(B ) As we increase the true number of types, our method continues to find the correct clustering (as measured by the adjusted Rand index, ARI) whereas the infinite stochastic block model (iSBM) overclusters and thus poorly matches ground truth.
Lancashire have cleared another significant hurdle in their attempt to secure the future of Old Trafford as a Test-match ground.
Any Test match ground which does not make a similar gesture to the loyal supporters and paying punters should rethink its policy immediately.
The Riverside is already a Test match ground and, given Lancashire's inability to improve the dump called Old Trafford, and Headingley's long-established reputation as a repository of filth, Durham can in time become the premier northern ground.
Blessedly, as the match ground on through the rest of the first half and for the length of the second half without producing another goal, political passions and fears seemed to drop away, as if out of exhaustion.
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated the cricket-playing regions of southern Sri Lanka, including the Test match ground at Galle, and took the lives of many promising young players.
Levy, a 22-year-old lanky Israeli qualifier making a stir on the ATP Tour, matched ground strokes with Michael Chang, not intimidated by the player he watched win the French Open 11 years ago.
In spite of a good deal of analogy-hunting ("as the match ground on, Nixon became engaged in his own desperate game of chess making move after move to save his presidential skin," they observe, to no particular purpose), the authors do not come up with a novel explanation for why the match was the worldwide sensation it was.
With equal politeness, Guy Lavender, the chief executive of Somerset, a county that sold out all their home T20 matches (and engaged the services of Chris Gayle), expresses reservations that echo the views of the smaller counties who do not possess a Test match ground.
"And secondly we have the conceptual difficulty of establishing Cardiff as a Test match ground".
