the world of ordinary consequences. Thus, the question of a transcendent principle for pragmatic judgment was endemic to America" (p. 12). Religious truths were associated with pragmatism. The newborn people were active rather than contemplative, doers instead of deliberators.
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Transformation in Early Modern Theatre.
Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2006
Adevărat joc deschis al realităţilor care se întâlnesc din direcţii opuse, joc al scânteilor contradictorii care se unesc într-o flacără uriaşă, raportul dintre creator şi receptor descoperă în romantism infinitatea interpretărilor al căror punct de coincidenţă este totuşi posibil prin empatie. Actul lecturii este în romantism unul al participaţiei. Jocul (ca simbol cosmic şi punere în relaţie a omului cu lumea) şi dorinţa metafizică (pasiunea) stabilesc o nouă rezolvare a interacţiunii scriitor-cititor, interacţiune care ia de acum cotitura spre calea modernităţii. Raportul scriitor-cititor devine unul al potenţării reciproce, al transmiterii unei forţe creatoare originare. Poeta vates.....